The Heron Pool

The Heron pool is available for pleasure and club matches but is always receiving complements of how well its fishing and what fine, pristine condition the fish are in. The pool holds 24 anglers with ease and they all have plenty of room.

The pool is stuffed full of 2-3lb carp which are caught week in week out but still offer an exhilarating fight to the net. The bigger 'lumps' in the pool, which run from 6-18lb, will give you the hardest battle you've ever had with a carp. You are guaranteed arm ache after catching one of these fish.

The Heron pool holds alot of tench. Its never been heard of catching a tench smaller than 2lb. The tench, although being super slimy, put up a magnificent fight, and will never give up, even once they're in the net. The tench in this pool go up to 7lb but recently its heard of some 8 pound giants being caught from the pool which is amazing.

There are an abundance of bream and skimmers in the pool and you cannot go a fishing session without hooking one of these greedy fish. The skimmers are about 8oz apiece but there are some larger ones in amongst them but the bream however go to 5 lb and there are lots of them. When you hook one you know that others will follow.

The Heron Pool is one of the most heavily stocked silverfish pools around it holds that many quality 1lb roach, gudgeon and some of the biggest perch ever seen. If you hit them right on the right day you could easily amass a 50 lb net of silverfish!

Peg 1
The heron pool has that many features it is unbelievable. A overhanging tree just metres from the bank and the biggest bed of reeds ever seen it truly is an amazing feature peg. The depth is about 4 feet but to present a bait properly you need to go to the bottom of the second shelf were it is a flat bottom.

Peg 2
Has a massive bed of reeds to the left of the peg. This is obviously the main feature if the peg the depth tight to the reeds is about a foot deep, which is perfect for a margin swim. There is a fairly flat bottom from the on and about 4 feet of water.

Pegs 3,4 and 5
Have no huge features but the open water swims do offer alot of fish because of the slightly deeper water. This depth is about 5 feet, these pegs have a little weed on the bottom so it is advisable to fish just touching bottom.

Pegs 6,7,8,9 and 10
All are heavily lined with marginal cover and alot of the bigger fish tend to hold around these areas and alot have been caught from the same pegs. The water in these pegs does get a bit deeper and ends up with about six feet of water. There are a lot of bream, which shoal up in this area, as it is the deeper water pegs.

Pegs 11-20
Are all very similar to the pegs just stated and all have the same amount of marginal cover and offer alot of fish for any angler. After the bottom of the second shelf on pegs 16-20 there is a few mounds were the carp tend to hang around, if you manage to plumb it up correctly your sure going to have a good day. These pegs are some of the deepest on the pool (6.5 feet) and offer fantastic fishing all year round.

Pegs 21-24
These are the pegs that the anglers fight over. They offer excellent protection from the wind, they have excellent features and most of all  there are tonnes of fish in the pegs.

Peg 21 hosts a massive reed bed, which is brilliant in the summer but you, sure do lose some rigs with the big fish that you'll catch.

Peg 22 has a reed bed to the right of the peg. This peg has a mound at 12 meters and if you are able to fish to it can be a killer feature.

Peg 23 again has a big reed bed to the right and left but what catches the attention of most of the anglers are the fish that bathe in the scum at the side of the pool. A 14lb fish was recently caught from by this scum. Peg 24 has the overhanging tree but there isn't much water only about 12 inches but you'd be surprised how many fish you can catch in such shallow water. The right margin also boasts a big bed of reeds, which holds about a foot of water, another excellent feature.