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Getting hooked: Nottinghamshire fishing

There are a good variety of fishing venues in Nottinghamshire as seen below. The regional heat of the national televised competition, Fish O’Mania, takes place annually at Lakeview, Hollwell near Melton Mowbray, with winners progressing to the national final in Doncaster for a £25,000 top prize.

Venue, location, main species, telephone numbers (comments):

• Pykets Fishery  Nr Hawton, Newark, carp/mixed, 01636 704742 or 01636 681557
  
• Cromwell Fishery  A1 Nr Cromwell, Newark, pike and carp to 40lb, 01636 822425 (good specimen water, bivvies welcome)
  
• A1 Fisheries  South Muskham, Newark, carp/bream/pike, 07970 209433 or 01636 605088 (six lakes)
  
• Smeatons Fishery  Old A1 Nr Sugar Beet, carp/bream/tench, 01636 605088 (good reports)
  
• Sapphire Lakes  Cromwell, Newark, carp/mixed, 01636 821131 (carp to over 30lb, bivvies welcome, food and toilets on site)
  
• Portland Waters  Sibthorpe, Newark, carp/mixed, 07967 144818
  
• Covert Springs  Epperstone, carp/nixed, 0115 966 3839 (big carp and rumours of big cats)
  
• Hallcroft  Retford, carp/mixed, 01777 710448 (four lakes containing carp to 20lbs and tons of silver fish)
  
• Finger Ponds  Holme Pierrepont, mixed, 0115 956 0096
  
• Peacock Ponds  (formerly Vistalak), Gunthorpe Village, Peacock Close, carp/mixed, 0115 966 3289 or 07966 735750
  
• L-Lakes Bishophill  Rainworth, carp/mixed, 01623 490731
  
• Elton Pool  A52 Nr Whatton, carp/mixed, 01949 851193 or 07971 836009 (syndicate water)
  
• Sherwood Forest Farm Park  Nr Edwinstowe, roach/car/bream, 01623 842617 (well established complex)
  
• Attenborough Gravels  Chilwell, mixed good shoals of bream,  0115 919 9500 or 07976 153093 (season and day ticket)
  
• Bingham Ponds  Gunthorpe Bridge, mixed (unspoilt lake next to Gunthorpe bridge)
  
• Erewash Canal  Ilkeston-Long Eaton, chub/roach/perch (various clubs control this venue, mostly day ticket, good chub fishing, especially Dockholme)
  
• Jansons Coarse Fishery  (formerly Haven Pond), Whatton On Redmile Road, mixed, 07973 676784 or 07976 317864 (good for beginners, two new lakes constructed)
  
• Grantham Canal  West Bridgford-Belvoir, tench/bream/roach/pike, (miles of canal in the Vale of Belvoir, mostly day ticket)
  
• Nottingham Canal  Beeston-London Road, roach/bream/perch, (Notts AA and Notts Fed, 400 pegs of mixed fishing)

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