Blue Pool, Bishops Itchington

[carpingcabby]

Blue pool is located in the Bishops Bowl Lakes complex which is located in Bishops Itchington, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

A very nice looking lake which is only one of a complex consisting of 4 lakes the blue pool is so named due to its blue clay bottom giving the water a turquoise tinge. Essentially this is their carp water holding mirror and common carp in excess of 30lb. I have fished this lake only once and drew a big fat blank but potentially this lake could produce some very nice fish, when we attended there was a fair amount of litter scattered around and not many places to comfortably place a 2 man bivvy. There are very few pegs suitable for carp fishing but this helps as it reduces the amount of anglers on the lake at any one time and at the time we went we had the lake to ourselves.

The far banks are pretty much inaccessible for fishing, you'll be wanting to take some 3oz or larger leads as youll be doing some excessive casting distances to reach the far bank which is where we spotted the larger specimens and the lake is very snagy in that area. The far sides are both virtually like cliff-face drops so obviously fising from that area is out of the question.

[Tom]

I've been there too, I used to do work for another carp website and we had a staff meet up there, unfortunately I got ill later the first evening so had to cut the session short and I didnt catch anything either, mind you no carp were put on the bank from the blue pool that day so at least that made me feel a bit better. A few were had off the top of one of the other lakes that evening though and i missed out on that, a real shame as i really enjoy surface fishing for carp.

[Scotty]

yeh dats right me tom and another tom headed up there had a cuple nce dubles each the top banging well worth the 2 hour jurney.

[Tom]

hey Scotty, welcome to Carp Fishing Forums mate

Good to have you on board.

You guys did quite well over there, albeit it was a struggle landing anything with that small landing net but you and tom managed nonetheless and had some nice fish out. We'll have to sort something out, was thinking maybe Mid Kent Fisheries next time?

[Scotty]

ye definatley wen mid kent sounds good tome or richworth liner.

[Tom]

well, mid kent fisheries sounds best choice for me mate, as its about a 50-50 drive for both of us then.

[Scotty]

ye richworth is about 50-50 also its oxford i think bout 3 hours for me... but im easy mate we'll hammer sum where hehe even if tom dnt cum ill bring kaye down im sure her and my lovley gem i mean ur lovley gem lol will get on xxx

[Tom]

Just as long as you bring something other than sausages and supernoodles this time mate

Have ya read through any of the carp fishing articles yet scotty? was thinking some constructive criticism would be handy also let anyone and everyone know about the site as we could do with a few more carp anglers on here, the same goes for anyone you know thats thinking of starting carp fishing as all newbie questions welcome

[MonkeyBoy]

Hi guys if your looking to travel 3 hours i really dont think the linear fisheries would be a good move coz its like a city of bivvies most days, unless of course thats how you like it, cramped?

[Scotty]

not really lol... but the competions good... mid kent fisheries is al good.