2 Acre(s)
At two acres in size, Main Lake is now kept purely for pleasure and carp anglers and offers about 45 slabbed pegs sited about 10 yards apart.
Deepest at the left hand end near the tall dead tree where between six and seven feet of water can be found, Main Lake shallows gradually to about five feet around the two islands and then to four feet at the right hand end as you come onto the fishery.
Around the edges about three feet of water can generally be found, the bottom of the lake gradually shelving down to its maximum depth.
Holding common and mirror carp between 2lbs and 30lbs-plus - the largest verified to date being a 26lbs 0oz mirror landed in Summer 2012, Main Lake is also home to a large number of carp in the 10lbs to 17lbs range which make up about 60 per cent of the total fish population in the water.
During 2012, a large number of fish in the low 20s were also caught on Main Lake.
In addition there is a large head of bream to 6lbs and skimmers to about 3lbs, perch reputedly to 5lbs which showed well in 2012 and 2013, roach to just under 2lbs and a few tench and crucians.
Most popular methods on this water are to fish the pole, waggler or swimfeeder.
Pole and waggler fishing are equally effective close in or out in open water, but if you want to reach one of the two islands you will probably need to fish a swimfeeder packed with hook samples.
The smaller of the two islands may only look like a tree stump sticking out of the water, but the stump actually sits on an island about two feet under the surface.
Because Main Lake now holds specimen carp, many anglers are also using modern and traditional carping techniques which are proving increasingly popular with boilies, meat, sweetcorn and bread all being productive baits.
As with many waters there is no right or wrong way to fish Main Lake and all pegs are equally popular and productive.
Fishing close in to the margin with pole or waggler are both good, particularly so in summer because there is only about three feet of water close in.
When going for the silver fish, fishing either on the bottom or up in the water, feeding little but often with hook samples, is good.
When going for the carp and bream, fishing on the bottom is obviously most productive.
Although in its early years there had been a blanket ban on pellets at Broad Acres, this has now been relaxed and anglers can now use Broad Acres' new generation of coarse fish pellets which do not contain the oils in trout pellets which are thought to cause liver problems in stillwater coarse fish.
These can be obtained from the Lakeview Cafe or on the bank.
As for other baits, all kinds of meats and sweetcorn are good for the carp whilst good general baits are obviously maggots, casters, worm and bread - as long as it is not fished on the surface.