The aim of this work was to explore heavy metals contamination of sediments twelve fishponds near city Ceske Budejovice in South Bohemia. Sediments were sampled from surface of bottom at winter 1998. Contents of copper, zinc, nickel, chromium, lead and cadmium were determined in sediments after lyophilization and microwave mineralization, with atomic absorption spectrometry. Content of organic matter was measured with gravimetric analysis as a loss of ignition (LOI). Contents of determined risk metals in sediments was under limits for agricultural using for soil fertilization, except nickel (found 72ppm, max.admissible value =50mg/kg) and chromium (found 131ppm, max. admiss.value =100mg/kg) in sediments from fishpond Houzensky. Correlation between a metal and organic matter content were observed, the strongest for cadmium r(xy)=0,55. The sediments from mentioned fishponds seems to be only little contaminated with risk metals.