Fishery Closure 30th October

Fly Fishing Championship Event Just a reminder that Haywards Farm Lake is closed on Sunday 30th October for a heat of the 2017 Fly Fishing Championship, the shop remains open for business as usual. If you would like to take part in the event fishing is from 10am to 3pm, with competitors to move pegs … Continue reading Fishery Closure 30th October »

More Big Fish – At Last!

With very high water temperatures during August and September we suspended our stocking programme of larger fish, which are always the most susceptible to low concentrations of dissolved oxygen. However, with overnight temperatures now dipping and beginning to make a real impact on the lake temperature we have re-commenced the introduction of big fish with … Continue reading More Big Fish – At Last! »

Fishery Closure 28th September

Haywards Farm Lake is playing host to a special Fishing for Forces event on Wednesday 28th September and will be closed for fishing. It will re-open on Thursday 29th September.

First Boat Delivery

The first of the new fishery boats was delivered to the Game Fishing Centre last week and is currently being prepared ready for use on Haywards Farm Lake. The first anglers will be out making full use of it shortly. The boat is to be christened ‘Hardy’ in recognition of Hardy’s sponsorship of the electric … Continue reading First Boat Delivery »

The Turner Twins at Sportfish

The Turner Twins are launching National Fishing Month 2016 at the Sportfish Game Fishing Centre at 11.30am on Friday 22nd July.

A New Appointment

Chris Hayward

Sportfish Game Fishing Centre’s Chris Hayward has been appointed as Farlows Group Tuition Manager. Chris has worked at Sportfish since 2008 and has a broad fishing background. Living on the south coast he started beach fishing at the age of five before migrating onto coarse fishing, then trout fly fishing and salmon fishing with a … Continue reading A New Appointment »