Rob.
Larford lakes used to consist of one big lake, about 38 acres I believe, and it contained carp, pike, perch, tench, roach and bream. When Maver bought it they cut a piece off it, filled it with little carp, and made it a match fishery leaving the other 20 odd acres as a specimen lake.
When I was last there in July they were in the process of cutting off another small bit at the far end of the specimen lake, presumably to make another match fishery. This will undoubtably be filled with yet more little carp, probably F1's.
The specimen bit contains carp to about 30lbs but the average is much smaller. There are some quality bream to 13lbs, good tench and decent roach. Method Feeder is the favoured approach but a float will catch you plenty of fish. Depths run from 10 - 12ft on the river side of the lake to 4- 5ft on the nearside. Its a large, wide open space so it pays to fish into the wind, the fish there (like most places) tend to follow the wind.
Bait, you name it, it catches, depends who you listen to. Bream do like luncheon meat but its not the only approach, pellet catches well on its day, maggots and caster will catch you lots of fish but usually small perch, roach and skimmers.
Thats it really, its not a bad fishery and worth a visit, just a shame that Maver chose to wreck it by making it into a match fishery.
The river Severn runs at the back of it and you can fish that on the same ticket, barbel and chub fishing can be quite good when the rivers right.
Hope you enjoy it Rob
