Craig banked three during a day session in the rain on Thursday including this common which is another new Island Lake 'twenty'

We have now completed works to close off more swims and install purpose built swim fronts to the remaining ones. The number of swims has been reduced to fifteen but obviously each one has more dedicated water; though all fishing on Island Lake remains short range or margin fishing. Due to the construction of the new swim fronts on Island Lake the rules have been updated to include the prohibition of 'stage stands' as these are completely un-necessary and only damage the wood-work. Fishing is only permissible from these purpose built swim fronts.

Island lake will be closed during the day on Tuesday 4th and then again from Thursday 6th through till Friday 14th February, including the weekend, for swim replacement works.

Island Lake will be closed during the days  on 29th, 30th and 31st January for continuing swim maintenance works.

Island Lake will be closed on Tuesday 21st January for maintenance works. The old platforms are being removed in preparation for construction of new swims.

As the river level has started to drop and the flood risk reduces Island Lake will be open again from tomorrow.

Island Lake is temporarily closed due to the risk of imminent flooding 

The Theale 2 Syndicate waiting list has now closed again until at least after 2020 / 2021 renewals in April.

The fishing on Island Lake has picked up with the warmer weather. Two anglers who did 48 hours at the start of the week banked 5 fish between them, one angler had two fish on Wednesday and the second known 'thiry' came out at 30lb on Thursday.

From 1st February 2020 we are making a small change to the day ticket purchase requirements in that you are now asked to print off your Website Order Notification as proof of purchase of your day / night ticket(s). The gate code will still be on the PDF ticket in the download link in this order notification. Electronic copies of the Website Order Notification will be acceptable but you must ensure enough battery power to display this on demand or you will be regarded as fishing without a ticket.