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Westerly Lake

Fishing and Caravan Park

Wheldrake

York

YO19 6AH

 

 

Grassed, flat, well drained site with 20 electric hook ups. Plenty of space between vans. Free showers, toilets, wash basins, Chemical disposal tanks. Gents contains 2 sinks 2 urinals 2 sit down 1 shower.

Ladies contains 1 sink 1 shower 3 sit downs.

Apparently there is also a dog run but as there were no dogs on site on our visit I did not find out where this was.

This is a recently constructed site (three years) so the pitches and facilities all comply with recent legislation.

Watch out for tripping the electrics as they don't seem to let much power through before cutting out.

The boxes are not locked so its not much of a problem really.

Shop within walking distance at Garden Centre at end of site.

Village Pub half a mile from end of site. Serves food including Sunday Carvery (Booking advisable) also does a Take Away service.

7 Miles from York town centre

2.5 miles from Air Museum

4 miles from Designer Outlet with over 1 hundred shops.

(Great for dropping girlies off while we go fishing)

Site charges include electrics and are £9.50 per night +£1 for awning. No groundsheets not even the grass friendly ones.

Directions: Take A19 from York to Selby

and after three miles take left hand turn signed Wheldrake.

Site is 4 miles on left at Garden Centre on approach into Wheldrake Village (first built up area you come to)

Fishing

30 peg lake containing Carp (Common , Mirror, Crucian)

Large chub Roach, Bream, Tench and Perch.

There are 2 islands, which are fishable from about half the pegs and a few of the

 pegs are adjacent to the caravan pitches (within 15 yards)

No night fishing, no hemp, no groundbait, other than in feeders. Barbless hooks

 only. Keep nets were being used when we were there, from a personal point of view

 I would only use a keep net for silver fish and anything over 3lb I would return

 straight back to water.

Water depth seemed to be fairly constant at 4.5 to 5 feet. Snag free bottom and

a fairly open water with no real features other than the islands and a few small

 bank side trees and bushes which have recently been cut back.

Plenty of reed grass in margins but not giving much cover.

Tactics:

Waggler, Feeder, Ledger, Pole. All seemed to be used with some success, though with some hefty carp in the lake, I would be inclined to dismiss the Pole when pleasure fishing.

All the usual baits were having success on the bottom and I have no doubt that as the waters warm up that the surface baits will come into their own.

A cracking water which I shall be visiting again and hopefully remember the Digital Camera.

Best fish on visit were: 9lb common 2 x 5lb chub 1 x 4.5 chub 4lb mirror and a 2lb 3 oz Roach

Word of warning.

The lake is sometimes booked up for matches so check before you visit as they book the whole lake and even as a caravanner you will not be allowed to fish when a match is on.

(There are however numerous lakes within 5 miles so you can still find somewhere to fish albeit not outside the van door)

 

Tom L
CLIC