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Guests staying at Kingfisher Lakes are more than welcome to fish in both of the lakes during your stay. The main rules/restrictions we have are to ensure other guests and lake users (kayakers) are not disturbed by any fishing lines, equipment or facilities.
WHICH TENT SHOULD I CHOOSE? The best accommodation to choose if you are wanting to spend time fishing here on your holiday are the Yurts and the Bell Tent, as these units have the closest access to the lake and shaped out pegs just a few metres away.
Yurt availability is from Easter to end of October, the Bell Tent is a shorter season from end of May to early September.
PLEASE NOTE: We do not allow any barbed hooks to be used at any time. We must advise that anyone fishing the lakes here has their own equipment and Rod Licence for freshwater fishing in England & Wales.
Historically, the lakes began as gravel deposited by glacial ice sheets during and since the Ice Age. There is a long glacial gravel seam stretching towards Hull from here and previous generations of landowners of this area operated a gravel company; extracting it as a source of aggregate for the production of concrete and mortar used in the construction and road building industry.
Once the gravel mining ceased, these deep ‘quarries’ were filled in the early 1980’s and the lakes and it’s inhabitants have been left to naturalise, unmonitored, ever since.
There are some very large carp in the lakes we know about as a number of fishermen staying on the site in recent years have caught the one they believe to be the biggest, a mirror carp of over 33lbs (pictured).
Other species we know to be thriving here are Tench, Perch, Rudd, Roach, Bream and Pike which have also been caught over the years.
