Details of your catches:

Really hard week with the hot week and the poisson chat. We only had 3 fish out between the 4 of us but all PB’s so can’t ask more than that. First fish that came out was a big surprise tipping the scale to just under 80lb was the long common at 79.10 which we had to weight twice with two different scale because we thought it had died a few weeks before and didn’t think there was another fish of that size in old oaks. As you can imagine Roy was over the moon! 2nd fish came in at 62.5 mirror for Ant, Mehdi told us it hasn’t been out since May. 3rd fish was a 35.4lb grass carp and a new pb for John

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Long common was caught using an ib pop up dumbell from the far margin. Same again for the mirror far margin using the same hook bait and the grass carp was caught on a single grain of plastic maize casted to showing fish.

Were the facilities what you expected?

All good shower was great and we brought are own microwave and toaster. The BBQ was fine.

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Would definitely recommend old oaks, Mehdi as previous feedbacks say absolute gent. Leaves you alone.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Fantastic service as always!

General Comments:

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.