A three pond complex, the top pond(Canal pond) is the match lake and contains a lot of silver fish, carp to 10lb, Tench and perch. The middle pond contains larger carp, a cat fish(supposedly around 40lb), lots of roach to around 1lb, bream to around 2lb, small perch, and tench to 5lb. The smaller bottom lake doesn’t get fished much and is stocked as per the Canal pond but with a catfish(supposedly around 30lb). Day tickets cost £5 for up to 2 rods, and the money is collected on the bank. The car park reed lined pegs on the middle pond are the most popular and on a weekend you will need to be there ‘queueing’ well before the gates open to get any of them. The middle pond generally has a 1m depth at a rod length out from the bank with a maximum depth of around 2.5m. There are toilet facilities, and on weekends a ‘burger bar’ van is resident in the car park between the top and middle ponds. Had huge bags of roach, with tench, perch and several decent carp by fishing alongside reeds about 2m from the bank with a 14 hook fished just over depth and loaded either with 3 red/yellow maggots, or 6 mm halibut flavour soft pellets over a carpet of strawberry flavour crushed hard pellet groundbait. Keep loose feeding 6 – 10 maggots around your float on the ‘little and often’ principle and I found it was a ‘fish a chuck’ most of the day.
