Details of your catches:

1 angler, 54 fish up to 33lb, temperature up to 42 degrees for three days and still caught

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Single boiley with pva mesh filled with pellet

Were the facilities what you expected?

The new gite was excellent, everything you needed and only yards from the lake

Were you happy with them?

This was are second time at Landes and as long as I can book when we want to go I cannot see us going anywhere else, this facility is brilliant. Spotlessly clean and has everything you need for a week away, Tony & Kim are always there to help if you need them.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes definitely

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes, have done

General Comments:

Angling lines have a real gem in Landes, long may it last

Details of your catches:

Fishing very difficult due to hot weather. A fair few small fish as the big ones didn’t want to play. Tony has a plan in place to net the lake which will be a great improvement.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Bottom baits 18mm blow back rigs

Were the facilities what you expected?

Better than expected

Were you happy with them?

Extremely happy

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Tony and Kim perfect hosts couldn’t do enough to help. Tony went out of his way to help me hire replacement bait boat after I short circuited mine. Pool and hot tub superb, grounds immaculately kept. Perfect platform outside the gite to fish from. The tree outside the gite is a godsend especially with the fantastic hot weather.

Details of your catches:

Not a great week for fishing but they spawned on Saturday weather very hot 33 on sunday and Monday dropped to 13 on Wednesday between us caught over 40 carp 1 over 40, a couple over 30 and some in 20’s but way too many around 10lb including several under 5lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

You can catch fish anywhere but the big girls didn’t want to play

Were the facilities what you expected?

Tony and Kim have down a great job good looking lake with no issues the facilities inside were spot on great bathroom and well equipped kitchen, bedroom 2 let down by having no window, pool area better than any I’ve been to

Were you happy with them?

Very

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

If you want a great holiday in a great location yes but maybe not due to the high ratio of smaller fish

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

1 x 43lb 7oz , 1 x 37lb 2oz, 1 x 30lb 7oz. 5 between 29lb and 20lb. 11 fish between 5lb and 19lb.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Simple hair rigs, with bottom baits, over baited areas in the margins. the bigger fish came on the 20mm scopex boilies available from Landes. Smaller fish came on 16mm krill boilies. We baited spots with the ble and trout pellet available from landes. All of our fish came at night the earliest being around 10.30pm and the latest being 7am. The start of the week had difficult weather conditions with colder days and cold nights, but the baited areas started to produce fish after 2/3 days of constant (but not excessive) baiting. By the end of the week both margins and baited areas in the middle of the lake had produced.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Expectations were exceeded by several times !

Were you happy with them?

Very very pleased with everything. Having said that I really must complain about the incredibly long wi-fi password which took me three attempts to get right!! (Only joking!)

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Definitely

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Definitely

General Comments:

This was the first time we had done a trip like this and cannot make any comparisons, so I can only say how delighted we all were with the venue as a whole, and our hosts Kim and Tony who made us very welcome. We went with the goal to beat our pb's which meant getting into the 30's, and we all achieved that which was great. We were getting a little concerned after no sign of fish for a whole day and night that we were doing something wrong, but we stuck at it and it came together in the end. For us it was the nights that produced despite trying all we could during the day they didn't seem interested, with the exception of 3 off the surface from stalking the margins.