ben500

alright lads, i'm Ben and i'm the fisheries manager at Four Seasons. I've noticed a lot of negative comment on this forum about Four Seasons and thought i'd come on here and put a few things straight and give you the opportunity to put your grievances straight to me. i'll start off by straightening out some of the more ridiculous allegations. the lakes were not all filled with tap water, we initially started to fill our stock pond with tap water whilst we waited to have two bore holes dug, these were then used to fill the lakes with fresh water from deep below the ground. Mill Lake has been full for over 2 years now, and Lodge and the match lake, newtons, for over 18 months. most of the carp stocked into our waters are NOT virgin stock, we didn't want a fishery full of identicle looking, farmed carp and have sourced our fish from various locations through Blue Slate Fisheries and we have the receipts to prove exactly how many fish we've stocked All the pictures on our website are capture pictures. before we opened, of course we had stocking pictures on the website, we wanted people to see what stock they could expect if they came to Four Seasons, and as no one had fished the waters, how else could we have done that ? since we've been open i personally have had to ask 2 parties to move swims, this because the anglers in question had set up on a double swim when they'd booked singles (and the doubles were already booked out) this i did within ten minutes of the anglers arriving. i would never dream of asking someone to move from a peg after 24 hours and a load of bait had been thrown in and i'm a 100% confident, neither would Jon (the owner) in truth, most of the comments on this thread seem to stem from anglers blanking. this we can do little about other than offer our advice based on our experience at the fishery, which we are ALWAYS willing to do. we, of course, want everyone to catch the fish of a lifetime everytime they come to Four Seasons, but in the carp fishing i know, that isn't possible. since we've been open in May we've had three different 30lb carp out, a 32lb grassie and cats to 44+ and more pb's and happy anglers than i could shake a bankstick at. of course some people have gone away unhappy after a blank, but that's fishing. anyhow, for those of you who stuck through my rant and got to the end i thank you, and i promise that any constructive criticisms will be looked at by myself and the owners, we want to run the best fishery we can and if we have to change one or two things we will (and have). Cheers Ben