Details of your catches:

2 20s, 3 30s to 38 and 10-12 bream which was a bit of a pain

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

I found small patches of bait to be best tactic boilies or particle . I used pop ups to begin with but as the week went on I found bottom baits to be best .

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes spot on

Were you happy with them?

10/10

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

I found it a little tricky as most of the fish were held up in one corner of the lake. Out of 7 takes I only had takes off of one rod which I found a little strange as my other two rods were fished about 8 ft to the right and left of the middle with same tactics but I suppose that's winter fishing for you

Details of your catches:

9 cats from 70lb to16lb.
17 mirrors from 44lb.4oz to 21lb.8oz
5 commons from 21lb.12oz to 19lb 12oz
3 grass carp from 45lb.4oz to 23lb.12oz
2 bream

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Made good use of the boat to find our spots, tight baiting couple of handfuls of particle and boilies. Cell and tigers as baits

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes facilities are adequate. Water in the cabin smells a little. Did not concern us to much though

Were you happy with them?

Yes large freezer is useful

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes been 4 times with different friends

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Would have to agree a previous anglers comment regarding catfish problem and how they are starting to dominate. The owner is tackling the issue by placing a large retaining net for anglers to place catfish in for the owner to remove. For each catfish we placed in the retainer he rewarded us with a bottle of champagne which we thought was a nice touch.

Details of your catches:

1 x 89lb 4oz cat, 2 x 70lb+ cats, 4 x 60+ cats, 6 x 40lb cats several cats over 20lb, 7 carp to 38lb13oz

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Cell snowman

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes adequate

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes definately, our 3rd trip to Beaurepaire

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes definately

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

17 X mirrors 45,23,26,31,32,29,36,35,16,32,33,24,32,23,24,24,30
3 X commons ,22,14,22, 2 X bream both 7lb 11X catfish 56,76,65,12,13,48,64,48,13,49,76

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Boilie and pellet

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes was my fourth trip to this lake

Were you happy with them?

Yes,shower still not right although Bernard tried to get it sorted but still was not right when we left

*Angling Lines note* The issues with the water supply in the cabin were unfortunately caused by the unprecedented amount of rain in the spring. It is the first time the facilities have had this issue in many years of operating. Thankfully everything is now back to normal but we do apologise unreservedly for the inconvenience.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

If he like catfishing

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Having fished this lake three times before and found it to be a good venue for carp,on this trip I noticed that the catfish have obviously got a lot larger and they seem to overrule the lake and push the carp out,as much as they are fun to catch some of them need removing as in my opinion it's going to ruin this water as a carp lake.

*Angling Lines note* Bernard has upped the catfish removal operation. Over the course of the next few weeks many will be removed. This should bring the balance of species in the lake back to usual.