Details of your catches:

Lots of fish to 30lb, all fish in prestine condition and really hard fighting

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Boilie bottom baits topped with 10mm bait

Were the facilities what you expected?

Nice clean and pleasant, everything you need to make your stay enjoyable

Were you happy with them?

Yes the overall condition was very good, the kids really had a fantastic time and spent most of it in the garden and pool area

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes we would like to go back at some time

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Sharon and Gilles made us very welcome and our stay was enjoyable sorry for the late feedback I'm useless with things like this .see you again in the future.. Regards Elliott, Beni, Ramiele and Kye. X

Details of your catches:

430lbs fish. Average weight 21lbs. Largest 31lbs, 2x30lbs. Very satisfactory. Fished 5 evenings for 3 or 4 hours and 2 mornings for 3 hours. Used 3 active rods.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Boilies supplied by Gilles very satisfactory. Tried others from local shop but no better result. Used a bait boat to access water under left and right hand willow trees. Many good fish in the shallow area by the islands can be easily accessed with free lined snowman boilies but controlling the running fish is difficult

Were the facilities what you expected?

Accommodation is clean but basic. Facilities adequate. Location is superb. A great place to fish and relax. Finding the place initially greatly facilitated by using coordinates on google maps sat nav

Were you happy with them?

Yes. Great welcome from Gilles who is always very helpful

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes, to a couple who wish to combine some fishing and some sightseeing. Serious fishermen and families with children should book the main lake

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Angling lines should increase their promotion of fly drive and tackle hire on this location. Saving a gruelling drive and hiring good tackle is a great option to this location!

Details of your catches:

26lb mirror 23lb mirror 17lb koi 11lb ghosty 16lb mirror 14lb grass 18lb grass 13lb grass 12lb grass 23lb mirror 14lb grass 16lb grass 25lb common 16lb grass 16lb mirror 18lb grass 21lb grass 14lb grass 17lb grass 12lb grass 29lb mirror 10lb grass 12lb grass 15lb mirror 24lb mirror

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Use the throwing stick and keep on throwing boilies out on top of your rig every few hour, we found that this make the fish want to eat more, so this resulted to more bites. We were using a mix of urban baits boilies, that were the Nutcracker and Red Spicy. Our hook bait choose was the mainline hi vis fluro dumbell pop ups, in Banofee and Plum flavour, these resulted in more catches. We tried to use a bottom bait technique but that did not work as it was getting destroyed by crayfish all the time. We use a Roonie rig we a boom section with a 4oz drop off lead system.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Much better than expected.

Were you happy with them?

Very happy with the accommodation and fishing facilities.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Would highly recommend this venue

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes definitely

General Comments:

We went as a family of 6, the venue was idyllic, beautiful house, lake and swimming pool and surrounding countryside. The nearby village had a well stocked supermarket and we found everyone to be friendly and helpful. The boys had a great week fishing successfully catching many large fish, the hire equipment from Gilles was of top quality. Bordeaux is a beautiful place. We will definitely be going back next year.

Details of your catches:

3x30lb+mirror carp beautifull condition, 5×common carp up to 26lb, 5×grass carp up to 23lb plus 1 surprise goldfish of 12lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

The best tactics are to do exactly what gilles says and you will catch fish, I left some of my boilies out in the sun to dry and harden a bit it dosent bother the carp but stops the poisson chat eating them so quick, also I would take some korda boilie shrink wrap that stops the poisson chat all together but still lets the boilie flavour out.

Were the facilities what you expected?

The facilities were excellent, could not be better.

Were you happy with them?

Very happy

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes we hope to be going again next year with some friends but on the main lake

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Thanks to gilles and sharon they have made a very memorable week for us, they made us very welcome and are always available if you need anything. Listen to gilles he knows his stuff, they are his lakes and fish after all.