I, and some friends used to day fish South Cerney a lot, in my formative teenage years... for tench- and still remember a golden session on Ham Pool when I couldnt' get a second rod rigged up- for 6h I had a fish a cast- after 'd filled my first keepnet with about 20 of them (I was a callow youth then), I gave up, returned the lot, and continued until I was knackered- about 80 of them... and have never used a keepnet since then. Every now and again we got smashed up by Carp, but then we weren't interested in them! My recollection of the waters were that in quite a number of them, you could drive your car upto your spot, so no problem with damage, thefts etc, but I guess times have changed. One of the things we did see in our tench fishing exploits, were large numbers of Carp basking on the (very weedy) bars, and in the early morning, in some of the little bays on Wick- although these might not exist now. Looking back on this I'm amazed and a little depressed that we didn't consider fishing for them- We just watched, and many of them were upper 20's!.The other thing we used to do was to fish for the Rudd- There are some absolutely enormous ones there- although the largest we caught, on floating crust were about 2lb. Oh well, I guess times have changed now- there certainly weren't any visiting women! Might go back there this summer.... Simon