Details of your catches:

28 carp by two anglers, fished swim 1 until the Tuesday and then swim 2 rest of week.
3 x 50s at 50lb 4oz, 50lb 4oz and 50lb 8 oz, lots of 40s and high 30s. Two large 40 plus grass carp, 4 tench and a small common of 5lb, fished far bank, margins, mid lake and all caught.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Double bottom bait plum boilie tipped with plum wafter, triple maise on hook and straight double bottom baits all worked well.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, a distance from lake but as had campervan with us did not need these facilities at all. Portaloo between swims provided also.

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:

Fished through Angling Lines for years and always a faultless service. Venue bailiff Mark Slade always a friendly face and helpful if needed. Brie is completely secluded and beautiful, will definitely be booking again.

Details of your catches:

Mark (dam swim) Carp 29.3, 33.0, 36.0, 38.10, 42.8, 47.0, 49.12, 51.7; Grass Carp 41.0, 46.4; 6 tench to 6.1 (including 4.14 male)
Simon (dam swim) Carp 32.8, 41.8
Patrice (middle swim) Carp 16.2, 17.3, 13.0 (Kg)
Guillaume (middle swim) Carp 17.0, 14.5, 18.5, 13.8, 18.5, 15.7 (Kg)

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Bottom baits on D-rigs. Tried pop-ups but no fish caught. Baited lightly with boilies due to few fish showing, spodded pellets. Fish caught mostly in near margin or middle of lake.

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:

Mark warned us that fish were spawning or preparing to spawn due to warm weather in previous week. As a result most fish were at the far end of the lake (nearly 300m from middle swim!) and not showing. As a result our plans had to be adapted and we drastically reduced the amount of boilies used (in the dam swim we only threw in 50 boilies per angler per day) once we saw that fish were not being caught (in previous trips when fish were feeding well we used a lot more bait). Weather cooled during the week (temp dropped from 16.5 to 14.5 by Weds) so some fish moved down to our swims in the second half of the week. No fish seen rolling or bubbling in our swims (unusual for this lake). Fished one rod for tench against dam margin and caught 6 tench as well as 2 bonus carp. Despite lack of interest from fish we didn't blank and fish were a good average size.

Details of your catches:

As a group we had 40 plus fish for the week with 6 over 40lb and the biggest being a 50lb 8oz common

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

We found keeping things simple with snowmans on slip d rigs with the lake plumb boilies and pellet where a good tactic, fishing 3/4 away across using a bait boat to drop enough bait for a bite.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes we would recommend, beautiful lake in peaceful surroundings with plenty of lovely looking carp to catch.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes , already have.

General Comments:

We had a great trip and mark the bailiff is a great guy and couldn’t have been more helpful we will be returning in the future.

Details of your catches:

50 fish between 4 anglers, some incredible looking fish.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Lots of bait. Lots and lots of bait.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes very clean and tidy

Were you happy with them?

Very

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments: