1 Acre(s)
Popular with both pleasure and match anglers, the three-quarter acre Top Pool is the first water you come to on entering Coppice Lane Pools and although only 10 years old is heavily stocked, holding a large head of fish in a concentrated area.
Rectangular in shape with a long central island, it has 28 pegs and is deepest at the end furthest from the entrance where a nine-foot hole can be found just off the end of the island before the water shallows to six feet.
Along both sides there is about four-and-a-half feet of water whilst out from the entrance bank it is only about three feet deep.
The pool was constructed with a shelf all the way round which is about two feet under the surface and runs out about three feet into the water - an ideal spot for picking up cruising carp in the summer months.
Holding predominantly mirrors and commons from 3lbs to 15lbs, Top Pool was restocked in February 2010 and all the silver fish distributed between Bottom and Middle Pools.
This has turned Top Pool into a predominantly carp water although there are tench to 4lbs.
An ideal pole water, Top Pool is also popular with waggler anglers whilst many of the locals from nearby Hammerwich and Burntwood also fish it with a swimfeeder, both to the island and in open water.
Although it has 28 pegs, it is never used for matches of more than 20 entrants to ensure that there are pegs for pleasure anglers when there is a match.
Although Top Pool has no particularly favoured pegs, some anglers prefer to head for the corners -the entrance end being favoured in summer because it is shallower and the far end in winter because it is deeper.
With the central island being 13 metres from both main banks, fishing to it with the pole is popular as it enables anglers to place their bait against the island.
Most popular baits for doing this tend to be caster, corn, soft hooker pellets, paste and maggots.
Try shallow in the summer and feed pellets lightly.
When fishing the pole in summer, a minimum of a Size 14 elastic with a 14s or 16s hook is recommended.
In winter it is recommended that anglers fish light with a Size 10 elastic.
Another popular technique is to fish up in the water at the far end of the pool using pole or waggler whilst other favoured techniques are to fish the swimfeeder either against the island or in open water and to fish the waggler close in to the margins, particularly in summer.
Top Pool also fished well in winter with one angler taking 35 carp fishing only a foot deep whilst spraying maggots every cast.
However, most anglers tend to go for a more traditional approach in the colder months, fishing worm, maggots, casters, corn or pellets.