Details of your catches:

36 fish total, 8 losses(4 from Snags (same snag 2 fish each)). Fish 6 x Mike, 14 x Lee, 16 x Pete. 3 x 50's,all mirrors. 8 x 40's 5 x Commons & 3 Mirrors. one 19 & 3 20's to Lee, 1 x 20 to Mike and 2 x 20's to Pete. Rest of fish in 30 lb bracket. Largest carp were 51.00 Mirror Mike. 50.03 to Lee and 52.13 to Pete.

Fishing was very hard indeed! Had to work for evey fish! and fish seemed very down on weight! Fish we expected to go 40+ were scrapeing low 30lb. Due to constant bad weather in France since winter? No weed growth at all! very unusual for Boux.

Weather was very bad, everything from huge storms lasting two+ days to freezing fog! Group before had packed up and left on Thursday!

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Most fish came over Fishmeal Boilies. double 20mm or double 18mm were best. 3-5' of water to far bank seemed best. Unusually most takes came into darkness. most days, we only had one feeding spell from dusk (9pm ish) through to midnight.

Cray's were more of an issue this time, taking off even very hard baits! Defo cost us overnight fish. We all had to use mesh by mid week (Never had to do this, and between our circle of friends, we have fished Boux reg for over 12 years)

Were the facilities what you expected?

Been 3 x before myself, just about the same, although had been freshly painted.

Path to Woods bank swim is still dreadful, with wet feet every time unless you wore wellies!

Much improved the access in two pegs on the wood bank, steps cut in. Big improvment! Would be nice in more though.

Were you happy with them?

Shower Head was broken when we arrived, would have been good if fixed, but sorted with Gaffer tape.

Path could be improved (They had the stone for the path in a big pile in the car park, and had done some work).

Should inform people of water colour! Brown, like tea without milk..... Did put Lee off showering in it a bit!

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes, and would go back again (3 trips for mysef so far)and really like the place. Phillepe, is great, and although his english is minimal, he's very friendly!

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes, very easy, and Tunnel was a joy..... We are thinking of booking Boux again....

General Comments:

The Boat was left drifting at the far margin when we arrived. I had to swim out to fetch it! Not at all impressed, after 10 hours driving!

Details of your catches:

38 carp, including 6 x 40's ( )2 x 46lb Commons and a 52lb Mirror.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Carp not yet on the feed. Bright baits, chasing the fish around the lake worked well.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes.

Were you happy with them?

Yes, much improved.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes.

General Comments:

More work needed on woods bank. ALL swims, especially the middle two swims, need branches trimming to allow distance casting to far margin. Also when playing fish along the bank, you have to kneel down to avoid catching line on trees....

Details of your catches:

Derek Ryley with Josh (19 yrs), Liam (17 yrs) and Louis (13 yrs). Each one of us had a 50lb'er ! ... so 4 x 50's in total. Plus Josh also had 7 x 40's (inc 2 x 49lb'ers) We had 15 x 40's and 62 carp altogether.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Made own bait.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, great

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes, very much so

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes, definitely

General Comments:

Brilliant week.

Details of your catches:

I had 27 carp which incuded mirrors of 51lb 11oz, 50lb 4oz, 49lb 14oz, 49lb 3oz, 31lb 12oz, 34lb 8oz, 35lb 15oz, 31lb 10oz, 36lb 10oz, 31lb 3oz, 31lb 1oz, 33lb 1oz and 30lb 1oz, one 30lb common with the rest being mostly upper twenties.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

I varied my tactics throughout the week. I started off on a single Quality Baits 18mil HG42 cast onto a bed of bait around 100 yards in open water. The carp became wise to this so I spread a bed of Quality Baits HG42 18mil boilies with a throwing stick over quite a large area and pva bagged 6 crumbed boilies with a bottom baits in the middle of the area. This method produced most fish. I used around 18 kilo of boilies to keep the fish interested.

Were the facilities what you expected?

As described

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Already have

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

At the beginning of the week the crayfish were very active and it was a case of fishing the deeper waters in the middle of the lake to avoid them. As the week went on they seemed to become less active and I was able to explore some of the margins and pick up the extra fish.

Boux will become one of Angling Lines premier waters and I am sure it will be fully booked in the near future. If you are planning on fishing Boux I would book early as there will be a lot of disappointed anglers that miss the opportunity to get onto this magnificent big fish water.