At around 7 acres, it is effectively a long and thin pool, which was made by the damning of a small river.
Features
There is an inlet stream and sluice out, weed, gravel patches and firm areas, silt, a cracking snag tree which the carp love, a corking island with a willow on, a few reed beds and small bays, and lots of overhanging trees and interesting margins.
Depth
On the whole, the venue is quite shallow and was clear when we saw it. No doubt in the winter the water will cloud up a bit with the coloured water brought in through the stream. With depths of 5ft the end nearest the hotel is deeper than the top end of the pool, and the margins on the canal bank side are deep enough to take fish from a rod length out.
Swims for Comfort
On the side that you can walk onto the venue the bank is similar to a canal towpath i.e. hard compacted gravel - difficult to get tent pegs and bank sticks into. A pod and a Titan are essential items of kit, but the other side of the pool is soft and banksticks can be pushed into the ground quite easily. In the main, the swims are flat and comfortable, although the trees on the canal bank side do make casting a bit tricky in places, especially at night, as the patch is so narrow.
Fish Size / Stocking
There were some carp in the venue because Fosters took it over, but not really enough to make it a valid proposition as a day ticket water. This has been rectified with the purchase of a good head of doubles and four 20's. Richard Foster thinks that there were two 20's in the water before they got hold of it and the pool record to date, is 26lb. It cannot really be classed as an easy 20's water though as there are so many doubles around the 14lb mark, you need to wade through a load of fish to get to the bigger fish.
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