Solhampton

Pic above: Solhampton has a new small club pool available now for matches.
The Moon Pool is full of rudd, roach, tench, bream, crucians, eels and perch a 'bites galore' match venue.
Test matches have been won with 70lbs!
Maximum of 12 pegs.

Solhampton Fishery has been carefully created over the last 20 years and is often referred to as being the best kept secret in the Midlands. Solhampton has has taken time to mature and now is classed as one of the areas best fisheries. Solhampton Fishery at present consists of 4 pools as follows:
Dragonfly Pool
Duck Pool
Valley Pool
Kingfisher Pool

Pic above: Dragonfly Pool
30 pegs: Current record 180lb R. Thompson
The deepest at 9 feet and the most unpredictable pool on the fishery, a real anglers pool!! The pool is well stocked with carp, tench, bream, rudd and roach.The tench and bream running up to 6lb. This pool has a reputation with pleasure anglers of them having to finish by 2'oclock because their arms are aching!
The left bank is basin shaped and the dam wall the same, the right bank has a shelf of 4 feet running from pegs 2-7. Main baits are pellet,corn and maggots, fished in the margins. Best tactics depending on the weather are straight out at 11 metres fishing on the deck coming in to the margins on pegs 2-14 and coming onto 4 metres straight out in front on pegs 15-25, pegs 25-30 are under construction.

Pic above:Duck Pool
22 pegs: Current record 240lb W.Knott
The oldest pool on the fishery, with really dark coloured wild carp, they are the biggest and the hardest fighting at the fishery. The pool is also stocked with bream, rudd and cruicans. The Duck Pool probably produces TO 3-4 different methods of fishing, from up in the water at 13.5 metres to waggler fishing to the island along with deep and shallow margin fishing. Taking 2 pegs as examples peg 21, fish 16 metres to the island up in the water fishing banded or soft pellet or fish close into the margins on corn or paste, under the willow.
Example 2, peg 5, known as the suicide peg and a reputation for breaking sections so be careful.
Fish to the left in front of the reeds, be careful when you hook one as they head north to the willow roots!
Main baits corn,pellets,paste,worm and casters

Pic above: Valley Pool
30 pegs: Current record 317lb E.Bloxham
The Valley Pool is our top match pool to date with any of the 30 pegs capable of producing in excess of 150lb on thier day.The Valley Pool pegs 29-22 have a shelf approximately 3 metres wide and 3 feet deep, running the lenght of the pool with a drop off of up to 6 feet, pegs 1-18 are of basin shape and drop off to 6 feet with the exception of peg 8, which is known as the sandbar because in the past floods have left a bar of red sand which the fish swim right up onto.The main tactics are start at 11.5 meters on the deck and gradually as the day goes on move back into the margins.
Up in the water is also successful on pellet and corn. Top baits vary with the weather and pegs tend to fish better when the wind is in your face ,corn,pellet,worm and caster and maggots, with paste fishing well in warm conditions.

Pic above:Kingfisher Pool
35 pegs: Current record carl jones (maver) 247lb12oz
The Kingfisher Pool is our newest at only 9 months old, but because of good growing conditions the pool looks like at least 2 years old. The main feature about the Kingfisher Pool is that it has an island in the middle than can be reached from all pegs.
It has a 3 feet shelf running round the entire pool,near bank and far bank with a channel of approximately 6 meters running in the middle all the way round, except on pegs 5-7 where there is a half moon shape going from the nearside bank down to 5 -6 feet deep to the island.
The pool has only had trial matches so we are still learning, the majority of the fish are between 1-2 pounds so you tend to be very busy in and out.I think the Kingfisher Pool will be our best pool in 2 years time.