Lovely weather to start the week 30° plus and warm at nights too, changes of the weather during the week did effect the fishing.

Lake 1
Richard Holzel, the “Beach” took a tally of 23 fish for the week up to 38lbs and still managed to better his P.B 10 times. Richard was using Mainlines Fusion and Cell boilies.

Dave Sorrell “West Bar” had a total of 18 fish the best a 40lb+ common and topped that with one of 54lbs. Dave used 25kgs of Scopex flavoured boilies.

Alan Sutton “Cherries” had 22 fish, inc. a 40lb common, a 45lb mirror, and rounded of his memorable holiday with a superb mirror of 51lbs. Alan used just 15kgs of the Cell boilies.

T. Penfold >>> “Haven” used 15kg of the Cell to take a haul of 11 fish, whilst his brother a Mr. K Penfold >>> of “Dangermouse” fame had only 3 fish, but as luck would have it one was a 50lb common, on the Active-8. The east bank suffered a bit as it seemed most of the carp were on the opposite side of the Lake.

Tony Gouldsborough “Sunset” was on the 1st of a 2 week stay with his family, managed to winkle out 10 fish up to 39lbs on the Essential Opal Specials 20kg to be precise, let’s hope things pick up for next week.

Gary Garvey “Chimneys” had a fair hit of fish 22 to be exact, half of which were over 3lbs, the best however was a 43lb common.

Ryan Hodgeson “Slope” had a catch of 17 fish, the best a 40lb common on the Cell and Active-8.

His mate Matt Cheshire >>> “Snags” had 19 fish 8x30’s and the best a 43lb common taken on the Cell and TI and used just 8kg of bait.

Matt was in a bit of bother for using the holiday money for a trip to Turkey to pay for his trip to France, good luck with that one mate!!

Danny Westerman “3 Steps” had an even dozen 6x30’s and 2 commons of 40lb and 41lbs. Dan used 15kg of the Cell.

Lake 2
Aaron Scott peg 2 had the most I believe with his haul of 39 fish taken on the Cell, 20kg to be precise.

Ian Hearsum peg 3 had a tally of 29 which included 4 big grass carp all of which fought harder on the bank than they did in the water.

Lyle Everiss peg 29 ended the session on 32 fish, 12x30’s, 4x40’s then on the last night, when most nights had been a bit slow Lyle managed to winkle out a 56lb common. Lyle used 15kg of Cell during the week.

Gary Cornwall >>> peg 28 used the Cell and Essential Opal, 9kgs to take a catch of 15 fish.

James Kirkby peg 30 ended the week on 18 fish using 5kgs of the Cell.

Steve Harris peg 27 had a total of 27 fish for the session; Steve was using the Essential Opal and Cell boilies.

Jason Watson peg 22 he’s a really nice guy and a good laugh too, took a tally of 26 fish for the week. Jason started catching whilst most were still setting up, then sport died off, then picked up again a day or two later. Jason used 18kg of the Cell – Acive-8, his best a common of 42lbs 4ozs.

Tom Riley peg 12 took a catch of 16 carp again on the Cell and Active-8 combo, only 7kg though!

Two young lads, Owen Fretwell 14yrs old had a catch of 19 fish for the week and a new P.B. of 46lbs taken on the Cell topped with Mainlines Hi-Viz pop-ups.

Whilst next door, Joe Powell peg 9 13 years old was enjoying his first trip to France.

Young Joe caught 14 carp, he only wanted his first 30, well he had a few of them, plus a 41lb mirror, then when he thought it couldn’t get any better he winkled out a 51lb-8ozs common, using 10kg of the Cell.

Joes dad Kev in peg 10, had 9 fish up to 43lbs, but had spent a couple of nights in hospital, sorting out his medication after a recent heart attack, and probably would of caught a few more, mind you he lost a few as well!!

Scott Blois pegs 14 and 6 had 14 fish for the week, using 30kg of Nash baits.

Antony Rankin >>> peg 24 took a good catch of 36 fish up to 48lbs using either Nash or the Cell, 30kg of it.

Ben Soane >>> peg 20 had a 21 fish catch the best a common of 40lbs-6ozs on the A-8 Cell combo.

John Knight peg 5 had a tally of 31 fish no monsters to speak of though, using just over 30kg of Nash bait.

Lake 5
Sam Luxford peg 2 took 8 fish on the Cell.

Luke Tuppen >>> had 6 fish out on the Cell and Nash the best a whopper of 49lb-6ozs.

Mick Clarke peg 6 had a catch of 19 fish inc. 7 x 30’s and 2 x 40’s, both mirrors of 42lb-10ozs and 44-12ozs on A-8, Cell and some Premier.

Lake 4 had 4 lads all the way from Newcastle man! They had a really good time and caught a fair few fish between them.

Albert Griffiths peg 8 had 23 fish using the Cell topped with red plastic corn, 2 x 40’s the best.

Steve Griffiths >>> peg 7 had 18 fish, again on the Cell topped by 3 x40’s, plus a couple of bonus cats of 53 and 57lbs.

Paul Ruffles peg 6 had an even dozen, the best being a bonus cat of 95lbs using Grange boilies.

Dave Rudd >>> peg 5 took a 15 fish catch with carp up to 40lbs using 20kgs of A-8 and Premier Peach & Pepper, they are already booked to come back!!

Lake 3
Steve Petshop peg 13 had 7 fish out on the Cell, the best one of 49lb-3ozs a common.

John Musty caught 10 fish using just 4kg of Pineapple boilies.

Tony Pearce >>> peg 7 used just 5kg of Cell to catch 11 fish inc. commons of 41lb-14ozs, 41lb-13ozs and a 43lbs-14zs.

Chez in peg 9 had a haul of 18 fish the best a 43lb common Chez used just 7kg of the DreamLake Specials.

Dave Denning >>> fished the point area, he only had 5 out but included a 43lb-4oz common and one of 51lbs, Dave was using the Cell, just 8kgs.

Steve Guess peg 14 had 12 out; using just 2½kg of Trigger, inc. 4 x 40’s up to 44lbs.

Warren Guess peg 15 caught 7 up to 40lbs again on just 2½kg of Trigger.

More next week, Matt.

“Simples”

Sorry for the delay, but Matt's on holiday this week.

The weather this week was perfect, consistently sunny every day, ranging from 25 - 30° warm at nights as well, couldn’t be better. It's those dramatic changes in the weather, like rain storms, overcast days and winds that put a dampener on the fishing. What we think is good fishing weather back in England, is the kiss of death here in France, hot, sunny and little or no wind fishes best!

Lake 1
Top Rod on 1 this week was Darren Allain in the “Ladies Lair” who took a total of 31 fish, 11x30’s, 3x40’s and a fine brace of 50’s, a 55lb mirror and a 54lb common, Darren was using Adrenaline baits.

Steve Newman “Pads” also on Adrenaline baits had a tally of 9 carp up to 40lbs.

Chris Chapman “East Bar” took a total of 17 fish for the week up to 40lbs on the Cell and Active -8 combos.

Matt Hurly “Gables” caught a dozen carp for the session using the Cell or Grange baits.

Ben Iremonger >>> “3 Steps” had 9 carp up to 40lbs on the Pulse and Active-8 boilies.

Kevin Goody “Cherries” took 8 fish for the week up to 40lbs on the pulse boilies.

Adam and Gary Cottom >>> in the “Slope and Snags” had 8 carp; both had 40’s Adams the best at 43lbs, a common no bait written on the catch report.

Lake 2
Darren Greenhaigh peg 7 had a catch of 25 fish using the 14mm Premier baits boilies, plus a few small cats on the fishmeals.

Pete Boyle peg 29 was Top Rod with 39 fish inc. 17x20’s, 15x30’s again on Premier Baits.

Josh Boyle peg 30 caught a total of 19 carp the best a 54lb common and a bonus 71lb Cat, again on Premier fishmeals.

Bernie Finn peg 17 had 9 carp for the week in 5x30’s on the Cell.

John Wilson peg 18 had 10 fish inc. 5x30’s on the Cell.

Scott Easton peg 21 had 11 carp on the Cell.

Gerry Evans peg 23 had 19 fish up to 40lbs on the Active-8.

Paul Thomas peg 6 had 22 fish on Dynamite.

Ryan Smith peg 9 had 16 fish up to 40lbs.

Terry Ferns peg 10 had 15 fish again up to 40lbs, don’t know on what bait?

Declan Whelan peg 14 had 29 carp up to 40lbs on the Cell.

Lakes 3 – 4 – 5
Down on Lake 3 we had Top Rod Dave Manning peg 13, he usually canes lake 2, but this trip decided to try for one of the 60’s on 3 sadly not this trip Dave, however he was top rod with 32 fish 10x20’s, 13x30’s and 2x40’s and a bonus 53lb Cat all taken on Premier baits.

Mark Edwards peg 9 took a 19 fish catch which also included 4x40’s on Mainline and Premier Baits.

Luke Hammett peg 3 had a total of 11 fish which also included 4x40’s on the Cell.

Billy Hammett >>> peg 4 had just half a dozen landed the best being a lovely 45lb 12oz mirror on the Cell.

Barry Shutts >>> had a 9 fish haul his 1st ever 40lb common on the Cell.

Lake 4 fished the best this week, and also produced the “Top Bombing” award for Phil Binks peg 7 with a fantastic haul of 73 carp inc 2x40’s and topped of with a 70lb Cat, all taken on the Cell.

Colin Binks had a total of 31 fish on the session, again all caught on the Cell.

Graham Cameron peg 8 ended the week with 39 fish including 3x40’s, a 42lb common and 2x40lb mirrors, and a bonus, cats of 54lb, 56lb and 59lbs all taken on the Cell boilies.

Peter Spicer >>> peg 4 did well too, with a tally of 18 carp, the best a 50lb+ common using the Mainline Pineapple boilies.

Finally Lake 5 which was a bit slower this week, Ray Harber had 12 fish which was the best.

Kieran Cassidy had 6 fish up to 40lbs seems they were all using PP60 as bait.

Kev Brennan using the D.L.Specials did manage a few up to 46lbs.

That’s all I have time for this week.
Cheers Lads, Matt.

Weatherwise the temps ranged from 25-30 degrees during the day, a muggy 15-17 at night times, which can make it a bit uncomfortable to try and sleep in the bag, you get all clammy.

A few of the boys did really well using a lot of bait, I hear one of the lads on lake 2 has used over 50kgs of boilies mind you he’s caught 60-70 fish already and apparently he reels in at night to get some sleep. Lon, one of Oryst young sons who’s helping out for the summer was driving along collecting the rubbish bags, and came across Andy struggling with 3 carp on at the same time, one in each hand and the 3rd between his knees. Some of the other lads have had 20-30 fish on 20-30kgs of bait, but again as much as we have the numbers being caught, the bigger don’t seem to be feeding. 3x50’s and a 66lb and not that many 40’s, still that’s fishing, everybody caught, and enjoyed themselves, and I hope to think they were all well looked after!

I’ll start off this week without trying to ramble on again, sorry lads but I can’t mention everyone, but we do try to use as many photos as possible, if yer names not down, your photo maybe!!

Lake 1
Top rod on 1 this week is a Barry Horrowing, (he’s been coming for years, ace guy.) Barry’s haul of 27 fish taken from the “East Bar” swim, a load of 20’s and 8x30’s up to 38lbs, Baz used 30kgs of A.B.S’s MGM.

Craig Boxshall “Ladies Lair” must be Barry’s mate as he’s on the same bait, the A.B.S.Ti this time. Craig ended up with a 16 fish haul, 30’s up to 39lb a mirror and a 40lb common, on just 20kgs of bait.

Alec Dumbarton “Haven” caught a total of 17 fish up to 40lbs common, on Scopex Crab, 15kgs enough for Alec.

Alan Perry >>> “The Pads” only had half a dozen fish although half of them were well over 40lbs, all commons of 43lbs, and a brace of 44lb commons on the Cell.

Steve Head “Snags” had 10 fish, using 15kg of the Cell.

Ashley Head 15yrs next door in “Kingfishers” had unlucky 13, again using the Cell.

Lee Rutland “Herbies Hole” winkled out 14 fish for the duration, the best one of 44lbs-12ozs on homemade Cell boilies 27½ kgs, Lee tells me.

Ian and Carol Maudsley “Unknown” I think this was their 2nd week still unlucky with those biggies, although Ian beat his PB twice for mirrors and common, he’s still coming back for that 40lber, despite catching 14 fish, on the D.L.Specials and S.B.Sweetcorn baits.

Thomas Side “West Bar” had 16 fish, 15 of them over 30lbs, on the Cell.

Steve Milner “West Point” took 11 fish inc. 6x30’s again on the Cell.

Lake 2
This weeks “Top Bombing” award goes to Andy Winnall, peg 23, with a storming catch of 73 fish inc. at present 27-20lbers and 25x 30lbers and a 42lb common, constant baiting after every fish, 3 on at once on occasions then reeling in at 11ish to get his head down, God knows what his tally could have been, if he’d fished on, but its your holiday do as you will.

I know Zen can’t be bothered to get up at night, so he reels in too (he’s over here on the 21st August). Andy used over 50kg of the Cell to take his haul, well done mate!

Tom Ison, peg 16 another lad who does well here (he’s in one of our adverts) tucked himself away at the far end of the lake, taking a haul of 35 carp on the Cell, yet again.

Someone mentioned in an E-mail that they thought we mentioned the Cell just to sell it, well we don’t!!! But it’s so good we can’t sell enough of it!!! In fact we can’t stock enough of it.

Stefan Marr, peg 24 had 20 fish up to 42lb-4ozs on the Cell, all 20kgs of it!

Ryan Marr, peg 20 had 17 fish on 10kg A-8 and 4kg of Nash S.S.L.

Mick Worth, peg 3 hauled out an impressive 34 fish tally, and a 38lb grassie using just 10kgs of A-8, and 10kg of Cell.

Dave Downing >>> peg 4 had a total of 18 fish for the week, mind you his best was a common of 48lbs again 20kg of the Cell-A-8 combo doing the bizz.

Mark Stevens, peg 6 took an even dozen using the Tigernut D.L.Specials.

Emma Evans, peg 9 had 8 fish the best being a lovely 42lb common, on the D.L.Special Tigernut boilies.

Ray Wilshaw >>> next door peg 10, took 9 fish again on the D.L.Specials.

Barry Hawtin, peg 29 used 10kg Cell to catch his 16 fish tally.

Beejay Bartley, peg 13 using the A-8, for a haul of 17 fish, inc. a common of 40lb.

Dave Barfoot, peg 7 caught 31 fish, for the week, plus cats of 71lb and 63lbs using 15kg of Premier Baits. It’s Dave’s 7th year with us, and he’s still moaning co’s he hasn’t caught a grassie yet!!

Darren Stevens, peg 1 took a total of 30 fish using 16kgs of Nash baits.

Now on to Lakes 3-4-5.

Lake 3
Barty was the bailiff on duty on these lakes. This week he had his missus Lisa with him, even Lisa caught a few and a 42lber and she won the wet tee-shirt competition, we hold one every night!! (Still I manages 3rd place.)

We had a few lads from Scotland this week, that’s some journey home these poor guys have. Biggest fish of the week goes to Scott Carpenter >>> with a new personal best of 66lbs from Peg 6 the best 10 fish caught on “Malarkey”, (is that from Jamie Oliver??)

Alan Thompson >>> peg 3 had 14 fish out inc. a 42lb common and mirrors of 41lb-8ozs and 45lbs, then rounded of the week with a 53lb common, using just 10kg of the A-8.

Douglas Thompson, peg 2 had 16 fish up to 39lbs and a 43lb-8oz mirror on the A-8s and Trigga.

Young Matt Barlow >>> peg 15 winkled out a 9 fish total on the Cell-A-8 Combo.

Gordon Lees, peg 9 had unlucky 13 fish using 10kg of the Grange bait.

Billy Cameron, peg 12 also had 13 fish but included commons of 42lb and a 48lbs as well as a 60lb cat again on the Grange (I think that’s the new bait from Mainline).

Lake 4
Adrian Smith >>> peg 7 took top honours with a catch of 22 fish for the session with mirrors up to 39lbs on the D.L.Special Tigernut and A-8.

Alan Smith, peg 8 took 17 fish the best a 44lb mirror on A-8 and D.L.Special Tigernut.

Peter Smart >>> had 8 the best 2 being a 39lb mirror and a common of 41lbs.

Trevor Greaves, peg 5 took 15 fish the best a 40lb mirror on the Cell, just 10kg of it.

Lake 5
2 of the lads had to cancel due to their Mum’s ill health, so the remaining 3 lads fished on John Little, peg 2 had 15 fish out, 7x30s inc. 4 fish of 39lbs plus, I’d get those scales checked mate!! On a squid bait.

Ross Lumsden only caught 5, the best though being a 51lb-2oz mirror on A-8 or D.L.Specials.

Greg Lumsden >>> peg 4 had 10 fish up to 42lbs using 20kg of D.L.Specials or A-8.

Cheers lads, more next time!!!

Weather-wise this week saw temps of 32 degrees during the days, and even 18 degrees at night, the nights were humid, slightly stormy as well.

Because of the heat the fish seemed to switch on in the evenings, through to breakfast. Bags and sticks, tight baiting with balanced hook baits doing the bizz. The Hi-Viz pop-ups working with Zigs. Still despite the weather we still saw 30x40’s on the bank, the biggest a 63lber from Lake 3, Top catch at present 26 fish (Thursday tea.)

I’ll start on Lake 1 where Chris Potter with his 25 fish haul with his best fish a 48lb common, all fell to Richworth baits.

Lee Parker “Kingfishers” had a total of 16 fish with carp up to 36lbs on Nash bait.

Davis Holland the “Pads” gets this weeks “Top Bombing” award for his catch of 26fish, included in the haul were 13 x 20’s 9 x 30’s up to 38lbs common, 3 x 40’s up to 47lb and to round it off a 53lb common all caught on the Dreamlake Specials.

I wish every one could have catches like Dave’s each week!!!

John Williams “West Point” landed 18 fish during the week, inc. 9 x 30’s up to 37lb on Tutti-Frutti boilies tipped with plastic corn.

Mark Whinn >>> the “Beach” had 9 carp the best a 42lb common, taken on Mainlines New Grange bait.

Alan Grogan the “Deer Dip” winkled out an even dozen (12) on the Cell, Active-8 combo.

Sacha Dicks “3 Steps” had 15 out, 9 x 20’s and 30’s up to 38lb Mirror, he hasn’t put down his bait.

Time to move on to Lakes 3-4-5.

Eric Moore peg 7, had a total of 15 fish with a nice batch of mirrors, with 30’s up to 38lbs mirror, also 3 x 40’s up to 43lbs all fell to the Active-8.

Terry Morrison peg 9, had a catch of 10 fish again on the Active-8 or Cell.

Steve Penney pegs 15/8, had a total of 25 carp plus a few cats as well, inc. 8 x 30’s inc. 38lb common and a 38lb mirror, 5 x 40’s and top dog a 63lb-4oz common, Steve caught using D.L.Specials Tighnut and Active-8 baits.

David Sherridan in unlucky peg 13, had 5 out up to 47lb a common, on Squid.

Matt Byron who just made it to Dover in time had half a dozen up to 46lbs on the Cell.

George Byron peg 4 had 4 inc. 2 x 40’s of 44lb-8ozs and 46lbs both mirrors on the Cell.

Steve Tucker caught 10 fish inc, a 44lb common and 2 x 40lb mirrors up to 45lbs plus a bonus cat of 85lbs Stewart used just 5kgs of Cell.

Lake 4
John Tutt peg 4, had 17 carp on the Cell and D.L.Specials.

Matt Tutt peg 3, had 7 fish, and Colin Clarke peg 8, had 10 fish up to 43lbs on the Active-8.

Mikey Carroll peg 2, had 6 out up to 42lbs on the Active-8.

Richard Giles >>> peg 5, had a 14 fish haul with carp up to 41lbs on Active-8.

Lake 5
Ray Ellison peg 2, had a dozen out on the Actve-8.

Joel Dennis >>> peg 1, caught 9 fish inc. 2 x 40’s up to 45lbs a mirror on the Active-8.

Karl Ellison peg 3, also caught 9 fish up to 39lbs on the Active-8.

Darren Ferguson peg 7, had 11 fish on Skunk Oil.

Barty the bailiff on Lake 3 had 18 fish out up to 42lbs on chopped Cell and Active-8.

Lake 2
Ashley Cole had a total of 16 fish on the Active-8.

Ian Lunn peg 26, took an 8 fish catch with carp up to 38lbs a mirror on the Cell-A-8.

Ben Spiers >>> peg 24, had 14 fish, no monsters just 30’s on Cell/Active-8 combo.

Alex Collins had fish up to 40lbs on Dynamite Malt-choc.

Tony Rankin peg 5, had 8 out on Nash bait.

Ian and Carol Maudesly peg 16, shared a catch of 23 fish on Matrix boilies.

Darren Fox peg 30 had 12 fish on Nash bait.

Ken Drinkwater peg 29, had 16 fish, plus a couple of 30lb + grass carp.

Dave Leverne peg 12, had 6 out up to 40lbs.

Well thanks it for now, more next week!!!
Matt.