Details of your catches:

Carp - 46, 31, 2 x 20 Sturgeon 2 x 65lb

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Keeping your lines out of the water for as long as possible.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Fine

Were you happy with them?

OK but Shower was a nightmare to work

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Tentatively

General Comments:

Laroussi is a big fish water. In my opinion it is over fished like most commercial caro waters and that can easily be seen by the average weekly results. The fish only have to see a line and you can kiss your bites goodbye. Only 8 carp caught by 7 anglers on our week (the other 5 were good anglers!). Also the sturgeon are a complete nuisance, always giving you false indications and with barbless hooks you simply don't know what to strike at. Mehdi is a really nice guy but did not once come around the lake to see the anglers and offer advice. Not what you expect from an onsite bailiff, especially when conditions are so tough. Lovely place, big fish but you will need to be very lucky to catch the right week when they have their guards down. Would go again.

Details of your catches:

53.0 mirror, 41.0 mirror, 34.0 mirror, 7 x sturgeon from 49 - 66.0, 1 x 54.0 cat and a few small grassies

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Boilies and Partiblend

Were the facilities what you expected?

As expected

Were you happy with them?

Yes, dodgy shower though

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes, but price is getting a bit expensive

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

Nice place and some good fish. Having another go in April. Check out the video on www.carptube.com

Details of your catches:

1 x 50.14 mirror, 1 x 50.2 mirror, 1 x 44.04 mirror, 1 x 12.0 common and 1 x 4.0 grass

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

Single boilie cast towards far bank

Were the facilities what you expected?

No

Were you happy with them?

Not really, in the swim we were fishing (le chante) was full of rats every night, they ran up and down the rods making your alarms beep. You can't reach the far bank, it's too far to cast to (approx 220 yards) and the fish use it as a safety zone. You need to use a bait boat

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes, the actual water and the fish are first class apart from the above

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

If the above problems were addressed it would be one of the best French venues we have visited, and we have been to quite a few. If the rat problem isn't addressed soon the lake will be over run.

Details of your catches:

We went to Laroussi for the first time and were buzzing with expectations. We knew there were some real monsters in the lake so we had a chance. We ended up on Le Anse. We had a great week. We didn't catch a lot of fish. (The week before us there were 53 fish caught) In our week in total there were 17 fish caught.... we had 7 of them!! The weights were: 50.0, 43.0, 2 x 38.0, 24.0, 23.0, and 23.0 My mate Clemens caught his new PB with the 50lb mirror, well done mate!! We all caught our fish between 10 and 6 in the morning

Your best tactics/bait/rigs:

We fished with scopex boilies, we fished only with boilies. We first looked for hard gravel patches and clipped all rods and fished on those harder patches all week long.

Were the facilities what you expected?

Yes better

Were you happy with them?

Yes very

Would you recommend the venue to a friend?

Yes

Would you recommend the services to a friend?

Yes

General Comments:

We had a terrific week overall. We had a lot of laughs, lots of barbeques and beer between us.. Medhi is a really nice bloke (prutser!). The swims are really big, you have plenty of room to put your rods in. Thanks for a great week, Rob and Clemens