An attractive 60-peg, six acre lake predominantly stocked with Mirror, Common, Ghost and Crucian Carp for match fishing purposes.There are also tench, bream, roach and a small number of rudd. Because the water is used for match as well as general pleasure angling, the larger double-figure fish are regularly removed to the other two waters for pleasure and specimen anglers. As a result, the majority of the Commons average between two to 5lbs, although there are a few over the 6lb mark. The largest Common to come out weighed in at 11lb 10oz, with Mirror carp averaging the same size.
It also holds bream averaging between 3 & 4lbs but running up to 9lbs.The best perch specimen weighed in at 3lbs 10oz.
There are more than 1,000 yards of bank with several islands within casting distance.The margins are also home to a good mix of vegetation including Reed Mace, Bullrushes and water lilies which provide cover for both fish and anglers.
A favoured pole water with most anglers fishing between 9 and 14 metres in matches and between 5 & 6 metres when pleasure fishing. Unlike many lakes, fishing close to the bank does not tend to work.
In the warmer months sweetcorn and small pieces of luncheon meat about a quarter of an inch square tempt most carp, bream and skimmers.For the bigger carp fish an open-ended feeder towards the islands with a quiver tip rather than swing tip.
Using maggots in the summer tends to attract the smaller fish.
Popular floating baits include bread and Chum mixer.
Winter baits which work well include casters, worm and maggots.
Depths go to around 10 feet at the car park end,and 4 to 5 feet from half way up the lake to the point furthest from the car park.
Waggler works well,but most pleasure anglers fish the pole at between 4 & 5 feet deep up to the half-way mark and about 4 feet deep in the shallower top end.

A lake which offers both open water and the opportunity to fish close to islands and features.
Covering 3½ acres with 25 well-spaced pegs,it holds the same range of species as Ash Grounds but with the carp running to 16lbs and a few to slightly over 20lbs.
In addition there are good heads of bream and tench to 7lbs, Crucian Carp and roach to 1lb 8oz and perch to 2lbs 8oz.
Unlike Ash Grounds, most of the bank is accessible by car and disabled anglers are allowed to park their vehicles behind their pegs.
Depths go to 8 feet near the car park but the majority is only between 3 & 4 feet.
However, along the right hand bank of the lake and for a short way across the top end there is a figure 7-shaped trench where depths run between six and eight feet.
Favoured methods and baits tend to be much the same as for Ash Grounds but because most of the water ranges only to about three feet deep, float fishing either with the pole or rod is fairly straight forward and popular.

About a quarter of a mile from the main Fennes Fishery site.
Because it is away from the main site, the fishery is used by members of the Essex County Constabulary AC who help to maintain the water and act as 'honorary bailiffs', but is available when not pegged for Essex CC matches for pleasure angling.
An "inner barm" has been built around the water to protect anglers from the wind whilst soil from a former bank which used to divide the water into two has been used to create three islands which provide additional features to which to fish.
Depths go to 7 feet at one end but to only 3 to 4 feet around the islands.
Holding the same species as the other two lakes, but with a larger head of good sized fish than in either of the other two.
Although the carp aren't as large as those in Hobbs Croft, running to only 20lbs-plus, there is a decent head of tench.
Fishing on the bottom is obviously successful in summer with good nets of fish, particularly carp, rudd, roach and skimmers regularly taken at between 18 inches and two feet deep with the secret here being to feed regularly.