This lake holds huge numbers of crucian carp, tench and roach. Pole or waggler are the favourite catching methods, with the matchmen favouring the pole whilst the pleasure anglers prefer to fish the waggler. There aren't any real big fish in the lake, so it's possible to scale down to 3lb main line, 2.5lb hook length and a 16 hook. For pole fishing I'd plump for a number 8 elastic. Groundbait is not allowed on the 2 small lakes, so it's a case of loose feeding caster or small pellet, and fishing banded pellet, corn, caster or a piece of worm.
Worm can be really deadly for the crucians.
Switching to worm, I started getting 'one a chuck' up to the point that I was getting just a bit bored. Out of idle curiosity I left the worm on the hook after catching a crucian, and promptly caught another on the same piece of worm. There's not much that I can say about methods for Bonds lake. It's pole or feeder to the island. If fishing the pole, the fish will feed up in the water as the day wears on, provided that you are feeding regularly.