A well established and popular fishery which closed down for several years after the previous owners sold the neighbouring house and land, Alvechurch Fishery re-opened in 2009 under new ownership and is undergoing massive changes which are transforming it into one of the Midlands leading pleasure and match venues.
Typical of the improvements which have been made was the completion in summer 2010 of a new clubhouse and tackle shop for anglers(left).
Serving a variety of hot and cold food and drinks, the clubhouse is also equipped with a large screen digital television whilst the takleshop is stocking a growing range of tackle, clothing and baits.
The first water you come to when leaving the large car park at Alvechurch Fisheries, Horseshoe Lake is an acre and a half in size and has 36 new purpose-built wooden platform pegs. With flat even banks, it is suitable for disabled anglers.The sides on Horseshoe shelve away giving two feet of water in the margins and an average depth further out of between four and six feet. The lake has a flat eve
The new 25-peg Canal Match Pool opened for angling in spring 2015 and is already regularly throwing up match winning weights of between 100lbs and 150lbs. Constructed using laser measuring equipment to ensure all pegs present uniform swims where anglers will have an equal chance of catching, there is a four feet wide shelf two feet deep which runs all around the edge of the lake before the sides d
Re-opened for fishing in April 2016 and reserved for pleasure anglers, House Pool has been quadrupled in size to privide some 35 pegs. With three islands to fish to, the pool has a two feet wide, two feet deep shelf running around the edge which then drops gradually to a bowl shaped bottom with a maximum depth of 10 feet. There are no shelves aorund the island which have banks which taper to the b
Until 2016 Arrow Pool was Alvechurch Fisheries' specimen water. When the owners took over the fishery, Arrow had been left to its own devices and become overgrown with bankside trees and vegetation. However, the pool was fully restored and improved with the opening of swims and construction of decent sized bark-chip pegs to make the water fishable once again.However, problems with anglers fishing
By far the smallest of the Alvechurch Fisheries waters, Harry's Pool has always been used as a children's starter pool having only nine pegs and being about five feet deep throughout with a flat even bottom which makes it easy to fish.All the pegs on Harry's have been replaced, the bottom cleared of silt and the pool refilled and stocked with a mix of smaller fish including commons, mirrors and ko
