Redmire Pool Utimate Carping Venues

Redmire Pool is a farm pond just under 3 acres in size in Herefordshire.The venue has always captured the imagination of Carp Anglers worldwide. Donald Leney was instructed to stock the pool in march 1934 with 50 small Carp (5.5"-8") in an effort to combat the extensive weed in the pool. Hence the 'Leneys' came along with the Redmire stockings and stockings he carried out elsewhere around mainly Southern England producing most of the known big Carp in England today.Unbelievably these fish lay untouched until 1951 when a local angler by the name of Bob Richards got permission to fish the pool.I can't help thinking it must have been a little easier to catch these unpressured monsters. On the 3rd October Bob was to re-write the record books by capturing a magnificient Mirror Carp of 31.4lbs.The next year saw the famous Richard (Dick) Walker on Redmire, and on September 13th he caught the famous 'Clarissa'(chistened Ravioli by Walker but the zoo didn't like the name)at a new record weight of 44lbs. 'Clarissa' spent the rest of her days residing in London Zoo.I wondered why, but apparently record fish were routinely killed to establish their provenance and Walker hated the idea of killing such a magnificent fish so he persuaded the aquarium's curator at the zoo to take it .Dick's record stayed intact until Chris Yates captured a massive 51.5lb Mirror(the Bishop).Redmire has been fished by all the famous names in Carp Fishing over the years.In those days Redmire was private and secretive, now thanks to the present owners the magic and mystery of Redmire is available to all(but book early!).