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pre baited areas work really well but wouldnt bother till it starts warming up!!! i always use boilies but some of the lads have had sucess on meat, sweet corn and pellet so anything goes... there has been alot of fish nicked and put in a pool in bilston!!!!!!

Fair play mate its a nice looking fish, i realise who you are now from looking at your picture (crafty44carp). when you doing a session up the valley then

Im not to sure, you are only meant to fish the small pool but someone on another forum said there are some good carp in the big pool.

I think your on about sheep wash

Loads of bream showing, it aint very often you see a carp show there

The car park is alot better it keeps the idiots off there at night. The fishing is hard its a bit hit and miss, just come back from a session up there and blanked . Got done twice on the bouy

fishing sandwell valley the weekend fished last saturday did'nt even have a tap, walked round in the week there were a couple of lads fishing nothing coming out i think they will be spawning soon as the island seems to be holding alot of fish

i aint a big fan of baylis the chap that owns it is a idiot and he shows you pictures of fish when flaires and platforms where in fashion.he told me last summer a chap round the pool had landed a 30lb mirror so i went round to talk to him and it turned out it was a 23lb mirror, it aint the pool just the idiots i will see if i can book wed 16 &thur 17 april off work if fancy doing sandwell valley

i will hopefully be doing 18,19 & 20 april (if her indoors lets me) Im fishing baylis in telford this saturday not through choice but the lad i fish with loves the pool and its only fair as i always drag him down woden road and up swan pool. If anyone is fishing sunday let me know and i will pop up.

Had a walk round the lake yesterday evening there was a bloke packing up who reckons he knows to 2 twentys coming out in the last week (how true i dont know) but someone else has told me the same. Apparantly the chap how caught the carp was fishing the sand bank near the island both on pop-up corn, also had a load of tench and bream. Hope this helps anybody who is fishing there soon. Hopefully i will be doing a 48 in 2 weekends time.

i have also heard there are stugeon in there but have never seen one i think its bu!"$£*t

that was probably me you saw bivvied up the other week, we call it hydes road pool never had a twenty but have had late doubles out of there in the last 12 months. Only live round the corner its very hard fishing though and the local lads can be very clickly.

this time of year the bottom is pretty silty with the occasional gravel area, once the weed starts growing its hard to find a clear patch i'd spend a good few hours with a marker rod walking round before you fish it.

fished there myself over the last couple of seasons, started my season off last week with a 48 hour, had no carp but pestered by bream. things have improved up there, the car park has been revamped to stop idiots congregating on there. there is definatly 20s in there as my mate has caught a few (leather carp 28lb 4oz) the fishing is hard though