The P&DAA Newsletter

Water Under the Bridge

Issue 1August 2026Est. 1875

Club news from the Nene and the Welland.

From the Chairman

The club's website has moved

As of this week, fishinginpeterborough.co.uk is the club's own from top to bottom, the domain name to the hosting.

It's faster and it works properly on a phone. For over a decade the old site ran on a volunteer's goodwill, and the club is grateful for every year of it. Owning our own front door was overdue.

Two things on there are worth your time straight away. You can send us a catch report from any page, photos and all, and the best of them now sit at the top of the homepage. And if you see something wrong on the bank, there's a proper incident form that reaches the right people in minutes.

Rob Harris Chairman, Peterborough & District Angling Association

Feature

Built to be useful at the bank

Every water has its own page with a proper map: the banks you can fish drawn in green, parking marked in gold, night fishing flagged where it's allowed. River conditions on the homepage come straight from the Environment Agency's gauges, updated through the day.

An angler fishing the pole from a platform at Ferry Meadows
Ferry Meadows: year-round water, ten minutes from town.
Every page of it belongs to P&DAA, from the domain name to the map pins.

Send a catch report in from the site, with photos, and the standout fish appear on the homepage under Latest catches, badged as a member catch or one from the team. It's the quickest way to show what these rivers produce, and it only works if reports keep coming in.

Catches of the month

Three from August

Chris Morton holding a 4lb 1oz chub at Stanground BackwaterMember catch
4lb 1oz ChubChris Morton · Stanground Backwater · 12 August
Robbie Cunnington holding a 6lb barbel at Elton FisheryTeam P&DAA
6lb BarbelRobbie Cunnington · Elton Fishery · 9 August
Stewart Pryke holding a 4lb chub at Wellington FisheryTeam P&DAA
4lb ChubStewart Pryke · Wellington Fishery · 4 August

See the photos on the homepage

In brief

Worth knowing

Membership is on sale

£15 for adults, free for under-18s, valid to 31 December. Buy membership

Day tickets online

Pick your date and pay in a minute. Juniors fish free. Buy a day ticket

Seen something wrong?

Poaching, pollution or fish in distress: report it and it reaches the bailiff team in minutes. For pollution, ring the EA first on 0800 80 70 60. Report an incident

Bailiffs, every day

Over the last three months of records, every single day had at least one patrol logged across our waters.