Fixed leads or bolt rigs are not allowed and anglers should not use nuts, boilies, bloodworm or jokers. Again, as with many other venues, only the fishery's own pellets should be used.

At the top end beyond where the double-peg peninsula juts out into the pool the water is much shallower at between five and six feet deep.

Despite its depth, Bottom Pool is easy to fish on pole, waggler, swimfeeder or floating bait. Indeed, when the water was test fished shortly after the pools were purchased by the new owner one angler had 10 fish for over 40lbs in a two-hour session and lost a further four fish.

Because the water has not been fished for several years the existing stock of carp are ready to take virtually anything offered to them, although this will no doubt change once they are caught a few times and learn to become more wary.

However, baits of luncheon meat, maggots, sweetcorn, bread and pellets have all taken fish both on the bottom and up in the water whilst in warmer weather when the fish are cruising on the top surface fished baits such as dog biscuits and bread crust both work well.

Whilst fishing the pole or waggler is not exactly easy because of the depth of water, it is achievable and good results can be had from baiting up a maximum of a rod length out and fishing on top of a bed of feeder pellets and samples of hook bait.

To fish the centre of the lake, it is perhaps easier to fish a swimfeeder or straightforward ledger tackle, although anglers should note that fixed lead and bolt rigs are not allowed. Also, because both lakes are only about an acre in size, boilies should not be used.

Because both Bottom Lake and Specimen Lake have hardly been fished except by a few friends of the owner it will obviously pay to experiment, although because the fishing can be regarded as easy there is no need to employ fancy techniques and sophisticated rigs.

However, if fishing for the roach, rudd, bream and tench anglers should avoid going too light as they are just as likely to hook into a carp, and as the majority of these have never been hooked before even the small 3lb to 4lb fish give the fight of their lives and are likely to smash anything lighter than 4lb line.

However, because the fish have not been caught before they tend not to be hook shy, which means anglers after the carp can use a Size 10 or 12 hook even for the smaller fish although for the silvers they obviously need to scale down to more traditional sizes of hook appropriate to the size of their baits.

It will be interesting to see how this water develops as it becomes more popular. However, it has to be said that although it has been developed by a non-angler, no expense has been spared and a great deal of work has been carried out to transform this once overgrown water into an open, attractive and productive fishery. It is hard to remember that only 12 months ago you had to fight your way through brambles and bushes to get to the waterside - and then had to contend with overhanging branches which made the fishing difficult.

Deepest at the dam end where up to 16 feet of water can be found along the spine of the lake, Top Specimen Lake shallows gradually as it narrows towards the far end with the widest and most open pegs being at the entrance end.

Stocked with carp to over 30lbs, some resident sturgeon known to run to just under 20lbs, recently introduced bream to over 4lbs and roach and rudd to about 1lb, this is the Holt Hall water for those looking for the bigger fish.

Although hardly fished apart from by a few friends of the new owner, Top Specimen Pool has already produced carp to around 20lbs with one angler reporting that he has caught and photographed one of 40lbs. Most anglers are expected to fish two rods and it is likely that one cast into open water and the other fished along the margin should give anglers the best chance of hooking into a decent fish.

Whilst boilies are not allowed, anglers who have fished the water so far have had results on almost every bait tried with sweetcorn, maggots, hair-rigged luncheon and pellets all having taken fish.

Pleasure anglers looking to fish for the smaller carp, bream and roach are recommended to use maggots, sweetcorn or pellets but it is such early days yet that almost anything should be worth trying.

However, once again the depth of the water is likely to cause a few problems for anglers looking to fish the waggler except for at the top end or close in to the margins. Like Bottom Pool, the banks shelve steeply down to the deep water.

This is again expected to lead to swimfeeder and ledgering being the most popular techniques for the carp with fairly stout tackle and hook sizes a must because of the number of double figure fish in the water.

Anglers fishing anywhere except for the dam end should also be careful to steer hooked fish away from the island as once a good carp gets round the back of it there is little or no hope of landing the fish.Again, another water to look out for.

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