Fennes Fisheries reviewed: Ash Grounds

Ash Grounds is on the Fennes complex in Braintree, Essex.
Ash Grounds holds a wide range of species including perch, roach, Rudd, tench, large bream and of course, some nice common and mirror carp to the mid twenty's.
it is not a huge lake but offers a variety of features to suit different approaches. The deeper water can be found closer to the car park but the larger carp usually stick to the areas further away until early evening due to pressure.

In summer, the carp tend to stay next to the islands or in the reed beds. If you use a maggot or particle approach in open water, you will get large shoals of bream eating the bait, which is fine if you just want a bite, but not when trying to catch big carp.

I don't advise using strawberry or scopex boilies if you don't want bream or tench because sweeter baits tend to bring other species.

One way to get around the bream is use pink pop ups which for some reason, the bream don't touch although they take yellow, red, brown and orange pop ups without hesitation.

It is a good water just for a bite but some of the larger ones won't give themselves up so easily.

Fish close to features with a smelly bait and you will catch.