On Straits Mill carp...

The fish are mainly doubles and are usually dark in colour. The commons outnumber the mirrors and there are some old fish in here. There are some nice twenties, the most well known include a plump fully-scaled mirror, a mid twenty common that sometimes hits upper twenties, a fat low twenty mirror that gets caught quite a lot, a lovely mid-twenty mirror and the brothers mirror which is a low twenty. There are a few upper double commons that scrape twenty occasonally. It is thought that most of the fish are slowing in growth and there are few chances of anything big coming out anytime soon. A couple of years ago some 250 small carp were introduced and these have been caught but are still single figure fish. Earlier this spring another couple of hundred little carp were put in. There are also the usual other coarse fish, in fact this was once a noted water for tench and pike though the average pike size is quite small now and tench are rarely caught, though the small lake is good for tench.