Details of your catches:

A disappointing week with only 5 fish between 4 anglers (2 of us failed to register) 1x 41lb mirror, 32lb & 31lb commons, 2 x 29lb commons. We don’t profess to be experts but we’ve had very good hauls from other Angling Lines venues in the past.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Difficult to locate fish - 4 were caught off left side of the spit fishing close to the mid-water weed patch.

Were the facilities what you expected?

The cabin is a god send - great for social and most welcome on the couple of very wet days that we experienced. Considering the lack of mains connection, the shower and loo were nicely presented (although emptying the compostable loo at the end of the week may not be to everybody’s liking!)

Were you happy with them?

They were as good as we’ve experienced elsewhere with Angling Lines. Shower could be warmer. The owner Chris visited - nice chap with a good command of English.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Probably not - it’s a long drive through Central Paris and we experienced a poor catch total

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes Angling Lines are always accommodating in our experience.

General Comments:

Had issues with a bunch of coots as they made it difficult to get down a bed of bait without them diving for it. Unfortunately 2 birds had to be unhooked during the week (both fine afterwards). We also experienced issues with crayfish with 5 rigs being cut through near the orange bouy and clawed boilies in evidence elsewhere in the lake. Had a tough week but we take some of the blame in retrospect as we think it might have been best to spend more time fishing close to weed beds rather than open water.

Details of your catches:

Only 4 fish between the 2 of us.
Mark
48lb 8oz mirror
37lb 14oz common
Danny
30lb 6oz common
28lb common all pb fish

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Boilie, tigers and pop up hookbaits all worked between us with scattering of particle and boilie.
Tried big beds of baits on spots and scattering on others, both approaches caught fish.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes.

Were you happy with them?

Yes basic but adequate.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Always do and have.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Always do and have.

General Comments:

Started fishing from the spit after finding clear areas around the weed but that wasn't productive in the first few days so we moved to the dam wall for 3 days where Mark had both the big mirror and common, Danny had 1 common from the spit before we moved, the dam wall shut off again so we moved back to the spit on Friday for ease of packing away on Saturday where Danny had the other common.

The weather wasn't ideal, mid 20s through the day then dropping to between 3 and 4° overnight which we think hindered the feeding from the fish and not really showing themselves which made it hard to locate them apart from the odd bosh out in the night, but the dense night sound give us no clue to where exactly they was.

The lake is lovely in all fairness with a lot of weed around the margins and the shallow end with banks of weed dotted around the whole lake. In time I think a bailiff would be required on hand if anglers need any information as at present there isn't much info with it being a relatively new water and the bailiff that is apparently the bailiff is more of a caretaker for the facilities rather than a bailiff for fishing information which we met him on arrival the Saturday and never seen him again.

But all in all we both had pbs and as always we all want more fish, but we were happy with what we caught in the end with the weather conditions against us to be fair.

Details of your catches:

We finished the week with 16 carp to 40lb 2oz.
The fishing wasn't easy due to weather conditions but enjoyable! Cabin was wicked with good facilities. All in all a mega good trip for me and my dad, will definitely return.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

We fished boilies and particles towards the far side when the weather was hot and fished open water spots when we had 48 hours of rain.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Facilities were brilliant, shower was nice and hot! Water was nice and hot on the kitchen sink provided too! Cabin is wicked, really good for socialising and the view of the lake from the cabin is mint!

Were you happy with them?

Very happy all round would love to return in a couple years time.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes definitely

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes definitely

General Comments:

Brilliant

Details of your catches:

Caught a mix of mirrors, commons and grass carp. 26 fish in total biggest being 45lb mirror and a grass carp at 42lb. Rest of the fish were mainly between 35lb and 40lb.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Both pop ups and bottom baits caught but bottom baits caught the bigger fish. All caught on boilies.

Were the facilities what you expected?

We were very happy with the facilities which were clean and well equipped. We did take a small generator to run a small freezer so we could rotate bait. We also kept bait in the main freezer at the farm. There is a small gas powered fridge on site which was big enough to keep food refrigerated but we took a extra one for drinks!!

Were you happy with them?

Yes, very comfortable and sheltered from the sun.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes.

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes, this was not our first choice of lake but because of covid and dates being changed we couldn't fish the lake we wanted. However the Angling Lines team did everything they could to find us a venue. We treated this trip as a holiday rather than a fishing trip and we all enjoyed getting back to France. We have booked a few trips with Angling Lines and have not been disappointed, looking forward to our next trip in 2022.

General Comments:

Ragon will develop over the next few years, the owners were very nice and welcoming. There is a fair amount of weed in the upper part of the lake which restricted fishing to the main part of the lake. The 2 main swims caught the most fish which left the third person on the dam wall. We found that this had a effect on the main part of the lake by pushing the fish up in to the upper part of the lake. Because of this and the weed in the upper part I think the lake to more suited to 2 anglers.