Reached through the gates about 50 yards past the first entrance to Evesbatch Fisheries, Top Lake is often overlooked by visitors to Evesbatch and yet generally speaking holds bigger fish than its more popular sibling Bottom Lake.

Again, Top Lake is virtually surrounded by trees and offers a delightful setting for a day's angling.

However, unlike Bottom Lake, this triangular-shaped water has banks which drop straight to about four feet before gradually running to about nine and 10 feet deep in the centre.

Because the bankside drops straight into deeper water, fishing the margins is usually productive in the spring and summer months where most popular baits tend to be meat, paste, pellet and sweetcorn fished on the waggler or pole.

However, as the weather turns colder in late summer and winter, fishing the deeper water in the center of the lake produces good results with ledgering and The Method feeder again being particularly effective.

As with Bottom Pool, fishing floating baits in the centre of the lake in summer is good for the carp, particularly mid - week when the water is quieter than at weekends.

Although Top Lake is slightly smaller than Bottom Lake at about an acre in size, the general standard of fish tends to be bigger with Mirror and Common Carp, Crucians, bream and tench tending to be the main quarry.

In addition, it also holds some barbel around 4lbs.

However, as one would expect, it is again the Mirror and Common carp which are most regularly fished for, which is a shame because the all the fish are in supreme condition and fight like Trojans.

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