1 Acre(s)
Depths vary greatly on this attractive three acre lake, ranging from six feet at the narrow end nearest the car park to seven feet down the length of the lake and 12 feet at the dam end.
Although most anglers going for the carp used to fish from the dam wall at the far end of the lake, significant fish are now taken from virtally anywhere on the water, making all pegs popular.
And with with commons and mirrors taken to over 30lbs, ghosties between 12lbs and 28lbs and a few leathers / linears to 22lbs, there is plenty to go at.
Indeed, the results of a recent netting caried out on the lake showed that there were in excess of 750 carp between 12lbs and 30lbs.
The biggest fish to come out of Hopsford in recent years was a 36lb common whilst last year the biggest was a 31lb mirror taken by a lady angler from Suffolk and a common just over 30lbs taken by Coventry angler Pepe Serti.
However, it would be wrong to regarded Hopsford Hall simply as an out and out carp water because it also holds a good head of big bream, the biggest to have been caught in 2010 weighing in at an impressive 11lbs with the biggest by early summer 2011 being slightly over 10lbs.
Then there are perch to a handsome 3lbs - plus, good roach to between 2lbs and 3lbs and tench, the majority of which were known to be between 2lbs 8oz and 5lbs with some specimens running to 8lbs, although these have not shown regularly in the last couple of years.
Whilst many of the carp anglers use flavoured boilies, pop - ups and partcile baits, more conventional baits seem to work equally well with sweetcorn, luncheon meat and floating dog biscuits particularly effective for the carp in the summer months.
Floating baits work well in the shallower parts of the lake when fished close to the marginal weeds.
It is really only in the winter that boilies come more into their own.
Generally effective throughout the year are sweetcorn, trout pellet paste, dog - food mixers, maggots and worms.
Most popular methods for fishing the lake for the silver fish are float fishing on rod or pole around the edges and legering in the deeper water.
Interestingly, it is worth taking the time to get to know this lake because the different species tend to occupy specific territories.
The bream, for example, generally stay in the swims in the far right hand corner from the bridge, where the depth is around six or seven feet, whilst the carp are usually caught in the deeper water by the dam and along the bank between the overflow and the island.
They are now also regularly taken from the shallower end by the entrance.
Although the roach can generally be caught anywhere, they are more regularly taken in the shallower water as you come onto the fishery and the tench congregate in the shallow bays down the right hand side of the pool.
The bay down the right hand side as you come onto the water is said to be good for the tench, although there are one of two underwater snags where which anglers need to be aware of.