Small , but perfectly formed, this little one and a half acre tarn can be found some fifteen minutes off the Skelwith Bridge to Coniston Road alongside the footpath to Tarn Hows. WADAA used to stock this fishery but have now left it entirely to the stock of smallish, wild brownies – with the odd ….  Read More

Hayeswater is a 34 acre tarn set high in the wild open spaces of the eastern fells. The tarn is best approached from Hartsop village which lies at the foot of Kirkstone Pass near Brotherswater. At 1,400ft above sea level the fishery is a somewhat strenuous mile and half from the car – but, for ….  Read More

The drowned village of Mardale lies beneath the surface of this large and fairly remote reservoir – its abandoned fields occasionally appearing during periods of drought as rather ghostly reminders of times gone by. In its place is now an excellent wild fishery with a thriving population of perfectly marked brown trout. You will be ….  Read More

At around twenty acres, Harlock is the largest of a chain of three water supply reservoirs on the high ground to the west of Ulverston. The fishing on the reservoir is controlled by Barrow Angling Club who manage this water as a brown trout fishery. The fishing is best in the first half of the ….  Read More

Gurnal Dubs is a small reservoir overlooking Staveley. The tarn sits almost 1,000 above sea level on the slopes of Potter Fell and is approached via a tortuous unmade track off the back road from Staveley to Garnett Bridge. Fishing is fly only for stocked and wild brown trout and the fishery is managed by ….  Read More

A largish tarn, enjoy the mountain scenery with a relatively short walk. Grisedale Tarn lies above Dunmail Raise at the southern end of the Helvelyn ridge and can be reached (by a reasonably fit angler) in forty five minutes from the top of Dunmail. The most productive areas are either side of the outflow but ….  Read More

Grasmere is situated on the eastern side of the A591 Ambleside to Keswick road just before Grasmere village. This small lake is one of the regions best natural coarse fisheries holding prolific shoals of roach, quality perch and big pike. Genuine thirty pound plus pike have been caught in the past and twenty pound fish ….  Read More

Goats Water is a very accessible tarn being within easy reach of the Walna Scar track from Coniston over to the Duddon Valley. Vehicles can be parked at the end of the metalled road from Coniston which saves several hundred feet of uphill leg work. There are plenty of small trout in the tarn and, ….  Read More

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Unlike most of the larger lakes Derwent Water is relatively shallow having an average depth of just under twenty feet. In terms of fish production this gives it a significant advantage and the lake carries a higher biomass than most of its counterparts in the region. There are trout present, and some large ones at ….  Read More