DDAPS PAGE         TETLYS HOME PAGE  D.D.A.P.S.  VENUES Brooklands Lakes                                   1 rod 12 hours £6.00                         2 rods 12 hours  £8.00     3 rods 12 hours £10.00                    3 rods 24 hours £15.00    3 rods 48 hours £20.0   These lakes are just outside Dartford town centre adjacent to Princes Road.  Two car parking areas are available.  The first area can be found off Princes Road next to the lake itself.  The other parking area can be found by going up Princes Road (in the direction of the M25) and turning right at the next set of lights.  Continue down this narrow road and take the next turning on your right (Powder Mill Lane).  Go down this small hill and park on the road adjacent to the industrial units.   This lake is very popular with clubs for match bookings and has been heavily stocked with carp, tench, bream, roach and perch.  Match weights of over 80lbs are not uncommon falling mainly to quivertip and feeder tactics.  Carp are present to over 20lb, bream to over 7lb and plenty of perch and roach.  The A2/Comp/Texas Bay areas of the lake are where the specimen carp angler heads for.  The best recently caught carp scaled 31lb 2oz.  Other specimen fish include pike over 23lb, tench over 7lb, bream over 7lb and perch over 4lb.  In matches, weights of 40-60lbs of bream are quite commonplace.  There are also numerous roach to well over 1½lb.  popular methods for the big carp include legering with boilies or floater fishing with dog biscuits.   A lot of work has been completed on these lakes with many previously inaccessible areas now open to fishing and existing swims and pathways rebuilt.  The whole lake is gradually being planted out with reeds, bulrushes and other vegetation to improve the natural food chain in the water. TACKLE SHOPS NEAR THESE LAKES MK11 ANGLING            J.V.S TACKLE   Please note Leave no litter.  Bins are provide din strategic points but failing that take it home with you.  This water is open to day ticket anglers.  Tickets from the bailiff on the bank.   Sutton at Hone Lakes   From Dartford at the main set of traffic lights at the bottom of Princes Road take the A225 towards Farningham and Hawley.  Continue on for approximately 2 miles until you come to some shops on the left hand side of the road one being a Fish and Chip shop.  50 yards past the shops is the entrance to the lakes (Gravel Road).  This is on the left immediately before Ernest Doe’s Agri-centre.  Continue to the bottom of Gravel Road and over the small bridge and through the gate to the car park.   At Sutton we have a section of the River Darent plus 3 lakes; the Big Lake, the Carp Lake and the Banjo.  This is a famous venue in carp fishing circles, being one of the main waters in the 1960/70’s that Fred Wilton used to field test his development of high protein baits.   Big Lake This lake holds carp to over 34lb, tench over 9lb, bream over 9lb, pike over 20lb, eels over 4lb plus roach and perch.  Favoured methods for the carp are boilies or cereal baits fished to the bars or close to the islands.  For bream, legering regularly produces bags to over 70lb in matches.   Car Park Lake This lake has produced common carp to 32lb and mirror carp to 35lb, tench and bream over 10lb, perch over 2lb 6oz and eels over 4lb.  Roach are now being caught over 1lb.  Boilies and particle baits are favoured for the carp while groundbait feeder has produced weights of bream in excess of 100lb.   The Banjo This lake is connected to the car park lake and has recently been extended.  Good for carp, bream, roach and tench and very good for pike from January to March when the big females come in for spawning.   The Darent This flows around the back top edge of the big lake.  Good sport can be had with some very good chub to over 4lb plus some decent perch and dace.     Please note When entering this venue you must dip all your nets before leaving the car park.  Ensure on arrival and departure that you lock gates behind you.  The use of peanuts is banned.   Horton Kirby Lakes   From the traffic lights at the junction of Princes Road and Lowfield Street in Dartford take the A225 towards Hawley.  Continue on this road passing under a motorway bridge and through Sutton at Hone until you reach a large railway bridge across the road.  Immediately past the bridge turn left into Station Road and go down the hill to a T junction.  Now turn right and about 300 years along this road, on your right, is the entrance to the fishery.  Park in the car park and make your way over the river to the fishery.  Close all gates behind you.              THERE IS A TACKLE SHOP RIGHT BY THE LAKES CALLED J.V.S                      (just past the pub,round the bend and behind the post office)                                    CLICK HERE FOR THEIR WEB PAGE   There are four lakes plus a section of the river Darent.  As you enter the fishery, the lake on the right is Viaduct Lake and to the left is Westminster lake.  If you continue to walk between the two lakes you will come to the Western Lake.  The Silt Pond lies between the river and Westminster Lake.   Viaduct Lake A good carp lake with fish to over 30lb, tench over 7lb, bream over 6lb, pike over 20lb, eels over 4lb, perch over 3lb and roach over 1lb.  Favoured methods for the carp are boilies or particle baits and for the bream quivertipping with a groundbait feeder.         Westminster Lake Another good carp lake with fish over 37lb, large tench with the best recorded at 9lb 12oz and big bream with the best reported by a carp angler at 10lb 2oz.  Matches are frequently won with bags of bream over 80lb.  There are also eels over 4lb, roach over 1lb, perch over 4lb and pike over 20lb.  This lake has recently had an introduction of 30 low double figure carp.  Methods are the same as at the Viaduct Lake.       Western Lake This water is heavily stocked with small carp plus there are few large carp.  There is also a very good head of tench, bream and roach.        Silt Pond This lake is stocked with tench of all sizes plus some good roach to 2lb, crucian carp and some specimen perch.  There has been a recent restocking of 500 tench to 2lb.  In the summer the tench fall to a variety of methods and baits but maggots seem to produce the most fish.  The crucian carp seem to be caught more often very close to the bank in the shallower water.        TETLYS HORTON KIRBY PAGE   River Darent We control this section of river and good sport can be had trotting down a maggot through the glides for chub to over 2lb plus dace and roach.  A good place to take the kids for a couple of hours of fun fishing.          Please note When entering the fishery you must dip all your nets in the bins provided adjacent to the toilet block.  The use of peanuts is banned.                                            River Medway, Tonbridge (Sat. Nav. Ref TN11 0QX)   Take the M25 Southbound then, as the road forks off, keep right and go on to the A21.  On the A21 take the B245 turn off for Sevenoaks and Hildenborough.  As you come off and up to the roundabout take the turn off for Hildenborough and Tonbridge.  You will go through five sets of traffic lights passing the Half Moon and Flying Dutchman pubs on your left and Hilden Manor (Beefeater) further down on your right.  At the fifth set of lights at the top of Tonbridge High Street turn left into the road named “Bordyke” (The Ivy House Pub).  At the next set of lights turn right into Cannon Lane.  Go past Homebase and B & Q and over the Medway Bridge (green railed bridge).  Immediately at the end of this bridge turn sharp left into a small road (Postern Lane).  Continue down the lane and go over a small humped back bridge by Postern Lane Cottages.  Turn left immediately by the cottages into the car park area.   Muck Stream Fishing is allowed from the cottages right down to the confluence of the Muck Stream with the River Medway.   The banks are fairly overgrown but good sport can be had floatfishing with maggot or caster with roach, dace, gudgeon, perch and the odd chub making up most bags.  The last swims on the stream where it enters the Medway are the deepest and usually hold a good head of bream to over 6lb.   River Medway From the car park, keep to the left hand side of the field (alongside the Muck Stream) and continue down to the river. Fishing is available from the Muck Stream downstream to just beyond Aldridges Lock. The first two to three swims at the beginning of the stretch have the deepest water and usually hold a resident shoal of bream.  Good sport can be had right down the stretch with roach over 1lb, perch over 2lb, chub over 3lb, bream gudgeon, bleak, the occasional carp and some very good pike fishing.   Please note Please keep to the sides of the field avoiding any growing crops.   Gate Lock Code This year the code is: 41931.  This code is also found on the front of your membership card.   Rivers Beult & Lesser Tiese (Sat. Nav. Ref. ME15 0RB)   Go over Yalding Bridge and into Yalding Village.  Turn left (Hovis sign on shop) over a bridge (R. Beult).  After 200 yards turn right by the War Memorial (Vicarage Road).  Eventually you will pass a Mill House and R. Beult on your right and a number of houses, a children’s play park and football field on your right football field on your left, turn right into East Street (signposted Marden & Chainhurst).  Keep to the main road, which will go over a bridge (R. Beult).  The road goes slightly uphill with Chainhurst Oast houses on your right.  50 yards past the Oasts turn right (opposite Chainhurst Farm and pond).  Go down this lane and past the “No Through Road” sign.  The last property on the left is a converted barn, turn left immediately after the wooden fence bordering the property.  This track will half circle the field in front of the house but will take you to our car park on your left.  Walk down the right hand edge of the field to the Beult or around the top edge of the field by the car park to come to the top of the Lesser Tiese (right hand bank downstream only).  Our part of the Lesser Tiese starts 30 yards below the bridge to its confluence with the Beult.   The river is deep with many Lily pads and rushes, a good tench fishery with fish over 7lb being recorded.  Tactics used are float fishing a rod length out from the bank with either sweetcorn, bread, small cubes of luncheon meat or small boilies being the favoured baits.  Early to late evenings are best.  A good head of roach to over 2lb are present along with bream to 5lb, perch to 3lb and some excellent pike fishing.  Numbers of carp are taken each season some to over 20lb and the odd large chub.   The Lesser Tiese meanders down through the fields to the River Beult and in the summer its banks are a mass of wild flowers.  It has many deeper holes and glides but only fishes really well when there is a good flow of water.  The best sport is mainly with chub (best reported 4lb 13oz) but averaging 2lb.  Light legering tactics work well with the best baits being bread, luncheon meat and lobworms.  Perch to 3lb are also taken mainly falling to lobworm or small dead baits.  For the chub and perch a roving approach is the best method but there are also roach and dace present if you just want to sit, fish, admire the scenery and get away from it all this is the place to go.  200 barbel up to 2lb were stocked into the Lesser Tiese so please let us know of your catches.   Please note please keep to the edges of the fields avoiding any growing crops.   River Beult, New Barn Farm (Sat. Nav. Ref. TN12 0DT)   Take the A20 through West Kingsdown to Wrotham Heath.  After traffic lights turn right into Seven Mile Lane (A2016 to Paddock Wood) just past “The Vineyard Restaurant”.  At first roundabout turn left onto A26 (Maidstone and Rochester).  Continue through Wateringbury towards Teston.  After about 4 miles turn right onto the B2163, go over the level crossing and bridge (R. Medway) towards West Farleigh.  At junction turn right towards Yalding and Coxheath.  Fork left to Coxheath and Linton (B2163).  Keep to the left (B2163) Heath Road through East Farleigh into Coxheath.  At traffic lights turn right to Staplehurst (A229).  After next set of traffic lights turn left into Headcorn Road.  This is a small, winding road, which goes over two narrow bridges.  Immediately after the second bridge, on the left are two white boarded cottages.  The entrance to the fishery is a gate alongside the second cottage.  Follow the track right down through the fields to the car park alongside the river.   This section of the river is designated as an SSSI (Scene of Special Scientific Interest) and so fishing is from designated swims only.  This beautiful stretch of river is heavily reeded and if you want a quiet days fishing this is the place to be.  The main species are tench to over 6lbs, roach to 1lb 6oz, bream to 7lb, chub to over 5lb, good sized perch and the best car reported went 11lb.  Favoured baits seem to be bread and maggots floatfished hard against the reeds.  Early morning and late evening are best for the tench.  In the winter the track leading from the gate to the car park can be very hazardous.   Please note All gates to be closed behind you.  Do not damage any bankside reeds or fauna.  Fishing from designated swims only.   River Beult, Great Tilden Farm (Sat. Nav. Ref. to be advised)   From Dartford, take A2/M2 coast bound.  At junction 3 on the M2 follow signs for A229 Maidstone.  Continue through Maidstone on the A229 following the signs for Hastings.  At the Wheatsheaf Public House the road forks; take the right fork, which keeps you on the A229 towards Hastings.  After 4.1 miles you will cross over the River Beult.  Turn right immediately before the Stilebridge Public House.  After 0.4 of a mile, turn right into Tilden Lane.  Go past the cottages on your right, then turn right into Great Tilden Farm.  Follow the track for 0.1 mile, then turn left between the two barns.  Parking is on the grassy area to the right.   We have only just acquired this fishery, boundaries of which will be displayed in the car parking area.   This water contains carp, tench, pike, roach, bream, eels and chub.  Details of catches taken would be appreciated; please contact the club office.

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