Darwen Lake, Rothwell

4.5-acre lake with 80 swims available.

Darryl or Wendy Pestel, Slade Valley House, Orton Road, Rothwell, Northants, NN14 2AA.
Tel. 01536 710442

Season ticket £100, OAPs/juniors £75

Barbel to 4lbs, bream, carp to 26lbs, chub, crucian carp, golden orfe, gudgeon, perch, roach to 2lbs, rudd and tench.

All year fishing.
Fishing allowed from dawn until dusk.
No keepnets. No litter.
Barbless hooks only.

No boilies.
No groundbait.

Three swims available for disabled use.
Car parking and toilets on site.

Daventry Reservoir, Daventry Country Park. Daventry

Northamptonshire County Council controls the fishing on the dam wall and East Bay of this 75-acre reservoir. Depths of around 22ft at the dam wall, shallows at southern end average 8ft.

From j16 M1, take the A45 to Daventry. At the 1st roundabout turn right. Go over next two roundabouts into Northern Way. The fishery is on the right hand side.

Dewi Morris Tel. 01327 877193

Season ticket £21.50, day ticket £4.50.

Bream to 9lbs, carp, crucian carp, perch to 4lbs, pike, roach over 1lb, rudd, and tench to 5lbs.

All year fishing. Fishing is dawn until dusk although night fishing is allowed with written permission. Barbless hooks only. No keepnets.

No livebaits. No chrysodine dyed baits.

Toilets, café at weekends and bank holidays.

Deer Park Nurseries, Crick

Delapre Country Park Lake, Northampton

35 acre gravel pit.

Delapre Country Park Lake can be located from the A45 slip road adjacent to the Marriott Hotel and Delapre Golf Course access road on the outskirts of Northampton.

Chris Berry Tel No. 07974611752

Season ticket £20. Day ticket £3, under-16s free.

Bream to 9lbs, carp to 40lbs, pike to 20lbs, roach, rudd, and tench to 7lbs.

Ditchford Lakes, nr. Rushden

Three lakes.

Mick Mobbs Tel. 07977453848

Syndicate ticket

Bream to 6lbs, carp over 30lbs, perch, pike over 20lbs, roach to 2lbs and tench to 9lbs.

Dingley Lake, Dingley

01536 202900

Drayton Reservoir, Daventry

22-acre canal supply reservoir with 123 pegs and depths to 24ft at the dam wall controlled by British Waterways. Average depth is 7ft.

North of Daventry on the A361 Rugby road.

Mark Ryder, Tel. 07889 532563.

Yellow day ticket [2 rods] £12
Red day ticket [1 rod] £8
Blue day ticket [concessions/evening] £5
Night ticket [2 rods] £25, night fishing is not done on a booking facility unless there are 6 or more anglers.
Pike permits available from 1st October to 31st March.


Carp to 40lbs, perch to 3lbs, pike over 20lbs, roach to 3lbs and tench over 4lbs.

All year fishing, gates open at 6.30am.
Gates are locked each night, bailiff is on 24hr call for emergencies only.
Closing time varies on time of year.
Barbless hooks only.
No fishing from sailing club premises.
Strictly no cans or tins.
Take litter home or use bins provided. 
No spinning.
All fish to be returned to water alive and unharmed, fish welfare is a priority at this water.
Individual unhooking mats must be used, you will not be allowed to fish without one.
No braid on mainline, coated braid on hooklengths only.

If taking photo's, please kneel next to unhooking mats.
Check main notice board for any peg allocations on arrival.

No live or dead coarse baits.
No bloodworm and joker.

No nuts.

Toilets on site at either end of dam wall.

Dunsland Reservoir

Possibly Deer Park Nurseries