Youldon Waters Coarse Fishery

Youldon Waters Coarse Fishery Youldon Waters is probably the best Crucian/Tench fishery in the Southwest. The first peg is wheelchair accessible. Excellent summer and winter fishery.

is primarily a stunning wildlife site and the two 1 acre lakes form part of the habitat. Fishing is restricted to 2 banks on each lake and numbers of anglers strictly limited to prevent overfishing. The carp/bream lake is rarely fished and has sensible stock of ghosts, commons and mirrors to 23lb and bream to 7lb. The mixed lake holds no carp, but has a good head of tench to 5½lb, crucians to 2½lb+, roach to 2lb6oz, rudd to 2lb+ and perch to 3lb14oz. This lake is ideal for the match or pleasure angler with fishing only from the clearly marked swims. Please contact Mick for more information

Ok, not one of mine. Well not the fish, but our Russell's 65 from his current French trip.
17/09/2026

Ok, not one of mine. Well not the fish, but our Russell's 65 from his current French trip.

The Crucians are being caught more regularly now, along with a few tench, most recently Phil, Ade and Bude Pete. I manag...
14/09/2026

The Crucians are being caught more regularly now, along with a few tench, most recently Phil, Ade and Bude Pete. I managed a quick dangle, after my friend had dropped of his machines, ready for some groundwork tomorrow. A slight slight twist with the cooked grain prep, adding some Natrepel, and the Crucians loved it, corn on the hook. I'd guess garlic oil would do the same.
The bottom lake continues to produce great catches of bream, a few tench and, not to miss a meal, the carp. I've had three accidental captures, including two of the biggest mirrors, both nudging towards twenty.

Although I've had little opportunity to fish myself, the Lakes have fished well, even with lower water levels. The top l...
08/09/2026

Although I've had little opportunity to fish myself, the Lakes have fished well, even with lower water levels. The top lake is producing lots of skimmers, roach, crucians and tench, although you need to persist with feeding to force the better stamp fish to push the small silvers out.
The bottom lake continues to reward the right approach with plenty of bream, tench and carp.
Our annual visit from Simons group yesterday, resulted in some decent bream and a 20lb ghost for Simon.
Today, big Mike also had his first holiday session of the year. Again, some bream showed up, although not in the usual numbers, perhaps the weather change. Also a nice double mirror. And before he left, I joined him on the next swim, for a change of bait, to corn, which seemed to do something, as the carp came straight to it. Although not without incident, one snagged and two hook pulls (probably foul hooked) I did have three stunning Commons, two mid to upper doubles and a possible 20. Then the bream showed.

It's been a busy week, preparing for a new borehole, that's now drilled. 250ft down to an untapped supply, that will sec...
08/09/2026

It's been a busy week, preparing for a new borehole, that's now drilled. 250ft down to an untapped supply, that will secure the fisherys water supply for ourselves and a future buyer. Pumping kit being installed tomorrow, then we test water and pump.

27/08/2026

Had it all to myself today, but only managed an hour, in and around the rain. So, after being beaten up by the carp a couple of times, I changed to a more selective bait and feeding method. Fishing closer in, where I could reach with my cupping kit, I sneaked a small pot of h**p and casters, then lowered a pole float from the wag rod with double caster on a 16 barbless acolyte silvers hook. As hoped, with the stealthy feeding, no carp or bream noticed, and my first four fish were tench. It didn't last, after the four feeds, the bream turned up, and it was one a b**g. I'm sure that had I been doing a longer session, I could have started another line 4 or 5m away and repeated the process. I may try that another time, but I don't mind catching bream, and there's always the chance of finding the elusive crucians or perch.

Another nice day on the top lake, this time it was Paul and Den catching lots of silvers and crucians on a variety of ba...
26/08/2026

Another nice day on the top lake, this time it was Paul and Den catching lots of silvers and crucians on a variety of baits. Great to see them feeding properly, after a slow start to the season. It's been apparent that many of the stillwaters, I follow on the match channels, have fished oddly this year. I share the view that much of it is due to the change in climate and low water levels, causing multiple spawning events. This has been occurring each year, for the last 4 or 5 and has resulted in abnormally high numbers of small fish. The lower Lake hasn't been affected in the same way. The bigger species, particularly the carp, bream and predators, have controlled the fry population and the fishing has mostly been excellent throughout the whole of the year.
To finish, I've continued to refine my tactics with the chickpeas over my feed mix in a new swim. This time I've stiffened up the mix with the liquor from the chickpeas, and it's made a noticeable improvement. Putting in a walnut sized ball every cast has brought a bite a chuck. Not particularly my intended target, but almost all carp, including perhaps the fastest growing of the bigger Commons, looking to surpass the humpbacks. Five landed, but three bumped and one hook straightened. Enjoyable none the less. The photo of the biggest doesn't do it justice, the downward angle doesn't show the depth of it's body, making it appear longer. But I wasn't going to stand with it, and my photographer couldn't squat down with her new bionic knee, or lean over after her cataract op yesterday. Did well though.

24/08/2026

A short report from Mike's visit yesterday.
"A good result mick.
No tench for me on the mixed lake, but crucian, roach and skimmers all taking 6mm punched meat or sweetcorn. A switch to 8mm meat brought 3 lovely roach of around 3/4lb to 1lb to the net."

Back on the lower lake this evening, with a waggler rig on a 2lb tc carp rod, 10lb main and 14 wide gape to 7lb hook len...
23/08/2026

Back on the lower lake this evening, with a waggler rig on a 2lb tc carp rod, 10lb main and 14 wide gape to 7lb hook length. Bait was chickpeas again, over my wheat/maize feed with some ground bait to bind it and, hopefully, get it down to the bottom. A slight mistake, in the choice of GB, had the feed breaking up too soon, resulting in liners and foul hookers. Following a couple of bumped carp, I overwetted the feed, to put that right, and problem resolved. First up were a couple of tench, then a very colourful ghost, and a run of half a dozen bream.

Haven't posted for while, what with being busy with visiting family, and limiting angling, due to weather conditions, re...
23/08/2026

Haven't posted for while, what with being busy with visiting family, and limiting angling, due to weather conditions, repeat spawnings and low water levels. Even my own sessions have been fewer 🤥Those who have fished, have caught well on both lake, although bait choice and feeding have been crucial, to get passed the smaller silvers.
Ex match angler John, showed the importance of doing your own thing, with a fantastic catch of crucians and roach on bread punch. Usually a winter bait, but what do I know? I've had some success with wheat and elderberry over h**p for all the species up top. The carp have been very active, although bait selection has been an issue for some. I've had lots of action from the bream, tench and carp on chickpeas over my wheat/maize feed.
Some feedback
Dick on the bottom lake
Final tally was 2 carp, 3 tench and quite a lot of bream. Dan had 4 bream and a chunky, deep bodied common of about 10 pounds.
Alan and Dave on top lake
I had a couple of crucians on prawns by the right hand reeds and in the end it was roach a chuck out in front on h**p & tares, nothing of any size. Dave had 3 tench to 1 1/2 lb , a mixed bag crucians, skimmers, perch, then finished off with a nice roach
Young Mike on the bottom lake
Hi mate yeah sorry totally forgot I didn't take to many photos this time but I had 8 or 9
And a few pics

A couple of visits by Richard this week, and with a successful outcome and interesting report."Hi Mick,thanks for today ...
26/07/2026

A couple of visits by Richard this week, and with a successful outcome and interesting report.
"Hi Mick,
thanks for today and although we had a chat I thought I'd send you a report for the page. I enjoy reading other people's tales so thought others might enjoy mine, especially as I actually had a good day.
Carp lake Peg 1. Started fishing both margins with plastic sweetcorn-both yellow and pink but apart from a few knocks and liners there was nothing doing. There was a lot of activity in the lily beds next to the island so I put on a bubble float with bread crust. It took a while but I got a 12lb Common. A bit later, still persevering with the bread I had a huge take from a really big fish-yet another common. It took a bit of landing but once in the cradle I could see just how big it was. Set up my digital weighing scales but the display came up EEEE. I thought at first the batteries needed changing which I did but to no avail. It turned out that the EEEE code was an error code because the fish was too heavy and exceeding the limit for the scales which was 22lb. At one point it did briefly flash up 27lb but I can't say if this was accurate. Anyway it was a PB for me topping off yet another great day at Youldon. Thanks Mick"
Four more for Bude Pete, although there were some focus issues with the pics, not sure if they were carp or cod.
My evening session last night was eventful, foul hooking one of the bigger fish in the tail. When id eventually stirred my swim back into action, i had a series of missed sail away bites on a mussel hook baits. Assuming it was skimmers, I switched to half mussels and a small ball of my mussel groundbait, every cast. Surprisingly, this resulted in two of the rarely caught crucians, that were stocked 27 years ago. Note - no hybridization.
Visits from Ade, Paul and Den have produced crucians, roach and a few tench. And for Dick
"Well that was a nice mixed bag: 5 tench, 2 crucians, 3 rudd and 5 skimmers."

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