Bodymoor Heath Water
Fishing at Bodymoor Heath Water
Coarse fishing
Bodymoor Heath is the largest of the Kingsbury Fishery waters. However, although it covers some 47 acres, this former gravel pit is only six feet at its deepest and in most places is only about three or four feet. This makes it an attractive fishery because the water rapidly acclimatises to the prevailing weather conditions and warms up quickly in summer.
Bodymoor Heath is a shared water with club sailing and paddling activity – please check the Tamworth Sailing Club calendar for more details.
The predominant species are bream, roach, tench, specimen pike and carp which run to over 20lbs. For the most part the bream average between 3lbs and 4lbs, although it is not uncommon for specimens up to 9lbs to come to the net. Bodymoor Heath also holds roach to 2lbs, tench to 6lbs and roach/bream hybrids to over 3lbs. There are only a small number of carp.
A typical shallow gravel pit surrounded by willows and shrubs, Bodymoor Heath is shallower at the narrow end.
Angling advice
Being a bream water, feeder fishing tactics will be most effective and it can often be worth ringing the changes and trying different types of hook bait. Although it is less comfortable, because Bodymoor Heath is a large water, it is better to fish with the wind in your face.
Roach fishing goes particularly well on the pole on selected pegs, whilst the tench tend to be bonus fish when going for the bream. Anglers setting out their stall for tench should fish close to cover, particularly under overhanging willow trees.
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