carefulcarping

Hey, Me and a couple of mates are looking at fishing Naseby Reservoir, mainly for a social together and a chance of some decent carp, and maybe even one of the catfish! Has anybody fished it before? If so any information about it would be greatly appreciated, thank you. Ross

Was that on the specimen lake or on long pool? I'm thinking of going on long pool on tuesday afternoon after work for a few hours and hope they ain't spawning on there! Ross

It just opened again for the season on the 16th of June, so only open a week or two so I guess it will be fishing well, but I do no it as being rammed for the first few days of opening, vest to ring them up and ask them for better advice than what I can give Ross

I should of also mentioned kingsbury water park, has a few lakes but think pine pool holds the biggest carp there, but I hear it's quite weedy, but yet again a quick search on google will answer any questions. Ross

Cuttle Mill might suit you nicely, catch s you can't look around, so if you want to look aroun you gave to pay your fees and fish it, or be naughty and sneak around haha, there are 2 lakes there, one is a general lake 2 acres ish with 2 islands don't no how big the carp are, I went with a mate and I blanked an he had 1 6lb er so we sucked that day And there is a specimen lake there too which I havnt fished but guessing hold a few 30's can't remember if there is a 40 in there, but google it and should have all of the information you require, don't no of many other lakes but just use fisheries.com or type in Carp fishing in birmingham, might be a shot. Also a nice lake in Ashby de la zooch (think that's how it's spealt) might be a bit too far but it's meant to be a good lake with a good head of carp although I havnt fished it, my carp fishing isn't yet good enough to go for the 30+'s. Goodluck with your searches. Ross

Ive fished bottom lake a few times now, and you can get a year ticket now for the bottom lake for 70 quid, but only means you have to go 10 times in the year to get your cash back if you fish 2 rods, which i do. Ive being there 3 times on the bottom pool, and every time ive had a few carp out, all perfect conditon, the biggest carp ive had out is 10lb, but ive seen bigger on the surface when it gets hot, but very hard to catch on the surface there. have spoken to a few people who have had THE sturgeon out the bottom pool all saying they got it at 9lb. Wouldnt attempt the top pool as others say its not big enough, but they are just continuously digging all the sludge out of it, so maybe in a few years top pool might be worth fishing. as for bottom pool, i quite like the wooden decking, and it never gets busy with at most half a dozen pegs being fished at the same time, so is always nice and quiet, il be fishing bottom pool most of this year, and will make threads on it, as for now i have being told the biggest carp is just over 20lb in bottom pool, but some bloke claimed he had a carp out at 26lb, but clare said she can't confirm that as no1 else witnessed that carp.