Although the smallest of the three Watersmeet pools, at between eight and 10 feet deep Front Pool is by far the deepest.

Developed as a general fishery, Front Pool contains carp into double figures, some good tench and bream as well as a good head of roach and rudd.

Regarded by Tom Ring as the easiest of the three pools to fish, he says it is particularly suited to fishing the sliding float on the rod although the favoured technique is to fish the ledge which runs about three feet out from the bank where the depth is about three-and-a-half feet before the banks shelves steeply to the bottom.

His other tip is not to fish too light.

A lot of carp tend to be caught on the shelf whereas the tench and bream stay more in the deep water.

However, fish hooked on the ledge tend to bolt for the snags and the banks so it pays to turn them as quickly as you can, he said.

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