the mere used to be very popular once, with a progessing stock of carp uptoo 27lb with quite a few high teens,tench to 9 lb, roach,eel's and then from no where it seems pike.
and then maybe 5 - 7 yr's ago during winter, the carp stock seemingly dissapeared, at the time there was different tales of the mere being drained for works and the carp being netted,dissapearing into the reserve, and some even found on the beach dead.
no body knows for sure what happened at the time but fishing declined from the gem of a fishery it was becomeing, and no one could find them, as far as im aware fishing is still free there with the exception of hiring a boat too fish out the back,and recently i heard a couple of carp had been spotted out the back but that could just be rumour.
