Category: Stillwaters

Buttermere

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The western lakes are less frequented and can offer a quieter, but no less productive alternative, to their busier counterparts in the more popular areas of the national park. Buttermere is just over a mile long and the top lake in a chain of the three. It offers mainly bank fishing for wild brown trout ….  Read More

Burlington Lake

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The game section of Furness Fishing Association control two fisheries at Roanhead offering fly, spinning and bait fishing for stocked brown and rainbow trout. Both Burlington Lake at 20 acres and Nigel Lake at 10 acres are the flooded remains of the substantial iron ore mining industry that developed around Dalton during the 1800’s. While ….  Read More

Blea Water

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The deepest tarn in Lakeland. For students of physical geography, a text book example of its kind. Blea Water lies close to the head of Haweswater under the vast bulk of High Street. Dark water and the beetling crags of the corrie headwall create an imposing and dramatic amphitheatre and the place has an eerie ….  Read More

Blea Tarn

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There are several ‘Blea’ tarns amongst the Lakeland fells. This one, which lies between Thirlmere and Borrowdale, is probably the best from an angler’s point of view and certainly holds trout of a higher average size than the rest of them – in fact the occasional very good fish is reported from time to time. ….  Read More