Hello all I am looking for advice. I am based halfway between Northampton and Milton Keynes but looking for my closest river to fish trout through the trout season and hopefully grayling through the winter months. I appreciate I am going to have to travel for this and happy to join an angling club or pay each time I use. I am not looking for a Stillwater fishery. Thank you in advance for any ideas
BenBurnett
You must be pretty close to me - I’m near Paulerspury, just south of Towcester on the A5!
As you’re aware, there’s more chance of finding Unicorn poo on the M1 in Northants than finding accessible trout fishing in a stream - albeit there’s a lovely short section of a trout stream near Oundle and even a tiny chalk stream, the Granta in Cambridgeshire.
Back in the day, when I had the remnants of more youthful exuberance (and mobility!), I’d leave my home in Pury End at 4 or 5am and drive to rivers like the Lugg, Arrow etc in the West or North to the Clun, Onny and Tannat in Shropshire or the Peak District streams, on occasions the Wye near Bakewell.
As you’re aware, there’s more chance of finding Unicorn poo on the M1 in Northants than finding accessible trout fishing in a stream - albeit there’s a lovely short section of a trout stream near Oundle and even a tiny chalk stream, the Granta in Cambridgeshire.
Back in the day, when I had the remnants of more youthful exuberance (and mobility!), I’d leave my home in Pury End at 4 or 5am and drive to rivers like the Lugg, Arrow etc in the West or North to the Clun, Onny and Tannat in Shropshire or the Peak District streams, on occasions the Wye near Bakewell.
Thank you for your reply PaulD, yes we are close I am in Milton Malsor nr Blisworth. I spend about 7-8 weeks a year in west Scotland near Lochgilphead so I get plenty of fishing there plus my son lives in Monmouth and daughter lives in Hereford so fish the Usk but was hoping for somewhere a little closer within a 1.5hr drive. I will look at Bakewell and the others you’ve mentioned. Thank you again for the reply. Ben
If you look over the other end of the county there’s two clubs that you could join the Guash and the Grantham. The Grantham is probably more accessible and has waters out past Corby towards Stamford. I think both clubs have grayling water too. The Guash is an old established club with a variety of waters and fishing.
And there is the Willowbrook that paul mentioned nrOundle. Fotheringhay to Apethorpe actually, it’s a small club though with 30 members and about 4 kms of water of un-stocked water and the waiting list is pretty long now.
We do have guest tickets, so if you ever want come over next season to try it, PM by all means and I can share a few beats with you, you just need waders. The season is set by the EA and continues to the end of Oct, but I discourage fishing after September due to the trout usually coming into the redds in first week of November on our water.
Pom
And there is the Willowbrook that paul mentioned nrOundle. Fotheringhay to Apethorpe actually, it’s a small club though with 30 members and about 4 kms of water of un-stocked water and the waiting list is pretty long now.
We do have guest tickets, so if you ever want come over next season to try it, PM by all means and I can share a few beats with you, you just need waders. The season is set by the EA and continues to the end of Oct, but I discourage fishing after September due to the trout usually coming into the redds in first week of November on our water.
Pom
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