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Mitchell House Reservoirs


The two reservoirs at Mitchells House were fished and stocked by Accrington Fly Fishing Club, but this closed down some time ago due to dwindling membership, it lay “fallow” for some seven or eight years before we took it over.  On the occasions I have fished it I have caught and witnessed a resident stock of brown trout which seem to have been washed in from the feeder stream, grown and bred on. The feeder stream having been stocked with browns at some time, the smaller fish washed over the sluice and unable to escape.  Judging from the surface evidence some of the more mature fish are quite large.  I have found that you are best off using the usual large water set up - that is a nine and a half or ten foot rod around 6 weight, and possibly the usual reservoir lure, though I am some what old fashioned tend to use North Country Spiders or a dropper rig with a dry at the surface and a couple of nymphs about nine to ten feet down, depending on where the fish are feeding.

Needless to say catch and return is strictly the order of the day and at the moment we of the Fly Fishing Fraternity have the place to ourselves so please lets have a few more visitors.

We are hoping to improve the stock in these two waters with some rainbow and so on but it is not the right time of year to move game fish at moment, I will keep you informed.

Directions: From the M60 take Junction 18/4 for Bury, Just before Rawtenstall take the A56 toward Accrington, Follow until you reach a large roundabout, stay on the A56 for a further 1.5 to 2 miles when you will find a break in the central reservation with a “No U Turn” sign and the access to a farm, come back down the opposite side of the road for a couple of hundred yards and you will find the entrance to the reservoir. Go over two cattle grids and you can’t miss our car park. Tightlines.