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Hello All, Going to Lac Darcy at the end of the month, wondering if anyone has fished it and give me your opinion of whats its like, bait, swims, food package any good, etc as not much around on the web. Im not after war and peace, just a few pointers and heads up to save us a costly mistake..i.e bring a load boilies when its a solely a particle water for example. Many thanks in advance !

Hi David, it's in Normandy, about 1.5 hours from calais

My group of friends have booked the whole of vallee lake 2 exclusively but unfortunately had a couple of people drop out. so have up to 3 space (will split) available for a week starting on 24th May. cost is £290 per person for lake only. Please look on their website http://www.valleelake.com/valleelake2/%C2'> more info on the lake, If you are genuinely interested please private message me for more details. Many thanks

Hi All, I would please like some honest and constructive feedback from anyone who has fished Vallee Lake 2 in 2013 only. I say 2013 as I've been reassured by the owner that he has ironed out 'underlying issues' of passed including eradicating his weed problem with weed suppressers which has transformed the lake for the better. Not really interested in the ' I did a week there last year and I blanked so its rubbish' comments. Despite some of the negative feedback from critics we think this lake has promise, we will be fishing the lake next year and would also like some information to better prepared and maximise our time and cash efficiently, I.e. what bait. Particles or boilies or both, what are the productive swims, tactics, take food package or bring your own, Is the map they sell worth buying etc etc ? And anything of interest would be great, would also be interested in speaking to someone who has fished the lake repeatedly, someone who can confirm some of the underlying issues have in fact been resolved, I would be happy to pm. Many thanks to all for listening and look forward to your responses

yeah I could, going back in August and October !! cant wait...

What a lake !! had a great week. Already booked to go next year. We all had fish. about 50 between us. I had 13, My biggest was this cracking 46.8lb mirror. new PB for me wooo whoooo !!! I'll try and post a picture if i can work out how to do it. [/img]

not been there since 2005 but its a cracking lake. i fished it using 3 peices of toffee flavoured giant maize over a bed of hemp and maize and had great results. cant remember how fish i caught but one night i had three 40's !! Get on the edges of where gravel meets weed and you cant go wrong. Ive been ther twice and have found that swims 1,2,5,6 and 14 have a been most productive. I was on swim 1 and 2 with my mate and we had loads. only downside when i was there last was the weed, every fish we had tore staight in really thick weed and we had to land all our fish from a boat. I have heard that the weed is lot better now so hopefully you will be ok. have a good one, im sure you will.

cheers for responce and advise chaps, I should have read the thread before asking questions. got excited as usual. You cant beleive how pleased I am I havent got to cook any particles !!

looks blinding !! I'm going in August and cant wait. whats the score with bait out there, boilies or particle ? I dont really want to spend hours cooking up particles if boilies is the way to go and dont want to end spending lots of money on boilies if particles is the way forward I would rather bring one or the other but not really both. has the water got any problems with poison chats or crays ? Any tips i would be grateful, I would hate to make the terrible mistake as i did last year when i went to a water with only fishmeal boilies. caught about 100 crayfish and poison chats. you dont have to tell me how to fish the water, just pointing in the right direction would be great. cheers