Situated on the edge of Sandhurst, with it’s secure parking, this three-lake complex and stretch of the River Blackwater is the jewel in the crown. This quite fishery is set in beautiful surroundings less than a mile from Yateley Town Centre. It is well worth a visit whatever your angling preference.

Approach.  From the A30 at Hawley, take the B3273-Reading road to Yateley town centre, crossing 2 roundabouts, when you see the Royal Oak pub on your left turn right into, Sandhurst road, also sign posted Tri-Lakes Country Park. Follow this road for ½ a mile past Tri-Lakes, the fishery entrance is approx 60 yards set back on the left, a small siding with a wooden gate.

From Wokingham: take the A321-Woking Road

Please note!, road vision is very restricted when turning into the entrance from this approach, take care!

Parking: The entrance is gate is fitted with a combination lock, you will need to dial the correct code, press the button and pull the lock for it to open. To close the lock, hold the lock together and scramble the numbers. Please always ensure the gate is closed and locked behind you.

Parking at the end of the track is fairly limited, please park sensibly and respect the neighbours by keeping noise levels low when entering and leaving the fishery.

The distance from the car park to lake 3 via the footpath is around 45 Yards. There are interlinking paths around all three lakes with a footpath to the left of the lakes following the section of the River Blackwater. These paths are fairly flat and are suitable for trolleys and barrows. Access to the river is limited in places; this will be improved with the creaction of more swims in the future The River Blackwater may be fished on the right hand bank downstream from below the road bridge opposite Tri-Lakes ( point A on the map) all the way down to the boundary fence at the bottom of lake 1 (point Bon the map)

Size:

Lake 1 - 6 Acres

Lake 2 - 4 Acres

Lake 3 - 3 Acres

River Blackwater - 400 yards

Special Notes: The river operates a close season between March 15^th and June 15^th Inclusively.

Night fishing is upto 15 Anglers limited to 24hour sessions at the weekend. 48 hour sessions are available during the week. Please refer to the night fishing rules.

• Day tickets are available in advance only from authorised ticket agents
• No Carp or barbell are to be kept in keep nets (Unless in Authorised Matches)
• Please be considerate to other anglers in nearby complexes
• Raking of weed is permitted in fixed pegs only
• Our bailiffs will help and advise you but are not dustmen – PLEASE TAKE YOUR LITTER HOME

Fishing: (River Blackwater)

The main species are chub, roach, perch, barbell, pike, dace and gudgeon. There are also carp to double figures with a large shoal of bream at the bottom end. The flow in summer is slow to medium but rises quickly after heavy rain. This section of the river has a variety of depths ranging from shallow 1ft gravel runs to straight sections to 4ft deep. There is good weed cover in places, reeds and plenty if over hanging trees as well as bends, both slow and fast in pace. The river shows true class fishing from late November when the weed dies down and the flow and colour increases. A roving approach works best for both float and ledger tactics producing excellent catches.

Lake 1 – The bottom lake : Approx 250 yards from the car park.

This is becoming a good mixed specimen water which contains: tench to 9lb, bream to 14lb, roach to 2lb good numbers of common and mirror carp to 24lb, ghost carp to 22lb and pike to14lb.

The deepest part of the lake is the bay to the first island reaching 15ft. The bay up to the island is where the bream and carp shoal up. The islands in this lake form the channels the first of which is formed by the back pf the first island and the start of the second.

This averages around 6ft. the second islands runs parallel to the river forming a channel down both sides, these channels are read lined with plenty of over hanging trees providing great fish holding cover. The bay at the bottom end provides mixed fishing for those that are prepared to make the walk,  with a depth averaging 6ft , the bream also shoal here when the wind blows in and can be caught using float tackle just out from the margins or on the feeder tactics to the end of the island. The water, like many specimen waters around the yately area is not easy fishing, early morning and evening sessions producing the best chances during bright or hot weather conditions. Members will not get big nets from this water but the quality of the fish you do catch is superb. Please let the fishery manager or bailiffs know of your catches.

Lake 2 – The middle lake: Approx 140 yards from the car park.

The lake contains common carp to 31lB, mirror carp to 28lb and ghost carp to 14 lb. The tench are a good average around 5lb, with bream, roach, ruff and perch providing good sport but not in great numbers. This lake received a stocking of 41 carp (mainly commons) from 8-16lb in February 2004.

The shallow part of the lake is on the far left bank backing on to lake 1

The rest of the lake has an average depth between 6-8ft with the river side margins being slightly shallower around 4ft. The fringe lily at the far end, which grows at great speed n the summer , provides masses of cover for the fish. Members may open a channel to the fish through or to help land fish safely if required.

Lake 3 – The top lake (aka the doughnut lake) Approx 45 yards from the car park.

The depth is 6-10 in front of the swims round by the river on the left before it starts to shallow up to 5-7tf at the bank backing on to the lake 2. Anglers will find most methods catch; pole ;feeder, float and even surface fishing.

The older carp stokes range from 6 – 22lb and number around 50 fish.

Tench go to nearly 7lb, bream to 5lb, roach, rudd & perch are present but all small in size. A stocking of 200lb of tench to 4lb and 100lb of of crucians to 10 oz were introduced in March 2005.

The pike numbers have been reduced to help the smaller fish become established. A small number of pike still exist and have been caught up to 12 lb on lures.

At certain times of the year this lake has tapes suspended across the water and wooden cut outs of anglers, to help prevent cormorants affecting the fish population.

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