Category: Our Waters

YSAA ILCHESTER Our river stretch at Ilchester is proving popular with our members and is fishing well, we are seeing many good Chub being caught the biggest reported is just under 5lb, our pike anglers have been catching a fair few pike …

250 Chub stocked by EA in memory of Andrew Sweet Monday 16th December saw the Environment Agency stock 250 Chub into our river section at the Old Cheese Factory Stretch in Ilchester as a memorial to Andrew Sweet, the fish were from …

LAKE TENCH Friday 22nd November saw the first of our two Tench deliveries by priory fisheries from Devon, The Tench that were stocked this morning were in fantastic condition and will be an asset to the lake, we put in 500 eight …

SUTTON BINGHAM COARSE FISHING     The reservoir was created in 1955 to supply water to the Yeovil area. It cost £1,000,000 to build and involved flooding the valley. The remains of Sutton Mill, dating from 1699, are under the water and …

RIVER YEO ILCHESTER Fished a short session on our new river section again today and chosen swim was one I used to fish as a boy growing up in Ilchester so I knew it would hold fish, the target species were chub …

CARP AND BREAM FEST As you all know by now the lake is a funny place to fish and no two days are the same, we had a match on Sunday 13th  Oct and all the guys blanked down by the islands, …

CARP, TENCH AND ROACH Over the last few weeks we have been seeing 15-20lb bags of roach being caught up and down the lake to various methods, some of the roach are 1lb+ so if you pick the right day you won’t …