Our Lakes
Kingfisher Lake
This is the largest of the two lakes which has 33 pegs and is well established, offering plenty of features including an island to the left of the lake and a sunken island to the right , with plenty of Reed cover all round the lake. This lake holds a wide range of species including: common & mirror carp to 26lb+ Ghost carp, grass carp, Tench, chubb, barbel, perch, bream, skimmers, roach, Rudd, golden Rudd, crucian carp and even eels. It does offer plenty for all anglers if you just want to catch some fish or whether you are after that bigger carp.
With each day being different from the next it keeps you on your toes and doesn't get predictable. The larger of the carp are very smart and you have to out whit them, making them more fun to catch. With open water swims, island swims and reed lined margins, not to mention the sunken island, there is a peg to suit any method pole, waggler or feeder.
Also allowed on this lake only is floating baits that can produce lots of carp later in the day.
Woodpecker Pool
This pool has 20 pegs and is very even all round. This pool offers a wide selection of species including: common carp, ghost carp, mirror carp, barble, tench and golden tench, skimmers, roach, rudd, blue and golden orfe, golden rudd, bream, crucian carp, koi carp, grass carp, ide and even he odd goldfish. A lovely selection of some of the prettier species.
This pool is great for catching plenty of fish with the added bonus of a bigger carp to be hooked.
Cuckoo Canal
There are 39 pegs on cuckoo which have concrete bases in them for stability and pegs 1 & 2 has a ramp going down into them for the disabled anglers.
This is also a mixed species water stocked with: Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Gold Carp, Grass Carp, Tench, Barble, Golden tench, Ide, Golden Rudd, Golden Orfe & Crucian carp.
The carp at the moment go no bigger than about 5lb with 1.5lb TO 3lb being the average stamp for the Commons and Mirrors, with lots of smaller samples around the 4 to 8oz mark.
The canal is designed with all seasons fishing, including winter.
Maggots and corn are both good baits on here and both produce well.
This is shown by the depth, the centre track at 7.5ft deep (winter water level) is a good target area when the weather is cold (so don't forget some deep rigs top threes should do the job).
But remember if you are a winter angler, the fish don't always like the deepest spots (as we are sometimes led to believe) so the far and near shelf at about 5 ft should be explored.
Also, if its a mild day the shelf caused by the summer low level may hold some better fish later in the day , this will be about 18" - 24" down the far and near bank from water level.
Kestrel
This is a small canal strip with only 3 pegs approx. 14 meters wide and stocked with carp of mainly 1.5 lb to 3 lb with a few bigger fish up to 7lb.
This pool has a shelf running all the way around at about 5 - 7 feet deep dropping off to 11 ft deep in the centre, this, like the cuckoo, should prove good fishing even in the worst winter weather.
Fishing shallow in the summer months has proved very successful with catches over 100 lb being reported.
Rules
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No groundbait not even in feeders or for dusting.
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No meat of any kind
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No paste of any kind not even bread.
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No bread
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Fishery only feed pellets that are available for £1 a bag in the shop.
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You can use any hook pellets on the hook only and not thrown in for feed.
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only fishery landing nets to be used .
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Also fishery own keep nets in matches only
Remember size 14 maximum hook and all fish to be netted.