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News from Old Oaks lake

Jan 2014

Snag Removal & General Tidy Up, 21st Jan

I've been working hard almost everyday around both Laroussi and Old Oaks, around half the lake now has the worst snags removed, but the heavy constant rain we had now has stopped me.

I will restart as soon as the weather improves and take photos.

Mehdi

Nov 2013

Inflight at Old Oaks, 21st Nov

Our latest 'Inflight' episode features an aerial flight over Old Oaks, designed to give you a real taster of the lake's layout and features.

Oct 2013

Mehdi Does It Again, 15th Oct

Many of you who have fished either Laroussi or Old Oaks, will be aware of lake owner Mehdi's monster vegetables.

Mehdi sent us these pictures in this week. It is often remarked in the office that if we could bottle up and sell whatever Mehdi's secret is to making both his carp and vegetables grow so big we'd be millionaires!

Oct 2013

Grumpy Old Men at Old Oaks, 1st Oct

Sometimes you have to bite your lip and follow the flow. I didn't and I paid the price.

It was late September 2013 when David Keep and I paid a visit to Old Oaks, the smaller sister water to Laroussi. Dave was no stranger to either lake, where as this would be my 1st trip to one of Medhi's famous waters.

Now for those of you that have not been fortunate enough to fish these lakes it is hard to describe the warm and friendly a welcome you receive from Medhi and his family. Medhi knows his waters like the back of his hand and soon filled us in with the previous captures on the lake over the past few week's.

We established that 3 anglers that had just left the lake and they had really turned the water over with 48 captures and over 15 fish lost. This was a brilliant result for them but obviously we gathered that at least 1/2 of the fish in the lake had seen a hook over the past week. Now that does not always effect the fishing, but that coupled with the forecast of high pressure and 27C for the forthcoming week did knock our confidence a little...

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