Opened in 2011 and stocked with a large head of low to mid double figure mirror and common carp, this water also holds a good head of decent quality silver fish.

Although it is a new water it has matured quickly.

Indeed, it looks as though it has been established for far longer than is actually the case with plenty of bankside vegetation and two tree-clad islands which give it bags of character.

The 23 block paving pegs are well spaced and have plenty of room for bivvies or more than one day-ticket or longer stay anglers.

The pool has banks which drop steeply at 45 degrees to a bottom which shelves gradually from five feet deep at the entrance end to nine feet at the far end.

However, the bottom rises steeply towards the islands where the overhanging trees provide cover for fish, giving good features to fish to.

The bottom has a layer of about six inches of silt.

Although the average size of the carp is about 3lbs there are known to be a large number of fish to about 15lbs.

The biggest weighed carp so far recorded stands at just over 15lb whilst several fish around a similar size have also been taken.

The pool is also stuffed full of top quality roach and rudd which are being regularly caught around the 2lb mark.

Add to this the bream which are being caught up to 6lbs and a lot of tench to about 4lbs and there is plenty to go at.

Most anglers who fish for the carp use boilies and the water responds well to waggler and pole fishing as well as to traditional and modern carping techniques.

Anglers targeting the carp on the pole are recommended to use 12 to 15 elastic to a Size 12 hook whilst waggler anglers should again fish a Size 12 hook to 5lb or 6lb line.

Other successful baits for the carp include small cubes of luncheon meat a quarter of an inch to half an inch square and sweetcorn.

Anglers fishing for the silvers mostly use pole or waggler fishing lighter tackle than they would for the carp.

Fishing maggot high up in the water only a foot deep has proved a very successful technique for the bigger roach and rudd when combined with feeding floating pellets whilst fishing a similar method mid - water with sweetcorn also catches the roach, rudd and carp.

Anglers after the bream and tench fish maggots, sweetcorn and small cubes of luncheon meat either on the bottom or in mid water feeding sinking feeder pellets and samples of hookbait.

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