Details of your catches:

33 fish in total. 9 cats 22-76lb. 7 grass carp 15-38lb. 2 15lb commons. 15 mirrors 20-38.8lb. Lost 19 fish! Rigs were on point but the fish were very good at throwing hooks.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

All fish were caught on snowman rigs with the majority caught on nut cracker. The grass carp came on beds of ground bait and partial. Carp and cats on large beds of bait and scattered bollies close to the bank.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Facilities were exactly what we were expecting. Clean and well kept.

Were you happy with them?

Very happy with the facilities.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes.

General Comments:

We fished the week after spawning. A very slow start for carp got everyone fishing for cats with more carp coming later in the week. Every fish was caught on the facility side of the lake. The swim next to the facilities and the one opposite were by far the best swims. The fish all seemed to be holding up in the deep water after spawning.

Details of your catches:

We had 60 fish for 1750lbs. biggest carp 54.04, catch included 46lb, 41lbs 42lbs & 42lbs. The biggest catfish was 33lbs and we did this time have 11 doubles.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

We were all using bait boats and all areas caught. We used plenty of parti mix &boilies ssmall spots and bait went out on the boat. All flavours, cell, smokey Mackeral, nutcracker and peach melba (which caught the 54lbs)on the same side as the facilites but on the tree line in the far corner. The lake dropped 5Ft whilst we were there. Started blisteringly hot at the first weekend but then mixed after that. We had a westerly wind, which Sophie says was the worst direction of wind there to have.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes. brilliant for drive and survive you can't fault them.

Were you happy with them?

Yes, but thought the weights were down overall from last year.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes, definitely. We feel its a great venue and you would not be disappointed if it was your first visit. We having been before felt the weight were overall markedly down.
The carp will grow on quickly again now but the virus clearly took a toll.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes. brilliant can't fault them. We had to make last minute changes and it was all sorted really well

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

We had 60 fish for 1750lbs. biggest carp 54.04, catch included 46lb, 41lbs 42lbs & 42lbs. The biggest catfish was 33lbs and we did this time have 11 doubles.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

We were all using bait boats and all areas caught. We used plenty of parti mix &boilies ssmall spots and bait went out on the boat. All flavours, cell, smokey Mackeral, nutcracker and peach melba (which caught the 54lbs)on the same side as the facilites but on the tree line in the far corner. The lake dropped 5Ft whilst we were there. Started blisteringly hot at the first weekend but then mixed after that. We had a westerly wind, which Sophie says was the worst direction of wind there to have.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes. brilliant for drive and survive you can't fault them.

Were you happy with them?

Yes, but thought the weights were down overall from last year.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes, definitely. We feel its a great venue and you would not be disappointed if it was your first visit. We having been before felt the weight were overall markedly down.
The carp will grow on quickly again now but the virus clearly took a toll.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes. brilliant can't fault them. We had to make last minute changes and it was all sorted really well

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

35 runs (lost a few) which resulted in 26 carp to 45lbs biggest and included 11 x 30's. Only 8 carp were under 30lb.
Due to other commitments we arrived Sunday and left Friday so fished 5 days. 2 anglers full time and 1 days only.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Fished over beds of bait, pop up and bottom baits both worked.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, good as described, did the job.

Were you happy with them?

Yes. Good lake, Sophie and Bernard are lovely and leave you to get on with it.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes, it's a good lake still but perhaps not the runs water it once was.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes, absolutely

General Comments:

Had a good time.