Hi mate I am a regular at Les Teillatts. Cracking lake if you can get on the fish. The best swims are definatley the ones in the woods ie: biffos and new biffos. Also The Rock and Middle Field on the field bank are a good bet. The past 5 years ive been most of the other swims have produced very little, and ive seen a lot of people blank! its not an easy lake. I went early last year and not many fish were caught. Just 10 fish out of 12 anglers all week! I managed to catch 7 of them and the biggest was an ounce under 50lb. a good tactic is to be mobile, cast around in your swim and dont fish to one spot! Dont be scared to move swim if you are not catching! also use small amounts of bait first of all, for example pva bags with a few pellet and 5 or 6 boilies, until you locate the fish. ive seen it so many times people find a spot, row out and put 10 kilos of bait in. Do get a boat though, as if you get on the fish you can put a lot of bait in to keep them feeding in your part of the lake. the fish do tend to shoal up, and if they do decide to have a munch then they will quickly eat all the bait and move to another part of the lake. The lake does its own boilies called Cross Channels specials, these are ok at best. They smell strongly of the old additive 'Secret agent' and they are shelf life baits so I'd recommend you take your own boilies. There seed mix is ok but unless you have a pan and cooker to boil it in its a bit of a waste of time getting. The pellets are not awesome but do the job and I suppose the carp are used to eating them as you are not allowed to take your own pellets. Baits presented on snowman rigs seem to pick out the bigger fish, so it might be worth you doing two rods on snowmen and two singles.

Remember the lake gets hammered 24/7 for most of the year, so think about it before you start chucking a shed load of bait in. Theres probably bait on the bottom from the last weeks angler. Little pva bags will catch you more fish!

grubs pretty good, full english every morn and a good cooked meal every night.

take plenty of Mozzy repellent!!!


Oh and when it gets dark the frogs and toads are so f***ing loud you will have trouble sleeping!! No joke

hope thats help to you matey