Lac du Cygne

Fishingfinder wrote:Well went there on the 8th of September this year after reading various forums ,booked the whole lake for 350 quid and after travelling 2 1/2 hrs from Calais found the 10 acre lake ,collected the particle from Mark the Bailiff and hired the rowing boat for another 15 euros ,the lake looked very nice from the fishing bank lots of lilly pads . Decided to fish from the car park swim as recommended by Mark the bailiff at it was apparently 6ft and the deepest part of the lake ,with the bailiff off with the euros. I decided to put the bait boat out and echo sound the bottom finding only 2.5 ft from the nearest corner in the car park end and going out to the middle the inevitable happened ,the boat stopped working .And not to worry just use the rowing boat and retrieve the baitboat ,once the boat was on-board had a thought to try the ore on the bottom and was surprised to find the ore bottomed in soft silt at 2.5 foot ,maybe just a one off but as I covered that whole end of the lake I had found it be be a consistent 2.5 ft except the far bank which was a matter of inches right were the Lilly pads are .Now being very disappointed to say the least and it still being early I rowed to the other half of the lake only to find that the boat bottomed out and this was mid water and over on the other half of the lake ,now very very disappointed went back to where I started and revealed these findings to my fishing buddy .We have now got the dilemma to stay or leave still having a week off work in front of us . The conclusion to this is we got an expensive French internet on the phone and found another fishery 120km back towards Calais which was excellent ,We did stay the Saturday night putting one rod each out on Minstrel baits rose hip boilies to avoid any poisson chat and in the morning nice and early started packing up we found a poisson chat on one of the rods (but that's another story ) and over the 24 hrs on the lake we did not see a single roll or disturbance of a carp ,so if your thinking of going there be sure to check things out thoroughly as Steve the owner refuses to refund any money and seems to think in amusing to know you have just spent well earned money and all that travelling to fish in 2.5ft of water on 50% of the lake ,where the chance is there is no carp in at all ,so buyer beware .My advice spend the same money on a well rated UK water and save yourself the travel or spend twice as much and book with a well recommended French water(This Lake is advertised for up to 6 anglers) you are more than welcome to contact me regarding our trip to Lac De Cygne anytime for all the issues we found .