Welcome to Seven Lakes Fishery

Pat Clare (Head Bailiff)

Scott Fell

Ryan Hicks

Pete Mccullagh

Jeremy Spicer-Martinez

Jamie Metcalf

James Griffin

Dave Tonkings

Brian Lanley-Smith

Seven Lakes Fishery is situated within Paices Wood Country Parkland.

With ample Car Parking facilities – The Main Car Park is situated between Lakes 6 & 7 whilst the Top Car Park allows better access to Lakes 1-4.

Gates to the Country Parkland are opened and closed by a local security company that patrol the Park to ensure that everyone is out before locking them at night.

We are members of the Angling Trust, supporting their work in promoting angling for all and taking action to protect fish stocks and fishing. Are you a member of the Angling Trust? Show your Angling Trust membership card and get 10% off your day ticket.

The Angling Trust is the representative body for game, coarse and sea anglers in England. Our members support the campaigns and legal action we carry out to protect fish stocks and our programmes to increase the number of anglers fishing for fun and in competitions. We’re fighting for the future of YOUR fishing, but we need YOUR support to do more. If you want to protect your fish and fishing, for now and in future, join your representative body today.

Young Estates & Land Ltd bought, what is now Youngs Industrial Estate and Paices Wood Country Parkland, back in 1961 from Turner & Hunter, a timber company.

The land was bought for gravel extraction and the seven lakes were formed from a stream running through the valley to supply water to the processing plant, where the gravel was washed.

Silt from the gravel washing process was left to settle in a series of silt ponds which were later filled in and transformed into the main car park.

In the late 1970’s gravel extraction ceased and in the 1980’s the lakes were let to Leisure Sport Angling (latterly Cemex Angling) who stocked the lakes and then fished them until 1996.

Seven Lakes Angling was then started by Youngs to take over the running and management of the lakes. Unfortunately, access to the lakes was restricted in 2000, when the addition of electric gates for Youngs Industrial Estate prevented access to the lakes outside normal working hours.

Youngs campaigned tirelessly for a dedicated entrance and were finally granted planning permission in 2010. The new entrance to Paices Wood Country Parkland opened in 2011 giving access to the lakes 7 days a week.

Improvements and additional stocks have been ongoing since 2011, but in 2017 the lakes were drained, de-snagged, banks repaired and marginal planting added, to compliment new stocks being introduced, including Tench and Crucian Carp.

Seven Lakes Fishery are committed to continually improving and developing the lakes and their facilities and welcome any feedback or comments.

What are the rules of the lakes?

We try not to have too many rules, with most being simply common sense, but some people do take liberties so we obviously have to cover ourselves. Please check the rules of the venue before visiting, on our website HERE

Our top tip for fishing at Seven Lakes Fishery – “Keep it simple”…TIGHT LINES.

What is #sevenlakescatch we hear you ask? We are launching our new hashtag this year to document all social media content. Should you wish to post social media content of your experience at Seven Lakes, feel free to tag it with ‘#sevenlakescatch’ and we will document your content in various locations across our network.