Details of your catches:

Only 5 carp caught during the week plus a 10lb pike. We put this down to the high pressure of 1028 mbar and the 140kg of bait used during the previous week which when added together made for some pretty laid back fish who did not seem very hungry.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

A couple of underwater cut tree branches made for two very difficult bites which caused one Carp to be missed and one to be landed after hand lining the branch in. Luckily the fish was unharmed. Strong 18lb lines recommended. Keep rigs simple and size 6 hooks (or 4s) and back leads.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Brilliant as always.

Were you happy with them?

Yes very happy, can't wait to go back next August.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Highly recommended venue, I only caught two carp all week but both exceeded my previous personal bests.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

I cannot recommend Angling Lines enough, they are very friendly and helpful and worked closely with us thoughout the pandemic to get us there.

General Comments:

I always fish Peg 2 - 2 metres off the far margin and it usually produces a few good fish.

Details of your catches:

18 x carp

1x 20’s
4 x 30’s
4 x 40’s
6 x 50’s
2 x 60's
1 x 70‘s

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Pop ups and waiters over lots of boilies

Were the facilities what you expected?

Brilliant

Were you happy with them?

Extremely

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Without doubt, what a venue

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes, brilliant from start to finish

General Comments:

By far a trip to remember and maybe never repeated for myself. Mehdi’s hard work throughout the last few years on poisson chat removal has certainly paid dividend!!! The fish have benefited massively on the return of anglers and all the bait going to the carp not poisson chat. This was proven over this week with huge weight gains and PB’s being toppled frequently.

A truly incredible week to remember with lake records for both common and mirror carp being recorded. However I can’t see these records lasting for the future anglers as these fish are only getting bigger , so good luck lads and girls . This is a lake of dreams ?????

Details of your catches:

Fishing was hard due to weather but we had 8 fish biggest 60lb 4oz. Average weight was 48lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Far margin most baits worked

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes clean and plenty of room for bait and food

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes we have been before

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes very well organised

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

15 Fish caught through the week with a few lost.
1x 60 (66lb The Long Common)
2x 50s (53.10 Mirror & 58.10 Mirror)
4x 40s (47.5 Mirror, 46.5 Mirror, 45.7 Mirror, 43.2lb Common)
1x 30 Grassy
6x 20s (2 Mirrors & 5 Grassys)
1x Double Common

Peg 1 - 4 Fish
Peg 2 - 2 Fish
Peg 4 - 5 Fish
Peg 5 - 4 Fish

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

All anglers fished similar tactics with all of the bites coming from the far margin or side margin in the end swims. Pop ups accounted for most of the bites with pop up corn fished over Mehdi's parti blend dropped from the boat.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Facilities were more than expected for a weeks holiday, massive freezer for all baits, decent fridge to keep all food in for the week. Shower was excellent. 4g signal was more than ample in all of the swims.

Were you happy with them?

Really happy with them.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

I would definitely recommend to a friend, and will be visiting again in the near future.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Angling Lines were great with all the fussing around covid. Mehdi was great in sorting out the covid tests in a local pharmacy for us which took a big worry out the end of the trip.

General Comments:

After hearing the lake had done 42 fish the 2 weeks before, and 46 in the week prior to us arriving, I think we had an expectation that the fish would be on the feed and we would be filling our boots in regards to bites. The lake did seem like it started off slowly for the week with only a double and a grassy coming out within the first 36 hours. The bulk of the fish seemed to come out between monday-wednesday with the lake basically shutting down with only the one bite after Wednesday.

After 2 really good weeks of angling with anglers returning i think this was a fairly good week given the weather was on the warmer side of what you would expect for late September.

Through the week we went through approx. 60kg of Mainline Cell & 100kg of Mehdi's own parti-blend.

Poisson Chat were not a problem for any of us during the week, i wrapped bottom baits and popups to start but no damage to any of the baits which hadn't been wrapped.

One thing to note - a couple of times we had fairly sensitive bites with the alarms only registering single or a couple of beeps but the fish had made significant movements in the lake (that was with fishing fairly tight lines) - margins are super deep in all swims so drop off/captive backleads would for sure be making their way with me on a return trip.