High Newton Trout Fishery
High Newton is probably the best ‘top of the water’ rainbow trout fishery in Cumbria and can provide exhilarating sport to the dry fly at any time of the year. This eleven acre former reservoir occupies an elevated position with a fantastic outlook over the Coniston Fells, the Cartmel Valley and out to Morecambe Bay. …. Read More
High Fairbanks Tarn
High Fairbanks Tarn is one of WADAA’s more recent fisheries and one of the best. This is a large productive fishery of eleven acres in an elevated setting above Ings and holds very good stocks of brown and rainbow trout. The Association stocks annually and the water is managed as a catch and release fishery only. …. Read More
Ghyll Head Trout Fishery
Visitors should note that Ghyll Head is not stocked during July and August but there are well over 1,000 in the fishery from earlier stockings. As summer progresses they will become increasingly educated and anglers fishing imitative methods are more likely to enjoy success. Mornings and evenings will be the best times to fish and day …. Read More
River Derwent (above Bassenthwaite)
The Derwent has the distinction of starting its life from Styhead Tarn – officially the wettest place in England with well over three metres of rain a a year. The river then runs through the lovely Borrowdale valley before emptying into Derwent Water at Grange in Borrowdale. Upstream of the lake the river is delightful; …. Read More
River Dee, Clough and Rawthey
Both the Dee and Clough begin their lives on the limestone of the pennine watershed flowing west to join the Rawthey at Sedbergh before entering the Lune a couple of miles downstream. The Dee drains the lovely valley of Dentdale and holds a reasonable head of trout with some good sized fish here and there. …. Read More
River Crake
This short rivers drains Coniston Water and enters the Leven estuary at Greenodd. Being lake fed it is invariably clear even during periods of high flow and holds its level far longer than the neighbouring spate rivers. The river is not noted for its trout fishing, the main interest being sea trout and salmon. Stocks …. Read More
River Cocker
The Cocker is a major tributary of the Derwent and has its beginnings up on Honister Pass before passing through Buttermere and Crummock to join the Derwent at Cockermouth. Although the Cocker was once a notable river for migratory fish the runs of sea trout have seriously declined. Salmon numbers too have fallen and the …. Read More
River Calder
This small spate river drains the high ground between Wasdale and Ennerdale and can be subject to very rapid and often spectacular floods during periods of heavy rain – indeed parts of the river appear flood ravaged on a permanent basis. Below Calder Bridge the river runs through the middle of the giant Sellafield nuclear …. Read More
River Bella
This delightful small river drains the limestone country at the southern extremity of the county before emptying into the Kent estuary below Milnthorpe. The Bela is untypical of most cumbrian rivers and in places is almost chalkstream like with smooth glides and beds of ranunculus. Trout grow well in this rich stream and are of …. Read More
Gatebeck Tarn
This is a pleasant mixed coarse fishery situated near Endmoor and roughly four miles from Kendal off the A65. The ‘tarn’ was originally dug some twenty years ago and is now well naturalised. Its shape is best described as an elongated doughnut but because of its length it feels canal-like to fish. Species present include …. Read More
