Details of your catches:

Excellent week, the lake, fish and polite company of the other guests made for a great holiday. Our 3 rods produced 20 Carp to 35lb and my 7 yrs old son had endless fun catching on the float.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Bruno’s pellet, particle mix and CC Moore boilies fishing snow man rigs caught all the fish. Most of the bites are at night after midnight, and as the weather reached a scorching 39 degrees at the back end of the week bites were not as frequent. Still caught fish every day.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Facilities are brilliant, super clean and meet your every need. Bruno and his Girlfriend could not have been more accommodating. It was my sons first trip to France and he loved every minute. Bruno even went out of his way to get him a bike to ride to the toilets (he now wants a Red ‘Bruno’ Bike?)

Were you happy with them?

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

100%, I’m looking forward to coming back in a few years so Isaac can catch the lakes first 50!

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yep

General Comments:

Details of your catches:

Great week 36 carp between the 2 of us Son had 22 carp to 37.12lb grass carp to 25lb I had 14 up to 34lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Small beds of bait in likely looks spots worked well all week. Larger beds of pellets maize regular top ups took time to work 4 fish in a night. Live system wafters accounted for most fish

Were the facilities what you expected?

Facilities excellent large cabin with fridge freezer, powerpoints, toaster. Shower room toilet very clean.

Were you happy with them?

More than happy

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes, very hard fighting fish, swims large plenty of room, easy to get to, supermarket 5 minutes away

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

This was our first trip to France, picked a venue where the chances of catching are high, yes not the biggest fish in France but give it a few years this will be a big fish venue. 2 double swims well spaced out with good amount of water, bay swims where we were fishing nice for a social, good margins. Bruno very helpful, not intrusive but always willing to help.

Details of your catches:

30 fish between us on first week back after Covid lockdown so it took a while to change their feeding habits but once we got them feeding it was busy. It was also a time for me to hone my two teenage sons’ skills which meant I spent more time with them for the first three days than concentrating on my own swim. We lost 10 fish as well in the first few days so could have been many more fish if we had worked better.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Lots of particle, pellet and Pacific Tuna boilies in a good spread, then concentrate on fish two rods on those areas and one just off them. We caught mainly on corn stacks at first until they got on the boilies, then boilie tipped with yellow or white buoyant corn. 15 or 18 mm worked equally as well

Were the facilities what you expected?

Better actually. Really good, powerful shower in a large cubicle/wet room. Nice loo/shower block which Bruno supplies a bike to get to as it was the other side of the lake. Sounds a pain but was actually a pleasant surprise. The fisherman’s Lodge was large and very comfortable with two fridge/freezers ideal for food and freezer packs as well as plenty of power points.

Were you happy with them?

Very.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Not only would I recommend it, I would happily take them there!! I have a busy stressful job and totally relaxed there whilst catching plenty of fish. Reeled in on last night as needed to sleep ?

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Definitely. Angling Lines have been brilliant through these difficult times (Covid lockdown). Communication has been regular and informative and returned emails swiftly. They had to change my travel arrangement due to ferry crossing cancelling but always remained positive and got me there fine. All information on the venue was totally accurate.

General Comments:

Better than advertised! I was slightly concerned about the photos of the double swims having a road behind them but it turns out it’s just a private drive to one house and only saw a couple of cars a day, behind the road was a lovely open field of wheat with large trees beyond. The views in all directions were really beautiful. My main reason for going to this particular venue was that I wanted to take my two teenage sons (15 and 17) to their first French fishing venue on a water where I felt that they would be able to handle any fish and it’s an opportunity for me to help them to hone their skills. Not only was it perfect for this with a large head of 20s and plenty of 30s as well as a couple of 40s and some lovely grass carp, it made me realise how much I personally enjoy catching fish of this size. I usually aim to go to waters with 50’s in but I will definitely go back here as it offers a different experience. It’s the sort of place you can go and catch plenty of fish and with a lovely small town 5 minutes away, I’d be happy to reel in at lunchtimes and go for a bite to eat there which I never normally do as I’m only aiming at 6 or 7 bites so want to spend all my time lakeside. Bruno is excellent, really helpful and wants you to catch. It was tranquil and extremely relaxing and the double swims got sun from morning to night with plenty of shady spots provided by a row of apple trees along the grassy bank. The margins were predominantly snag free with numerous large overhanging weeping willows and other trees. Bait boats are pretty essential or at least really help for accurate fishing at 90-120 yards. Use their bait, it works. Maize from the particle mix was perfect for hookbait with two pieces of pop-up plastic corn to balance it. The fish like food there so put plenty in. I mean plenty. We got through 35 kilos of boilie, 40 kg of particle and 20 kg of pellet between 3 of us. But it was a strange week as no bait had been in for weeks/months (Covid) so we worked hard to get the fish into our spots. Fish came mainly between midnight and 11.00am. Hardly any evening fish surprisingly but a pattern to work around. I loved it there!!! Although it’s a new commercial fishing venue, this is an old lake so very established looking with some lovely originals as well as the stockies. There will be more 40’s soon and I think we’ll be seeing 50’s coming out in the future.

Details of your catches:

We had 18 fish between us, all very good looking and very hard fighting fish.

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Keep to your spots, keep feeding bait in after fish.

Were the facilities what you expected?

A lot better.

Were you happy with them?

Yes, very much. Very clean.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes 100%

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes 100%

General Comments:

Bruno is a true gent, goes out of his way to make your holiday.