Anglers are requested to purchase their Day Tickets from the machine in the Fishing Lodge on the left before you reach the entrance barrier. The correct change is required

The specimen permit price includes the cost of a car parking pass.

The predominant species are bream, roach, tench and specimen pike and carp which run to over 20lbs. Last year the two largest pike to come out of the water were 27lbs 12oz and 27lbs whilst a number of smaller 20s to 23lbs have already been taken this season. In addition, the fact there are carp present offers anglers who do not wish to pay a lot of money for their carp fishing an opportunity to try their skill at very reasonable prices.

For the most part the bream average between three and 4lbs, although it is not uncommon for specimens up to 9lbs to come to the net. Bodymoor Heath also holds quality roach over 2lbs, tench to 6lbs and roach/bream hybrids to over 3lbs with 2lb 8oz fish being fairly standard.

A typical shallow gravel pit surrounded by willows and shrubs, Bodymoor Heath is shallower at the narrow end and offers over 90 fishable pegs.

Being a big bream water, it favours the use of open-ended groundbait feeders with many anglers starting their sessions by putting in about eight golf-ball sized balls of groundbait before tackling up. Most successful is a mix of brown crumb and any smelly continental groundbait to which some casters or other free bait offerings have been added.

For the bream it pays to have a selection of hook baits including worm, caster, red maggots and pinkies. Although it is less comfortable, because Bodymoor Heath is a large water, it is better to fish with the wind in your face. Although using a swimfeeder is the most common technique, if the fish are being particular and hard to catch, a long-distance waggler often produces results.

Roach fishing goes particularly well on the pole on selected pegs, whilst the tench tend to be bonus fish when going for the bream, although anglers setting out their stall for tench should fish close to cover, particularly under overhanging willow trees.

Skimmers and small roach are abundant and again there are bonus tench to 5lbs, pike into the high teens and the occasional carp up to 20lbs. The water is ideal for beginners during the summer months.

Up to nine feet deep close in along the road bank where you can park behind pegs, Mill Pool has a gravel bar in the centre where the water runs shallower. In other parts of the pool you can expect to find four or five feet of water.

As with Bodymoor Heath, fishing with open-ended groundbait feeder is an excellent method, although with deep water close in the pole and waggler methods both work well. In summer, fishing the top water close in catches most species including good bream, whilst those after the tench are again recommended to fish under overhanging trees or close to vegetation.

The small pool running off the main water as you apporoach Mill Pool from Swann Pool - known as the Canal Stretch - fishes better in winter than summer with pole anglers looking for roach and skimmers and pike anglers after their winter quarry.

An ideal water for pole fishing, most pegs have only three feet of water whilst at its deepest in the centre it is only four feet deep. However, it is in the fringes where most of the fish are caught.

Because anglers are fishing for smaller fish than on other Kingsbury waters, the trend is to fish light and use only small amounts of groundbait and loose feed. Size 18s to 20s hooks are the norm, although in winter it is advisable to drop down to even 24s. Most commonly used baits are single maggot or pinkies.

The change means there is now a second choice of match pool at the fishery, giving angling clubs further options on the number of pegs they can use and the ease with which members can fish.

Until now only the 11-acre Swann Pool has been available for matches, with bookings taken for 15, 25 or 40 pegs. The opening of the smaller four-acre Causeway Pool as a competition venue gives match secretaries the option of using 20 pegs and the opportunity for easier fishing.

Causeway's redevelopment has changed the levels of the water and has introduced a gravel bar, running the opposite way to the island, making it a great feature to fish to at about 30 yards from the bank. The pool now varies in depth from three to eight feet and is well stocked with carp to 10lbs, pike to 20lbs, tench to 5lbs, roach, skimmers, perch, and rudd.

A number of new fishing platforms have also been added (left), with four accessible to wheelchairs users. These four pegs can be used by able-bodied anglers but must be vacated if a wheelchair angler arrives and wishes to use the peg.

On days when there is no match booked, day ticket anglers will be able to use the water on a £2.80 day ticket.

Never stocked with fish less than 5lbs, Pine is best fished with boilies, trout pellets or trout pellet paste, sweetcorn, luncheon meat and bread crust, flake or floating crust - in fact, just about any bait that catches carp. However, thinking anglers who ring the changes tend to have the most consistent sport and heaviest catch weights.

There are two pegs with concrete platforms suitable for wheelchair access. These pegs can be used by able-bodied anglers but must be vacated if a wheelchair angler arrives and wishes to use the peg.

Similar to Bodymoor Heath Water, Swann Pool is an 11-acre big bream match water with some tench, roach, carp and skimmers. It responds best to groundbait feeder or distance waggler.

Whilst the depth varies in the main from three to five feet, Swann Pool is shallower in parts.

As a bream water, a selection of hook baits is again recommended, and like many shallow gravel pits it is worth catapulting a bed of bait at the beginning of a session to avoid spooking the fish once they are feeding in a swim. Once the bed of groundbait is laid, it can be maintained and topped up by varying the size of the groundbait feeder.

With these target species it is obviously well-suited to groundbait feeder and distance waggler tactics, although anglers are recommended to scale up their lines slightly.

The island pegs tend to be shallow at about three feet and are often weedy, but when the weather is hot in mid-summer and the feeding finicky, this is often where the fish can be found.

Both far side corners tend to have deeper water up to 10ft in places, whilst the middle pegs on the far bank from the car park tend to be shallower at four to five feet deep. Broomey Croft has many underwater features such as gravel bars, channels and plateaux and anglers who locate these tend to have the most consistent sport.

The road bank is obviously well fished as it is nearest the car park. It also faces the prevailing wind, so regularly produces good results, although anglers wanting to maintain consistency should fish a variety of pegs around the pool.

As a result, it was redeveloped and, following extensive management work, the carp have been re-homed in Canal Pool whilst Gibsons has been developed as a quality mixed coarse fishery with the stocking of more than 6,000 pounds (yes, you did read that correctly!) of home-grown coarse fish.

Bream to 8lbs, tench to 5lbs, roach to 2lbs and rudd, perch, Crucian Carp and pike can now all be caught in this attractive water, which is considered to be one of the most featured pools of all the specimen waters.

As a result of the improvements, Gibson's Pool now not only offers beautiful surroundings but also provides challenges for pole, waggler and feeder anglers.

The elongated stretch between the central pathway and the islands offers the deepest water, up to eight feet, although the fish will often be found on the gravel bars which extend from and link the islands.

The part of the pool nearest the motorway tends to be shallower and weedier making feeding fish more visible in this area. In summer there are numerous sets of lily pads which provide shade and these are always a good place to find fish.

This means Canal Pool is open for carp angling from July 1 until March 31 each year - the rest of the time it's purely for the birds!

Canal Pool is a 15-acre water which has been stocked with numerous 20s and 30s from Gibsons Carp Pool plus many other home-grown fish from several of the waters on the Kingsbury complex.

Tragically, Canal Pool suffered a major carp mortality in Spring 2006 when 65 fish - eight of them over 30lbs and the smallest 11lbs - were lost. Following this, the original stock figures for Canal Pool were checked and, taking into account the small number of carp that may have died during spawning over the years, it is believed there are nmow approximately 85 carp remaining in the pool. Of these, between five and 12 are believed to be over 30lbs - the largest thought to weigh 42lbs.

However, a supply of new carp has been purchased and added to the water. The 200 carp are all good quality fish weighing in the region of 2kg to 4kg, with a few low doubles; there is a good mixture of commons and mirrors, mainly the latter. This new stock and those remaining from 2006 will be fed and monitored carefully.

During hot summer weather it is often worth fishing the pegs shaded by willows in the middle of the day.

As a smaller water, it is easily fished with the pole or waggler and a selection of coarse baits including maggot, caster, bread and bread paste usually produces results.

Depths vary from around eight feet to around two-and-a-half feet and, because of the nature of the bottom, moving your float a yard or so in any direction can change the depth dramatically. This makes plumbing the depth essential on this pool.

With tench up to 5lbs and good numbers of roach, perch and skimmers plus the occasional larger bream, Kingfisher is as nice a place as any to spend a pleasant summer's day or evening. In good weather, jack pike and some large carp can often be seen basking in the lily covered shallower water near the motorway.