Fishing

Overview

With twelve lakes, two rivers and the Grand Union canal next door, Cosgrove Park has something for every angler interested in coarse fishing. Even a tackle shop on site located in our Lakeside Store.

Our lakes are stocked with carp to 29lb, bream to 11lb, roach & rudd to 2lb, tench to 10lb, perch to over 4lb and also hold pike to just under 35lb.

The River Gt Ouse and the River Tove both have excellent stocks of chub to over 7lb, roach & dace and also feature the occasional river carp and some superb pike & perch. 

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Lakeside/Riverside Plots

Our static holiday homes and touring caravan pitches are available on lakeside and riverside pitches.

Owning a holiday home at Cosgrove Park entitles you to fish our lakes all year round, and fish our two rivers during the coarse season.

With a private fishing swim and all the comforts of home...what more do you need?

Fishing Matches

All matches have a limited number of pegs available. Anglers must book their place and pay the respective entrance fee in the Main Office between 9am and 6pm. Space in each match is offered on a first come first served basis and may be booked up to three weeks before the match date.

2010 Match Dates

Full details will follow but here are the dates of the forthcoming matches for the 2010 season

Saturday 10th April AM

Saturday 8th May AM

Friday 21st May PM

Saturday 5th June AM

Saturday 26th June AM

Saturday 10th July AM

Saturday 31st July AM

Saturday 14th August AM

Saturday 4th September AM

Saturday 25th September AM

Saturday 16th October AM

AM Draw 7.30am Fish 8.30am - 1.30pm

PM Draw 5.30pm Fish 6.00pm - 9.30pm

Restocking

2009

April 24th, we have just taken delivery of over 1,500lbs of Common & Mirror Carp from Sport & Leisure Fisheries. All of the fish have never been fished for and have been introduced to the Residents Lake, both Fountain View Lakes, Heronsfield Lake, Lily, Grebe (formerly Doughnut), Mallard (formerly Football) and Teal (formerly Snake) Lakes.

Prior to the park opening we also stocked just over 300lbs of 2-4lb Common/Mirror Carp along with around 3000 roach this winter.

2008

March 26 2008: Today we had expected delivery of around 100 Common Carp in the 4lb - 8lb bracket, unfortunately the suppliers had only managed to net 31 from the donor water. But these fish averaged 6.5lb and we put 15 into Fountain View 1 and 16 into Fountain View 2. We have Environment Agency permission to stock the additional fish and will be sourcing some similar sized clean, health checked fish over the next week or so.

In the photo gallery below you can see the size and quality of the Commons. as you can see we dragged Gary away from some work to help us with the fish - although he didn't take much persuasion!

March 12 2008: So far 10,000 roach have been evenly distributed amongst the back four lakes which should help with some of the match weights during the forthcoming season.

2007

During end of March 2007, just under 50,000 stock fish were introduced to supplement the existing fish stocks. Click HERE for update

This coincided with the start of our new fishery evaluation strategy which will briefly comprise of the following:

• anglers will be asked to provide detailed feedback on their catches including photographs of specimen fish
• water samples will be taken to determine oxygen levels & composition
• weed growth will be monitored
• where viable, representative sample netting to assess stocks

The results of this ongoing strategy will form the basis of future stocking programs as our aim is to deliver the best possible mixed coarse fishery that we can and build upon the natural resources that we have available to us.

Juniors: Introduction to fishing lessons

Our two hour introduction to fishing lessons for children on site proved to be so popular during the last two years that we are pleased to announce that we shall be running them again this year.

All necessary equipment and bait is provided by the Park.

The lessons are free, but must be pre-booked in the Main Office.

Each lesson will last for two hours and we can accommodate four children on each lesson. Parents/Guardians are required to stay for the duration of the lesson for children aged 10 and under.

The lessons will be held every Tuesday throughout the childrens summer holidays. Session times 9.00am - 11am / 11.30am - 1.30pm / 3.00pm - 5.00pm

Book your space in the Main Office - please note there are only four places per session, so don't delay book as soon as possible.

Children aged 10 and under need to be accompanied by a responsible person.

Photo Gallery

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2009 Gallery - Caught since March 2009

2008 Gallery - Caught since March 21st 2008

2007 Gallery - Caught between Apr & Oct 2007

Past Gallery - All caught prior to Nov 1st 2006

Our holiday home and touring caravan owners are welcome to submit photos of their catch from Cosgrove Park via email