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A warm welcome to the WDAC Game section. The Club has two beautiful dedicated trout venues, three lakes in total at Winterborne Zelston and Rawlsbury.
See below for details on how to buy your game tickets and for up-to-date game-related news.
Dear Fellow Trout Anglers
Winterbourne Zelston
As sure as day turns to night, autumn has arrived and with it, autumn rains. Not really what we might want, but it is good news for Winterbourne Zelston. The water level has now started to rise and we’re looking at stocking with hard fighting, great eating, fresh trout in the next week or two. I will confirm as usual when we have restocked. At that point, any remaining “end of season special” tickets - the £30 three fish ticket - will become invalid and we’ll revert to normal day ticketing at Zelston. If you do have an end of season special ticket and haven’t caught your three trout, it might be worth giving it a go before we restock. I had one more trout to catch on my second £30 ticket so I took my fly rod down a couple of days ago and was quickly rewarded with a beautiful 3lb rainbow - lean but not skinny, very strong with a big tail and great stamina and in excellent condition. The water is crystal clear with plenty of open water to fish in and, even though fish spotting conditions weren’t ideal, I did see two or three other trout.
RAWLSBURY
Remember, Rawlsbury season ends on 31st October too. I’ve attached a couple of photo’s of work on Viners from a couple of weeks ago, where we removed, by hand, reedmace and opened the bridge up to access the top end. Good for the end of this season - great for next season. A very big thank you to everyone that has helped with all the work parties over this year - great work and great fun too - thank you.
Tight lines and stay safe everyone
Nigel
OCTOBER
LAKES REPORT
TROUT TICKETS
For Winterborne Zelston
A Two Fish Ticket
Member - £20 Guest - £25
For Rawlsbury Lakes (Closed 1st November - 28th Feb inclusive)
A Two Fish Ticket
Member - £20 Guest - £25
A Three Fish Ticket
Member - £30
(Catch and release on Viners as usual)
A Four Fish Ticket
Member - £40 Guest - £50
A Five Fish Ticket
Member - £50 Guest - £60
Trout tickets are available online to members to buy using Paypal but you require a password to access the 'Buy Tickets Page'.
If you do not have a password please email the Game Secretary gamesecretary@
wimborneanddistrictanglingclub.co.uk
When using a PayPal receipt please record your catch return and PayPal purchase on the special tickets provided at the venues and post this in the returns box; as well as recording on the catch return sheets.
Trout tickets can also be obtained for members and their guests at:
Conyers, West Street, Blandford
Castaways, 78 Ashley Road, Poole, BH14 9BN
Wessex Angling, 321 Wimborne Road, Poole, BH15 3DH