Details of your catches:

Total of 85 carp - mirrors, common and grass. Plus one sturgeon. 1x50lb mirror 2x 49lb commons 22x 40lbs mixed 25x 30lbs mixed 30 x 20lbs mixed 5x 10lbs mixed

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

12mm wafters placed with a boat, loaded with maize, boilie and pellet.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes excellent, everything we needed. Comfortable week.

Were you happy with them?

Yes, the power in the cabin is enough to change phones and bait boats all week. Compost toilet took some getting used to, but better than others we have had on previous trips.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Best venue we have used in our five trips to France. Had to pull the rods in on some nights, just to get some rest. If you want plenty of hard fighting fish, this is the venue.

Details of your catches:

5x40lb+ (one recapture) 2 mirror, 1 grass, 1 common 36x 30lb+ 15 x 20lb+ 21 x 10lb+ 27 x mirror 14 x common 27 x grass 3 x koi 1 x sturgeon 6 x ghost

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

We used a bait boat for all rods, had 3 left of side of spit, 3 right of spit and 2 right of the lodge. The fish were mainly in the deeper dam wall area for the start of the week. But moved around a bit towards the end. we found bait boating to the same spots all week worked with a mixture of particle and boile. We caught on wafters and pop ups, and tiger nuts. Bites came throughout the day and night.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes

Were you happy with them?

Yes, although there is no knives and bowls, so may want to take them with you.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

The venue is lovely, and you get left alone for the duration of your week unless you require bait from the baliff, who is a very nice frenchman. There is not much info on the page about this lake so here is what we found: There is SIGNIFICANT crayfish activity in the shallow end, with some activity around any margin. They would decimate even double wrapped baits overnight. The swans and mallards will batter your spots if it is shallow and has a H block, better off not putting the blocks out, and feed the ducks from the lodge when you put your bait out, they cant find it once dropped without a H block. The river bed in the middle down by the dam wall was extremely productive, with bites almost on the drop at times. The boat on site had a break in the hull which had filled with rain water, it was useable but would have been good to have one without this issue. The bait provided is good, but comes frozen and they ran out of bait for us by the end of the week so consider taking plenty yourself. The solar power worked perfectly, charged the boat batteries all week no problem. There is a LOT of grass carp, which does mean there is only small amounts of marginal weed. The fish tended to only show at night, not much showing activity during daylight hours. We had 77 fish out, and no 50s, average size was 27lb. We found the best bet was to spread all your rods over the lake and stick to the spots for the duration of the week. We caught from the deep water, the shallow margins, just about every depth really, every rod had fish at some point in the week. Overall, the lake is fantastic, well stocked with fish in great condition that fight well, the facilities are really good, would recommend to anyone who wants an action packed week, but maybe not to real big fish hunters. *Angling Lines note* Thank you for your feedback, all taken on board. The owner has stated he will replace knives and bowls that are missing. There will also be a new boat for 2024 and the lake will be netted this winter to remove some of the grass carp.

Details of your catches:

29 fish in total, biggest mirror 52lb, biggest common 44lb, biggest grassie 39lb. Average weight was over 30lb, caught a few stockies around 12-18lb, all in fantastic condition.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Far margin baited with pellet and boilies soaked in oil/glug. No particle.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, the cabin was beautiful, the gas fridge lasted us all week, was nice to sit at sunrise overlooking the lake.

Were you happy with them?

Yes they were excellent.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes definitely

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes definitely everything went smoothly

General Comments:

We had a fantastic time at Ragon, the lake is picture perfect in person, all the fish are hard fighting, we only caught a handful during the day as it was extremely hot, mostly caught between the hours of midnight and 7am.

Details of your catches:

80 carp caught, including 2 x 50´s and 2 x 40's, majority were 30lb'ers with a good number also in the 20 to 30lb bracket. Average weight was in the mid 30´s. We all fished from the lodge part of the lake

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

We fished all over the lake from the central swims. We used 4 different baits including those sold at the lake, caught on all. Lots of tactics used all seemed to work, bottom baits, pop ups and wafters.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, as described. Lodge terrace was excellent for the social aspects.

Were you happy with them?

Yes. I would recommend this venue.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes. As described.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes, very easy and very helpful.

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