Fishing Beats on the River Piddle

River Piddle

Briantspuddle Beat

Briantspuddle Beat runs for about 1 mile of the , two miles downstream of Tolpuddle, where the river gathers a little more size. It's a long, attractive beat and a favourite with the regular rods,…

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Throop Beat

Throop Beat lies further down the again, downstream of Briantspuddle, and covers about 1 mile of classic Piddle water: chalk-clear, gravel-bedded, running through the water meadows that line this…

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Tolpuddle Beat

Tolpuddle Beat is one of the smaller of the five Piddle beats on offer, running about two thirds of a mile through the water meadows below Puddletown, on the in . It starts as two separate carriers,…

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Warren Lane Beat 1

Warren Lane Beat 1 is part of the Warren Lane Fishery on the , where the river turns picturesque and properly peaceful, meandering through water meadows in a run of pools and gravelly runs that suit…

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Warren Lane Beat 2

Warren Lane Beat 2 covers the neighbouring stretch of the same fishery, about two thirds of a mile of the where the river meanders through open water meadows, in . Being twice the length of Beat 1…

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Lower Piddle Fishery

Lower Piddle Fishery is a three-rod House ticket on the lower , in , let by , with over a mile of fishing near the tidal end of the river. The Piddle's salmon and sea trout run up from Poole Harbour,…

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Church Pool

Church Pool is one of the two smallest waters at , at a quarter of an acre, and a pool this size asks for the most careful approach of the lot. There's nowhere to hide an ordinary cast here: every…

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Meadow Lake

Meadow Lake is the largest of the five waters at , at two and a half acres, and it fishes accordingly: there's room here to search with a longer line and to cover a rising fish at real distance,…

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School Pool

School Pool is one of the mid-sized waters at , at half an acre: small enough to cover in an afternoon's steady fishing, but with enough room to work a fish carefully once you've found one. It sits…

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The Bowl

The Bowl is one of the two smallest waters at , at a quarter of an acre, and it's a pool for close, deliberate stalking rather than searching blind. At this size you can see most of what's swimming…

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The Oxbow

The Oxbow is one of the mid-sized pools at , at half an acre, matched in size by School Pool but worth fishing in its own right on any visit here. Half an acre still gives a fish somewhere to run…

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Ilsington Park

Ilsington Park sits on the at Puddletown in , part of 's spread of small syndicate waters across the Frome, Piddle and Cerne. It runs about 850 metres along the true right bank of the upper Piddle,…

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2 fisheries on the River Piddle

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Wessex Fly Fishing Trout Lakes

Wessex Fly Fishing Trout Lakes sits in the lush water meadows beside the River Piddle: 5 small, clear stillwaters run for stocked rainbow trout rather than the wild fishing found on the river itself.…

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