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Cotswold Fishery, near Great Witcombe, 22 acre fishery of two lakes stocked with rainbows of 1.5 lbs to 8lbs. Call01452 863591.
Lechlade and Bushylease Fishery, big fish water consisting of two lakes stocked with rainbows and browns. Lechlade is 9 acres and stocked with fish from 4 - 6lbs with doubles going in every day. you can enjoy fishing on 250 yards of the River Leach for wild browns when fishing Lechlade. Bushylease in bigger at 22 acres but the average stock size is 2lbs with fish up to doubled added for fun. There are boats for hire on both lakes at £10 per day and you can hire a float tube on Bushylease at £10. Tickets for Lechlade cost £50 for a full day and 5 fish, £35 for a half 2 fish Bushylease costs £35 for a full day 6 fish, or £30 for 4 fish. 01367 253266.
Milestone Fishery Fairford, 3 lakes totalling 13 acres stocked with triploid Rainbows, goldens and brown trout, call 01285 711113.
Lakes and fisheries
Amport Trout Fishery off the A303 near Arundel. A new fishery of about 1.25 acres stocked with rainbows minimum size 2.5lbs. Tickets cost £30 for 4 fish and £20 of an evening for 2 fish, call 07775 953273.
Avington, created in the 1960 by Sam Holland Avington pioneered the big fish fishery. Totalling 9 acres over 3 lakes this fishery with gin clear water offers exciting stalking for big rainbows and browns and challenging catch and return on a carrier stream of the Itchen, the record rainbow for the fishery is 28lbs taken in 2000. Permits cost £60 for 4 fish. Call 01962 779312.
Chiphall Lake Trout Fishery near Wickham is a single lake of about a couple of acres of stream fed gin clear water from the river Meon. Stocked with rainbows and brown trout (rainbow record 18lb 13oz, brown trout record 9lbs 2ozs) with goldens and blues on catch and release. £40 for 4 fish, call 01329 833295.
Dever Springs, two spring fed lakes totalling 6.5 acres (one of which is really just a very large pond) plus half a mile of catch and release fishing on the river Dever. My first sight of Dever was of a man leaving the small lake labouring down the approach road with a double figure fish over his shoulders which set my expectations for the day, I was not disappointed. Stocked with fish of 3 to 5lbs daily this fishery returns many fish in the twenty pound plus range holding the British record for rainbow trout at 36lbs 14ozs and the brown trout record at 28lbs 2ozs (Loch Awe has off course superseded this with its 30lb plus wild brownies). £65 for 4 fish, call 01264 720592.
Five Oaks Trout Lake and Lodge near Southampton. A two acres lake up to 25ft deep stocked with rainbow ranging from 2.5 to 12 lbs with brown trout on catch and release. Disabled access. Call 01489 577379
Holbury Lake Trout Fishery, near Romsey. Beautiful looking fishery set in woodland offering sanctuary to wildlife and angler alike. 4 lakes totalling 7.5 acres (The Pond, Island Lake, Long Lake and Willow Lake) plus 1000 yards of the river Dun available. The the lakes are stocked with rainbows, blues and brown trout while the river is stocked only with browns. Fishing varies from easy on the Pond to testing on the river and Willow lake. Several permit options from £25 for 6hrs, 2 fish up to £850 for a season fishing 26 days, 4 fish per day. Call 01794 341619 or mob. 07817252441. For more information visit www.holburylakes.co.uk
Leominstead Trout Fishery, a 4 acre stream fed fishery stocked daily with rainbows, browns, tiger and brook trout. Fishery record rainbow 19lbs 1oz, call 01703 282619.
Meon Springs Fly Fishery two lakes and a stretch of the upper Meon (catch and release) offering fishing for rainbow trout and brown trout of 2 - 5lbs with some doubles stocked to spice things up. Call 07766 525840.
Rockbourne Trout Fishery, 6 spring fed lakes of about an acre each, £48 per day for 5 fish. call 01725 518603.
Woodington Fishery, near Romsey. 4 lakes the original lake, Top Lake plus Kingfisher, Shearwater and the most recently built lake stocked with 4lb to double figure fish Leat Lake plus 1600 yards of fishing on the Blackwater tributary of the river Test. Stocked mostly with rainbows. Fishing on the Blackwater is for wild browns, grayling and sea trout. Permits range from Gold at £40 for 8hrs, 2 fish which includes Leat lake, £25 for 2 fish excluding Leat and £20 for 8 hours catch and release excluding Leat Lake. Call 01794 324485 or 0781 6187648.
Rivers
Itchen
Lower Itchen Fishery, Gatters Mill just 5 miles off the M27 at junction 5. Salmon, trout, grayling and course fishing available. Fishery record for salmon is an impressive 48 lbs taken in 1958. For conservation reasons catch and release for salmon is mandatory up to the 16th of June. There are trout beats with brown trout averaging 2lbs, classic Hampshire chalk stream fishing, totally yummy! Grayling fishing is available over the winter with many fish in the two pounds plus range. Just to top things off there is winter course fishing for roach, chub, barbel and bream. There are a number of permit options including days, weeks and season, trout £120 to £135 per day: salmon £65 to £80 per day; grayling £35 per day: sea trout night fishing £30; Course fishing £18 per day. Call 023 8081 4389 or 07885 175540.
Winchester City Council have a stretch of the river between the two city centre weirs which is free to fish, call 01962 840222.
Rising in the Upper Chalk by the village of Ashe the test flows some 40 miles to the sea at Southampton Water through rich water meadows and flood plains. The chalky soils of Hampshire ensure that the water is not only fertile it is gin clear making stalking fish a truly exciting experience. The Test is joined by a number of good fishing rivers, the Bourne Rivulet, Dever, Anton, Wallop Brook, Sombourne Stream, Dun and Blackwater. Famed for its wild brown trout fishing the Test holds a good stock of rainbows as well as salmon, sea trout, grayling and many species of course fish. Although salmon and sea trout fishing on the Test has been in serious decline it does hold the record for the UK record sea trout which stands at 28lb 5ozs, caught at Calshot Spit by J Farrent in 1998.
Fishing the Test is a dream for most of us as it is either impossible to get on or just too darned expensive for a day.
Broadlands Estate offers fishing for salmon, sea trout and brown trout on the Test and brown trout on a carrier. Call 07973 523358.
Fishing Breaks have fishing on a number of beats on the river Test, Dun, Wallop Brook and Itchen and there is a host of information on their web site www.fishingbreaks.co.uk or call them on 01264 782590. You can expect to pay from £125 to over £300 for the Test, £180 to 230 for the Dun and £65 to £85 for Wallop Brooks and the Greyhound carrier, the higher prices are for the Mayfly season.
Famous Fishing have access to a number of beats on the Test for individuals an for groups, call 01722 716210 for prices and availability.
Houghton Lodge are offering day ticket fishing on their famous water, call 01749 850086 for availability and prices.
Kimbridge, Ovris have a beat available for day bookings at Kimbridge where they offer fishing on 0.75 miles of the river consisting of a streamy top pool flowed by medium flow water with some good shallows. The price for 3 rods is £470 without a ghillie and £540 with a ghillie, there is an additional charge from 15th May to the 7th of June during the Mayfly season. Call Judith Thornton on 01264 349519. They have an other beat at Timsbury 5 which costs £40 less.
The Rod Box in Winchester have a god portfolio of beats on the Test and Itchen available for day ticket bookings. Call 01962 883600 for prices and availability.
Rib Valley Lakes near Ware, fishing on 2 lakes, Rib Valley is 13 acres and stocked with rainbows, brown trout and tiger trout ranging from 2.5lbs to 15lbs while Millenium Lake is 4.5 acres and is stocked with fish starting at 4lbs. Call 10920 484913.
Lakes
Bewl Water,
Lamberhurst near Tunbridge Wells, TN3
8JH. Brown and rainbow trout fishing off boat and bank, £19.50 for 8
fish off the bank and £24.70 for a boat, concessions and season
tickets available, Bewl has a Wheelyboat.
Tenterden Lakes three lakes totalling 5 acres offering day and half day tickets. Call 01580 763201.
River
Teise 8 miles of fishing on this swift little Angling Association river flowing from Bewl Bridge Reservoir between Goudhurst and Marden. Wild brown trout plus stocked browns and rainbows average 1.25lb with fish up to 5lbs taken every year. Mostly fly only with some water available to bait anglers. No day tickets but season tickets available at £285 (plus a one off joining fee of £60). Call 01622 746549.
Bank House Fishery, Catton neat Lancaster, 2.5 acre mill pool stocked with rainbows and browns from 2.2lbs to 20lbs plus tiger, blues and goldens. Fishery records are impressive with the biggest rainbows at 23lbs 4ozs, brown 16lb 8ozs, and tiger 10lbs 5ozs. Lots of corixa and stickleback good fly life. Best flies, beaded flies for corixa and stickleback feeders, Shipmans CDC, buzzers and sedges. A slow fished buzzer on a floating line is the hot tactic for rainbows. Call 01524 770412
Clegg Hall Trout Fishery, Dyehouse Lane, Rochdale, fishing on two lakes stocked regularly with some very big rainbows with the fishery record at 21.5ozs. Open all year except Xmas day the average rod catch per visit is 8 fish with many doubles being caught. Best flies are buzzers which work all year with damsels and pheasant tails fished on a floating line with a long leader as the water warms, dry black gnats and hoppers also do well. Permits cost £7.50 (2hrs) to £20 (8hrs) C&R and £12.50 (1 fish 2hrs) to £30 (3 fish, 8hrs) call 0782 704870.
Lune, The Environment Agency offers fishing for salmon, sea trout and brown trout on three beats of the Lune two of which, Upper and Lower Halton are exclusively game fishing beats (Lower offers good fly fishing water). Permits are for day and night sessions 8 am to 8 pm and 8pm to 8 am cost £15 per session from Scarthwaite Country House Hotel, Caton, Lancs, call 01524 770267.
High Stangerthwaite on the upper Lune has brown trout, salmon and sea trout fishing in the glorious setting of the upper river. Call Carlson Fishing tackle in Kendall for information on 01539 724867
Sedbergh AA have fishing on the Lune, permits cost £10 per day £50 per week from Three Peaks Outdoor Clothing in Sedbergh, call 01539 620446.
Ribble Milton Fishery near Clitheroe fishing for salmon, sea trout and brown trout on this recovering river plus fishing on the rivers Calder and Hodden. Permits are for night and day sessions 8 til 8 and cost £15 from the Milton Country House Hotel, call 01254 826544.
Stocks
Reservoir Fly Fishery, in
the head of Hodden valley within the Forest of Bowland is the
largest fishery in the North West at 350 acres with 4.5 miles of
bank fishing. Open from 24th Feb to 30th Nov, 8am to dusk the
fishery offers great fly fishing for own reared triploid rainbows,
brown trout and blues. There are 20 boats all with outboards which
cost £20 for two anglers. Permits cost £21.50 for 6 hours or 5 fish
with a number of other options available including reductions for
under 17 year olds. There is a wheelyboat available. Call 01200
446602 for information and bookings.
Eyebrook
Trout Fishery, near Caldicott is one of
the top English fisheries. 400 acres and 5 miles of bank are
available fishing this renowned top of the water fishery for
rainbows, blues and native brown trout built in 1940, Eyebrook has
matured well. There are 30 boats for hire and two wheelyboats. There
are season tickets and day tickets available, a full day costs £18
for 8 fish which make Eyebrook great value for money. Boats cost £18
for two anglers and a wheelyboat costs £10. In the spring they
recommend using nymphs like Dawl Bach, black epoxy buzzer as well as
lures like tadpoles, cats whisker and Fritz. For the summer buzzers
are the buzz, emerald green or ginger plus hoppers, daddies and
emergers. In autumn there are large shoals of fry so go for minkies,
zonkers and floating fry plus imitations for corixa and shrimp. For
permits call 01536 770264.
Thorton Reservoir
near Thornton is a 70 acre fishery
first opened in 1857. The lake has extensive shallows 4 to 8 feet
deep from Thornton Arm to Lonesome Pine and is about 30 feet deep
along Stones and Dam Wall. The season is 1st Feb to 18th November.
The fishery catch average is excellent at 4.1 fish per angler. You
can fish on 2 miles of bank, from one of 20 rowing boats (there are
3 electric engines for hire), wheely boat or a float tube. Prices
are very reasonable at £15.50 for 4 fish then C&R with concessions
for OAPs and disabled persons, juniors can fish free on an adults
permit. Boats cost £10 per day plus £6 for an electric motor and
wheelyboats with a motor cost £9.50. Buzzers, damsels, sedges and
hoppers do well and there are large numbers of course fish which the
trout prey on from August. Call 01530 230807 for bookings.
Toft Newton Trout fishery,
a 40 acre reservoir fishery
offering great value for money fishing (around £15 for 6 fish),
rainbow trout and brown trout with double figure fish present. Good
facilities including a wheelboat. Call 01673 878453
Syon Park just 8 miles from Marble Arch and just across the river from Kew this Capability Brown constructed lake offers fishing for rainbow trout on its 6 acres in majestic surroundings. Fish average 2.5 lbs with fish up to 10lbs stocked. Best flies buzzers, sedges, olives and damsels. Permits cost £12 per for membership plus £16 for two fish or £24 for 4 fish, call 020 8568 6354.
Ashmere Fishery near Shepperton, an established fishery stocked with rainbow trout in 4 lakes totalling 20 acres, best fish 12lbs. Call 01932 225445.
East Tuddenham Lake run by Norfolk and Suffolk Fly Fishing Society is a remote tree lined fishery of spring fed clear water, 6 to 16 feet deep covering 6 acres in two ponds. Stocked with rainbows, brown trout and blues every two weeks. Day tickets available at £16 for 4 fish, call 01603 423169 for further information.
Narborough Trout Fishery in the Nar Valley consists of 4 trout lakes and fishing on the river Nar which has particularly clear water and 1 course fishing lake. The fishery is stock with fish of 1 to 18lbs, is open 9am to 4.30pm all year. Call 01760 338005.
Pitsford Water,
boat and bank fishing available in
this reservoir stocked with 35,000 fish per year. There is a
wheelyboat available. Permits from the
Fishing Lodge, call 01604 781350.
Ravensthorpe Reservoir a 100 acre Victorian reservoir run by Anglian Water with a reputation for first class fishing for quality rainbows up to double figures and reports are that a pike of 42lbs was taken by John Sturges on the fly in 2006 so who knows, that 2lb fish you are playing might be live bait for a monster pike! Forget 6ln leaders go with a wire trace. Fishing is from bank. boat and float tube (hmm 42 pound pike). Call 01604 770875.
Aln, 6 miles fishing from Alnwick to Lesbury. Permits from RL Jobson and Sons Alnwick call 01665 602135 for further information.
Coquet
Dunns Farm, Elsdon, fishing for salmon and trout between Coquet Bridge and Lin Sheil / Barrow Mill, call 01669 640219.
Weldon Bridge, Angler Arms offer tickets for their salmon beat, call 01665 570011.
Weldon Bridge 2 mile salmon beat one mile downstream of the bridge, call 01665 570630 / 570665.
Falstone Fishing Club, 2 miles fishing on the North Tyne for salmon and trout. Permits cost £10 per day (£20 per day in September and October), £50 per week, from the Blackcock Inn, Falstone, call 01434 240200.
Fontburn,
multi bait fishery, just off the A696 near Rothbury, call 0870
2403549, prices as per Keilder. Wheelyboat available.
Grassholme, multi bait fishery, follow the A6277 from Barnards Castle to Mickleton and on to Kelton. For permits call 01833 641121, prices as for Keilder.
Great Western, Whittle Dean, bank and boat fishing with fish averaging 2.2 lbs so far this year, best so far 5lbs 3ozs. Call 01434 681405.
Hallington near Hexam consists of two large reservoirs over 200 acres, East and West Hillington averaging 15 feet deep, stocked with rainbows, blues and browns of excellent quality. Fish average about 2lbs best, rainbow this year 8lbs, best brown 7lbs. Good fly life. Bank and boat fishing (boats are free), there are 2 wheely boats. Season and day tickets available: Full season £510 with concessions available, day tickets £30. Call 01434 681405.
Keilder Water,
this massive reservoir has developed
a reputation for top quality trout fishing from both bank and boat
all method fishing permitted. There is a lot of space to fish on
Keilder with 23 miles of bank available. Permits cost from £15 for 4
fish to £25 for 12 fish with a numbers of other options and
concessions available. The fishing day extends from 8am to 9 pm or
sunset which ever comes earliest. Permits from the Fishing Lodge by
the dam or from Leaplish Waterside Park. Call 0870 2403549.
Wheelyboats at Leaplish and Falstone.
North Tyne
Belingham, 1380 yards of fishing downstream from the village of Bellingham for salmon, sea trout and brown trout. Permits from Bellingham Country Store cost £25 per week, £10 per day 1st Feb to 31 July, £20 per day 1st August to 31st October.
Chollerford, 0.75 miles fishing for salmon and trout available, permits from the George Hotel, call 01434 618611.
Keilder Forest Fishing on a number of burns and rivers including Keilder Burn, Lewisburn, Plashetts Burn, Belling Burn, Chirden Burn, Tarset Burn, Warkburn, The River Rede. All legal methods up to 31st July, fly only August and September. Permits cost £3 per day, £15 per week and £25 per season from Keilder Castle, call 01434 250209.
Ovinton, Northumberland Anglers Federation has fishing on the North Tyne near Ovington and Wylam (plus 20 miles of the Coquet). Permits cost £70 per week and £25 per day obtained by writing the The Head Bailiff, 15 Woodend, Rothbury, Morpeth, Northumberland NE65 7XZ, enclosing your cheque.
Riversdale Hall Hotel have salmon fishing on a number of beats, Newton, Carriteth, Redeswood and Tarset call 01434 220661 for prices and availability.
Snabdough, 0.5 miles of fishing for salmon and trout 4 miles from Bellingham, permits cost £12 per day. Call 01434 240239.
River Rede
Dunns House on the A68 7 miles from Bellingham, three quarters of a mile double bank fishing for trout and salmon, call Dunns House on 01830 520677.
Woolaw Farm 6 miles north of Otterburn offers 1 mile double bank fishing for trout and salmon, call 01830 520686.
South Tyne,
Alston, 9 miles fishing for salmon, sea trout and brown trout between Lamberley and Alston. Permits cost £20 per day, £55 per week from Hughes News, Alston; The Kirkstyle Inn, Knarsdale; JoJo Hair Salon, Font Street Alston; Lonnen Cottage, Jolly Beard Lane, Alston.
Alston to Langley Viaduct permits for salmon and trout from Martin Ould Alston and District AA call 01434 381270 or Harrisons Newsagents and the Alston Post Office.
Haltswhistle, salmon, sea trout and brown trout fishing on 6 miles of river. Day tickets available from Feb to September (October reserved to persons staying in Haltswhistle) cost £25 per day and £60 per week from Greggs Sport call 01434 320255 or from the Angling Club secretary Mr Wilson, call 01434 320942.
Haydon Bridge 5 miles of fishing for salmon and trout provided by the South Tyne AC. Permits are restricted to visitors staying in the parish of Haydon Bridge and cost £130 for 5 days. Contact Mr Marsh on 0143 684125.
Colwick Country Park, Mile End Road, Colwick. A 65 acre former gravel pit stocked with rainbow, brown and blue trout, call 0115 9870785
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