VARIETY is the spice of life, or so they say, and that’s just what you’ll get at Snitterfield Reservoir, located near the tourist Mecca of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Tench, bream, crucian carp, chub, carp, roach, rudd, perch, hybrids, even grass carp – this small water has the lot, and will keep on producing the goods all the way into autumn on almost any method you care to use, whether that’s pole or waggler close-in, or feeder further out.
Yet, you’d hardly even know that this tiny water exists, enveloped as it is by trees just a hundred metres from the busy A46 bypass.
But bump down the track and this reservoir, which was formerly used for watering a nearby golf course, opens out and is flanked by flora and fauna amid rolling…