Details of your catches:

6 carp
1 bream

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Bottom baits

Were the facilities what you expected?

Good

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:

Details of your catches:

41 fish in total, 4 in their 40s, 10 in their 30s and the remaining under 30lb. Largest was a 47.4lb Mirror. Other notable catches were a Koi at 19lb and a grass carp at 32lb.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

We mainly used snowman of various flavours of 20mm boilies with yellow pop-ups. But also caught on tigernuts, tigernuts with fake corn and single wafters, but these seemed to attract the smaller subjects so we opted for the larger offerings. We baited fairly heavily as the lake had seen low occupancy and thought this would be a good approach. Used the lake supplied mix and added tigernut crush, hemp and boilies.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, been here before so knew what to expect and now a second toilet... our prayers were answered.

Were you happy with them?

Yes. Plenty of freezer and fridge space and the facilities are adequate for this level of lake.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

yes. We actually met with an Angling Lines representative who was actually visiting and checking the lake and discussing with the clients there. Was very impressed by the attention to detail, the knowledge of the representative and just the general overall level of customer care shown by the team at Angling Lines.

General Comments:

We had seen many comments about the dead fish at this lake. We were actually here last year just after the spawning and there were a number of dead fish, which we since learnt is fairly common, to what levels I'm unsure. But we did not see any on this visit and catching 40+ fish with 4 being over 40lb the stock still seems to be pretty healthy.

Details of your catches:

25 carp 14-43.5lb
2 fish over 40lb
7 fish 30-40lb
20 mirrors, 4 commons, 1 koi.
4 tench, 1 bream

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Pop-up boilie or snowman.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, all good.

Were you happy with them?

Of course

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Sure

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Sure

General Comments:

We had lovely session with excellent sunny spring weather. Great big pegs and friendly owners. 90% bites at night time, be ready for that.

Details of your catches:

7 takes landed 5
24lb common, 24,3lb mirror, 30,2lb mirror, 38lb mirror and a 39lb mirror

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Blowback rig using a size 6 long shank wide gape armor point fix hook with a bottom bait tipped if with a bit of pink

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:

Definitely worth some return trips to get amongst the bigguns