Welcome to Water Under the Bridge and our new website
Welcome to the first issue of our new quarterly newsletter, designed to give you all of the latest information, details about P&DAA projects, and let you know what the team have been up to.
We've launched a brand new website to bring you even more info and make things easier to find.
It's faster and it works great on a phone. 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.
Venue spotlight
Coronation Channel
The Coronation Channel: off the radar for years, and all the better for it.
A historic venue that's been off the radar for years. The channel surrounds Spalding with access points at regular intervals, and it holds some fantastic bream and tench along with carp and general coarse fishing. Included in general membership, available on day ticket, and night fishing is allowed, though a day ticket is needed for each day fished.
Twelve pounds of Elton barbel, back in the weed by midnight.
Jake Cunnington's 12lb barbel, in his own words:
"Fishing some glugged boilies resulted in very little this night, but a change to something I've never done before, 3 8mm robin reds on a long hair and a solid PVA bag stuffed full of matching 8mms seemed to be enough to tempt one of Elton's big girls right at the depth. A cracking bite, a cracking fight through all the weeds and a result worth sharing. A lovely long rest in the net saw this lady swimming off into the deep leaving one happy angler."
Jake Cunnington Elton Fishery, 3 August
Better angling
Returning fish in warm water
Late summer water carries less oxygen than at any other time, and a long fight takes more out of a fish than it can quickly repay. Fish balanced tackle so you can be firm rather than playing a fish to a standstill, keep it in the water while you sort the camera, wet hands, and give it as long as it needs in the net before release. A barbel especially: hold it upright facing the flow and let it kick off in its own time, even if that's several minutes. The photo can wait. The fish can't.
Catches of the month
Three from the rivers
Member catch
12lb 14oz BarbelRobbie Cunnington · Elton Fishery · 20 August
Member catch
10lb 2oz Chub and barbelMartin Barnatt · Elton Fishery · 22 August
Member catch
6lb 4oz TenchMartin Barnatt · River Welland · 4 August
£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.
Coming up
Town Welland matches, 2026/27
The Town Welland at Spalding, a match venue with proper history behind it.
Tickets will be available soon for our winter match series on the historic Town Welland at Spalding, running November through to March.
Dates, pegs and prices are still being finalised. Keep an eye on the website and our social channels for details.
From the club
School Of Fish and Hydroscape
School Of Fish
A coaching school for anglers, run on our waters. Adults and juniors, complete beginners welcome, and your first session is free. Book a session
Hydroscape
Free biodiversity and water quality reporting for anglers and fishery managers. Record what you see at the water in 30 seconds. hydroscape-group.co.uk
