Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Kieron Chapman

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 20-09-2008 to 27-09-2008

No. of persons fishing: 8

Brief details of your catches: 15 fish caught, 6 x 30lbfish to 39lb 12oz, 2 x 40lb fish to 42lb 1oz and a new lake record and a new lake record common of 39lb 12oz, the rest where made up of 20s and two sturgeon. brilliant week.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: We fished boillies only scattered along the tree line and under snags, all fished snowman or 3 split baits on the hair, on short 4

Were the facilities what you expected? yes

Were you happy with them? yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? yes

Would you recommend our services to a friend? yes

General comments: Excellent service, fantastic fishing, brilliant owner (eric), fantastic site. i wouldn't class it as a runs water, but if you work hard a stick with it you will reep the rewards. TIGHT LINES

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Name of customer:  Adam Armstrong

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 22-08-2008 to 30-08-2008

No. of persons fishing: 4

Brief details of your catches: Between 4 fishing: 6 x 30's, 1 x 40.5, 8 x 20's, 3 sturgeon to 15.0, 1 x 22.0 Koi, 2 x tench and loads of bream.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Tiger nuts, hemp and boilies on small lake. Just boilies on large lake due to hemp attracting bream.Large boilies on snowman rigs worked well.

Were the facilities what you expected? Better

Were you happy with them? Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes, but only for first time to France

Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes, Very good!

General comments: Only the right bank to the retaurant is any good on small lake, hence the move to the large lake for 3 of the 4 anglers. Island pegs on large lake were very good.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Mr Raybone

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 14-06-2008 to 21-06-2008

No. of persons fishing: 7

Brief details of your catches: 28 rods caught 3 carp, 3 small bream, 1 sturgeon.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: 

Were the facilities what you expected? Better

Were you happy with them?

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? No because we didn't like the number of rats.

Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: Food ok, fishing not good. Great venue, owner very helpful.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  rickey and jason

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 24-05-2008 to 31-05-2008

No. of persons fishing: 2

Brief details of your catches: 30 carp 43lb, 32lb rest 20's and 1 at 14lb. Tench and bream were also to be had

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: snowman rigs and single 20mm pop ups all fished to island and margins, hard work in open water,baitboat essential,big hooks to prevent pull outs!!!

Were the facilities what you expected? yes

Were you happy with them? yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? yes

Would you recommend our services to a friend? yes

General comments: nice place,not too busy eric is very helpful came to see us once and let us get on with the fishing,he also charged the baitboat for us, would go again.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Mr Julian & Gavin O'Donnell

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 23-05-2008 to 30-05-2008

No. of persons fishing: 2

Brief details of your catches: 25 fish including 16 doubles, 33 lb common, 31 lb Mirror, 29 lb mirror 28 lb mirror, 24 lb mirror 22 lb mirror

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Boilies over a bed of pellets

Were the facilities what you expected? Better

Were you happy with them? yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? yes

Would you recommend our services to a friend? yes

General comments: It was a fantastic location, Eric & his wife were great hosts and looked after us. The only draw back was the number of rats.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Chris Burley & Rob

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 10-05-2008 to 17-05-2008

No. of persons fishing: 2

Brief details of your catches: Biggest carp 34lb, koi 19lb, Stugeon 14lb 2oz. All in all about 20 carp over 20lbs.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Big hook baits over lots of hemp. Big hook baits are needed to avoid the bream! Bait boats are highly reccomended.

Were the facilities what you expected? Facilities are very good

Were you happy with them? Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes

Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: Eric and Nadia are a lovely couple and bent over backwards to help us out. From the wendnesday afternoon to the sat morning we had 33 runs but because of weed beds two thrids of the lake out we only managed to land half. Thanks Eric and Nadia.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Jamie Simpson

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 03-05-2008 to 10-05-2008

No. of persons fishing: 3

Brief details of your catches: We fished pegs 3, 4 and 15. Kev caught 6 fish from peg 3 all upper doubles. Jason caught 8 fish from peg 4 to 34lb 12oz. Jamie caught 31 fish to 26lb 2oz from peg 15

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Very difficult fishing conditions due to a very sudden up turn in temperature where the fish took the opportunity to spawn. Most fish were caught tight to the margins and the island. Pellet and hemp attracted the Bream so just boilies and a bait boat comes in handy for accuracy.We were using Questbaits Rahja Spice and Crab boilies in 15mm and 18mm sizes.We saw a few of the bigger fish during the week in the back channel behind pegs 12,13 and 14 and a probable mid forty basking in the margin along the spit in front of peg 19 so they are definately in there. In better conditions I am confident someone will have a few of the bigger residents out.

Were the facilities what you expected? Better than expected

Were you happy with them? Extremely

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Definately

Would you recommend our services to a friend? 100% yes

General comments: A wonderful venue with excellent facilities in the form of on-site restaurant, toilet and showers. It was tricky fishing the week we went due to spawning and I’m certain that without that we’d have had even better results.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Stuart Edwards

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 12-04-2008 to 19-04-2008

No. of persons fishing: 4

Brief details of your catches: 30 carp to 41.08. Average size was around 23lb. 3 sturgeon of 21, 22, 24lb

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Baitboat to the island. We took some fish from the small sluice behind pegs 12,13,14.

Were the facilities what you expected? Yes

Were you happy with them? Yes. Food was good, particularly the breakfasts. Good, clean showers too.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes.... I predict this will be one of Angling Lines top venues in a few years time

Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: This is a lovelly lake & the fish are in top nick. Deffinitely one to watch!

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Name of customer:  Mr Johnson

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 05-04-2008 to 12-04-2008

No. of persons fishing: 3

Brief details of your catches: 3 x mirrors caught, 1 x 28.8, 1 x 23.12, 1 x 13. and 5 bream

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Very difficult to say which tactics were best, as the weather conditions where terrible!! 4 seasons in 1 week, i.e sun, hail, rain, freezing cold down to -6 at night and thick fog.

Were the facilities what you expected? Fab

Were you happy with them? Yes, Eric is a very nice man, very helpful and could not do enough for us.

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes definately

Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: 1 x 40lb+ got caught in the branches by swim - fog was that thick - unable to see where the tip of the rod was. Darren went in for a swim at minus 6 degrees to release the fish from the branches (very brave man. Super place.... would be even better in the summer when more fish have been introduced. We WILL be back!!

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Name of customer:  Mr Dawson

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 22-03-2008 to 29-03-2008

No. of persons fishing: 2

Brief details of your catches: 20 carp to 30lb, tench & bream.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Boilies over hemp.

Were the facilities what you expected? Yes

Were you happy with them? Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes

Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: Overall a decent fishery with a pleasant owner. Not for the seroius specimen hunter in my opinion but good for a few runs.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Paul Cooper

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 21-03-2008 to 28-03-2008

No. of persons fishing: 1

Brief details of your catches: 40lb 2oz mirror, 23lb 8oz mirror, 12 upper doubles.

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Fishing the near margin and margins of the island with 15 mil Quest Rahja Spice shelf life boilies over a small scattering of hemp.

Were the facilities what you expected? Adequate wooden lodge in swims 10, 17 , and 7. The restaurant serves excellent meals and is open throughout the day. There is a shower and toilet faciliries which are in excellent condition providing hot water as required.

Were you happy with them? Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes.... I predict this will be one of Angling Lines top venues.

Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: Jim Kelly and myself arrived at Grosley large lake in a 30 mph cold Northerley wind. The wind calmed later that day, but we then had snow rain and ice over the next 4 days. On 3 mornings we woke to all our indicators and reels being frozen solid. As you can gather the carp weren't feeding. It was not until the 5th day that I had the first carp. I finished the week with 14 carp in total, 11 doubles to 19lb , a 23lb 8oz carp and an immaculate 40lb 2 ounce mirror carp. All the fish were caught off spodded hemp and 15 mil Quest Rahja Spice shelf life boilies. Jim had 8 carp, 6 twenties and 2 doubles. All the fish were caught in the latter 3 days of our trip when the weather warmed up to between 6 and 9 degrees. I am sure that with better weather conditions we would have caught some of the bigger residents of the lake, and a lot more of them. The lake is at least 25 acres in size and is set in a fully private complex, with its own restaurant, and shower block.

Holiday Feedback Form

Name of customer:  Jim Kelly

Venue:  Grosley

Date of holiday: 21-03-2008 to 28-05-2008

No. of persons fishing: 1

Brief details of your catches: 8 carp to 27+ pounds (6 twenties)

What did you find were the best tactics/baits: Fishing the margins. presentation-snowman, 15 mm Quest Raja boillie with a 10mm pineapple fluoro pop-up. Fished over hemp and around 50 boillies.

Were the facilities what you expected? Good shower and toilet. Chalet was a bonus due to the very cold and wet conditions. Having a bar and restaurant on site is good. The breakfasts were excellent.

Were you happy with them? Yes

Would you recommend the venue to a friend? Yes

Would you recommend our services to a friend? Yes

General comments: When I arrived there was a gale force Northely blowing (the later Ferries were cancelled). The next few days there was snow and heavy rain, the temperature did not rise above 4 degrees C on two consecutive days. During the first two nights there was rain/snow followed by a heavy frost. The line froze solid on the reals. needless to say nothing was caught for the first 5 days. When the temperature managed to struggle over 6 degrees I started to catch. I caught 8 carp during the last couple of days to 27 pound plus. All carp were caught from the margins.