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.

Details of your catches:

40+ fish caught during the week (discounting a handful of 6-8lb bream) which was not bad as some of the party are novices in this game!

4 x 40lb+ mirror carp largest being 46lb and 47lb (2 others of 41lb)
10 other mirror carp of 30lb+
11 mirror carp 20lb+
1 x common 17lb 1 x grass carp 27lb, 1 x golden common 18lb
13 catfish (3 of which took our 70lb scales beyond their limit! The lake record would have certainly been threatened we felt with two of them - Bernard treated us to a bottle in 'unofficial' celebration). Others of 65lb, 51lb.

As a group we lost around 10 fish also.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Fish were caught on single boilie with scattered boilie to feed whilst one person fished maize to good effect.

Were the facilities what you expected?

There were problems with the faciltiies but as ever Bernard did his best to accommodate us. The shower facilities were a problem due to the water quality, but we were encouraged to pop to the nearby village and use his recently acquired property to shower when required. When the water supply completely put paid to the loo, Bernard was out with a workman to discover that the pump was no longer working - it was replaced that afternoon. The motor and battery to the boat also did not work but were replaced the very next day - he did his best to resolve and the issues!

Were you happy with them?

Not really but given the problems Bernard was having, we were happy with the resolutions. We have fished this water three times now and he and his daughter Sophie always do what they can to make the stay a welcome one.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Water level was higher this year which made the fishing better we felt. Once the catfish moved into our swim, the carp appeared to move out and the catch rate was falling as the week progressed (the weather was cooler towards the end of the week too).

I enjoyed the opportunity to practise my somewhat rusty schoolboy French (from 35 years ago) with Bernard - he's a top chap and even invited us round to watch the Euro football finals at his home, which sadly France lost!