craig_banks

Thanks mach3. I would recommend the water to anyone looking to have a good time in pleasant surroundings on a lake full of carp. The weed could make presentation and landing the fish a little tricky but that comes with many lakes nowadays.

I thought it was quite a nice place and certainly looked to be full of carp... A friend and I went down for a bit of a social session in July. Fished near the car park (swims 3 & 4 I think) and we had a few. 18 carp between us if I remember rightly. We lost some due to hook-pulls and weed. 3 over 20lb, the rest were doubles. Most were caught over spod mix at 50 yards. I had a couple off the top, but they were pretty cagey. Here's me with the biggest of the trip, 24lb 1oz...

Paul, I lived close by for years. The water was only known as 'The Floods' because it was originally caused by the Trent flooding. There never used to be fishing allowed but the odd local got permission occasionally. In about 1985/6 a friend and I once asked the farmer if we could fish there and he gave us permission. We only did one 3 day session there to see if there were any signs of it having carp in. We had no action and didn't see anything other than silver fish and the odd larger Bream. We never went back again which was a shame and possibly an opportunity missed. I did hear of a few nice pike being caught there over the years. It could/maybe had carp in from the Trent but I've not heard of any being caught. Of course this all may have changed and it could now be stocked with carp and heavily fished for all I know. Access is difficult unless you know the area well or the owner gives you access through the farm.