Details of your catches:

5 fishing. 40 fish in total = 1625lb + a bream. Swim 1, 11 fish = 38,10 pb- 30,8 - 32 - 38,8 - 37 - 38 - 47,8 pb - 37 common - 43 - 40,4 - 46. All mirrors apart from the common + 1 bream. Swim 2, 10 fish = 44,12 pb - 42,8 - 43,8 - 39,8 - 50,8 pb - 52,8 pb - 43,8 - 40 - 35 - 53.9 pb all mirrors. Swim 3, 5 fish = 36,8 pb - 44,8 pb - 37,10 - 37 - 44,4 all mirrors. Swim 4, 3 fish = 43,1 pb - 35, 42,8 all mirrors. Swim 5, 11 fish = grassy 22,8 pb - 50,8 pb - grassy 28,2 pb - 42 - grassy 19,8 - 47,4 - 38,5 - grassy 28,8 pb - 50,2 - 51,2 pb - 49,12 mirrors + 4 grass carp.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Lots of different rigs tried, all worked well if presented well. Snowman bottom baits worked really well as long as it was wrapped or plastic. The carp seem to have there favourite spots and if you didn’t drop rig right on it we didn’t get bites. Far bank as everyone else says. I would recommend buying the particle from Mehdi as it kept carp in spots or brought them back on the spots. This water is amazing as long as you don’t think you can cast a rod then sit on your hands. Keep baiting little but often and recast/baitboat fairly often. Only really had two carp at night from swim four the rest were all early hours from 6am ish to 8pm ish. Slayer baits, mainline and Karl in swim 4 makes his own which also caught fish in swim 1 when richy ran out lol.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Perfect for a fishing holiday, this is not a 5 star holiday so don’t moan when there is no toilet paper. Shower every day was a dream plus everything else you need, freezer,fridge etc.

Were you happy with them?

Yes absolutely fine.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

100% yes, looking to book again asap.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes definitely

General Comments:

Mehdi is a sound guy and will answer any questions you have and help out in any way he can. Poisson Chat to us were not a problem, only 5 caught and 1 pulled in on a lost rig from someone else. Wrap the baits or use plastic and you might get a couple of beeps but then they leave it alone. Next door pond can be noisy but I think we made as much noise when we caught the pbs lol, so not an issue for me personally.

Details of your catches:

Dale peg 2 50lb mirror 38lb mirror 35lb mirror 30lb mirror 48lb mirror 37lb common 41lb linear 39lb mirror peg 1 54lb mirror 36lb mirror peg 2 38lb mirror 39lb mirror 51lb mirror peg 1 49lb mirror Lost 1 peg 1 X6 chat 585lb Kirk peg 4 32.8lb mirror 45lb mirror 24lb grassy X1 Tench X2 chat Rat 101lb Russ peg 3 38lb common 37lb mirror 48lb mirror 46lb mirror 20lb mirror 40lb mirror 34lb mirror 41lb mirror 17lb common 37lb mirror 45lb mirror 35lb mirror 45lb mirror 46lb mirror Lost 3 X1 Bream X2 chat Rat 529lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Anything as long as it was shrink wrapped.. snowman’s and wafters.. work hard and you’ll catch them.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Better than we expected

Were you happy with them?

Yes very happy

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes would recommend. Thinking about rebooking in the winter

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

We had major trouble with our engine. Medhi drove us around a couple of days to help with translation etc to get van sorted and helped us get some shopping in. True gentleman!!

Details of your catches:

12 fish 1x 50 , 4x 40s , 5x 30s , 1x 20 , 1x double 4 fish lost!

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Different tactics worked, half the fish came from the washing line method, using the bait spoon to drop under trees on far margin. Casting to fizzing worked also. 50% of the takes came within minutes of going out, hand full of bait over each rod!!! . Ronnie rigs, blowback rigs, bottom bait rigs all worked. Bait..... cell, dna bait, odyssey xxx, nutcracker

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes

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:

Lovely lake, Mehdi is a lovely guy and made us feel right at home. Poisson Chat were challenging at times but we knew that when we booked it. Huge fish will be back!!!

Details of your catches:

Anglers: Lee Heath, Stewart Cliff, Mark Gilbert and Andrew Gilbert mirrors: 34, 38.12, 44, 34, 39, 40, 53.9, 45.4, 51.9, 53.8, 44.8, 38.4 commons: 18, 41.7 One bream

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Everything from pop up's to fake corn worked. Boilies used were air dried for several months, although towards the end of the week we did start using a few of the nash pineapple boilies (which are incredibly soft) without any extra attention from the poisson chat. All hookbaits were shrink wrapped, but by the end of the week we didn't bother as any retrieved baits showed no sign of being nibbled. Tactics wise it was mainly to position rigs on the far margin where the lake bed began to rise up. Nothing was presented really tight as the far margin begins its accent a reasonable distance out. Personally for myself in swim 2 there's a really nice feature quite a distance from the rear margin that did all of my runs.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yeah they were perfect for what we needed, plenty of fridge and freezer room.

Were you happy with them?

Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

I certainly would

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes without hesitation

General Comments:

I will be completely honest with the following statements and I don't want to contradict whats been previously said, but this is exactly how we found our week. With regards to the poisson chat, we barely had any issue. Between the four of us we hooked six chats (a few were monsters) during the week and this was using fish meal boilies and matching popups. We also used sweetcorn as loose feed but decided against using hemp as we were concerned that this may encourage the chats. The weather for our stay was incredibly hot so what chat were in the lake would have been very active. I am sure there is a reasonably sized population of poisson chat in the lake, but for us it really wasn't an issue. With regards to fish location, we found carp in the far margin the whole way across the lake. All anglers caught so it wasn't a case of one particular swim dominating any other. Bite time seemed to occur around six-ish in the afternoon and then go dead by around midnight (the only morning fish was 7am on the last Saturday while packing up). I would advise to really pay attention to your line and not so much the indicators as we had a few carp that would give just a single beep on the alarm and the mainline would just tighten up without any movement on the bobbin. Its really important to not disregard these little movements as poisson chat activity. I find if you hook a chat, its more of a jerky pull on your mainline as opposed to a smooth tightening up. Another observation was the quickness of bites after resting a swim. I decided not to put any rods in swim two until 7pm on Sunday, but steadily applied bait on the spots from Saturday afternoon. My first cast hit the spot and was off in fifteen minutes. The group lost several fish during the week through the normal means, but we were very satisfied with what we caught. The stamp of carp in this lake is incredible, almost to a point where its spoiled me. If you want the chance of plenty of forties and fifties, this is the lake of your dreams. Mehdi is one of the nicest people you will ever meet and was there if you needed him, but also gave you your own space. The match lake the other side of the back bank was a bit noisy at times, but of course that's nothing to do with Mehdi or Angling Lines. There's a little grey wild cat that patrols the lake (who apparently is called 'bon bon') who must do a fantastic job of keeping the vermin in check as I only saw one rat all week. All in all this is one hell of a French carp lake, it can be moody as anything but you know that when you hook one, it's more than likely going to be something very special.