A popular match venue and mixed fishery, Pool Two is the water nearest the car park at Weston Lawns and holds roach to 2lbs, bream to 7lbs, tench to 6lbs and carp to 25lbs - although at least one fish weighing 31lbs was taken a few years ago.

In addition, there are a few catfish which run to about 25lbs which, although there are not many, are caught fairly frequently and are attracting a band of anglers who now fish exclusively for them.

Most of the catfish are caught on legered luncheon meat.

Pool Two is fairly uniform at about five feet deep, although it runs down to about eight feet at its deepest near the outlet end by the electricity pylon.

As with many waters, the most successful techniques for fishing Pool Two change from week to week, although using the feeder with sweetcorn or worms for the bream and carp usually provides results.

Also, an increasing number of anglers are now using pellets and boilies which are proving effective for the carp, particularly in the warmer months.

Pole fishing with maggot, pellets or paste is also successful - using a mix of two parts crushed trout pellets to one part fine white crumb ground bait and mixing the blend into a paste.

It is advisable to mix the paste thicker for fishing in the middle or thinner for fishing closer in.

Many anglers fish the float close into the islands, but careful casting is called for - as the mass of floats caught in the fringes testifies.

Alternatively, it can be just as productive to fish close into the side.

It is also worth fishing slightly heavier than you would normally for roach and bream as the large head of decent sized carp give a good scrap for their size and can be deceivingly strong.

In the summer, a lot of carp are caught in the margins and up against the islands, whilst Peg 27 - known locally as the 'Canal Peg' because the swim between the bank and the island looks like a stretch of the canal - is a well - known hot spot.

Here the fish favour the shallow water next to the bullrushes just off the island where the water is about four feet deep.

The match record for Pool Two currently stands at 170lbs which was set in June 2014 and beats the previous record of 136lbs.

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