In 1983 the Lloyd family bought a marshy area of poor-quality farmland, which they opened in 1987 as a fishing venue, which many anglers would deem the top coarse fishery in Wales and was voted by the Angler's Mail magazine as Uk's number one venue,
The complex has evolved into a virtual paradise for the holiday angler catering for all styles with six lakes on offer, ranging from a canal to a nine acre lake
It is in the heart of the Welsh countryside in a small village called Pontarddulais just a short distance from the M4 and overlooked by the 900ft Graig Fawr mountain, itself a site of Scientific and Special Interests SSSI and home to all sorts of wildlife, there are regular sightings of Red Kites which often visit the fishery itself.
Below the neat, modern accommodation complex which looks like a bungalow from the entrance carp park but is set into the bank and houses an impressive collection of appartments underneath overlooking the venue, unseen by the naked eye at first glance.
The nearest lake is the New Match Lake, specially set with the pole angler in mind. With central islands, it has been heavily stocked with species suitable for matches including small carp and provides regular heavy bags. The weekly reports on this page comfirms this with 50lb bags in extreme cold icey conditions throughout the winter months
To the left is the Specimen Lake, recently extended by turning two lakes into one. At nine acres, it is packed with little bays, islands and peninsulas with two cabins for those who wish to extend their stay. With several carp up to and over 42lbs are here to challenge anyone
Megan being the fishery record with six anglers landing here below regular Martin Mathews when she weighed in at 45lb 2oz 
The leathers going up to 34lbs, theres grass carp reaching 32lbs
there's big kio and ghosties in there too click to view
In the canal lake there's some big perch topping the five pound mark.
Mature surroundings and plenty of nice lily patches make it a real pleasure to fish. A bit further out is The Pit, small but very deep and ideal for leger/feeder fishing for carp, bream and tench. Beyond is The Canal, a 36-pegger with a string of central islands well stocked with carp, tench, bream and orfe as well as the usual silvers below is two carp caught during a match 
Finally, there is the Pleasure Lake, a highly productive and popular water with 30 pegs surrounding its unusual shape again two lakes opened into one. The bottom has been deliberately contoured unevenly, thus giving a range of depths and slopes to suit all methods and weather conditions. There's double figure carp to 14lb in this lake in December 2005 three came out in one day, here's a nice one and another from this lake, which has the source water for the fishery being fed by a spring from a well sunk by the steel works in the 1920's
The fishery name 'White Springs' implies, that the whole complex is fed by this pure spring well water and has never been affected by drought and comes from the welsh translation "Pistyllgwyn".
The entire complex and the magority of all pegs are accessible by car making it as convenient as possible for the disabled angler.
A total of 28 people can be accommodated on a self-catering basis and there are six hook-ups for touring caravans. With quick and easy access to the beautiful beaches of the click to view Gower peninsula and west Wales, it is an ideal centre for families to explore the surrounding countryside and the busy shopping centres of Swansea and Llanelli close by.
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Sunday 26th Feb under cold diffuclt conditions Howard Green of Greens tackle who was second last week came a comfortable first this week with 51lb on the match lake
1st Howard Green .peg 13..51lb
2nd Ian Exall .peg 9..26lb
3rd Bob Giles..peg 22..20lb 8oz
Kieran a young lad from Cardiff and Cymfishing Forum set a new Personal best read his own story of the catch here
Feb 19th match report, there was a match on the match lake top five rods were
1st Anthony O'Reilly (Cardiff) 40lb-10oz small carp and bream on pellets pole fished to the island from peg 7
2nd Howard Green, Green's Tackle 39lb 10oz peg 15
3rd Mike Eyre (Cardiff Nomads) 36lb 9oz peg 14
4th Kevin Geetch (Cardiff) 30lb 11oz
5th Stan Crowley (Cardiff Nomads) 27lb 8oz
6th Bob Giles (Blackwood) 24lb 8oz
Older Februarys reports below
The Specimen was frozen so Brent of Myrther was forced to fish the pleasure lake last week, he caught 7 carp from 8lbs to 15lbs. Ring the fishery to check if lakes are clear of ice or not.
On Sun 5th Feb after a cold week the lakes were clear for the Aberglais angling clubs first angling match at White Springs. The match was on the match lake top three results were
1st Martin Rees 29lb peg 14
2nd Brian Prothero 15lb peg 11
3rd 14 year old, Adam Toomey 14lb 8oz peg 9
The last three match results can be found here
Photos and info on White Springs can be found on the Cymfishing forum page here
All of these carp below were caught the same day
The much awaited intersite forum match was fished Saturday 22nd April, originally 4 internet sites were involved fishing teams of ten, however one of the English sites pulled out as their members had over 300 miles each way to fish so the White Springs locals put up a team, 39 rods took part and nobody blanked, the four teams fished over the two canal lakes
The top rod of the day was fishing for the White Springs Team Spud Murphy who landed 70lb 12oz from the new canal, photo below
Second place overal came off the old canal for a Total Fishing team member Peter Bailey with a 52lb 4oz bag
Each of the four teams fished in sections of four and was award points 4 for a win, 3 for 2nd, 2 for 3rd and 1 for last
The overal winners of the trophy were the visiting forum Total Fishing many of them fishing the White Springs for the first time, Nicky the Bricky picked up the trophy for this year for his team from owner vince lloyd and also some of the winning team as a few left early as they had a four hour drive home
Well done total fishing 1 point was enough to secure a win 31-30 sounds like a rugby score
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These two bags below were caught the same day
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