RATHERHEATH TARN

Tickets: Sold by us for WADAA or at Plantation Bridge Filling Station.

Directions: Take the A591 Kendal to Windermere road. Cross the roundabout and in ½ mile you enter a dual carriageway. Turn left off this onto Ratherheath Lane and the fishery is a couple of hundred yards down on the right with a car park on the left.

Species include good Carp to 20lbs, Roach, Rudd, Tench, Chub, Gudgeon and Bream and the odd Brown Trout. This water is often coloured and fishes well then, as it is very shallow at about 4' average and is about 5 acres and surrounded by trees so it is generally fishable in the worst weather because of the shelter.

This lake has pegs marked out and most have fishing platforms including one for disabled anglers at the gate next to the car park. Fish fine and well and at a good distance out to be consistent and good baits are red maggots, casters, worm, sweetcorn, worms and bread.

For Carp and some of the bigger Tench boilies are excellent and anglers also seem to have become preoccupied on Trout pellets which also work well.

Waggler float fishing, ledgering or pole fishing all produce and if there is colour in the water, which is often, then you can fish much closer in.

If fishing for Carp then be sensible. Use Carp tackle with suitable rods and reels as they are often taken very close to branches, lilies etc and lots of anglers have fished with totally unsuitable tackle such as 13' match rod combined with 12-15lb line and when the fish has taken and tried to get into the structure they have held on tight and inevitably have broken their rods. You have been warned!!

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