Details of your catches:

3 grass carp to 19 at 26 lb
1 sturgeon 53lb
4 mirror carp 47, 32, 32, 25
4 common carp 36, 27, 31, 29

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Boilie loose fed, wafter+pop up hook bait hambers by rain + storm!!!

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, basic but clean + do the job. Toilet + shower is small

Were you happy with them?

Yes, what was expected

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes excellent service

General Comments:

Nice venue, lovely looking lake. Hard fighting fish, strong tackle required. Rsecommend to others, could have been a better week if the weather was nicer

Details of your catches:

7* mirror 28,30,38,2411,30,34,38lb
9* common 31, 36, 39, 29, 24, 22, 27, 30, 38,
3 * grass carp 30,32,25

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Snowman rigs with cell boilie + pop up

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 week, heavy baiting in the day, bait up after every fish. Snowman rig over maize

Details of your catches:

we all had a good week catching carp and strugeon (and the odd slime bream). Drew had a beast of a sturgeon well over 7ft, David broke his pb with a stunning mirror of 52lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Tactics, don't think it mattered if the fish were in front of you you caught. Beds of fishy pellet boilie over top work for the sturgeon, there were 8 anglers on our week, each group was on a different bait and everyone caught

Were the facilities what you expected?

Normal with most lakes I fished in France, toilet shower, had bonus of freezer and fridge plus power points to charge battery etc if u wanted

Were you happy with them?

Toilet was a bit tight, my knees was touching the door when closed but clean and worked, same with shower bit tight again clean and hot (could have done with a mixer tap so u could vary water temp as said water was hot but when weather is hot I prefer a cool shower but that could just be me)

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yer for sure, being our first time you're unsure what lake like but it was as described

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

That is a no brainer, one of the best services i've booked with and I normally do 2 to 3 trips to France a year

General Comments:

Nice place, swims could do with a bit of work and the shock lead ban could be looked at, the bars and boulders just cut u off shock leaders but with running leads not safety clips (people still push the sleeve on far too tight so the lead no way coming off) we had more than a few fish with rigs leads and line attached.

Details of your catches:

Two week booking;

4@40s to 42.4lb
19@30s to 39.15lb
38@20s to 29.12lb
2@Upper Doubles
1@ Black Sturgeon- 48.14lb

19@ Grass Carp (Biggest 37.8lb)
22@ Commons (Biggest 42.4lb)
16@ Mirrors (Biggest 40.2lb)
3@ Ghost Carp (Biggest 40.4lb)
1@ Sturgeon (48.14lb)

64 Fish in Total.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Bottom baits (Tiger nuts) (Boilie) (Fake Corn) presented on a German rig (Using FlouroCarbon) hook links. Caught over a large bed of bait (Corn, Boilies and a few Tigers)

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, they were ok. Simple but did the trick.

Were you happy with them?

Yes, Ciril and David were very friendly and always making sure you were ok and happy.
Great hospitality.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Angling lines has always been good to me, great service as always. The ladies in the office are always on top of things they are very helpful and friendly.

General Comments:

Blue lakes is a wonderful venue. Stunning old gravel pit! I would love to come back but since the change in amount of anglers on per week has increased to 10 from 8. I would be reluctant. The lake has a lot of water to fish but some swims are really limited. Peg 9 gets cut off by pegs 10 and 8. Peg 4 is more like a good stalking peg. A person really needs to be able to move on a lake like this.

*Angling Lines note* After a discussion with the lake owner, we can happily say that all future weeks on the lake are now limited to 8 anglers on all non-exclusive weeks, as it has been in previous years. Thank you for your feedback.