Trying to stay fairly local with the fishing, although the five miles recommendation i find pretty much unworkable! today I ended up on a small pond on a golf course which i haven't fished for approaching twenty years, that is after throwing together some rather ancient coarse fishing gear!
used to have a really good stamp of Roach but they would appear to have been wiped out, even the humble Perch were thin on the ground except for one wee fella. The new kid on the block would appear to be the Tench! landed a couple and lost another, not big in any way but put up a good scrap, happy days!