Set in a quiet corner of our working farm, Home Farm Lake has been a cherished fishing destination since 2004. Whether you’re joining us for a competitive club match or a relaxing day of pleasure fishing, you’ll find a beautifully maintained lake teeming with carp (common, crucian, and mirror), tench, chub, roach, and some fine F1 hybrids. We pride ourselves on offering a friendly, well-stocked, and respectful environment for all anglers.
It is still dry enough to drive to your pegs - we will update when this changes, but for now it's still OK!
To keep Home Farm Lake a beautiful, safe, and thriving environment for everyone (including our fish and farm animals), we kindly ask all visitors to follow these guidelines:
Pay Before You Play: Please settle your peg or match fee before setting up. This provides your permission to be on site.
Leave No Trace: “If it came with you, it leaves with you.” We thoroughly check pegs daily. Please take all rubbish home, including teabags, food scraps, and cigarette ends.
Fish Welfare First: All fish must be returned to the water gently via a landing net. Barbless hooks (max size 12) are mandatory. Keep nets are for matches only, and we kindly ask that fish are not kept in nets for more than 6 hours.
Working Farm Environment: For the safety of our livestock and your own, dogs are not permitted on site, and night fishing is unavailable.
Respect the Neighbors: The lake is located next to residential homes. Please keep noise to a minimum, especially when arriving or leaving.
Safety & Etiquette: A valid Environment Agency rod license is mandatory. Anglers under 16 must be supervised by an adult at all times. Maximum of one rod/pole per person. Please use the provided toilet facilities.
Note: Fishing is on private land at the discretion of the proprietors. Anyone found contravening these rules, or failing to pay, will be asked to leave and may be banned from the site.
Opening Hours
Summer (1st May – 31st Aug): Mon–Sat 07:30–19:30 | Sun 08:00–18:00
Winter (1st Sept – 30th Apr): Mon–Sat 08:00–17:30 | Sun 08:00–17:00
(Note: No arrivals after 16:00 unless pre-arranged. Please respect our opening times to help us maintain the site.)
Fishing Fees
Standard Peg: £8.50 (Ages 16–65)
Concession Peg: £5.50 (Under 16 or Over 65)
Match Bookings: £80 for up to 10 pegs (provides exclusive lake access), then £7 per additional peg.
Pleasure Fishing
No online booking is required for pleasure fishing! Simply check the calendar below to ensure no matches are booked, turn up during opening hours, and pay at the site. We accept cash (envelopes and boxes are provided) or secure online payment via Stripe. Please settle your fee before setting up your gear—this confirms your permission to be on site.
🚗 Drive-up access to your peg (weather and ground conditions permitting)
🅿️ Ample onsite parking for lots of cars
🚻 Clean toilet facilities available for all visitors
📹 24-hour CCTV for your peace of mind and site security
Matches
Match Fishing
We love hosting clubs! Matches can be booked for any day of the week (maximum duration: 6 hours).
The match fee is £80 for up to 10 pegs, then £7 per additional peg. All matches must be paid for on the day, as our booking system doesn’t provide online payment options.
📧 Email us: fishing@home-farm.com (Recommended, as we both work full-time and email is the quickest way to reach us!)
📞 Call us: 01926 675350
If you would like to book a match, please either call or email, or you can use our online booking system below. Enter your details and you will receive an email telling you the match is provisionally booked, then another email once it has been confirmed.
You don’t need to call us to confirm you will be attending but please do call if you need to cancel for any reason. We don’t charge for cancelled bookings.
If you are booking a match, please do so at least a couple of days in advance so we can put up our match signs and keep the lake clear for your club.
Our postcode - CV47 8HX should bring you right here
Sat Nav will get you to us. Please go down the driveway nice and slowly, the lake parking is on your right opposite the house.
PLEASE make sure you leave your peg as you found it – NO RUBBISH of any sort – including sandwiches, teabags, banana skins, apple cores and cigarette/cigar ends. If you brought it with you, please take it away with you. Any unused bait can go into the water, but please break up bread rather than throw in whole slices. We check every peg every day once everyone has left, so it is very obvious if anyone leaves anything behind – we will keep it for your next visit…
Angling Trust website update
The link above will take you directly to the Angling Trust site for any further updates.
Reviews
Please read our rules PLEASE PAY BEFORE YOU SET UP - if you don't do this, you don't have permission to be onsite
All fish caught from this lake MUST BE RETURNED – NO POACHING
24 Hour Recording and Remotely Accessed CCTV is in constant operation
Barbless hooks only (no pinch barbs) Maximum size 12 – we will check periodically
Keep nets for matches only – not to be used for pleasure fishing. During matches ideally use at least two nets, one for fish over 2lbs, one for smaller fish. Please respect the health and well being of our fish at all times – if you are using keep nets, please consider how long the fish have been in the nets – maximum time is 6 hours and we will ask you to empty them if you exceed this
Maximum of ONE rod/pole per angler – there are a LOT of fish in there
Please do not litter – take it home – including cigarette ends, teabags etc. – have a good look around you before you leave.
Please do not throw cigarette ends into the water or leave them on the bank – they end up in fish or waterfowl – and please don’t leave them in the parking area or around the lake in general
Please return all fish promptly to the water, gently via your landing net
Do not leave rods/poles unattended at any time
Please pay BEFORE you set up
No night fishing
Sorry, no dogs
No fires or BBQs
If you bring alcohol, it is up to you to ensure you are safe to drive at the end of your day
No floating baits, and use natural baits only please
Please use the toilet onsite – not the banks or field next to the lake.
Please respect fellow anglers, the fish, lake and our property
Please park considerately, either by the peg you are fishing (weather/conditions permitting), on the hard standing or if it’s really busy, outside the house – we’ve cut the banks pretty close to make sure there is plenty of room to pass
Non paying anglers will be banned, and their details circulated to all local fisheries
This is a working family farm and our home, fishing is at the discretion of the proprietors, so please respect our home and land – and have a great days fishing
Please check bookings on this website or call us before you head out (more so at the weekend)
Anyone found contravening these rules will be asked to leave
Our obligations under UK-GDPR legislation from 31 Jan 2020
At Home Farm Lake we process data that under the UK-GDPR is considered ‘personal data’, such as the vehicle registration details of those fishing with us as well as contact details for clubs or individuals who book matches with us.
We DO NOT carry out any marketing activities, no details held by Home Farm Lake are passed on to any other party, with the exception of non-payment, when the vehicle details may be shared with the police and/or other local fisheries to warn of potential issues from the same vehicle owner.
Andrew Griffiths has been designated as our Data Protection Officer, and has the responsibility to ensure all personal data that has been collected is managed/processed in accordance to UK-GDPR.
CCTV images are stored for 72 hours in normal operation. In the event of non-payment the image capture of the vehicle in question will be stored until such time the case is closed.
For contact details, we now have a form for the club or individual to sign and agree to their details being kept on our database purely for confirmation purposes.
Please – No visitors and no spectators. This is not just for COVID but also for insurance.
If you are viewing, please try to do so when there are no anglers on site, or if this is not possible then please maintain a safe distance from others.
We reserve the right to check hooks etc. and licenses to ensure everyone has the right equipment and licenses to fish with us.
We have 24 hour CCTV onsite, which does track vehicles in and out, and one camera that does cover the tin – so we can tell if you ‘forgot’ to pay.