Dorchester Fishing Club
Membership: price on application. It holds 12 miles of water across 1 stretch.
About Dorchester Fishing Club
Dorchester Fishing Club traces its roots to 1845, when the Dorchester Angling Club first took rods on the River Frome. The present club was established on 6 April 1877, with water leased from the Duchy of Cornwall and Captain Arthur Mansel as its first Honorary Secretary. G.S. Marryat joined in 1879 and began experimenting with artificial nymphs on this stretch of the Frome. The club built its own fish-rearing tank in 1888 and took on further water through the twentieth century, including a substantial bequest of double-bank fishing in 1987.
Today it holds around twelve miles of wild fishing across the Frome, the River Cerne and the River Piddle, together with the carriers and side streams that run alongside them, extending both above and below Dorchester. None of it is stocked. The trout season runs 1 April to 14 October, with grayling and pike from 15 October to the end of February. Fishing is by single upstream dry fly or nymph, and dogs are not allowed along the bank.
A limited number of day tickets are sold each season, and they cover the club’s Frome beats and their side streams only. The Cerne and Piddle water is for members and their guests. Tickets are sold on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and bank holidays within the trout season, capped at 45 for the year and two a day, with none at all during the mayfly period from 16 May to 15 June. A day costs £70, or £140 for three days.
How fishing here works
Membership is capped. New members join a queue, which can run to several years depending on the club.
Non-members can buy a ticket for a single day, sold alongside membership.
A member can bring a guest fishing, usually capped at a set number of days a season.
Membership and waiting list
Membership
Membership: price on application
12 miles of water controlled
Waiting list
Membership runs by a closed waiting list. No membership fee is published, so the club is the place to ask.
Water Dorchester Fishing Club controls
1 stretch
Contact
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