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Fishing Dorset

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Places to Fish in your Area

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Amherst Lodge (Uplyme, Dorset) 01297 442773

Bridport Nets (Bridport, Dorset) 01308 420927

Christchurch Harbour (Christchurch, Dorset) 01202 485169

Cranborne Fruit Farm (Alderholt, Cranborne, Dorset) 01425 475155 or 01425 614582

Crooked Willows (Mannington, Dorset) 01202 882240

Dorset Springs Fishery (Sturminster, Dorset) 01258 857653

Dorset Stour (Bound’s Farm, Parley Green, Dorset) 01425 471466

Dorset Stour (Bryanston, Dorset) 01202 427305 or 01425 279710

Dorset Stour (Fiddleford, Dorset) 01963 363291 or 01258 472788

Dorset Stour (Hampreston, Dorset) 01425 471466

Dorset Stour (Highmead, Longham, Dorset) 01425 279710

Dorset Stour (King’s Mill, Stalbridge, Dorset) 01963 363688 or 01963 362291

Dorset Stour (Littledown, Dorset) 01425 471466

Dorset Stour (Muscliffe, Dorset) 01425 461038

Dorset Stour (Throop Fishery, Throop, Dorset) 01425 471466 or 01202 427305 or 01202 485169

Dorset Stour (Wick to Iford, Christchurch, Dorset) 01202 485169 or 01202 733110

Flowers Farm Trout Lakes (Hilfield, Dorset) 01300 341351

Gold Oak Farm (Cranbourne, Dorset) 01725 517275

Grimsbury Bay (Christchurch Harbour, Dorset) 01202 733110

Hampshire Avon, Royalty Fishery (Christchurch, Dorset) 07802 761417 or 01202 485169 or 0802 761417

Hermitage Lakes (Dorchester, Dorset) 01963 210556

Hill View Farm Lake (Corfe, Dorset) 01258 857238

Hyde Lake (Hyde, Dorset) 01929 471402

Lake Farm Fishery (Alderholt, Dorset) 01425 653383

Lakeside (Dorset) 01425 663383

Luckfield Lake (Broadmayne, Dorchester, Dorset) 07589 680464 or 01305 266500

Lyon’s Gate Caravan Park (Cerne Abbas, Dorset) 01300 345260

Lyons Gate (Middlemarsh, Dorset) 01300 345260

Mangerton Valley Course Fishing Lake (Bradpole, Dorset) 01308 458482

Martin's Farm (Woodlands, Dorset) 01202 822335

Moor Valley Country Park (Ashley Heath, Dorset) 01425 470721

Mudeford Wood Lake (Christchurch, Dorset) 01202 485169

Osmington Mills (Weymouth, Dorset) 01305 832311

Pallington Lakes (Tincleton, nr Dorchester, Dorset) 01305 848141 or 01305 848131

Revels (Cosmore, nr Dorchester, Dorset) 01300 345301

River Stour (Iford, Dorset) 01202 395532

Royalty Fishery, Hampshire Avon (Christchurch, Dorset) 07802 761417 or 01202 485169 or 0802 761417

Throop Fisheries (Dorset Stour, Dorset) 01425 471466 or 01202 427305 or 01202 485169

Todber Manor (nr Hazelbury Bryan, Dorset) 01258 820384

Warmwell Leisure Centre (nr Weymouth, Dorset) 01305 852911

Wessex Fly Fishing Trout Lakes (Dorchester, Dorset) 01305 848460

Whirlwind Lake (Dudmoor Lane, Christchurch, Dorset) 01202 485169

Whitemoor Lake (Broom Hill, Wimborne, Dorset) 01202 884478 or 01202 882240

Winkton Fishery, Hampshire Avon (Winkton, nr Christchurch, Dorset) 01202 485169

Woodfarm Caravan Park (Charmouth, Dorset) 01297 560697

LANDING PIKE When it comes to landing pike, a large, knotless landing net with arms of at least 36 inches should be used. Ensure that the mesh of the net is well sunk before drawing the pike over it and lifting the net sufficiently to retain the pike.

Holding the net as shown in the photograph will take the strain from the frame of the net, and allow you to carry net, rod and fish safely together to the prearranged unhooking area. If neccessary, gather up the mesh to raise the pike further from the ground.

If fishing with a friend you can keep the pike in the water in the landing net while they ready the unhooking equipment.

Never lay pike down on hard or rough surfaces, always use an area of soft grass or better still a well padded unhooking mat.

When lure fishing many experienced pike anglers prefer to land their pike by hand. This is a method best used on small fish, and only when hooks are clearly visible and avoided. At all other times a net is to be prefered.

Fishing Dorset

Freshwater Fishing - Trout Secrets

What is the key to landing big fish?
Palmerton: Move with the fish. If the fish is hot and you have a light tippet, stay even with him in the river. If you stand like a statue, you’re done.
Gunn: Don’t rush to get a fish on the reel, because any fish that you want on the reel is going to get there on its own. Control its head by getting it above the water.
Whitley: At the end, lower the rod tip to the water, at a 90-degree angle to the fish. When the fly line is at the end of the rod, rotate the tip upward, and lift the fish’s head.

Fishing Dorset

Humminbird piranha fishfinder max 20

Built for maximum performance, the Piranha Max20 fish-finder offers 60 degree dual beam sonar with a wide 60 degree beam for fish identification and a precise 20 degree beam for better bottom detail.

You can clearly see fish from the wide beam as hollow symbols, and fish below your boat as solid symbols.

The high resolution 240v x 160h display with 4 level clear edge Grayscale shows sharper images of the bottom, fish and underwater structures.

This fish finder has a built in swivel mount to enable you to view the images from anywhere on the boat.

Using the water temperature included enables you to locate the preferred fish holding areas.

The one-touch fishfinder design makes the Piranha simple to use so you can have great fun and results with the minimum of hassle.

Fishing Dorset

Abbott Street-Dorset (near Wimborne)

Alton Pancras-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Ansty Cross-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Ashley Heath-Dorset (near Ringwood)

Beer Hackett-Dorset (near Yeovil)

Belchalwell Street-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Bere Regis-Dorset (near Wareham)

Bingham's Melcombe-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Birch Close-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Bishop's Caundle-Dorset (near Stalbridge)

Blandford Camp-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Blandford Forum-Dorset Blandford St Mary-Dorset

Blandford St Mary-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Bovington Camp-Dorset (near Wareham)

Boys Hill-Dorset (near Sherborne)

Bradford Abbas-Dorset (near Yeovil)

Bradford Peverell-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Branksome Park-Dorset (near Bournemouth)

Buckland Newton-Dorset (near Sherborne)

Buckland Ripers-Dorset (near Weymouth)

Burton Bradstock-Dorset (near Bridport)

Canford Bottom-Dorset (near Wimborne)

Canford Cliffs-Dorset (near Bournemouth)

Canford Magna-Dorset (near Wimborne)

Catherston Leweston-Dorset (near Lyme Regis)

Cattistock-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Caundle Marsh-Dorset (near Sherborne)

Cerne Abbas-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Charlton Marshall-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Charlton on the Hill-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Child Okeford-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Church Knowle-Dorset (near Wareham)

Coles Cross-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Combe Almer-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

Compton Abbas-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Compton Valence-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Coombe Keynes-Dorset (near Wareham)

Corfe Castle-Dorset (near Wareham)

Corfe Mullen-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

Crab Orchard-Dorset (near Verwood)

Crouch Hill-Dorset (near Stalbridge)

Dean End-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Dorset-Gloucestershire (near Tewkesbury)

Drive End-Dorset (near Yeovil)

East Bexington-Dorset (near Bridport)

East Burton-Dorset (near Wareham)

East Chaldon-Dorset (near Weymouth)

East Chelborough-Dorset (near Beaminster)

East Creech-Dorset (near Wareham)

East End-Dorset (near Wimborne)

East Holme-Dorset (near Wareham)

East Knighton-Dorset (near Wareham)

East Lulworth-Dorset (near Wareham)

East Melbury-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

East Morden-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

East Orchard-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

East Pulham-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

East Stoke-Dorset (near Wareham)

East Stour-Dorset (near Gillingham)

Enmore Green-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Fifehead Magdalen-Dorset (near Gillingham)

Fifehead Neville-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Fifehead St Quinton-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Fontmell Magna-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Fontmell Parva-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Forde Abbey-Dorset (near Chard)

Fordingbridge-Hampshire (near Verwood)

Friar Waddon-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Frome St Quintin-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Frome Vauchurch-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Frome Whitfield-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Gaunt's Common-Dorset (near Wimborne)

Giddy Green-Dorset (near Wareham)

Glanvilles Wootton-Dorset (near Sherborne)

Gold Hill-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Grange Gate-Dorset (near Wareham)

Gussage St Andrew-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Gussage St Michael-Dorset (near Verwood)

Guy's Marsh-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Ham Common-Dorset (near Gillingham)

Harman's Cross-Dorset (near Swanage)

Hazelbury Bryan-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Highcliffe on Sea-Dorset (near New Milton)

Higher Ansty-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Higher Bockhampton-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Higher Coombe-Dorset (near Bridport)

Higher Halstock Leigh-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Higher Nyland-Dorset (near Stalbridge)

Higher Whatcombe-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Hinton Martell-Dorset (near Wimborne)

Holdenhurst Village-Dorset (near Christchurch)

Holt Heath-Dorset (near Ferndown)

Holton Heath-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

Horn Ash-Dorset (near Crewkerne)

Ivy Cross-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Iwerne Courtney-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Iwerne Minster-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Kingston Lacy-Dorset (near Wimborne)

Kingston Maurward-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Kingston Russell-Dorset (near Bridport)

Knap Corner-Dorset (near Gillingham)

Langton Herring-Dorset (near Weymouth)

Langton Long-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Langton Matravers-Dorset (near Swanage)

Leigh Common-Dorset (near Gillingham)

Little Bredy-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Litton Cheney-Dorset (near Bridport)

Long Bredy-Dorset (near Bridport)

Lower Ansty-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Lower Barnsley-Dorset (near Wimborne)

Lower Bincombe-Dorset (near Weymouth)

Lower Blandford St Mary-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Lower Bockhampton-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Lower Coombes-Dorset (near Chard)

Lower Halstock Leigh-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Lower Hamworthy-Dorset (near Poole)

Lower Holditch-Dorset (near Axminster)

Lower Kingcombe-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Lower Nyland-Dorset (near Stalbridge)

Lower Street-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Lower Waterston-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Lower Whatcombe-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Lower Woodbury-Dorset (near Wareham)

Lower Wraxall-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Lulworth Camp-Dorset (near Wareham)

Lyme Regis-Dorset Lyon's Gate-Dorset

Lyon's Gate-Dorset (near Sherborne)

Lytchett Heath-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

Lytchett Matravers-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

Lytchett Minster-Dorset Maiden Newton-Dorset

Maiden Newton-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Margaret Marsh-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Melbury Abbas-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Melbury Bubb-Dorset (near Yeovil)

Melbury Osmond-Dorset (near Yeovil)

Melbury Sampford-Dorset (near Yeovil)

Melcombe Bingham-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Melcombe Horsey-Dorset (near Weymouth)

Milborne St Andrew-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Milborne Wood-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Milton Abbas-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Minterne Magna-Dorset (near Sherborne)

Minterne Parva-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Moigne Combe-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Monkton Up Wimborne-Dorset (near Verwood)

Monkton Wyld-Dorset (near Lyme Regis)

Morden Park Corner-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

Nether Cerne-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Nether Compton-Dorset (near Sherborne)

New Town (Farnham)-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

New Town (Moor Crichel)-Dorset (near Wimborne)

North Bowood-Dorset (near Beaminster)

North Chideock-Dorset (near Bridport)

North End-Dorset (near Gillingham)

North Poorton-Dorset (near Beaminster)

North Wootton-Dorset (near Sherborne)

Okeford Fitzpaine-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Osmington Mills-Dorset (near Weymouth)

Over Compton-Dorset (near Yeovil)

Pallington Heath-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Penselwood-Somerset (near Gillingham)

Pig Oak-Dorset (near Wimborne)

Post Green-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

Purse Caundle-Dorset (near Stalbridge)

Queen Oak-Dorset (near Gillingham)

Rampisham Down-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Ryme Intrinseca-Dorset (near Yeovil)

Salway Ash-Dorset (near Bridport)

Sandford Orcas-Dorset (near Sherborne)

Shave Cross-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Sherborne Causeway-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Shipton Gorge-Dorset (near Bridport)

Sixpenny Handley-Dorset (near Verwood)

South Bowood-Dorset (near Beaminster)

South Perrott-Dorset (near Crewkerne)

South Poorton-Dorset (near Beaminster)

St Andrews Well-Dorset (near Bridport)

St Ives-Dorset (near Ringwood)

Stalbridge Weston-Dorset (near Stalbridge)

Stoborough Green-Dorset (near Wareham)

Stoke Abbott-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Stoke Wake-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Stour Provost-Dorset (near Gillingham)

Stour Row-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Stourton Caundle-Dorset (near Stalbridge)

Sturminster Common-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

Sturminster Marshall-Dorset (near Wimborne)

Sturminster Newton-Dorset Sutton Poyntz-Dorset

Sutton Poyntz-Dorset (near Weymouth)

Sutton Waldron-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Sydling St Nicholas-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Tarrant Gunville-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Tarrant Hinton-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Tarrant Keynston-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Tarrant Launceston-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Tarrant Monkton-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Tarrant Rawston-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Tarrant Rushton-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Three Legged Cross-Dorset (near Verwood)

Tollard Farnham-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

Toller Fratrum-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Toller Porcorum-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Toller Whelme-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Trickett's Cross-Dorset (near Ferndown)

Up Cerne-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Up Sydling-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Walton Elm-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

West Bay-Dorset (near Bridport)

West Bexington-Dorset (near Bridport)

West Bourton-Dorset (near Gillingham)

West Chaldon-Dorset (near Weymouth)

West Chelborough-Dorset (near Beaminster)

West Compton-Dorset (near Bridport)

West Fossil-Dorset (near Dorchester)

West Holme-Dorset (near Wareham)

West Knighton-Dorset (near Dorchester)

West Lulworth-Dorset (near Wareham)

West Melbury-Dorset (near Shaftesbury)

West Milton-Dorset (near Bridport)

West Moors-Dorset (near Ferndown)

West Morden-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

West Orchard-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

West Parley-Dorset (near Ferndown)

West Pulham-Dorset (near Sturminster Newton)

West Stour-Dorset (near Gillingham)

Westbourne-Dorset (near Bournemouth)

Whitchurch Canonicorum-Dorset (near Lyme Regis)

White Lackington-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Wimborne Minster-Dorset (near Wimborne)

Wimborne St Giles-Dorset (near Verwood)

Wimborne-Dorset Wimborne Minster-Dorset

Winfrith Newburgh-Dorset (near Wareham)

Winterborne Came-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Winterborne Clenston-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Winterborne Herringston-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Winterborne Houghton-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Winterborne Kingston-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Winterborne Monkton-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Winterborne Muston-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Winterborne Stickland-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Winterborne Tomson-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

Winterborne Whitechurch-Dorset (near Blandford Forum)

Winterborne Zelston-Dorset (near Lytchett Minster)

Winterbourne Abbas-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Winterbourne Steepleton-Dorset (near Dorchester)

Wootton Fitzpaine-Dorset (near Lyme Regis)

Worth Matravers-Dorset (near Swanage)

Wyke Regis-Dorset (near Weymouth)

Wynford Eagle-Dorset (near Beaminster)

Fishing Dorset

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