Details of your catches:

18 carp total. 5x50+ 9×40+ 3×30+ 1x25+ 17x mirrors 1x grass carp

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Big beds of bait to help with the number of poisson chat in the lake. Most bites came tight to the far margin under the over hanging trees.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes would recommend

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes Angling lines fantastic.

General Comments:

Medhi the owner is brillant. Always on hand to help out. Well worth a visit, the amount of huge carp in there is impressive.

Details of your catches:

Was a tricky week but we had 12 fish in all 3x 50s, 6x40s, 2x 30s 1x20.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Not my first time to Old oaks so knew the fish seem to switch on and off like a light switch which can make the angling tricky. We had a productive first half of the week and then they just switched off. Swim 2 was the best swim and the fish seemed concentrated in the middle swims with 5 and 1 being really quiet which is quite unusual. Poisson chat werent a problem at all. Prevention is better than cure and taking a bait they didn’t like paid off. This time it was Karper baits spicy nut. And mad baits Nutz over chilli hemp and Mehdi’s parti blend.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes, I knew what to expect.

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:

Another great week at one of Mehdi’s lakes. Great owner who leaves you to it but is always available if needed. See you soon Mehdi.

Details of your catches:

3 mirror carp 37lb 48lb 54lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Ronnie rigz with large pop up to avoid the little cat fish

Were the facilities what you expected?

Cabin was perfect had everything that we needed

Were you happy with them?

Yes was happy

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes I would lovely lake and very peaceful

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Charlotte and angling lines was amazing, definitely will book again through you

General Comments:

Had an amazing week, the catfish are hard work as eat all the bait so have to put loads in to fill them up and get out the way. Would have hoped for a couple more fish, think of lake was netted and got rid of them would make a lot better. Medhi the Owner was a very nice man and welcoming I would recommend but be prepared for a mentally hard week while the little cat fish are still in there.

Details of your catches:

1 x 47lb Mirror

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Caught using 2 x Plastic Corn. Difficult to get through the Poisson Chat which were very active and ate everything we put into the lake.

Were the facilities what you expected?

yes - great facilities

Were you happy with them?

yes - good shower.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

I'd definitely recommend the venue, but not during the summer months. The Poisson Chat were numerous and very active which was a bit disappointing having read that their numbers have been reduced over recent years. It made fishing very difficult to the point that we moved to Laroussi on the Wednesday.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

yes - Angling Lines great as usual.

General Comments:

A difficult week of fishing, but still a good trip... Mehdi a lovely guy as mentioned before numerous times - happy to see you and made sure that we were ok on the 1st Day. Offered to let us fish Laroussi as Old Oaks was fishing very poorly with the Poisson Chat activity. Laroussi was beautiful and very scenic, Old Oaks felt a bit more 'commercial' with formed swims etc but both lakes were well maintained and offered great options for fishing. Can't help feeling that a bit more effort could be being made to reduce the Poisson Chat numbers in Old Oaks - especially given there aren't any in Laroussi showing they can be removed. Mehdi said he traps in the lake, so perhaps an increased number is required to get them under control in the short term. Appreciate it's not a simple task, but when you continually see a pack of them clear a spot you bait in the margin within 5 minutes it's pretty demoralising. Laroussi was beautiful and really enjoyed doing a couple of nights on there despite not catching - would definitely like to return for a full week in the future. Supermarkets within 10 minutes were good, and went to 'Wake Paradise' for lunch one day, just up the road, lovely setting by a lake and good food.