Finding a river venue to fish ?

[darran77]

If like me you want to fish that bit of river you pass or see whilst browsing google earth but am unsure who runs it,
as there may not be any signs to show it and cant find any local info, then this may be of help.
A few days ago i e-mailed the EA regarding river leases, as its them who lease the river fishing rights out ?.
Well they replied that they dont have a list of who does,

"The Environment Agency does not have a list of free fishing sites, as we do not monitor fishing rights."

A bit of a pass as i asked for a list of sites that are leased as well as free sites, but they did give me a link to the angling trust site where i can find venues that are payable but not the free sites.

fishinginfo.co.uk/index.html

And i think i have worked it out?, i put in my location "Howden" and the map showed my location and also where fishing on rivers are controled,
Now if i have read it right any length of river that does ont have a control flag on it is free to fish ??.
daz

[leedsfisher]

Just taken a look at it and several day ticket stretches I fish do not have a control flag so I would say its not complete

[leedsfisher]

Also I think it is the land owners that lease the fishing rights out rather than the EA or angling trust

[darran77]

Yes i think your right as top side of Loftsome bridge on the Derwent is Goole and it's not listed as that on the web site.
Hey ho back to the drawing board.
daz

[naf]

Wouldn't trust this at all - just checked out two sections of rivers i now and both have wrong info on them.. Could cause a lot of problems buying a permit and then getting there to realise its controlled by a different club, or not realising and then getting turfed off

[barryfisherman]

I know this is a bit of an old thread now but I have come to the same conclusion as you guys. Various sites around the interweb that give different information and even information on the Leeds city council website is wrong. There is a parks and bylaws pdf that states free fishing locations and although some are free like chippys quarry but then locations like the wharfe in Wetherby is now ticketed.

So confusing and I'm amazed there's no Central resource for this.

Best resource are clubs or fisheries

[walesy]

Go have a walk up and down the stretch and see if there is anyone fishing, or look for signage etc. If you don't see anything or anyone, then go fish it, I am sure someone will have a chunter if it is private in any way.

[bobj]

Reminds me of when I fished a river in South Island, New Zealand, I had to have 3 different licences to fish just 1 km of one bank of the river.
Ridiculous!

[darran77]

Mar 9, 2021 10:00:18 GMT walesy said:

Go have a walk up and down the stretch and see if there is anyone fishing, or look for signage etc. If you don't see anything or anyone, then go fish it, I am sure someone will have a chunter if it is private in any way.

Walked a good length of the derwent above loftsome bridge and not seen any signs or people fishing , in fact there was no real sign of any pegs or disturbance on the bank either side of the river.
Might have a treck up over closed season to see if i can draw any attention and look for swims.
daz