Fishing in the Cotswolds

As a guest at our luxury lakeside self catering holiday cottage in the Cotswolds you are entitled to complimentary fishing for carp and trout. The lake overlooked by Fountain View is stocked with carp and the smaller lake by the entrance to the resort is home to the trout.

A fisherman's holiday paradise ....

We are located within the Cotswold Water Park near Cirencester England which has over 140 lakes created by gravel extraction covering over 40 square miles, with 74 fishing lakes offering some of the best carp lake fishing and other fisheries in the Cotswolds.

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During your fishing holiday break you may wish to explore new angling experiences of the Cotswold carp and other fishing lakes nearby:

Whelford Pools is a top English carp fishery

•  Fly and coarse fishing at its best
•  Large mirror, linear, common and leather carp as well
    as tench, perch, roach, pike and bream.
•  Fishing tackle supplies shed
•  Fishing day ticket water.

Lechlade Trout is a Cotswold fishery with 2 fishing lakes

•  Fly fishing instructors
•  Fishing day tickets
•  Fishing tackle supplies
•  Fishing baits
•  Fishing rod hire
•  Clubhouse serving food
•  Lechlade trout fishery
•  Bushyleaze trout fishery

The Tackle Den angling tackle supplies and Cotswold baits

•  Fishing Rods and kit hire
•  Fishing tackle supplies, fishing equipment and fishing        accessories
•  Cotswold fishing baits
•  Buy fishing tickets for other Cotswold fishery and farm.
•  Located right out of the resort on the opposite side of the road.

Wildmoor Waters is a privately run Cotswold carp fishery

•  Fishing day tickets
•  Main fishing lake with many well spaced swims
•  Carp fishing with big mirrors and commons
•  Anglers have found the best results with Cotswold baits
•  Car park. Toilet and shower.

Ashton Keynes Angling Club Cotswold coarse fishing farm

•  Fishing day or holiday tickets
•  Neighbridge fishing lake - carp pike, tench, bream, perch,
    roach,rudd and chub
•  Top Pit fishing lake -tench and bream fishing, carp      fishing
•  Large Lake fishing - large carp, pike, tench, bream, perch and roach

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Angling is a sport and art for the whole family and not just restricted to men and boys so the Cotswolds is ideal for all ages to enjoy a fishing holiday as I recently discovered.

Staying in the cottage on one occasion I was fascinated by a whole family who spent all hours on the banks of the lake in front of me especially as one of the anglers was female. At the end of the week I had to ask why she had been fishing rather than shopping! Her response was she had never been fishing before but was now totally 'hooked' by the experience of fishing as a sport.

Fly fishing is an ancient angling method which used to be used mainly for catching trout and salmon but today for a wide variety of species including pike , and carp . It is becoming more popular with anglers who aim is to catch as many different species as possible with the fly.

Coarse fishing is popular in England and Europe. There are three types of coarse fishing

•  Pleasure - enjoy the relaxing sport of fishing and a catch as a bonus
•  Match Angling - to catch as many fish as possible in a given time
•  Specimen - to catch one species as big as possible for a photo

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Fishing Resources

Fishing Warehouse - forum, articles and fishing tackle supplies
Anglers Net - fly fishing articles, fishing tackle and bait reviews
Tackle Shop - for all your fishing tackle supplies
Easy Tackle - website selling fishing tackle supplies and bait
Carp Fishing - carp fishing articles, tutorials, forum and more
Fishing Tuition - fishing lessons during your stay