Details of your catches:

4 x 40lb - 47 lb
5 x sturgeon
2 x 30lb - 35 lb
6 under 30

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Boilies / yellow-white pop ups

Were the facilities what you expected?

Were you happy with them?

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

General Comments:

Beautiful lake, run by top blokes

Details of your catches:

I personally caught 17 fish - 7 (king) carp (up to 48lb), 7 grass carp (up to 37lb) and three sturgeon (the big one, plus a 55lb and 56lb, which was possibly a repeat capture).

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

I found that fishing out in open water resulted mostly in grass carp and sturgeon and fishing the margins produced more carp.

All the usual stuff works, although I stopped using pellet to try and avoid the grassies and sturgeon.

Moving swim definitely helps if you're not on the fish.

Were the facilities what you expected?

The facilities were as expected - basic. But it all worked fine.

One of our group hired a boat, but the rowlock snapped off. The owner Cyril was very quick to swap the boat over.

Were you happy with them?

Yep, the shower was nice and hot/warm, which is always nice on a drive and survive. As all the other feedback says, the shower and toilet cubicles could do with being bigger.

Plenty of freezer space for bait and also we had plenty of fridge space for our food and drink. Plus loads of English sockets available to charge stuff up.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

I would, we had a great time on the lake. Although i'd warn anyone going to expect to catch a lot of grass carp as well.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yep. Angling Lines has been great on all the trips I've been on.

General Comments:

Please please reduce the number of grassies. There is an excessive amount in there.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice to catch the odd big grassie. But they mostly fight like a bream, then destroy your landing net once you've netted them for the umpteenth time and then invariably damage themselves going ballistic in the net and on the unhooking mat.

The owner said he put them in to keep the weed down, and in fairness it is essentially weedless. But there are just so many of them, they became a nuisance in the end.

I'm sure if 50% of the smallest grassies were removed and perhaps replaced with some more king carp it would be far better to fish and still relatively weed free.

Some of the marginal spots could do with snags removed and some over hanging trees undercut e.g to the left of swim 4, to reduced the number of fish lost and avoid carp getting tethered.

Also I have to say in the end we felt sorry for the big sturgeon. It was hooked 4 times and landed twice in the space of about 3 days. A fish of that size (circa 50kgs) must have to eat so much food to maintain its body weight, it has no choice but to keep eating and in a lake of that size, it must get caught relentlessly.

Details of your catches:

5 fish biggest 47.5 LB

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Fished slow, nothing in particular, kept trying different things

Were the facilities what you expected?

basic but clean

Were you happy with them?

yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

yes

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

11 fish total

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

pop up snow men

Were the facilities what you expected?

yes

Were you happy with them?

yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

yes

General Comments:

very good facilities, I had a puncture and they fixed for free, excellent lake and I'll be back