Rectangular in shape with three central islands, you may be forgiven for thinking that Buddleia Pool is Astwood's out-and-out match water, but you would be mistaken.

This two-acre, 44-peg water was originally stocked with silver fish and tench, but in 2002 a large number of carp were introduced transforming it into a general all-round water.

However, the large stock of silver fish make it an ideal venue for winter anglers.

Six - feet deep all over, the islands are between 14 and 16 metres from the bank and the ground cover, high islands and bankside vegetation means that anglers usually cannot see anyone fishing the opposite side of the pool.

Once again the sides drop at a 45 degree angle to the bottom.

Buddleia holds mirrors and commons to about 14lbs, roach to 2lbs with a lot around the 1lb mark, ide to 1lb, perch to 3lbs, bream to 5lbs and Old English Crucian Carp to 12oz with the occasional fish to 1lb plus a good head of crucian hybrids to about 12oz.

In addition, there are a good number of tench which now run to 7lbs and 8lbs with plenty of fish in the 4lb to 5lb range.

The match record on Buddleia currently stands at 236lbs, a weight set in 2010 by Peter Bailey fishing corn on a 16 metre pole to the island in one foot of water with an all carp bag comprising mainly fish weighing between 4lbs and 8lbs.

Again the most popular baits tend to be sweetcorn and luncheon meat for those anglers after the carp with maggots, bread, worm and hooker pellets popular for general fishing.

Feeding hook samples with feeder pellets is a good means of attracting the fish and the most popular technique is to fish either close in to the site, against the islands or in the channels which run between the islands.

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