We have fished Four Seasons recently and after reading your review was a bit wary, like yourself found excellent facilities, such as the showers, cafe, electric on the peg, friendly staff etc, Ill be honest when I started reading through your review it sounded like you had been on the lakes for a few days to read down to find that you had been on for 24hrs.
within the first 24 hours we had a 28lb cat, and were told on arrival that cats were fishing better than carp at the time, so didnt feel that the fishery had led us to believe that we would be pulling out an abundance of Carp, so to be fair its down to the fish, and going on other fisheries such as the monument, who are also stating Carp is tricky fishing so it is a little unjust to blame the fishery for that.
On other reviews we have seen other comments such as four seasons is commercial, I just feel that the fishery have made an effort to make the experience as comfortable as possible, I can certainly see this as an attractive fishing venue for women anglers, but at the end of the day its a business, which to its credit have out alot of time effort and expense into looking after itself, Four seasons work on an own landing net, mat and weigh sling policy, which were of a top quality, again looking after their fish, which can only be said to improve the experience for the angler aswell as its own interests.
We also had food from the cafe and I dont think £5 for a full english with toast and coffee brought to your peg hot and on time is not alot to ask for really, and if you dont fancy their prices there is a chippy which does a decent cod and chips on the caravan park 100 yards from the entrance to the fishery for £2.50.
The pegs are close together but you didnt feel like you were fishing on top of each other and we had no trouble with other anglers fishing over our lines or into our zone, we could only put this down to talking to other anglers close to our peg. All I can say is dont give up on the fishery, we have fished other places and drawn blanks, and have decided not to fish there until certain issues are resolved, such as pond weed (lots of!) having to walk for what seemed like half a day for the toilet etc,
Understandably this is a fairly new fishery, and having all the facilities is this does may not suit everyone, but being an agler for close to 25 years I can only say this fishery can only get better, well done four seasons.
