Details of your catches:

Mirror: 39lb 10oz; 35lb 8oz; 25lb 8oz. Common: 15lb. Sturgeon: 56lb (PB); 55lb; 46lb (PB); 45lb.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Lot of pellets for sturgeon. Bags + stringers for carp.

Were the facilities what you expected?

better than expected

Were you happy with them?

yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

yes , we will back with friends

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

yes

General Comments:

Ban the baitboat, otherwise fantastic !!!

Details of your catches:

New lake record :mirror: 65lb(PB) ; 63lb8oz(PB) ; 54lb10oz ; 48lb8oz ; 46lb(PB) ; 46lb ; 44lb ; 44lb ; 41lb ; 40lb3oz ; 38lb12oz ; 36lb(PB) ; 36lb ; 35lb ; 34lb12oz ; 33lb ; 31lb10oz ; 29lb ; 28lb ; 27lb8oz ; 27lb ; 26lb ; 15lb4oz linear2 Siwties ; 1 fifty ; 7 forties ; 7 thirties ; 5 twenties ........ for the mirror : 842lb+ : 23 mirror : 36lb8oz+ averageCommon : 28lb8oz ; 28lb ; 20lb ; 14lb10oz ; 14lb4oz Sturgeon : 56lb(PB) ; 46lb(PB) ; 41lb(PB)

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Snowman style boilies hookbaits with pellets and boilies freebaitsSBS M1 bottom baits 16mm and 18mm

Were the facilities what you expected?

yes, excellent

Were you happy with them?

yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Definitely

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

yes

General Comments:

Simon says: this lake is a carp anglers dream! The fish are huge and hard fighting and there are plenty of them. Good shops nearby. Lake owner Mehdi is very enthusiastic and always pleased to see anglers catch. He takes a lot of pride in his lake and his fish. Nathan's birthday was on the 26th and he says it was his best birthday ever! He also caught his PB on his birthday. Mehdi also speaks excellent English! Wayne says: Overjoyed with this 63lb 8oz mirror! My PB was 35lb 8oz. I blanked for 3 days and this was my second fish and my first time in France and I never expected to catch anything this big and I am still in shock! Glen Swaby, Wayne Naylor, 22.10.05 to 29.10.05 " Life time fishing!" When we arrived at Laroussi, we were greated by the owner, Mehdi, who took us through the rules of the lake, and advised us on swims and best tactics to try to help us as much as possible. On a walk round the lake and looking at each swim, myself and Wayne Naylor opted to fish in a swim called “le chene”, which gave us plenty of open water and a particular area around 110yards out where we noticed a few carp were crashing. We set up the bivvy, and tackle then did some feature finding towards the far bank, where we discovered a shelf rising up from 9ft to 6ft. We opted to bait the area with 3kg boilies 18mm and 16mm. Then walked round to the far bank and introduces a further 5kg of pellets, to which we both fished 1 rod each. A further rod was put out to open water and the other rods were fished to the margins. The first night passed with the odd liner to most rods but no takes, a quick rebait and all the rods were back out, the fish that were crashing all around kept us very confident indeed. Seeing all the photographs of fish that had been caught in the facilities and the sizes were truly amazing on the weight gain of these fish. The lake record stood at 55lb but Mehdi assured us that was back in April and he was confident the lake would produce a 60lb plus in time. Sunday afternoon saw my right hand rod tear of at an oustanding rate. After a tough 15 minute battle, my first fish, a 46lb sturgeon. Sunday night came and went without me and Wayne having a run, but Monday morning, my middle rod out of the far margin burst into life, greeting me with a 48.5lb mirror, a new personal best. Wayne had not yet received a run. Mehdi explained that the lake had not fished really well for the last 2 previous weeks due to all the natural food which was apparent with all the snails and insect life in the water, but what was going to happen soon changed all that. The runs started to come constant for us both on the far shelf, to such a degree we opted to fish 2 rods each to the far side as the margins to our left and right were quiet. Wayne hooked into a fish that he said felt really heavy. After a long fight, I lifted the under the fish for him. What a monster! I have never seen a fish so big. Putting the fish in the weigh sling, we put our 60lb reuben heaton scales on what a waste of time it bottomed out the scales. I fetched Mehdi to use his 120lb scales. The mirror went 63.5lb - new lake record and Laroussi’s first 60lb fish. Mehdi was over the moon and so was Wayne. The fish still came: singles 20's, 30's, 40's and then Wayne hooked into another big fish, 54lb 12oz another mirror. Wednesday, my middle rod gave a slow drop back, striking into it the rod locked up solid, then slowly inch by inch, it moved towards me feeling very heavy indeed. Maybe it could be another 50lb I hoped, but after a 20 minute battle, it was in the net. It looked huge, this fish bottomed out the scales again. Weighing with Mehdi, it went 65lb a half linear, another lake record. A personal best that I don’t think I will beat ever, but we are back next year, so who knows? Brilliant place. Fishing and host. Thank you! Angling Lines the best!

Details of your catches:

Only 2 sturgeon, but both being 55lb.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Pineapple pop up fished over a bed of pellet.

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:

Moderate water to fish,lots of runs but no carp.

Details of your catches:

Dad = 2 sturgeon 48lb 7oz and 46lb. Ben = 1 sturgeon at 42lb. Philip = 1 common carp at 18lb and 1 water rat. Andy = Blanked

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Angling Lines Special boilie on a bed of pellet for the sturgeon and Angling Lines Special boilie on a bed of hemp for the carp.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes

Were you happy with them?

Very much so.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Only very experienced.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

This venue has been the most difficult one we have ever fished for carp, a little disappointed that we could not get the carp to feed until the very last morning but it has not put us off as we are going to book it again for 2007.