Reminds me of a lake called Bolingey. Once a dream of a water situated near Perranporth in Cornwall.
Used to be a cracking day ticket water, stocked with most species of coarse fish to respectable weights. Feeding maggot and caster you could catch roach to over a pound, bream, tench, perch and carp, big and small, not knowing what was coming next.
You can only fish this lake now if you stay at Whiteacres, which in itself, when it was run by the Seery family, WAS a great place to spend a holiday if you were a pleasure angler.I have been going to White Acres since 1988, but no more. Being a pleasure angler I felt as welcome as the plague last May. Not being a buddy of the camp angling staff, or a match man, no help was forthcoming.
Bolingey has islands, two arms and has now been fenced off to make three separate sections. All the fish were removed and carp put into the lake. 200lb per peg in each section. Just to make the matches fairer. Is this what you would call a "Carp Puddle".
One absolutely cracking lake ruined just to please the match men.
I think this the way it will go because a lot of young people coming into the sport are not prepared to fish just for the sake of catching fish, they have to catch carp cos they are big. I forget the number of times I have been by a lake with kids with all the expensive carp gear and finding out they have never been taught to float fish, but that is another moan.