La Petite Martiniere Reports 2011 New 23rd-30th July

Welcome to our customer reports for 2011 please go down the page for the older ones




Customer Report


Week No
12

Name of customer
Alan & Jan West


Date of holiday
23rd-30th July


Nationality
UK Kent


No. of persons fishing
1


Brief details of your catches
5 Commons from 8lb to 38lb, 5 Mirrors from 10lb to 28lb,
3 Sturgeon from 15lb to 30lb and a 5lb Tench
New Pb's with the 30lb Sturgeon and the 38lb Common





What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Early morning and evening caught mostly in the margins Best bait used was Cell and Active 8 also used pop-ups topped with sweetcorn and also boilies topped with sweetcorn

Were the facilities what you expected?
Facilities exceeded what we expected


Were you happy with them?
Very happy well equipped and very clean


Would you recommend our venue to a friend?Definitely recommend

General comments
Made to feel very welcome from arriving to the end of our week nothing was too much trouble and lots of helpful advice food was excellent a big thank you to John, Pat,Nikki & Marc Look forward to coming back again

Fish of the week at La Petite
Alan 38lb Common






Customer Report


Week No
11


Name of customer
The Hansons


Date of holiday
16th-23rd July


Nationality
UK


No. of persons fishing
3


Brief details of your catches
Very challenging week due to rain day and night often torrential very cold for this time of year however still possible to catch a few decent fish if you stick at it, best fish 33lb 4oz grass carp 31lb 2oz Mirror, 26lb 12oz Common, 26lb Sturgeon

Rob had 5 fish at 85lb



Lailah had 13 fish at 91lb




Top rod Chris had 19 fish at 174lb






What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Float fishing on Muscles


Were the facilities what you expected?
Yes the facilities were first class


Were you happy with them?
Yes very happy


Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
Yes


General comments
Really nice venue hope to come back again when conditions are more favourable and hope to do even better next time, great food, Marc - very helpful we didn't need to leave the site for anything thank you for a very enjoyable week.. new PB's for all of us for carp and Sturgeon


Fish of the week at La Petite
Was Chris with a 33lb 4oz Grass carp His 1st 30lb fish and new PB






Customer Report


Week No
10


Name of customer
The Garners


Date of holiday
2nd-9th July


Nationality
UK


No. of persons fishing
1


Brief details of your catches
424LBS of fish with 1x30's 10x20's 10x Doubles 8x Singles
1x Cat 3x Sturgeon

Russ







Beth




What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Carnberry & Caviar Dumbells that La Petite stocks


Were the facilities what you expected?
Yesl


Were you happy with them?
Yes


Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
Yes

General comments
Coming back in 2012


Fish of the week at La Petite
Russ with his new PB Mirror at 32lb 6oz





Customer Report


Week No
9


Name of customer
Julia & Keiron


Date of holiday
18th-25th June


Nationality
UK - Surrey


No. of persons fishing
2 days 1 at night


Brief details of your catches
2x30's 4x20's 17x Doubles 9x Singles
1x Cat 1x Sturgeon

Keiron





Julia



What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Fruit & Nut boilies Odyssey XXX boilies
Lake mix - the more the better !
Keep moving - follow the fish
Short hair rigs


Were the facilities what you expected?
Better ! was blown away by how well equipped and homely it was last year, This year they've added a few more updates and finishing touches
For a fishing lodge we can't believe they've managed to keep it so spotless still


Were you happy with them?
Very


Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
Definitely


General comments
We love it here.. just booked for 2 weeks in July 2012


Fish of the week at La Petite









Customer Report


Week No
8


Name of customer
Rick, Colin



Date of holiday
11TH-18TH June


Nationality
UK - Manchester


No. of persons fishing
2


Brief details of your catches

Big Rick at swim 4 (17) under 20lb..(6) 20's..and (1) 30






Colin at swim 5 (25) under 20lb..(6) 20's..(3) 30's and (2) nice Tench and Sid The Sturgeon at 27lb 1oz








What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Rick: Best to use a boat, enables you to find the feature and put down a decent bed of free feed along with your hookbait, Lake mix/ pellet and Mainlines New Grange, Fuzion and Cell boilies with Response Pellets,

Colin Essential to find the features and keep the line pinned down as the Carp spook off as soon as they feel a line. Plenty of lake mix particle / pellet with Mainline Cell boilies, CC Moore Odyssey XXX and Live System boilies from Marc


Were the facilities what you expected?
Yes, excellent and the food was brilliant


Were you happy with them?
Yes, more than happy


Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
Yes, definitely will do


General comments
Very up and down weather wise making it a hard week but didn’t stop us catching. Nice to get out of the rain in the cabin.The updates to the lake are nice. The fish have just spawned so are at their low weight for the year but still good sizes


Fish of the week at La Petite
Colin with a 32lb 2oz Mirror






Customer Report


Week Number
7


Name of customer
Graham, Clare, Andy & Sandy



Date of holiday
28th May - 1st June


Nationality
UK Surrey


No. of persons fishing
2


Brief details of your catches

Andy netted 14 fish at 140lb with a 5.5lb Tench 5-singles 6-doubles 2-20's the best a 28lb for a new PB for him





Graham banked 9 fish at 125lb with 3-singles 3-doubles 2-20's and a 30lb


Marc
The boys only fished 3 full day and loved every min both lost some very good fish right at the net with the big sturgeon and the grass carp just some of them

What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Fished close to the pads and margins feeding little and regular with the bait boat
pop up corn tipped monster worm or odyssey xxx over a bed of lake mix


Were the facilities what you expected?
Yes better


Were you happy with them?
Yes


Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
Definitely


General comments
Gary & Nikki are a lovely couple - very welcoming
Beautiful setting-accommodation is great (kept the wives happy)
lake is well set out with a good choice of swims
Marc aka Gary was very helpful with advice and definitely helped us catch more fish...Would definitely come back


Fish of the week at La Petite
This was Grahams 30lb mirror






Week number
6

Name of customer
Brian, Colin & Kev

Date of holiday
21st-28th May

Nationality
UK - Portsmouth

No. of persons fishing
3

Brief details of your catches
Colin 3-30's, 12x20's and 23lb Sturgeon, 2 new PB's for Colin with a 32lb carp and the 23lb sturgeon
Brian 2x20's, Brian matched his PB carp with a 29.12lb so close to the 30 he was looking for
Kev 1x30, 2-20's Every fish for Kev upped his PB which now stands at 30.4lbs

Marc
This week was also very up and down for the boys with some spawning going on and we think it may not be over just yet which may be stopping the big pets playing ..the guys used phones for photos i will post their photos when Brian sends them to us
　
What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Lake mix bed with Corn/Maize and fake Maize on the hook
Marc
The guys did try black boilies from shoreham bait and did not get a knock on them
we are seeing the darker bait not doing so well at the min
　
Were the facilities what you expected?
Yes, all very good
　
Were you happy with them?
Yes, no problems

Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
Yes

General comments
Very friendly hosts, Marc always available to answer questions or give advice, any issues that arose were dealt with quickly and efficiently
　
Fish of the week at La Petite
Colin at 32lb



Week No
5

Name of customer:
Neil & Bev Wood

Date of holiday:
14th-20th May 2011

Nationality
UK -Southampton

No. of persons fishing:
1

Brief details of your catches:
19 Fish hit the banks
2x30's, 6x20's 2 Sturgeon.. Total weight of 290.1lb
Neil reset his PB three times this week joining our 30 club at 31.12lbs
also a new PB Sturgeon at 27.4lbs





Marc
Tuff week for Neil with some spawning going on but this did not stop him landing 19 fish just fishing days.. see you guys back in July




What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Bait boat the margins with maize over a bed of lake mix from Marc and hot chilli hemp Mainline Cell and carpballs uk's Cell pop-ups ‘Snowman’ style

Were the facilities what you expected?
Yes thats why we come back

Were you happy with them?
More then happy

Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
Definitely and we have booked to come back in July for our 3rd time here


General comments:
If you are having the food package wear elasticated waist trousers,
Nikki's food is "Awesome" Thanks to both for a fab week

Fish of the week at La Petite
Neils 31lb 12oz Mirror






Customer Report

Week No
4

Name of customer:
Adi, Paul & Jim


Date of holiday:
30th April – 6th May 2011

Nationality
UK -Surrey

No. of persons fishing:
3

Brief details of your catches:
45 Fish hit the banks
Adi – 20 fish – 2 x 30lb, 5 x 20lb. Best of 30lb 10oz. Total weight of 298.18lb
Paul – 14 fish – Best of 11lb (had some small sturgeon 4 times). Total weight of 102.3lb
Jim – 11 fish – 1 x 30lb, 1 x 20lb. Total weight of 117.43lb

PB’s for Adi and Jim both joining the 30 club

Adi swim 4





Lucky Jim swim 6




Paul swim 5


What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Target the margins with Sweetcorn or maize over lake mix. Odyssey XXX took most of the better fish with fake corn or pineapple pop-up fished ‘Snowman’ style

Were the facilities what you expected?
Totally – nice improvements from last year. Food superb as always – mad not to take food package

Were you happy with them?
Very! Enjoyed every minute

Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
Definitely – this was a return visit and planning on bringing some other friends later in year

Marc Adi will return in Oct 2011


General comments:
Thanks to John, Pat & Nikki for allowing us back and particularly to Marc for his help, patience and massive assistance – Jim will be missing his ‘personal assistant’ back in the UK

Fish of the week at La Petite
This was Adi with a 30lb 10oz Mirror

Adi and Lucky Jim with the bubble for fish of the week and both joining the 30 club





Customer Report

Week No
3

Name of customer:
Damian & Lorraine Hinkin


Date of holiday:
23rd-30th April 2011

Nationality
UK -South Wales

No. of persons fishing:
2

Brief details of your catches:
Catches started off weighing in small but after day 3 it did pick up and we started to see the heavier fish. Caught many for the keep net but that is positive to get them out.
Marc(We did net this Jan to remove fish under 10lb but some do slip the nets so if and when there banked they go in the keep net and on to our stock pond off site)
(With 610.7lbs of fish..it was a slower week for the guys with no big lumps out..this was the damage for their week..37 fish..2 sturgeon..2 tench..11 mirrors..22 commons
Lorraine banked 11 fish with (2) 20's the best at 24lb and a total of 145.3lbs
Damian netted 26 fish with (11) 20's and his best a 31.1lbs mirror for the fish of the week with a total of 465.4lbs we hope to see you guy's on our banks again one day.."you have some unfinished business.")

Damian





Lorraine






What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Little and often with mixed particles and boilies popped up worked well (yellow) Boilie tipped with corn.

Marc
(Damians home made boilies (darker reds) worked well for him.. but so far this year we are seeing dark baits are slowing the catch rate down some)


Were the facilities what you expected?
The facilities were more than we expected, 3 pin plug sockets, hanging area for clothes, washing line, TV and entertainment and a lovely welcome pack :-)

Were you happy with them?
We were both very happy with the standard and the attention to detail has paid off


Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
Definitely Thank you to you all for making us welcome


General comments:
A little disappointed to catch so many of the smaller fish but we still had a great time to relax and catch our breath from the rat race.
A few bigger fish and its “Paradise Found”
We also want to thank Marc for doing everything he could to help us and not even making us feel a pain in the neck, even when we called him out at stupid o’clock.
Best regards Lorraine & Damian


Fish of the week at La Petite
This was Damian with a 31.1lb Mirror



Customer Report

Week No
2

Name of customer:
Frank en Frans Van Luijn


Date of holiday:
16th - 23rd April 2011

Nationality
Dutch

No. of persons fishing:
2

Brief details of your catches:
Over 80 fish, 2 times the Grass Carp (1st time out for this fish) and lots of other nice fish with Tench. Jurgen is a mad Sturgeon, if you catch him say hello for us, we catch him 4 times.
Marc (Their total was 93 fish = 515kg-1134lbs with 32 fish in the mid 20's and 13 fish over 13-15kg-28.6-33lbs the best a 16kg-35.2lbs Mirror)

Frans with 44=243.8kg-536.4lbs




Frank with 49=271.8kg-598lbs




What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Sweetcorn and fake pop up corn, baitboat find some nice gravel plates.


Were the facilities what you expected?
Yes, only we need a walking freezer. (reference to a Dutch tv beer advert)


Were you happy with them?
Yes we’ve booked to come back again in August.


Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
Nee, we want to buy it and never work again, it’s really great


General comments:
We have a very nice time here, and we back in August! In Holland we need a cook like Nikki, it’s very good stuff. We ask Marc if he wants a change of woman but he won’t, we understand that. Everybody is nice and Nikki best cook! If there is anything you want you get it here! Nice see you all again in August (the guys also loved the free photo cd and
the Champagne

Fish of the week at La Petite
This went to top rod Frank at 16 kgs and also a bottle of bubbly
for Frans with the 1st time netting of our grass carp





Customer Report

Week No
1

Name of customer:
Peter & Patrick

Nationality
Dutch

Date of holiday:
9th - 14th April 2011

No. of persons fishing:
2


Brief details of your catches:
Total of 46 fish,
5 x Tench, 1 x Pike, 19 x Mirrors, 21 x Commons,
284.5 Kgs of fish in six days

Commons 1-5Kgs = 10 off, 6-10Kgs = 7 off, 11– 12Kgs 2off and 1 at 15Kgs;
Mirrors 1-5Kgs = 7 off, 6-10Kgs = 4 off, 11-12Kgs = 3 off, 13-15Kgs = 3 off over 15Kgs 2 off with largest at 19Kgs.

We only fished for 6 days and mostly just in the day with 5 rods
the days was nice and hot but the nights was a little cold so we only fished two nights

PETER




PATRICK





What did you find were the best tactics/baits?
Short hook links, home made fishmeal boilies, pineapple pop ups, pre-drilled marine halibut pellets (for bigger fish) When using float rod, sweet corn.


Were the facilities what you expected?
Yes, even had good lights for the night on swims powered by the sunshine.


Were you happy with them?
Yes, breakfast and dinner were also very good, compliments to the chef.


Would you recommend our venue to a friend?
No because it will be harder to book to come back again but we will certainly tell them all about it.


General comments:
We were very pleased with the hospitality of you all,
thanks Marc for your service and good spirit,
we did find the cabin a bit cold on the colder nights though.
Marc (We do have a very good heater available on request
for use in the cabin if you need it)

Fish of the week at La Petite
This went to both guys at 19 kgs