Fishing at Endsleigh Beats
1 to 5 General Rules
Tracks
Please keep your car to the riverside tracks and shut all gates you open. Please do not drive vehicles across fields. Avoid low slung vehicles. Use a 4 x 4 if you can.
Dogs
Keep your dogs (which are welcome) under effective control. On all beats there may be sheep or cows in the fields in which case control is likely to mean keeping them on a lead or in a well ventilated car.
Fishing Methods
Almost all fish are caught on a fly. Worming and use of prawns is not permitted. Spinning is very occasionally permitted if the river is unusualy high and with little visability. Permission to spin must always be obtained from our ghillie, John Dennis first. Treble hooks are not permitted with any method. Until 16th June anglers are requested to use single hooks and/or to crimp the barbs.
Trout Fishing
Anyone who has paid for a salmon rod can fish for Brown Trout. The children of salmon anglers can also fish for trout except in the salmon pools and on Beat 6. Please return small brown trout with care because they may be the sea trout of the future. Trout fishers should avoid the salmon pools.
Sea Trout Fishing
The Club is fortunate to have the possiblity to catch sea-trout on the Tamar during the day and especially in the evening before it gets completely dark. Night time sea trout fishing can be dangerous. It should not be attempted by the inexperienced unless accompanied by someone with experience of night fishing who knows the river.
Everyone should take the following precautions:
– During the day visit the pools intended to be fished and note the positions of steps, croys, rocks and other hazards.
– Follow the warnings about wading to be found on the Safety Notice on the Club Safety page.
– Ensure that you have advised our Ghillie, John Dennis where and when you will be fishing.
– It is obviously more dangerous to fish alone, but if you choose to do so, make sure someone knows where you are and when you expect to return.
Sharing a Beat
If you are sharing a beat with someone you do not know, introduce yourself before you start. Many people find it convenient for one to start at the top of the beat and the other at the bottom. The next day the starting points are reversed.
Safety
See again the notice on the Club Safety section, particularly about wading, which can be dangerous.
Boats
There are boats at Woodtown, Parsons and Leighwood Waterfall. If you are new to Endsleigh, speak to our Ghillie, John Dennis before using them. The boats are padlocked to a stake. There is a combination padlock at Woodtown. The other padlocks have keys which can be obtained from John and must be returned afterwards. The oars are sometimes kept in the rod room and sometimes hidden close to the boat.
Beat 6
If you are new to Endsleigh, again, please speak to John Dennis before going to Beat 6.
Licences to Fish
It is essential that all persons fishing be in possession of the appropriate Environment Agency licence. It is up to the individual to make enquires for a licence online or at a local post office.
Reporting of incidents /poaching
Should you come across anything that is out of the ordinary, please inform our ghillie or phone the Environment Agency on 0800 807060 as soon as possible. Your Information may be vital, no matter how trivial it may seem at the time.
Catch and Release
In order to conserve Salmon stocks, a National Byelaw, introduced in 1999, makes it an offence to kill any Salmon during the early part of the fishing season 1st March — 15th June (inclusive).
All Salmon caught during this period must be returned.
In addition, Endsleigh now requires all salmon and any sea trout of 3lb or more, to be returned.
This is with the following limited exception, namely that any such fish caught after June 16th may be killed if it is bleeding profusely such that it is very unlikely to survive release.
Finally, the use of knotless meshed nets is required at all times and for all species of fish. The use of knotted mesh nets is now an offence.
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