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At WADAA there is superb fishing for the fly angler on our trout fisheries, Bigland, Capernwray, Farletonview, Ghyll Head, Hall More and High Newton. These waters are well stocked throughout the season and offer the consistent year-round sport. In addition, the club offers top-quality still water fishing on a more natural water at High Fairbanks that will appeal to members looking for quieter venues.
Coarse anglers too are well catered for with some excellent fishing. The club stocks and manages four small tarns, Castlehead, Cleabarrow, Hall More and Ratherheath which hold some sizeable carp together with big tench, bream, roach, perch, rudd, and eels. From 2022 we now offer fishing on a new very special water Skelsmergh. From Easter 2023 we will have the addition of Atkinson’s Tarn. Pike fishing is also high on our members’ agenda with pike in excess of twenty pounds regularly taken from Grasmere and Rydal water.
The club welcomes younger anglers. Further information on all our fisheries, facilities, day tickets and membership can be found on this website but if you need any help at all please don’t hesitate to contact us.
For all enquires please contact the Association Officer Joanne Atkinson lakedistrictfishing@gmail.com
We will endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible.
If you have any enquiries regarding the fishing that WADAA Ltd offers please complete the enquiry form or contact 07488534113 (Monday to Friday 9am-5pm) Or on lakedistrictfishing@gmail.com
Castlehead
We have several fisheries dotted all over the Lake District. For more detailed information please visit the fisheries page to give you directions and parking arrangements to all of our waters.
For the full interactive map please follow this link INTERACTIVE MAP
Membership of WADAA
From 2022, we introduced three types of Membership:
Full – Access to all our Game & Coarse Waters
Game – Access to all of our Game Waters
Coarse – Access to all of our Coarse Waters
For each type of Membership, there are three categories:
Adult (18 years and over)
Intermediate (16 or 17 years or Blue Badge Holders)
Junior (Under 16 years)
The details for membership are as follows:
Membership is open to everyone and runs from January to December each year. There are no part-year memberships or reductions for joining later in the year. Places for all Adult and Intermediate membership are normally limited and new members are advised to join the waiting list as early in the year as possible.
Full
Adult: (Over 18 yrs) Price £210 Join: plus £35 Joining fee Renewals: NIL joining fee
Intermediate: (Blue Badge holders or 16/17 yrs of age) Price: £160 Join: plus £35 Joining fee Renewals NIL joining fee
Junior: (Under 16 yrs) Price: £35 Join: NIL joining fee Renewals: NIL joining fee
Game
Adult: (Over 18 yrs) Price £174 Join: plus £35 Joining fee Renewals: NIL joining fee
Intermediate: (Blue Badge holders or 16/17 yrs of age) Price: £128 Join: plus £35 Joining fee Renewals: NIL joining fee
Junior: (Under 16 yrs) Price: £30 Join: Nil joining fee Renewals: NIL joining fee
Coarse
Adult: (Over 18 yrs) Price £110 Join: plus £35 Joining fee Renewals: NIL joining fee
Intermediate: (Blue Badge holders or 16/17 yrs of age) Price: £77 Join: plus £35 Joining fee Renewals: NIL joining fee
Junior: (Under 16 yrs) Price: £20 Join: NIL joining fee Renewals: NIL joining fee
For more information on the range of memberships on offer then follow this link.
WADAA controls a range of coarse fisheries ranging in size and atmosphere. Each fishery has its own identity weather that be a high density small fish water, natural water or specimen water. For more information please follow the link below.
Day tickets are available for a number of trout and coarse waters. Tickets can either be purchased online or from a number of agents in South Cumbria (listed below). One junior under 16 may fish for free with an adult day ticket holder. (If you have two juniors you will need to buy a second ticket.)
