Category: Stillwaters

Grasmere

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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

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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

Ghyll Head Trout Fishery

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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

Gatebeck Tarn

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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