Fishing in Cornwall -Angling in Cornwall - Sea fishing in Cornwall
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As well as being fishing lakes, Trevella and Springfield lakes are part of our nature reserve. For the last six years we have been awarded the David Bellamy Gold award for conservation. |
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Run with families in mind, our aim is to make your
holiday as relaxing & enjoyable as possible, nothing is too
much trouble. Being centrally located Trevella prides itself on
its beautiful award winning parkland, making an ideal base to tour
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White Acres Holiday Park is one of the UK's premier fishing destinations. There are 13 fishing lakes giving you the best variety of coarse fishing. Every lake is fed by natural springs and great care is taken to protect the environment. White Acres is not only a top fishing
park, its a great place for a family holiday. White Acres is also one of the best match fishing venues in Britain. The UK's biggest names join our festivals and each year the park hosts the Parkdean Masters offering one of the sports largest cash prizes. For Fishing information |
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FISHING AT WHITEACRES
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The award winning, friendly family park offering:
FISHING on our Private Stocked Coarse Fishing Lakes, Luxury Caravan
Holiday Homes, Eurotents, Spacious Level Pitches, Electric Hook-ups,
Licenced Shop, Children's Recreation Areas and Launderette. Set
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If
you are a keen angler you can see why many choose Trevella for their
holiday. All our guests are welcome to fish either of our lakes.
Perran
Springs Holiday ParkRock Fishing
There are many places where good rock fishing can be found on the North Coast, with an abundance of different species for the keen angler.
Good marks for ray and turbot are Trenance and Trevose
where good quality pollock, mackerel, wrasse, garfish, plaice, dabs and
conger can also be found.
Park Head is well known for a wonderful variety including gurnard,
ray, pollock and wrasse.
Rumps Point to the east of Padstow for gurnard, ray, pollock and
wrasse. Daymer Bay and the wave cut platforms at Pentire are both good
marks but require caution.
Godrevy Point offers mackerel, pollock and wrasse, which also abound
at Navax Point. Rumps Point at St Agnes for gurnard, ray,
plaice and dabs.
Beach Fishing
It should be noted that in summer the beaches are very popular with bathers and holidaymakers so beach and times should be chosen with some care.
The Bude breakwater and Crackington Haven are good marks for codling, flat fish, mackerel, whiting and dogfish. Widemouth Bay also offers good fishing.
Crooklets, Maer and Northcott Mouth are good beaches fished at two hours before low water and on the incoming tide, mostly for skate and flatfish.
Perranporth offers several miles of good beach for all flatfish as does Holywell Bay and Crantock. Watergate Bay is fine for ray, turbot and plaice as is Mawgan Porth and Constantine.
Beware of weed which is sometimes brought onto Portreath and St Agnes. Chapel Porth is good for ray and turbot with other beaches providing plaice, dab and flounder. Perranporth Beach is also popular with holidaymakers so avoid busy times: late evenings and early mornings will give excellent sport.
Sea Fishing The North Coast has an abundance of charter boats available, particularly in Padstow, Port Isaac and Newquay.
River Game & Stillwater Trout Fishing
Brown trout, grayling, and the occasional dace can be taken by fly on the Upper Tamar between Kingford Mill and Bridgerule. Day tickets from Bude Sports and Bude Angling Supplies, Queen Street, Bude.
Lower Tamar Lake offers budget fishing for rainbow and brown trout. A South West Water reservoir, day permits are available from the self-service unit in the Lower Tamar car park. Season is from 15th March to 12th October from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset. The Tamar Lakes Water Park has good car parking, picnic area, Peninsula. Gift shop and tea room, children's play area and choice of walks.
Salmon sea trout and brown trout on the Rivers Tamar, Ottery,
Inny and Carey. Permits from The Fishing Department, Homeleigh Garden
Centre, Dutson, Launceston.
Crowdy Reservoir is good for budget fishing for rainbow and brown
trout.
Bodmin is the centre for salmon, sea trout and brown trout on the
River Camel.
The River Fowey, 2 miles at Lanhydrock, for salmon and sea trout
from 1st April to 30th Sept.
Salmon, sea trout and brown trout from the East and West Looe Rivers
(also Rivers Fowey, Lynher, Inny, Seaton and Camel) from 1st April to
15th Dec.
Salmon, sea trout and brown trout on the River Fowey from 1st April to
15th December.
Salmon, sea trout and brown trout on the River Inny, near Launceston
from 1st March to 14th October. Early and late are the best times
in the season for salmon with sea trout in the middle months.
Coarse Fishing
White
Acres Coarse Fishery, White Cross, Newquay (01726 860220). There
are 15 lakes covering more than 36 acres offering the best variety of
coarse fishing in the country. The lakes are fed by natural springs and
provide a superb fishing habitat, surrounded by spectacular parkland and
woods.
Upper Tamar Lake, Kilkhampton offers 81 acres stocked with rudd,
carp, tench, bream and dace. Open all the year, day and night tickets
are available.
Bude Canal has roach, rudd, dace, perch, tench, carp and bream.
Close season 1st April to 31st May.
Dutson Water, 1.5 miles north of Launceston on the A388, for mirror,
common (many doubles), crucian, tench, bream, golden orfe, rudd, etc.
No ground bait. Parking and toilets adjacent to lake.
Tredidon Barton Lake, 5 miles west of Launceston on A395 for two
well stocked lakes with carp, tench, roach, bream and ghost carp.
Bolingey Lake, near Perranporth. 4 acres of coarse fishing for
carp, tench, roach, perch and eels from 1 hour before sunset to 1 hour
after. No close season.
Trevella
Park, Crantock. Two on-site coarse fishing lakes of 1 and 3 acres
and another 1.5 acre lake nearby.
Porth Reservoir, near Newquay. 40 acres stocked with bream, rudd,
tench and carp. Season open all year (24 hours). Self-service permits
in car park.
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Rock Fishing
Prussia Cove and Cudden Point are good marks at
night for mackerel and conger.
Penlee Point between Newlyn and Mousehole provides record catches.
The areas between Mousehole and Lamorna, Penzer Point and Carn Du
are also favourite marks.
Penberth Cove, Logan Rock and the rocks below the Minack Theatre
are also good marks.
Pedn-men-an-mere, Porth Chapel, Porthgwarra and Mill Bay, near
Land's End offer good sport.
The cliffs to the west of St Ives are for the expert
only, access to the marks here involving a steep climb sometimes
with the aid of a rope.
Aire Point, Cape Cornwall, Portheras, Clodgy Point and Man's Head
can give good sport.
Contact local angling clubs for advice.
Beach
Fishing
Perran Sands and Eastern Green Beach near Marazion
offer flatfish and ray.
The piers and dock area of Penzance and Newlyn offer a wide variety
of species with Lariggan Beach offering good flatfish after dark.
The pier at Lamorna, the niche between Porthcurno and Logan
Rock, the beaches at Sennen offer flatfish, turbot, gurnard
and dogfish.
Exercise great care if fishing off the breakwater at Sennen which is often
awash. The beaches at St Ives are crowded with holidaymakers during summer
and all are best fished in the late evening and early morning.
Sea Fishing
Boats are available from Penzance, Newlyn and St Ives and offer a variety of options for the visiting sea angler.
River Game and Stillwater Trout Fishing
Drift Reservoir, Penzance offers 65 acres of fly fishing for brown and rainbows. Season is from 1st April to 12th October. Newsletter available on request.
Coarse Fishing
Boscathnoe, nr. Penzance is an old established fishery
producing a good mixed bag of fish. Open all year.
St. Erth Fishery, St. Erth, Penzance has a 2.5 acre
lake for large carp, tench, bream and roach. Open all year.
Bill's Pool, St. Erth, Penzance is a 2 acre lake for roach, tench,
rudd, bream and eels.
Choone Farm, St. Buryan, Penzance offers 2 lakes with carp, tench,
rudd and roach.
Bussow, nr St Ives is popular with holiday anglers. Open all year,
24 hours a day.
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Rock Fishing
Good rock marks abound from Pendennis Point to Penhale.
Those mentioned all require care.
Pendennis Point is a good mark for wrasse and pollock, as is St
Anthony's Head which, on autumnal nights, is an excellent mark for
black bream.
Porthallow offers good marks for coalfish and conger.
A superb mark for night fishing are both the Lizard and Trewavas Head
where wrasse, mackerel and conger are good sport.
Beach Fishing
The Prince of Wales Pier, Falmouth fishes well at
night for pollock, mackerel and flounder.
Trefusis Point, Flushing for wrasse, pollock, mackerel and the
occasional ray.
Coverack provides pollock, garfish and mackerel; try for conger
and bull huss at the breakwater at night.
Sea Fishing
Many
chartered boats are available from Falmouth, particularly on Prince
of Wales Pier and through the local tackle shops. Most harbours in this
area have many boats which sail from them.
Mevagissey was once the fishing heart of the south Cornish coast. Mevagissey is the ideal spot to fish from, anglers can fish from the outer quay or use one of the self hire boats to go fishing for an hour.
Longer fishing trips are available on one of the many charter boats that sail from from Mevagissey harbour, an hours mackerel trip, a half day or whole day fishing - or cruising, taking in the scenery with a chance of seeing basking sharks, dolphins and seals
There is a fishing tackle shop where you can book angling trips - The Mevagissey Angling Centre.
Looe in South East Cornwall, is an ideal spot for sea fishing, with Mackerel, Pilchard, Red and Grey Mullet, Pollack, Ling Coalfish, Cod, Sea Bass, Pouting, Wrasse, John Dory, Whiting Gurnard, Squid, Cuttlefish, Dogfish, Conger, Sharks (various species) all being caught in the local waters. A number of boats offer Mackerel fishing trips from 2½ hours upwards, both during the day and early evening. These boats operate offshore in the bay, rods and bait provided.
Reef and Wreck fishing is available is available on the larger boats and Shark and Conger fishing commences at the beginning of June. The Sharks are tagged and released for conservation and scientific study.
River Game & Stillwater Trout Fishing
Gwarnick Mill Fly Fishing Lake is 1.5 acres, stocked with rainbow trout at St. Allen, Truro.
Argal Reservoir, Penryn
has 65 acres of fly fishing for stocked rainbows. Season 1st April to
31st October. Boats are available along with an Allenard Mk II for wheel
chair bound and handicapped anglers. There is a picnic area, facilities
for the disabled, toilets, play area and wooded walks.
Stithians Reservoir off the A393 Penryn/Redruth Road has 274 zoned acres offering all types fishing for natural brown and rainbows. Season 15th March to 12th October.
Coarse Fishing
Trenestrall Lake at St. Mawes has 2 acres for roach,
carp and tench on the King Harry Ferry road
College Reservoir, nr. Penryn is a renowned carp and pike fishery.
Open all year 24 hours a day. Season permits available.
Middle Boswin, Porkellis off the A394 Falmouth/Helston Road is
open all year for common, mirror, carp, tench, roach, rudd and perch.
Wheal Grey, Praa Sands, Penzance has a 4 acre lake stocked with
rudd, roach, bream, carp, perch, tench, gudgeon and eels. Open all year.
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FISHING TICKETS FOR LOCH WITHIEL AND THE 14TH LAKE. From November to March, we will offer hotel guests booked for dinner bed and breakfast, FREE FISHING. Also during April and October for guests staying only between Sunday and Thursday nights inclusive. At other times, a day ticket must be purchased subject to availability, or in advance. DAY TICKETS: Members £5 Non members £9 LOCH WITHIEL There are around 12 fishing points, safely away from golfers SWAN LAKE FOWEY RIVER However, you can fish from the town's park where it is tidal, or at Lanhydrock which offers about a mile of free fishing south from Respryn bridge. The river offers trout, sea trout and salmon; also bass and flat fish in the tidal part.
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Rock Fishing
Good rock fishing from Gribbin Head (long walk from
car park), Black Head, Maenease Point, Goran Haven and Pencarrow.
Rame Head. Queener Point in Whitsand Bay
Special care must be taken.
Beach Fishing
Garfish, conger, mackerel, wrasse and pollack can all be
caught from beaches in this area from Cawsand, Whitsand Bay, Seaton,
Downderry, Plaidy Beach and Wallace Beach.
For flatfish try Par, Porthpean, Pentewan, Gorran Haven, Penare and
Boswinger beaches. Early morning and late evening will avoid the bathers.
The docks at Par provide good jetty fishing, permit needed.
River Fishing (tidal)
The River Fowey offers some excellent marks including the Blockhouse at the mouth of the river on the Polruan side
The River Tamar offers numerous productive marks
including:
Toproint, Wilcove, Saltash quay & pontoon, Landulph,
Halton Quay, Cotehele Quay.
Sea Fishing
Boats available from Fowey, Mevagissey and Looe. Looe is fast becoming a household name for big game fishing for blue and portbeagle shark. Other marks fish well for ling, cod, bream and conger.
River, Game and Stillwater Fishing
The River Fowey, 2 miles at Lanhydrock, for salmon and sea trout 1st April to 30th September.
Salmon, sea trout and brown trout from the East and West Looe Rivers (also Rivers Fowey, Lynher, Inny, Seaton and Camel) from 1st April to 15th Dec.
Salmon, sea trout and brown trout on the River Fowey from 1st April to 15th December. Day & weekly tickets on sale at Rogers Tackle Shop, Bodmin; Tackle Shop, St. Austell; Penhaligons Newsagents, Lostwithiel.
Siblyback Water Park and Colliford Lake for traditional fly fishing for stocked rainbows at Siblyback (bank and boat) and traditional fly fishing for natural brown trout at Colliford (bank fishing only). Ample car parking. Peninsula gift shop and tea room. Siblyback Season 1st April to 31st October. Colliford Season 15th March to 12th October.
Coarse Fishing
Shillamill Lakes, Lanreath, Looe off the B3359 for
common, mirror, crucian, carp, tench, perch, roach and rudd in the four
lakes. No close season.
St. Germans-Badham Farm, St Keyne, Liskeard for carp, tench, rudd
and roach in 0.5 acre lake.
Crafthole, Nr Torpoint - 2 acres of excellent Carp fishing. Limited
season permits and day permits available.
Mellonwatts Mill Fishery, Pensagillas Farm has a 2 acre pond on
main roads from Grampound to Mevagissey. Crucian, common, mirror, carp,
tench, roach, rudd and brown trout. Open all year dawn 'til dusk.
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Trevella
Park, Crantock. Two on-site coarse fishing lakes of 1 and
3 acres and another 1.5 acre lake nearby. Tel. (01637) 830308. Shillamill Lakes, Lanreath, Looe off the B3359
for common, mirror, crucian, carp, tench, perch, roach and rudd
in the four lakes. No close season. Tel: (01503) 220271. |
Boscathnoe, nr. Penzance is an old established
fishery. Tel: (01392) 443362. Gwarnick Mill Fly Fishing Lake is 1.5 acres,
stocked with rainbow trout at St. Allen, Truro. Tel: (01872) 540487.
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