Ideal for pleasure anglers and club matches, Top Pool is the first water you come to from the main car park at Chorley Springs and holds 19 Pegs.

It has a central island which is the main feature to fish to.

Top Pool is classed as an easy water to fish and high match weights are more than achieveable.

Ideal for fishing on either pole or waggler, Top Pool is already producing good catches whether fished close in, out in open water or up against the island.

Although only relatively small, it can also be fished on the feeder.

Top Pool holds a good head and mix of fish including common, mirror, ghost and leather carp which run to 10lbs and average between 5lbs and 6lbs; tench to 6lbs and averaging 2lb 8oz, bream to 5lbs and perch to 3lbs.

In addition there is also a large head of crucians which are expected to provide some great summer sport as well as good stocks of roach and rudd to 3lbs, golden orfe to 2lbs, chub to 1lb and even barbel.

Because the pool is fully oxygenated, good fishing is virtually guaranteed all year round.

Anglers fishing maggots or sweetcorn are advised to start fishing by feeding with a handful of hook samples and then keep baiting up with about half-a - dozen samples.

However, if you are going after the bigger fish it pays to use bigger baits.

Surrounded by a shelf which runs about four feet out from the bank and is three feet deep, much of the remainder of the pool is between five and six feet deep with the shallower parts of the pool at the entrance end.

However, there is a deeper hole between the track side bank and the island where up to nine feet of water can be found.

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