Day permit prices frozen for anglers at Teesdale reservoirs

DAY permit prices for the new fishing season have been frozen at Northumbrian Water’s reservoirs.
There will be at least 12,000 fish stocked at the six premier fisheries waiting for anglers at the reservoirs including Grassholme and Hury (fly-only) in Teesdale. They open for fishing on Saturday, March 11. Throughout the season, a minimum of 80,000 fish will be stocked at the company’s reservoirs with more than half of them from Northumbrian Water’s own fish farms in Northumberland and the Tees Valley. An additional benefit for anglers this season is that they can now reel in extra rewards towards their free day’s fishing entitlement when they purchase retail goods from Northumbrian Water.
Don Coe, from Northumbrian Water, said: “We appreciate that many of our anglers are finding it increasingly difficult to fund their fishing. It’s not easy for us to meet the costs to sustain our fisheries either but we continue to look closely at our budgets and believe that we can keep price and catch limits the same.
“To help us achieve this we have changed our visitor centre and fishing lodge opening times at Fontburn, Derwent, Grassholme and Scaling Dam from a 7am start to an 8am start Monday to Friday. However, we will continue to open at these sites at 7am on weekends and bank holidays.”
A full eight-fish day permit costs £24 with concessions at £22, the four fish “credit cruncher” from 2pm is £17 and the family and couples 12-fish ticket is £36.
The barbless fly-only sporting ticket costs £15. The age limit for free fishing with an adult is 18 and all the children in the family under that age can fish for free and share the limit catch with their full paying parent or guardian.