Open all year round, Bridge Pool is a one-and-a-half acre tree-lined lake reserved for coarse angling which offers 20-pegs and is perhaps most popular both as a carp water and an ideal venue for younger anglers.

The tip of one of the arms of Great Lake which is cut off from the main stretch of water by the access road to Patshull Park, Bridge Pool holds about half-a-dozen carp around 26lbs, as well as a good head of fish in the 18lbs to 21lbs range and a larger quantity of fish under 10lbs.

In addition there are good heads of roach and perch to 2lbs, plenty of rudd, bream to 5lbs and a few tench which anglers report go to 6lbs.

With depths running to about nine feet down the central channel by the bridge and an average depth of about six feet, the water is shallowest around the sides and at the far end near the inlet stream.

Because of its depth, Bridge Pool is popular with both pole, whip and waggler anglers and fishes well on the drop, particularly in summer.

Anglers who get the fish going on casters usually have a good day's sport, particularly with the roach, rudd and perch.

Those going after the carp - which are well-known for their quality -tend to favour red maggots, casters, corn and bread, the latter being a particularly good surface bait which fishes well all year round.

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