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Fishery Name: Ardingly Fishery

Address: The Lodge, Ardingly Reservoir, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH17 6SQ

Entrance Grid Ref. TQ 33737 28466 Car Park Grid Ref: TQ 33487 28696

Sat Nav: RH17 6SQ

Phone Numbers: 01444 892549

Email Address: [email protected]

Description: At Ardingly we offer a wide range of Fishing options including Pike, Carp, Tench and Coarse Fishing as well as offering a Day ticket water. Ardingly Reservoir is a 198 acre drinking supply reservoir. It was finished and filled in 1978, run as a trout fishery for the first 10 years and as a coarse water since. Ardingly has always been well known for its pike fishing and people don't realised how good the coarse fishing is until they try it for themselves. Being a large water people can be put off and think it is a hard water. This could not be further from the truth and everyone from the most basic of beginners to the best of match anglers will soon be catching. If you do find the main area of the reservoir a bit daunting then the Balcombe Arm with a maximum width of 95 metres can be an excellent area to start your fishing. So whatever sort of fishing you are looking for, be it for pleasure, match or specimen you really should give it a go.Species present: Roach, Rudd, Carp, Tench, Bream, Pike, Eels, Gudgeon and Perch.

Fish Species: Barbel Bitterling Bleak Bream Common Bream Silver Bullhead Carp Common Carp Crucian Carp F1 Carp Carp Ghost Carp Grass Carp Leather Carp Koi Carp Mirror Catfish Wels Chub Crayfish Dace Eel Goldfish Goldfish Brown Grayling Gudgeon Minnow Orfe/Ide Blue Orfe/Ide Golden Orfe/Ide Silver Perch Pike Pumpkin seed Roach Rudd Rudd Golden Ruffe Schelly Stickle back Stone Loach Sturgeon Tench Tench Golden Walleye Zander

Rules: Day Ticket Dates: 1 June - 31 May Prices: In advance £12 (concessions OAP state pension age, and disabled) £6.00 On bank £15 Day ticket fishing is available from 0700 until 1900 (dawn to dusk winter). Tickets are purchased from the lodge (call 01444 892549 for card payments) before fishing. Day Tickets £12.00 obtained before fishing £15.00 on the Bank Season Ticket: Fishermen Renewing a present in date season ticket. Coarse fishing Season Ticket 0700 to 2000, or dawn to dusk winter, no Night Fishing. Dates: 16 June 2022 - 31 May 2023 Cost: Adult £139.00 (members Renewing) £149 New Members / Concessions ( OAP, Disabled £109.00 Coarse and Pike fishing with Night Fishing Dates: 16th June - 31 May coarse fishing Dates: 1st Oct - 30th April pike fishing Cost: Adult £215 Members renewing, £315New Members / Concessions £155.00, NO juniors. Coarse: 01. No litter, discarded line, tin cans, lead shot. No tents, no fires, including barbecues. 02. No pike fishing of any kind on this day ticket including spinning. 03. No fishing from the Balcombe Estate bank, dam wall or causeway wall. 04. Keep nets can be used, they must be at least 8 feet long and staked out in deep water. 05. No carp or pike in keep nets. 06. All fish must be returned to the water alive and undamaged. 07. Valid rod licences must be held for all rods used. 08. No night fishing Except Season Ticket holders who have completed a night fishing form. 09. No bait boats south of Digby's bench. 10. All anglers must give due consideration to other anglers and water users when setting up their rods and be reasonable about the size of swim / water area they are using. Pike: 01. All anglers fishing for pike at this venue must be experienced pike fishermen. 02. All anglers must have with them a large unhooking mat, forceps, wire cutters, large landing net of at least 36 inches. 03. All paternoster baits must be fished with an up trace twice as long as the bait trace. 04. Minimum line strength 15lb but braid of 20lb+ is recommended. 05. Maximum of 4 rods to be used and never left unattended. 06. All anglers must have good bite indication, either surface floats or visible drop off. 07. All hooks must be semi-barbed. 08. When boat fishing no ledgering is allowed, every rod must be fished with surface floats. 09. A carp sack or pike tube is advised to either retain a fish for photographing or if unhooking is a problem and help is needed. 10. No course fishing on this ticket. 11. No livebaits. 12. No night fishing Except Season Ticket holders who have completed a night fishing form. 13. No fishing from the Balcombe Estate bank, dam wall or causeway wall. 14. No bait boats south of Digby's bench. 15. All anglers must give due consideration to other anglers and water users when setting up their rods and be reasonable about the size of swim / water area they are using.

Facilities: Car park