Fisheries database
Photos, pegs, what's swimming in each lake and what a ticket costs — then jump into the full guide for the lake-by-lake lowdown.
Beta · 548 fisheries
Ashton-under-Lyne · Greater Manchester
A proper urban canal stretch around Portland Basin, where three waterways meet and coarse fish include roach, perch, rudd, tench and bream. Access and fishing rights need checking before you chuck in.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main water | — | Not published acres | Carp |
Hertford
Lee Navigation
Hertford · Hertfordshire
A proper stretch of the River Lee Navigation around Hertford, Ware and Broxbourne, split into six Towpath Fishery sections. It’s mainly gentle-flowing coarse water, with roach, dace, bream, chub, perch, pike and carp on the cards.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section A — Hertford to Ware Lock | — | Not published acres | Roach, Perch, Carp, Bream, Chub | Day ticket · turn up |
| Section B — Ware Lock to Hardmead | — | Not published acres | Roach, Chub, Bream, Perch, Pike | Day ticket · turn up |
| Section C — Hardmead to Stanstead Lock | — | Not published acres | Carp, Bream, Chub, Roach, Perch, Pike | Day ticket · turn up |
| Section D — Rye House Bridge to Feildes Weir | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
| Section E — Carthagena Lock to the end of Crown Meadow | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
| Section F — Old Mill Broxbourne | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
London · Greater London
Hertford Union Canal is a compact, urban Waterway Wanderers stretch linking the Regent’s Canal with the Lee Navigation. It’s a year-round towpath option for roach, perch, bream, tench, carp and pike, with a permit rather than day-ticket setup.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole Hertford Union Canal / Waterway Wanderers stretch | — | Not published acres | Carp, Tench, Bream, Roach, Pike, Perch | Pre-book only |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
London · Greater London
A proper urban canal stretch running roughly 9 miles from Little Venice to Limehouse Basin. It is covered by the annual Waterway Wanderers permit, with plenty of moving water, towpath swims and the usual London canal mix of bream, perch, pike, roach and carp.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regent’s Canal | — | Not published acres | Bream, Perch, Pike, Roach, Carp | Pre-book only |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Kirkintilloch
Forth and Clyde Canal
Kirkintilloch · East Dunbartonshire
A proper canal venue through Kirkintilloch, with towpath fishing, pike, perch and tench reported. It’s permit-controlled rather than a day-ticket commercial fishery, so sort your annual SFCA membership before dropping in.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirkintilloch section | — | Not published acres | Pike, Perch, Tench | Syndicate · invite only |
| Luggie Water Aqueduct | — | Not published acres | Pike, Perch, Tench | Syndicate · invite only |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Inverness
Caledonian Canal
Inverness · Highland
A cracking, wild-water option stretching from Inverness to Corpach, with roughly 60 miles of canal and connected lochs to explore. The man-made canal sections are especially handy for brown trout and other non-migratory freshwater fish, while the bigger lochs bring pike and more involved permit arrangements.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Man-made Caledonian Canal sections | — | Not published acres | Trout, Pike | Day ticket · turn up |
| Loch Ness | — | Not published acres | Trout, Pike | Pre-book only |
| Loch Dochfour | — | Not published acres | Trout, Pike | Pre-book only |
| Loch Oich | — | Not published acres | Trout, Pike | Pre-book only |
| Loch Lochy | — | Not published acres | Trout, Pike | Pre-book only |
Crinan · Argyll and Bute
Crinan Canal is a proper scenic fly-fishing venue running roughly 9 miles from Ardrishaig to Crinan, with brown trout the main target. The stretch around locks 9 to 13 is reported as the pick of the fishing, with dusk and night-time sessions looking especially tasty.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crinan Canal, locks 9 to 13 | — | Not published acres | Trout | Pre-book only |
| Crinan Canal feeder reservoirs | — | Not published acres | Trout | Pre-book only |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Coatbridge · North Lanarkshire
Monkland Canal beside Drumpellier Country Park is a free-access canal venue with around 50 pegs on the Blairhill section. Clear water, heavy weed and some properly difficult carp make it an interesting bit of fishing, especially early and late in the day.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blairhill section | — | Not published acres | Carp were heavily introduced historically; historical stocking took place in the mid-1980s. | Day ticket · turn up |
| Basin | — | Not published acres | Historical stocking took place in the mid-1980s, including carp and perch. | Day ticket · turn up |
Hawkhurst
Hawkhurst Fishery
Hawkhurst · Kent
Hawkhurst Fish Farm is a proper multi-lake complex near Hawkhurst, with everything from bitey Match Lake sessions to hefty carp and catfish waters. There’s a cracking spread of swims, prices and styles, although the rules are fairly tight.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Lake | — | Approximately 4 acres acres | Common and mirror carp approaching 40lb and catfish over 80lb; a 110lb catfish was stocked in February 2024. | Pre-book only |
| Dove Lake | — | Approximately 2 acres acres | Common and mirror carp over 36lb and catfish to a recorded 66lb. | Pre-book only |
| Four Trees Lake | — | Approximately three-quarters of an acre acres | Carp to 25lb, catfish to 36lb, tench to 9lb, roach to 1.5lb, perch to 4lb and pike to 9lb. | Pre-book only |
| Quarry Lake | — | Not published acres | A heavily stocked runs water with carp to 25lb and catfish to 42lb. | Day ticket · turn up |
| Match Lake | — | Just over one acre acres | Heavily stocked with carp from ounces to over 12lb, plus other coarse fish. | Day ticket · turn up |
| Junior Lake | — | Not published acres | Carp | Pre-book only |
| Specimen Lake | — | Not published acres | Carp | Pre-book only |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Rookley
Rookley Country Park Fishing Lake
Rookley · Isle of Wight
Rookley Country Park historically had two coarse lakes on the Isle of Wight: a beginner-friendly Small Lake and a proper Large Lake aimed at specimen carp anglers. The Large Lake was drained in 2019 and fishing ceased, so this is a historical venue rather than a current day-ticket option.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Lake | — | Under three-quarters of an acre to approximately one acre acres | Roach, Rudd, Perch, Tench, Carp, Crucian | Day ticket · turn up |
| Large Lake | — | Approximately two acres acres | Reported to contain about 120 to 130 double-figure carp, with more than 100 carp at 20lb or above and about 20 above 30lb. | Pre-book only |
| Small Lake and Large Lake | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Maldon · Essex
Chigborough Fisheries is a big Maldon complex with year-round coarse and carp fishing, plus fly water and a proper mix of species. There’s plenty of range here, from carp reported into the 40s to crucians, pike and large catfish.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May Water | — | Not published acres | Carp reported to 44 lb. | Pre-book only |
| Heybridge Mere | — | Not published acres | Carp reported to 30 lb. | Pre-book only |
| Scraley Mere | — | Not published acres | Carp reported to 33 lb. | Pre-book only |
| Heybridge North | — | Not published acres | Contains crucian carp. | Pre-book only |
| Home Water | — | Not published acres | Both fly lakes are stocked monthly during the trout season with trout sourced from Norfolk. | Pre-book only |
| Rook Hall | — | Not published acres | Both fly lakes are stocked monthly during the trout season with trout sourced from Norfolk. | Pre-book only |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Cirencester
Cotswold Water Park Fisheries
Cirencester · Gloucestershire
Watermark Fisheries is the venue commonly meant by Cotswold Water Park Fisheries, based around South Cerney near Cirencester. Bradleys is the headline water: a huge mature gravel pit with carp over 40lb, plus several other waters for pike, mixed coarse and beginner fishing.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradleys Lake | — | Approximately 114 acres acres | Large carp stock, reported at more than 2,000 fish; carp exceeding 40lb. | Day ticket · turn up |
| The Pike Lake | — | Approximately 40 acres acres | Pike, Tench, Chub, Roach | Day ticket · turn up |
| Wood Pool | — | Less than one acre acres | Small carp up to approximately 20lb, plus tench and silver fish. | Day ticket · turn up |
| Little Horseshoe | — | Approximately 4.5 acres acres | Carp reported to approximately 35lb. | Pre-book only |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Rayne
Rayne Lodge Fishery
Rayne · Essex
Rayne Lodge Fishery is a cracking three-lake day-ticket venue near Braintree, with affordable fishing, permanent pegs and a proper mix of carp, tench, bream, roach and crucians.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top Lake | — | Approximately 2 acres acres | Carp, Tench, Bream, Roach, Crucian | Day ticket · turn up |
| Middle Lake | — | Approximately 1 acre acres | Carp, Tench, Bream, Crucian, Roach | Day ticket · turn up |
| Bottom Lake | — | Approximately 2 acres acres | Carp, Tench, Bream, Roach, Crucian | Day ticket · turn up |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Llysyfran
Llysyfran Reservoir
Llysyfran · Pembrokeshire
Llys-y-Frân Lake is a big Pembrokeshire reservoir with bank and boat fly fishing for stocked rainbow trout and native brown trout. Permits are available online or from the visitor centre, with proper cracking woodland, trails and café facilities around the wider site.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llys-y-Frân Lake / Llys-y-Frân Reservoir | — | About 183 acres (74 hectares) acres | The lake is regularly stocked with rainbow trout. | Day ticket · turn up |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Llanidloes
Llyn Clywedog
Llanidloes · Powys
Llyn Clywedog is a huge, high-altitude reservoir with proper fly-fishing appeal, regular trout stocking and both bank and boat access. A cracking option for anglers after brown, rainbow, blue or tiger trout in a wild Powys setting.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llyn Clywedog | — | 615 acres acres | The fishery says around 40,000 fish are stocked into the lake, with trout stocked weekly from its own trout farm. | Day ticket · turn up |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Aberfoyle · Stirlingshire
Lake of Menteith is a proper boat-only Scottish fishery, with weekly-stocked rainbow and brown trout, dry-fly and buzzer sport, plus a cracking wild pike population. It’s a big, open-water venue with plenty to think about before you shove off.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Lake | — | Approximately 700 acres acres | Rainbow trout and brown trout are stocked weekly and reared on site by the fishery. | Pre-book only |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Warrington · Cheshire
Partridge Lakes is a big, busy coarse-fishing complex at Culcheth, with 394 pegs across 15 waters. There’s a proper mix of snake lakes, canals, match waters and carp fishing, plus handy on-site facilities.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holbar Lake | — | 4 acres acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
| The Coveys | — | Approximately five acres acres | Carp, Barbel, Chub | Day ticket · turn up |
| Pine Lake | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
| Marsh Canal | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
| Piper Lake | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
| Willow Lake | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
| Tweed Lake | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
| Ribbon Lake | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-07 — always confirm with the fishery.
Sywell · Northamptonshire
Sywell Reservoir is a proper Northamptonshire tench water, with double-figure fish reported each season and a solid pike reputation too. It’s season-ticket only, though the council says permits are currently not being issued while reservoir improvement works are under way.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sywell Reservoir | — | 67 acres (28 hectares) acres | Many double-figure tench are caught each season; tench exceeding 12 lb have been caught in recent years. Pike over 30 lb have been caught historically. | Syndicate · invite only |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-08 — always confirm with the fishery.
Retford
Hallcroft Fisheries
Retford · Nottinghamshire
Hallcroft Fisheries is a big, mixed coarse venue near Retford, with six stillwaters, a stretch of the River Idle, match lakes, pleasure waters and plenty of on-site facilities. A proper all-rounder, with fishing hours and ticket prices worth checking before travelling.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moat Pool | — | Not published acres | Carp, Bream, Tench, Roach, Rudd, Perch, Crucian | Day ticket · turn up |
| Bridge Pool | — | Not published acres | Carp, Bream, Tench, Roach, Rudd, Perch, Crucian | Day ticket · turn up |
| Croft Pool | — | Not published acres | Carp, Bream, Tench, Roach, Rudd, Perch, Crucian | Day ticket · turn up |
| River Ponds | — | Not published acres | Carp, Bream, Tench, Roach, Rudd, Perch, Crucian | Day ticket · turn up |
| Reed Pool | — | Not published acres | Carp, Bream, Tench, Roach, Rudd, Perch, Crucian | Day ticket · turn up |
| Canal Pool | — | Not published acres | Carp, Bream, Tench, Roach, Rudd, Perch, Crucian | Day ticket · turn up |
| River Idle | — | Not published acres | Pike, Barbel, Chub, Roach, Perch | Day ticket · turn up |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-08 — always confirm with the fishery.
Shrewley · Warwickshire
Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery is a sizeable Warwickshire complex with 9 pools, more than 300 pegs and around 2.5 miles of Grand Union Canal. There’s a proper mix of match, club and pleasure fishing, with carp, F1s, barbel and plenty of silverfish in the named pools.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Pool | — | Not published acres | High Pool contains F1s, carp, barbel and silverfish. | Day ticket · turn up |
| New Pool | — | Not published acres | New Pool contains carp, F1s and silverfish. | Day ticket · turn up |
| Jenny's Pool | — | Not published acres | Jenny's Pool contains mirrors, ghost carp, commons, bream, F1s, barbel, roach, skimmers and tench. | Day ticket · turn up |
| Bottom Pool | — | Not published acres | Carp | Day ticket · turn up |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-08 — always confirm with the fishery.
Wymondham
Nirvana Fisheries
Wymondham · Norfolk
Nirvana Fisheries near Wymondham is a quiet, natural Norfolk venue built around a top pond and lower pond. It looks particularly appealing for crucian and tench fishing, with the big caveat that access is by invitation or prior arrangement rather than a normal day-ticket setup.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top Pond | — | Not published acres | Crucian, Tench, Roach | Pre-book only |
| Lower Pond | — | Not published acres | Crucian, Tench, Roach | Pre-book only |
Wokingham · Berkshire
Holme Grange Fishery is a friendly, all-year venue near Wokingham with one principal lake, carp to around 36lb and a useful mix of coarse species. It suits beginners, families and anglers after a proper carp lump without needing a syndicate ticket.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holme Grange Fishery Lake | — | Approximately 2–3 acres; published descriptions differ acres | Carp are present to approximately 36 lb; roach are present to approximately 3 lb. | Day ticket · turn up |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-08 — always confirm with the fishery.
Langwith
Langwith Lakes
Langwith · Nottinghamshire
Langwith Lakes is the Heslington, York fishery off Langwith Stray — not the separate Langwith village in Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire. It’s a stillwater complex of four coarse lakes, with carp and mixed-species fishing, bookable for individual anglers and club matches.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main fishing lakes — four coarse-fishing lakes | — | Not published acres | Carp, Barbel, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Tench | Pre-book only |
| Separate stock lake | — | Not published acres | Carp | Pre-book only |
Wokingham
Dinton Pastures Country Park
Wokingham · Berkshire
Dinton Pastures is a cracking 350-acre country park with a proper mix of coarse fishing, from casual day-ticket roach and carp sessions to specimen-group waters and a river stretch with barbel, chub, perch and pike. Just remember: Longmoor Lake is at California Country Park, not the main Dinton site.
| Lake | Pegs | Size | Stock | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Swan Lake | — | 84 acres acres | Continually stocked; contains unknown specimen fish. | Syndicate · invite only |
| White Swan Lake | — | 24 acres acres | Carp, Rudd, Roach | Day ticket · turn up |
| Twyford Reserve | — | 26 acres acres | Carp, Tench, Bream, Pike, Barbel, Chub | Syndicate · invite only |
| River Loddon | — | Not published acres | Barbel, Chub, Perch, Pike | Day ticket · turn up |
| Longmoor Lake | — | 6.5 acres acres | Reportedly holds up to 90 carp, with fish to about 36 lb. | Day ticket · turn up |
Tickets
Prices last checked 2026-10-08 — always confirm with the fishery.
Start with what you want to catch and how long you've got. A busy commercial with plenty of pegs is ace for a short session on the method feeder or pole; a quieter, older lake suits a proper carp or tench campaign. Peg counts, lake sizes and stock lists below give you a quick feel for each place.
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