Details of your catches:

4x 20lb and under Catfish

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

All my tactics and bait gave me no Carp whatsoever.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Facilities were absolutely spot on.

Were you happy with them?

Very happy, although i fished from L'anse the toilet was a good 1/4 mile away from swim. A closer portaloo would of been handy.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

I would definitely recommend it to friends.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Most definitely.

General Comments:

Unfortunately the Carp were spawning when i got there and so i was plagued by bloomin' Catfish. Didn't have one Carp. It was just bad timing for me. Felt really frustrated but still enjoyed myself.

Details of your catches:

What a lovely lake, very comfortable, Mehdi has done a lot of work to make this place special. Sadly the fishing on our week was extremely slow. 3 anglers left a day early due to this even though they have been coming for the last 5 year, so it must have been bad timing on our all our parts or luck. Only 4 fish between us although one was one of the sturgeon which Mehdi has now removed. As we knew beforehand there are lots of phantom runs, but with him removing these it will make a massive difference.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Nothing worked...!!!

Were the facilities what you expected?

Lovely

Were you happy with them?

Yes, really more than adequate

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes but only if you are prepared to blank if the fish aren't feeding

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

9 x 40’s (49.5m, 48.5m, 42m, 42m) rest were G carp. One 52m. Total of 18 fish for six anglers.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Varying range, but to be honest a storm blew up and the big girls started to feed, that three days was productive.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Been here loadz so it was what I expected. I like the facilities.

Were you happy with them?

Yes all good.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes I would, its a stunning lake and the fish were in excellent condition.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

It started as a difficult week, the fish did not appear to be up for feeding, very finiky fish, the air temp was cold and overcast but water temp felt warm to touch.

Over course of week Lance had crashing fish, Andy lost four fish, they all came off. Very strange. Pete in Plage produced a 40 and two smaller fish. Chien had crashing fish but none taken by Wes. Birches had 4 x 40lb grass carp, a 30+ gc and 42m plus two smaller commons.

We leave les boulet (no carp bay) free no one wants to fish that. Point did well, Johny getting runs and missing them, he refined his terminal tackle and took a mid thirty grassy, very reassuring, I think he had a 7 pound tench, then took a 48 m and next day a 52m. John took point bay and first night took a big powerful fish that found a snag to break the line on. After 3 days no banked fish, he found a storm kicked up, blew heavily right into the bay and fish went on the feed. Took a 49.5m and a 43.5 GCarp and two smaller fish.

I would say everyone had to think and work hard for these captures. Sharpest hooks were best. By the way must say Craig Lancashires big common from April looked stunning, big wide fish very dark. Not seen that before, well done Craig

Details of your catches:

9 carp to 48lb, 6 were grass carp, 2 sturgeon, 2 small cats

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Tight to far overhangs and zigs took the only fish this time There were at least 100 fish in the corner by greenhouses sunken boat snags and they stayed there all week.

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 very friendly and helpfull

General Comments:

To start with mehdi brilliant as usual. Proper carp not showing or feeding so can't really complain about that as had 3 brilliant previous trips so been quite lucky. We may have done better if we had been able to keep a rig in the water long enough. Sturgeon a nightmare again although not as bad as last time it was not good with the 40 or 50 runs we had with nothing on the end from small fish. Seems early season the sturgeon are very active. It was not all trailers although odd ones may have been as mehdi thought. It was the usual all 3 lines going miles to the side then pinging off their fins sometimes you saw them roll. Also ended up not bothering hitting runs as they quickly stopped and you could feel small fish having another go picking up and dropping the bait which ended up being double 18mm this didn't deter them and was on every peg although the point was far worse. We suggested to mehdi it may be the small grasses he put in but he thinks not. At times things became so bad rods were left out usually one end of the lake or other. The sturgeon quieted down later in the week but on the Fri I was so sick of repeatedly carefully putting my rods in good positions to have them quickly done I put them in my own margin. After having six runs in a hour with nothing there I packed up fed up of it. The lads on the long bank had no problems at all on the last 2 days and one of them lost a very big mirror under the tip on a zig. We also caught a trailer which wasn't trailing loads of line line just a legal rig which had lost the lead but it was tangled in a little line. Mehdi is removing 2 more Sturgeon and is addressing problems with the lake. The weed is coming up something the lake hasn't previously had as the grass carp are now huge and on baits instead of weed. Laroussi is my favourite lake and had some previous brilliant trips and will probably still return in the future if the sturgeon go despite the most annoying frustrating trip of my life. Usually come back relaxed but I have a bad back and arthritis and am done in from the constant resetting rods especially through the night.