Where to Fish - England Course Fishing - C

Coarse Fishing A to Z

Cambridgeshire | Cheshire | Cornwall | Cumbria (Cumberland)

Cambridgeshire

Lammas Meadow, St Neots, run by St Neots Angling Society who offer great value fishing in the river Great Ouse, the Pocket Park Marina and Wilden Reservoir. Good bream. Permits from Stanjay Fishing Tackle, Goldmanchester, call 01480 453303 or Ouse Valley Specialist Angling Unit, St Neots, call 01480 386088. Also available on the Great Ouse from St Neots AS for bream, chub, perch, pike, carp, Coneygeare ; Eynesbury Oziers, Regatta Fields, Riverside Park

Cambridge Fish Preservation Society have fishing on Cambridge Sports Lake and Milton Country Park. Great value at £25 pa for 2008/09 or £4 per day in advance. Call 01223 234616. The Society have other fishing available including Barnwell Pits, Block Fen Lake, Barrow Pit and on the river Cam from the Penny Ferry pub to Clayhithe Bridge (the course season applies to the river Cam)

Cambridge Albion Angling Society offer 36 miles of river fishing on the Cam for just £20 per year or £4 per day. Tickets from local fishing tackle shops

Cheshire

Cheshire Fishing 5 pools, part of a mixed course game fishery complex near Tattenhall, near Chester. Well stocked with common, mirror, crucian and ghost carp, roach, bream, tench, golden tench, barbell, rudd, chub and golden orfe. Ticket from £7 per day dawn until dusk, call 01829 770041

Roman Lake, Marple nr Chester, a 10 acre lake and 'canal' complex in a wooded valley. Holds good stocks of carp (30lbs+), pike (20lb+), bream, perch, roach, tench. Call 0161 4272039

Flushing Meadow, Acton Bridge, a stocked fishery holding carp, bream, chub and roach. Call 01606 851036 for more information

Cornwall

Argal and College Reservoir nr Falmouth. A 38 acre reservoir with quality carp to over 30lbs plus perch, pike, bream and tench. Open 24 hours all year. Call 01579 342366

Bolingey Lake, near Perranporth. Is a 4 acre fishery holding carp, tench, roach, perch and eels fishing from dawn to dusk fishing all year. Call 01872 572388

Bude Canal run by the Bude canal Association offers fishing for roach, rudd, dace, perch, tench, carp and bream. A close season from 1st April to 31st May applies. Call 01288) 361399

Dutson Water,on the A 388 near Launceston offers fishing for mirror, common and crucian carp, tench, bream, golden orfe and rudd. Good parking and toilets Call 01566 772607 / 776456 for bookings

East Rose Course Fishery, St Breward, Bodmin offers fishing on 5 lakes totalling 3 acres, 4 of which have been professionally developed into excellent fisheries holding tench to 8lbs and carp to 22lbs plus roach, bream, rudd and crucians. Day tickets available, call 01208 850674

Millbrook Lakenr Torpoint, An old reservoir on the Rame Peninsula offering quality fishing in a place of great natural beauty. A mixed fishery with good perch and tench, bream, roach, rudd, ghost and crucian carp plus commons to 20lb plus. Tickets from an old red phone box by the lake or call 01752 823210

Porth Reservoir, near Newquay. A fishery of about 40 acres holding bream, rudd, tench and carp. open all year. Tickets from a machine in the car park. For more information call 01837 871565

Tredidon Barton Lake, near Launceston consists of two stocked lakes holding carp, tench, roach, bream and ghost carp. Call 01566 86288 / 86463 for tickets. ets are available. For booking and details call the Peninsula Fisheries Manager on 01837 87156

Upper Tamar Lake, Kilkhampton an 81 acre lake holding stocks of rudd, carp, tench, bream and dace. The fishery is open all the year, day and night tick

The West Country Rivers Trust has done some stalwart work to offer access to 3 fisheries on their fishing token scheme. Locations include Woolstone Fishery, Polhilsa and Dart Raffe. For full information go to www.angling2000.org.uk

Cumbria

Buttermere run by the National Trust offers fishing for pike and perch. There are two rowing boats for hire. Permits from Mr and Mrs Parker, dalegarth, call 017687 70233

Carlisle and District Coarse Angling Club have a number of locations on the river Eden offering quality chub to over 7lbs, grayling over 2lbs, dace, perch and pike to over 20lbs. They also have access to fisheries with 20lb + carp, bream, perch, pike, roach, rudd and tench and wild fishing on the lakes and tarns of the area

Talkin Tarn offers fishing for pike in the 20lb plus class as well as perch up to 4lb (must be a British record fish about)

Crofton Lake offers the chance of a 100lb catch for the lucky angler with double figure carp, tench, roach, rudd, bream and chub Permits from Sykes sports shop in Penrith, call 01768 862418 or from Geoff Wilson's in Carlisle call 01228 531542