650 Fly Fishing Venues

[Chris Loveys]

Over the years I have got increasingly frustrated at not being able to find info on places to flyfish so for my sins I am now building a datababase of all the fly fishing venues in the UK. Currently I have basic location details on over 650 lakes, rivers and streams and I am adding more every day. I am also adding more detailed information to each venue to enable intelligent searching (eg where can I sneak off to on my way back up the M5 from that meeting in Exeter? Or where can I actually find some grayling?).

 

There are other such 'places to fish' sites I know and some of the Scottish ones are really very good, but none covering England & Wales is aimed specifically at flyfishing, none is anywhere near complete (particularly regarding rivers) and none provides intelligent searching.

 

You can see how I am getting on at www.FlyFishingVenues.co.uk So far I have got up to the letter G in terms of adding the detail but I expect to finish within a few weeks.

 

I would really welcome any suggestions for venues to include (especially rivers), any corrections to the information I have and any feedback regarding the features of the site, ease of use etc...

 

Thanks in advance

Chris Loveys

[cujimmy]

All power to your elbow! It looks good so far, but I don't envy you the work needed to keep the site up to date! It's in my favourites already.

 

I'll send you a spreadsheet I made with details of about 250 venues in England: all stillwaters, I'm afraid, but it may help anyway.

[Chris Loveys]

Thanks. Very much appreciated. I has already been a huge amount of work to get it this far. I am hoping that other anglers like yourself will help me by letting me know where things have changed. That way I can concentrate on maintaining the data rather than chasing around checking every little detail (as I am now). Eventually I hope to get the venue owners and clubs/associations to maintain their own details.

 

If anyone else has any info / comments please let me have them....

 

Chris L

FlyFishingVenues.co.uk

info@FlyFishingVenues.co.uk