Another Old Haunt Of Mine...

This place used to belong to British Coal and was called the Gedling Colliery gravel pits, there were originally five pits altogether, that were situated at the back end of the viaducts stretch of the river Trent and was fishable on day tickets at the time the coal mine was still working, eventually they filled three of the pits with slurry, before the coal mine closed down, leaving just two of the gravel pits one large un at the back and a small pit near to the Trentside, which then became free fishing.

The smaller pit was full of tench, roach, a few pike, rudd and perch, with a few bream, carp and bootlace eels. We used to fish this pit on a regular basis, in fact more often than the larger pit, which had the same species stocked.
Both pits were great to fish but were ruined by the litter lout brigade, there always was a years worth of rubbish in a couple of weeks, all around the place, it got that bad in the end, the place got closed down and turned into a nature reserve, shame, though it was at the time a great loss of local fishing.

Unfortunately I haven't the time to add photographs of the place due to being busy with my work, but later on! in maybe the next week or so I'll add some photos to this post.