Another easy water to fish which is already throwing up good pleasure eights, Bottom Pool holds 20 Pegs and is again ideal for fishing either the pole close in or in open water or the waggler in the margins or open water.

Again, some anglers are also producing good results on the feeder.

Like Top and Middle Pool, this water holds a good mix of fish including common, mirror, ghost and leather carp to double figures but averaging between 5lbs and 6lbs as well as some impressive tench which have already been caught to 6lbs but average 3lb 8oz.

There are also some nice bream to 5lbs; hard - fighting perch to 3lbs; a large head of crucians; good stocks of roach and rudd to 3lbs; golden orfe to 4lbs; and chub to about 1lb.

All this means that anglers never really know what they are going to catch next.

Bottom Pool has plenty of bankside cover with reeds growing in some of the margins and plenty of open water from all pegs.

Being furthest away from the main car park it is also likely that Bottom Pool will be least fished of the three coarse pools, although it will be easily accessible from the Specimen Pool car park once improvement works and pathways have been completed.

Bottom Pool is quite a bit deeper than the other two coarse pools.

A shelf runs about three feet deep up to four feet out from the banks which then drop to about five feet before shelving gently towards the centre where some 14 feet of water can be found.

The shallowest part of the pool is again at the entrance end, but all pegs are easy to fish on waggler or pole.

As with all the other Chorley Springs waters it is still early days for the fishery, so experimentation with baits and techniques should pay off.

As with Top and Middle Pool, however, it is expected that maggots, worm, sweetcorn and soft hooker pellets will produce fairly consistant results for anglers targeting the silver fish.

Those after the carp, however, should scale up their tackle to be sure of being able to handle 10lb fish.

Although there are no real snags in the water, hooks and lines should be strong enough to handle these.

When targeting the carp, 10mm pellets, luncheon meat, sweetcorn, bread and worm should give good results whilst giving anglers chance of hooking into some of the bigger tench and bream.

In warmer weather, floating bread and dog biscuits should also give some lively sport for those who enjoy surface fishing, although anglers are requested to keep free offerings to a minimum to avoid disturbing other anglers.

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