Hey Barry! I fished it once - about three years ago before they put up the palisade fence at the bottom of the cricket grounds. I walked in from the off-ramp onto the M3 - you can walk below the fence of the office block and then all along the cricket field and then to the pumphouse - there was a low fence there.
It is a seriously deep pond! Also quite difficult to find a safe place to sit. I sat to the left of the pumphouse - there's the remains of a low vibracrete wall that was obviously a retaining wall at some stage. From here you have a good range of directions to fish.
I have caught carp to 3kg, seen blue kurper that were easily 2kg and also saw a few smallish +/- 750gm bass. I lost a decent carp (for a pond this size) - 5kg plus that I could not subdue even with 5kg Maxima abrasion leader - it took me into the submerged trees.
There's another pond across the road - the M3 clover leaf - there's a cleared area where the tow truck used to park under a large oak tree. Walk towards the bridge and look to your left - you will see a track that crosses the stream - walk thru and you will ind an incredible pond - quite large and also very deep - it is packed with carp (2-3kg), the biggest blue kurper I have ever seen and also monster catfish.
Prebait with bits of floating bread and crust around the weed patches - soon the carp and catfish will be slurping!
Tight lines!
Cheers
Robin
