An acre in size with a central island and 20 pegs, the rectangular shaped Eccleston Lake.

Please note:- Camping is not permitted around this lake.

The lake is deepest off the right hand bank as you approach it from the restaurant where 11 feet of water can be found between the bank and the island.

It is also deep between the left hand bank and the island where the bottom is 10 feet deep.

The remainder of the pool is about seven feet deep.

With no particular hot spots, Eccleston has a two feet wide shelf about a foot deep all the way round the edge which has been planted with lilies, iris's and other waterside plants.

It holds some 12,500 fish with carp being the predominant species.

These include common and mirror carp to 18lbs with the average size being between 6lbs and 10lbs.

The lake is also stocked with roach and rudd between 10oz and 12oz; perch to about 1lb; skimmer bream to 7lb and thousands of small tench about six inches in length.

Sweetcorn, soft hooker pellets, meat and paste are all good baits for the carp on Eccleston, particularly when fished up in the water no more than two feet deep.

Unless you are going after the double figure carp it pays to fish light with nothing stronger than a 3lb line and 16 or 18 hook.

Best bait for the roach and rudd tends to be caster whilst sweetcorn, worm, meat and pellet are good for the tench.

As is to be expected, worm and maggot are best for the perch with bread, sweetcorn, small pieces of worm, meat, caster and maggot all good for the skimmers.

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