Weybread Pits Fishing Complex

Harleston and Wortwell Angling Club control six fishing lakes on the Norfolk/Suffolk border collectively known as Weybread Pits. The fishery is an old gravel workings and the lakes are all well established with sizes ranging from the 1.5 acre Club pit to the 100 acre Ocean pit. With a total of 320 pegs to choose from there is plenty of peg variety, and there is always a good peg free. The club also controls approximately 6 miles of the Upper River Waveney from Lucks Mill in Needham downstream to Homersfield.

How to get there.

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From Harleston Market place. Turn left towards Diss and follow the road until you see the Cherry Tree public house on the right (approx 1/2mile). Turn left and follow the road, sign posted Halesworth (B1116) for a further one mile until you cross the River Waveney. Weybread Ocean Pit is another 100 yards on the left. Travel a further 100 yards and you will come to a three way fork in the road. Take the right hand fork for the No1 pit (on the right) and the Middle pit (on the left). For the Club and Dan Turton Pits take the middle road and then turn left at the next junction (200 yards) then left again into the entrance. For Halls Pit turn left at the fork and follow the road for one mile and the entrance is 300 yards past the farm on the left, this also takes you to the Eastern end of the Ocean Pit.

Weybread Club Pit is a small members only lake containing thirty two pegs. This lake is heavily stocked with a variety of species, from tiny Gudgeon to Carp ensuring good catches all year round.

The Middle Pit is the clubs carp baggin lake with 36 pegs and ton up catches common during the warmer months. A good head of roach, gudgeon and crucian carp provide plenty of bites throughout winter.

The No1 is the oldest lake in the complex a large 56 peg lake with varying depths. A good head of specimen carp keep the bivvie boys happy and the shoals of roach and bream makes it an excellent match water.

The Ocean Pit is a monster of a lake at nearly 100 acres with a good head of roach and bream, there is also some monster carp for anyone brave enough to tackle this vast expanse of water, tench and perch add variety.

The Dan Turton pit or Bottle pit as it is also known is not fishable on a day ticket and is reserved for Harleston club members only. It is a deep lake with nearly 6m of water in the middle and covers about 10 acres.

Halls Pit is a small reed fringed lake. Clear deep water makes it a hardwater to fish, with early morning and evening best producing nice rudd, roach and perch. A sprinkling of specimen carp are also present.

The River Waveney Harleston Angling Club also controls the fishing on about 3 miles of the upper River Waveney from Lucks Mill between Needham and Brockdish then downstream to Mendham Mill.