Norfolk Fishing Network 2004 - 2024 - Bedfordshire Fisheries

Fishery Name: Riverside Pond

Address: Priory Country Park, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 0SF

Grid Reference: TL 08050 50320

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Phone Numbers: 01234 211182

Email Address: [email protected]

Description: This pond is fed from a stream, the Riverside Brook, that begins within the New Cut and has an outlet into the river Great Ouse. The brook is shallow and has both gravel and sediment on the stream bed, which acts as a fish spawning area. The pond is generally about 4 feet deep with sediment on the bottom, although there is a shallower gravel bar at the entrance from the Riverside Brook. There is a small central island surrounded by reeds and the margins to the pond are more reeds and trees. When you are by the pond there are some nice flowers and plants, Purple Loosestrife and Orange Balsam are particularly notable. Also you may see Arrowhead, which actually looks like an arrow head. Due to its location this is a peaceful area of the park.

Fish Species: Barbel Bitterling Bleak Bream Common Bream Silver Bullhead Carp Common Carp Crucian Carp F1 Carp Carp Ghost Carp Grass Carp Leather Carp Koi Carp Mirror Catfish Wels Chub Crayfish Dace Eel Goldfish Goldfish Brown Grayling Gudgeon Minnow Orfe/Ide Blue Orfe/Ide Golden Orfe/Ide Silver Perch Pike Pumpkin seed Roach Rudd Rudd Golden Ruffe Schelly Stickle back Stone Loach Sturgeon Tench Tench Golden Walleye Zander

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