About three quarters of an acre in size with no clearly defined pegs, Carver Pool can be found through the gate in front of you as you turn into the car park for Modder Pool.

It is roughly triangular in shape with trees and shrubs running down to the waters edge along two of its three sides.

These are in the process of being thinned and a new path constructed around the edge to give greater access to the water.

Because there are no clearly defined pegs - the water hardly ever having been fished since it was created as part of the M40 construction - anglers can fish wherever they want.

Common, wild and mirror carp have been seen in Carver Pool but little is known about their sizes.

A friend of the owner who fished it on one occasion used sweetcorn and said he had a carp a cast with the average size of the fish being about 8lbs - although he saw several bigger fish during his session.

It is also known that there are silver fish in the water as the pool is connected to Modder Pool by a stream which runs around the edge of the site.

Little is also known about depths and features in the pool, although it may be safe to presume it has a fairly featureless bottom as it was dug as a settlement pool for the M40 motorway.

When more is known about Carver Pool it is intended that the water will be managed more carefully with existing fish stocks augmented where necessary and improvements made to the bankside to make it a more comfortable venue to fish.

At the moment, though, this will appeal greatly to anglers who want to fish a natural looking water which has not been fished before and where they don't know what they are going to catch next!

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