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Fishing Staffordshire

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There are so many wonderful lakes and rivers to fish in the UK, here at Fishing Heaven we are committed to increasing our local listings of places to fish.  Please come back as we add new rivers, lakes and canals.  If fishing is the love of YOUR life and you would like to share your favourite fishing spots, please email us and give us your views.  Also try our Fishing Holidays and Fishing DVD sections.   Good luck with your fishing.

Places to Fish in your Area

If you know of any good places to fish, rivers, canals, lakes, please let us know.

Amington (Tamworth, Staffordshire) 01827 895144

Anglesey Arm Canal (Brownhills, Staffordshire) 01543 377563

Baden Hall (Eccleshall, Staffordshire) 01785 851495 or 01785 850313

Basford Fishery (Leek, Staffordshire) 01538 360616

Betley Mere (Betley, Staffordshire) 01270 820229

Blithfield Reservoir Trout Fishery (Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire) 01283 840284

Borrowpit Lake (Tamworth, Staffordshire) 01827 66701

Browning Cudmore (Whitmore, Staffordshire) 01782 680919

Catton Park (Alrewas, Staffordshire) 01283 716876 or 0771 3176619

Coventry Canal (Fradley, Staffordshire) 01543 262014

Denston Hall Farm - River Churnet (Uttoxeter, Staffordshire) 01889 590253

Fisherwick Lakes (Whittington, Lichfield, Staffordshire) 01543 433606

Gailey Trout Fishery (Cannock, Staffordshire) 01785 715848

Hamstall Fishery (Handsacre, Staffordshire) 07775 518769 or 01889 504449

Hanchurch Top Pools (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) 01782 642481 or 01782 657434

Hanley Park Lake (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) 01782 202312

Heronbrook Fisheries (Slindon, Staffordshire) 01785 613666

Himley Hall Lakes (Himley, Staffordshire) 01902 324093 or 01902 895057

Holden Lane Pool (Sneyd Green, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) 01782 214840

Izaak Walton Fishery (Chebsey, Staffordshire) 01785 761535

Kingsnordley Fisheries (Six Ashes, Staffordshire) 01746 781215

Lawton Hall Pool (Church Lawton, Staffordshire) 01782 715155

Loynton Trout Fisheries (Loynton, Staffordshire) 01785 284261

Midland Game Fisheries (Whittington, Staffordshire) 01543 433606

Millride (Essington, Staffordshire) 01902 725165

Patshull Park Fishery (Pattingham, Staffordshire) 01902 700774

Pool House Farm (Hunts Green, Staffordshire) 01827 874856

Rising Trout Fishery (Whiston, Staffordshire) 01889 507496

River Anker (Tamworth, Staffordshire) 0121 4549111

River Sow (Stafford, Staffordshire) 01785 251073

Rudyard Lake (Leek, Staffordshire) 01538 306280 or 01625 251262

Rudyard Reservoir (Rudyard, Leek, Staffordshire) 01538 306280

Seven Arches Pool (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) 01782 818380

Shelmore Trout Fisheries (Stafford, Staffordshire) 01785 284886

Shropshire Union Canal (Cowley, Staffordshire) 01785 663565

Shropshire Union Canal (Norbury, Staffordshire) 01782 818380

Shropshire Union Canal (Pendeford, Staffordshire) 01902 457906

Shropshire Union Canal (Wheaton Aston, Staffordshire) 01543 372395

Shuttington Pool (Tamworth, Staffordshire) 01827 51033

Staffs Worcester Canal (Otherton, Penkridge, Staffordshire) 01902 457906

Staffs Worcester Canal (Womborne, Staffordshire) 01902 457906

Swan Pit Pool (Gnosall, Staffordshire) 01785 822221

The Horns (Rugeley, Staffordshire) 01889 576697

Tittesworth Reservoir (Leek, Staffordshire) 01538 300389

Trent and Mersey Canal (Alrewas, Staffordshire) 01543 491228

Trent and Mersey Canal (Armitage, Staffordshire) 01543 491651

Trentham Gardens (Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire) 01782 657341

Trent-Mersey Canal (Alrewas, Staffordshire) 01543 415489

Westbridge Park Canal (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) 01785 813708

Willow Pools (Bickford, Penkridge, Staffordshire) 01785 663575

Willows Pools (Penkridge, Staffordshire) 01367 241044

Woodseat Lake (Uttoxeter, Staffordshire) 01889 593841

UNHOOKING PIKE With your pike safely in the net and carried ashore, place it on a large, padded unhooking mat. Look to see where your hooks are before proceeding to handle the fish. Insert one or two fingers under a gill plate, keeping them well away from any hooks. You might like to wear a gardening glove on the hand you do this with. Lift the pike's head carefully and its mouth will usually open. Maintain this hold while you use a pair of 10-12 inch artery forceps to grip and remove the hooks - top hook first, then the lower. It is now that you will appreciate the use of semi-barbed hooks. If the hooks are in deeper near the throat, insert the forceps through the gaps in the gills below your 'holding-hand'. Please do this with great care and preferably under instruction if for the first time.

When fishing with lures, which tend to have bigger and thicker-wired hooks fitted, you will benefit from the use of pliers as opposed to forceps. Always carry a strong pair of side-cutters in case you need to cut through the hooks to aid unhooking.

When you are a lot more experienced you may want to unhook pike in the water, thus minimising contact. Despite the awesome look of all those sharp teeth, the pike will not purposely bite you. Don't be frightened, treat the pike with respect and confidence. If the fish is small, you may find it easier to lift the pike to unhook it, as shown on the left. If the fish is bigger, then it is easier to unhook the fish by kneeling astride it, as on the right.

If the hooks are difficult to get out, do not cut the trace, unclip it. Put the pike in the landing net and into the water. Then seek help from another pike angler, do not feel embarrassed, we have all been there. More information for dealing with this situation can also be found on the next page.

Fishing Staffordshire

Freshwater Fishing - Trout Secrets

What spot on a river is most often overlooked?
Palmerton: Hidden seams in the middle of the river, where slight depressions in the bottom produce a change in the water only visible to the trained eye.
Gunn: Many anglers wade into the water that they should be fishing. Before entering the water always stop, look, and study what’s right in front of you.
Whitley: Near banks, very tight to the shore. Of course, this is where most people walk into the river. It’s worth casting before you get your boots wet.

Fishing Staffordshire

Humminbird piranha max 10 fishfinder

Fish on the go with the Piranha MAX 10 Portable fish finder.

This portable version is ultra compact, can be used anywhere, is completely self-contained and operates on 8 AA Alkaline batteries (not supplied).

The Piranha max 10 portable fish finder features

- self contained carry case with ergonomic

handle, transducer cable wrap and non-skid bottom

- operates on 8 AA Alkaline batteries

- suction cup transducer mounts on most smooth surface wood, fibreglass and aluminium hulls

- high definition 160V x 132H LCD display for a sharper image

- true 4-level grayscale gives an improved image of the bottom, fish and underwater structures

Fishing Staffordshire

Abbey Green-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Abbots Bromley-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Above Church-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Acton Trussell-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Alder Moor-Staffordshire (near Burton on Trent)

Allimore Green-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Alrewas Hayes-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Alsagers Bank-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Alton Towers-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Anslow Gate-Staffordshire (near Burton on Trent)

Ash Bank-Staffordshire (near Stoke on Trent)

Back o' th' Brook-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Baldwins Gate-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Ball Haye Green-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Balterley Green-Staffordshire (near Crewe)

Barton Green-Staffordshire (near Burton on Trent)

Barton under Needwood-Staffordshire (near Burton on Trent)

Basford Green-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Beam Hill-Staffordshire (near Burton on Trent)

Bednall Head-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Betton Moss-Staffordshire (near Market Drayton)

Betton Wood-Staffordshire (near Market Drayton)

Biddulph Moor-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Bignall End-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Birch Cross-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Bishops Offley-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Bishop's Wood-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Blackshaw Moor-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Blackwood Hill-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Blakeley Lane-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Blore-Staffordshire (near Ashbourne)

Blounts Green-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Blymhill Common-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Blymhill Lawn-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Blymhill Marsh-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Blythe Bridge-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Blythe Marsh-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Boney Hay-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Boon Hill-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Borough Hill-Staffordshire (near Daventry)

Bowsey Wood-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Bradley in the Moors-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Brereton Hill-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Brindley Ford-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Brindley Heath-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Broad Meadow-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Bromley Hurst-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Bromstead Common-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Bromstead Heath-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Brown Edge-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Brown Lees-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Burnhill Green-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Burton on Trent-Staffordshire

Butt Lane-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Calf Heath-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Calton Green-Staffordshire (near Ashbourne)

Cannock Wood-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Canwell Hall-Staffordshire (near Fazeley)

Cauldon Low-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Chapel Chorlton-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Chase Terrace-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Cheslyn Hay-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Church Eaton-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Church Hill-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Church Leigh-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Church Mayfield-Staffordshire (near Ashbourne)

Clifton Campville-Staffordshire (near Tamworth)

Coalpit Hill-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Codsall Wood-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Cold Meece-Staffordshire (near Stone)

Cotes Heath-Staffordshire (near Stone)

Coton Clanford-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Coton Hayes-Staffordshire (near Stone)

Coton in the Clay-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Coven Heath-Staffordshire (near Codsall)

Coven Lawn-Staffordshire (near Wolverhampton)

Creswell Green-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Cross Green-Staffordshire (near Wolverhampton)

Cross Heath-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Dapple Heath-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Darlaston Bridge-Staffordshire (near Stone)

Dod's Leigh-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Draycott in the Clay-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Draycott in the Moors-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Drayton Bassett-Staffordshire (near Fazeley)

Dunston Heath-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Four Ashes-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Four Crosses-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Gamballs Green-Staffordshire (near Buxton)

Garshall Green-Staffordshire (near Stone)

Gillow Heath-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Glutton Bridge-Staffordshire (near Buxton)

Gnosall Heath-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Gorsey Bank-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Gorsty Hill-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Gospel End-Staffordshire (near Wolverhampton)

Great Bridgeford-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Great Chatwell-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Great Haywood-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Great Saredon-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Great Wyrley-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Green Heath-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Hadley End-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Halfpenny Green-Staffordshire (near Bridgnorth)

Halmerend-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Hamstall Ridware-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Hartley Green-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Hazel Slade-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Heath Hayes-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Hem Heath-Staffordshire (near Stoke on Trent)

High Offley-Staffordshire (near Newport)

High Onn-Staffordshire (near Newport)

High Town-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Hill Chorlton-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Hill Ridware-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Hilliard's Cross-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Hilton Bank-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Hoar Cross-Staffordshire (near Burton on Trent)

Hulme End-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Hyde Lea-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Kiddemore Green-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Kings Bromley-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Kingsley Holt-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Kingsley Moor-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Kingswood Common-Staffordshire (near Codsall)

Knightley Dale-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Lane Green-Staffordshire (near Wolverhampton)

Lask Edge-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Lea Heath-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Light Oaks-Staffordshire (near Stoke on Trent)

Little Aston-Staffordshire (near Walsall)

Little Bridgeford-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Little Chadwell-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Little Hay-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Little Haywood-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Little Heath-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Little Ingestre-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Little Madeley-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Little Onn-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Little Saredon-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Little Wyrley-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Long Compton-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Longbridge Hayes-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Longdon Green-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Lowe Hill-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Lower Beighterton-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Lower Elkstone-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Lower Ellastone-Staffordshire (near Ashbourne)

Lower Green-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Lower Leigh-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Lower Loxley-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Lower Penn-Staffordshire (near Wolverhampton)

Lower Stonnall-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Lower Tean-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Loxley Green-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Madeley Heath-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Marchington Cliff-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Marchington Woodlands-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Marsh Green-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Mavesyn Ridware-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

May Bank-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Middle Madeley-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Middle Mayfield-Staffordshire (near Ashbourne)

Middleton Green-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Mile Oak-Staffordshire (near Fazeley)

Mill Green-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Mill Meece-Staffordshire (near Stone)

Morridge Side-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Morridge Top-Staffordshire (near Buxton)

Mucklestone Wood-Staffordshire (near Market Drayton)

Muckley Corner-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Neachley-Shropshire (near Albrighton)

Netherland Green-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Newcastle under Lyme-Staffordshire

Newton Hurst-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Norton Bridge-Staffordshire (near Stone)

Norton Canes-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Norton Green (Cannock Chase)(near Stoke on Trent)

Norton Green (Moorlands)-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Norton in the Moors-Staffordshire (near Stoke on Trent)

Olive Green-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Park End-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Pave Lane-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Pipe Ridware-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Potter's Cross-Staffordshire (near Kidderminster)

Pye Green-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Red Bull-Staffordshire (near Market Drayton)

Red Street-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Riley Hill-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Robin Hill-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Rolleston-Staffordshire (near Burton on Trent)

Rough Close-Staffordshire (near Stone)

Rushton Spencer-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Sandon Bank-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Saverley Green-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Scot Hay-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Scounslow Green-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Shelton Under Harley (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Shenstone Wood End-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Shut Heath-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Shutt Green-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Six Ashes-Staffordshire (near Bridgnorth)

Slade Heath-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Slitting Mill-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Sneyd Green-Staffordshire (near Stoke on Trent)

Spot Acre-Staffordshire (near Stone)

Stanley Moor-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Stockton Brook-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Stockwell Heath-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Stoke on Trent-Staffordshire

Stowe By Chartley-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Talke Pits-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

The Bratch-Staffordshire (near Wolverhampton)

The Rookery-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Thorpe Constantine-Staffordshire (near Tamworth)

Tong Forge-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Trent Vale-Staffordshire (near Stoke on Trent)

Two Gates-Staffordshire (near Fazeley)

Upper Elkstone-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Upper Ellastone-Staffordshire (near Ashbourne)

Upper Hulme-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Upper Landywood-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Upper Leigh-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Upper Longdon-Staffordshire (near Burntwood)

Upper Nobut-Staffordshire (near Uttoxeter)

Upper Tean-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Upper Whiston-Staffordshire (near Bridgnorth)

Walton on the Hill-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Water Eaton-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Wedges Mills-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Weeping Cross-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Weston Coyney-Staffordshire (near Stoke on Trent)

Weston Jones-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Weston under Lizard-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Wetley Rocks-Staffordshire (near Leek)

Wheaton Aston-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Whiston Eaves-Staffordshire (near Cheadle)

Whitley Heath-Staffordshire (near Newport)

Whittington Hurst-Staffordshire (near Lichfield)

Wolseley Bridge-Staffordshire (near Cannock)

Wood Eaton-Staffordshire (near Stafford)

Wood Lane-Staffordshire (near Newcastle under Lyme)

Woodhouse Green-Staffordshire (near Biddulph)

Woodwall Green-Staffordshire (near Market Drayton)

Wrottesley Park-Staffordshire (near Albrighton)

Fishing Staffordshire

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