4 Acre(s)
At three-and-a-half acres, Wildmoor Waters is an out-and-out big carp water and offers fishing from the three luxury waterside cabins.
The water is known to hold 550 fish to the low 40s with a good number between 15lbs and 25lbs which are growing quickly.
Although about 60 per cent of the fish are mirrors with the remaining 40 per cent being commons, there are a about half a dozen large leather carp which are known to run to 35lbs.
In addition there are linears to mid-20s and fully scaled mirrors to the high 30s.
Of the fish, about 30 per cent weigh between 15lbs and 20lbs, about 60 per cent between 20lbs and 30lbs and the remainder being between 30lbs and 40lbs - giving anglers a good chance of catching a fish of a lifetime on the right day.
There are also a small number which run to over 40lbs.
Between five and six feet deep around the margins, much of the lake is a maximum of seven feet deep, although there is a long trench off the road side bank which starts at 12 feet deep and runs up to five feet deep at the bottom end of the lake.
The best technique for fishing Wildmoor is to fish bright coloured pink, yellow or orange pop - ups over a bed of particles, pellets and hook samples.
All of these can be purchased on site.
Brightly coloured pop - up boilies are easily seen by the fish in the relatively clear water, although because the fish can be easily spooked if they run into anglers lines it is important to back lead.
This is the technique used in 2015 by Craig Mortimer when writing an article for 'Total Carp' about fishing for specimens on a budget.
Craig was allowed to use only two bags of particles during his 36 - hour session, but one of the fish he caught was so impressive that it made the front cover of the magazineIt is also the technique used by two anglers from the Newcastle who fished Wildmoor for a week early in 2015 and netted 62 carp for a total weight of 1, 077lbs.
That's an average of over 17lbs per fish.
Other tactics which work well are to use natural baits such as a large cluster of maggots fished on a maggot clip and sweetcorn.
Hair - rigged 6mm to 10mm pellets also work well, particularly when fished over a bed of smaller feeder pellets.
A very good way of catching fish in the summer is to fish floating baits with a controller float, using bread or dog biscuits.
However, when fished in open water these floating baits can often attract the attention of swans, ducks or passing seagulls - so persistence pays off.
Fishing a floating bait close into the margins can be very productive on warm summer evenings and nights when the fish patrol the margins grubbing around and looking for food which has been washed into the bankside.
The fish on Wildmoor also react well to a new wind.
If the wind is blowing into the far corner as you enter the fishery it is highly likely the fish will be down this end of the lake and feeding.
Wildmoor Lake sometimes also fishes well on on the back of an easterly wind when fishing to the bund and in the margins can be productive.
The Wildmoor carp also feed well in a south - westerly wind which has been blowing for a day or two.
When fishing the opposite bank from Chestnut Tree or Yew Tree lodges it can be beneficial to use a bait boat to get your bait to the exact point you want.
Anglers are welcome to use their own boats whilst they are available for hire for those who don't have one.
Anglers should also be willing to respond to moving fish.
Quite often dropping a pva bag filled with goodies next to a fish just under the surface will draw it down to the bottom and give a good chance of catching.
One of the nice things about this water is that it seems to fish equally well in the daytime as it does at night, although hot bright weather does tend to put the fish off until early evening when the temperatures cool down, through the night and into the early morning.
In winter it is obviously better to fish the deeper water.
However, because the carp keep moving and because even in the coldest months there is usually plenty of anglers bait going into the water, they are nearly always on the look out for something on which to feed, a factor which makes Wildmoor Lake almost as good in winter as in summer.