Venues: South East

A 20-acre lake lined with mature trees and offering a great many features to fish to, including islands both large and small, sunken barges, plateaus, gravel bars, and weed beds.

At just over 25 acres, Barden has become a recent Mecca for carp anglers in the Tonbridge area. There's a large head of carp running up to well over 40lb with numerous 20lb and 30lb-plus fish. There is a small no-fishing bank where there's a large bird-feeding area. As well as varied depths, there are two islands and these tend to be good fish-holding areas.

Extremely mature water that opened in 1981, with plenty of bankside vegetation, making this picturesque location an ideal venue for specimen hunters and pleasure anglers alike. As well as housing monster catfish, the carp run up to high thirties. Depths run to over 12 feet in places and plenty of gravel bars and islands can be great fish-holding areas.

A 25-acre lake with an abundance of bays and tiny islands to target as well as multiple underwater features

Chestnut Pool is a mature three-acre lake with 20 swims and has depths between four to six feet. Two islands situated in the middle help to break the pool up nicely and a variety of lake beds can be found, from clay to hard gravel

The specimen lake is a two-acre, tree-lined water that holds a large, healthy Stock of big carp. Each swim is gravel lined and as comfortable as you could hope for.

Nine individual reservoirs make up the Walthamstow Reservoir network but 1, 2 and 3 are the ones that carp anglers will be interested in. With some prestigious fish running to over 40lb and depths averaging 10 to 12 feet, it can be tricky at times.