Open 7 days a week.

The simple answer is No. The reason is that we have an affordable café here and the profits from it help the running of the lakes. We don't object to anglers bringing a bite to eat with them whilst fishing, still we would discourage members from bringing the family along for a picnic and BBQ. Redbridge Lakes is a place to chill out and its unfair on your fellow members if you are partying whilst they are there to relax.

Members are encouraged to bring family and friends with them. It is your responsibility as a member to check your guests are abiding by the rules and you should always be present so you can let them in and out of the front gates, shop and café . Please don't expect our staff to allow access to your guests if they call on the gate intercom. Members can also bring along anglers as guests on the ODD occasion The Fishing fee for Guests is £ 15. We would expect your guest to become a member if they enjoy their day and would like to come again.

Yes you need to be a member in order to gain access. If you know a member, you could ask them to bring you along as a guest.

It would be great if we could afford to employ someone to show people around before they join, yet this is not commercially viable. We do have the occasional open days and you could always ask a member to bring you along. Please look through the website and if there is anything you are unsure about, please drop us an email and we will do our level best to answer your questions. Or you can simply join up and if you don't like what you see when you first visit, we can refund you on that day.

Fishing costs have remained the same now for over 10 years. Its just £10 for a full day or £2 for and hour. We don't restrict you to just one rod, you can have another if you wish. Children under 16 don't pay for fishing, so long as they are sharing a swim with a paying adult. We have poles and Nets here that you can hire for FREE. you just need to purchase a rig and bait. Rigs cost £5 and are reusable. Allow about £2. for bait. Fishing Guests Pay £3 per hour or £15 per day.

That's fine, if you are not and angler yourself, you may wish to come along to one of our instruction days. or if you check out the videos on this site, you will find lots of useful tips . Beginners are encouraged to stay close to the café, there are plenty of fish around here and you will normally find a member who can help if you get into trouble.

Everyone pays the same here, it keeps things simple. We will make some concessions for disabled groups and the like, so long as one of the group becomes a member. Please email us and agree in advance.

Predominantly we are what is know as silverfish lakes. We do have some nice carp in Lake Daisy yet we don't consider ourselves as a carp fishery. Roach Rudd Ide Hybrids Chub Bream Tench Crucians Brown fish Gold Fish Orfe Gudgeon Eels Perch Commons Mirrors

Generally, our fishing competitions are on Sundays and Wednesdays and they are restricted to Members and the occasional guest. Unless we send out a newsletter telling you the lakes are full, you will always find space to leisure fish. Its great to get involved in competition fishing, you will meet lots of other competitive , yet friendly anglers here who will be more than willing to give you tips on how to improve your fishing. We normally meet up in or around the café in the morning and arrange where everyone will fish. the start time is generally 10am and we stop fishing on the whistle at 4pm. Your fish are kept in the keepnet during the day ( we can loan you one at first ) and we weigh them just after the final whistle to see who has caught the most. We encourage anglers of all abilities to join in. Don't worry being humiliated by a great angler who catches more than you. its a great way of learning and there is lots of fun and banter at the same time. Your day ticket costs the same £10 and there is an additional fee of £10 that goes into the prize fund. Some of our competitions involve you joining into opposing teams and the winning team shares the prize equally between them, so even if you only catch a tiddler, you could be in the winning team and share a prize. You may wish to join our Match anglers Facebook group called : Redbridge Lakes Match Group. Here you will see lots of information about the competitions and photos of the fish that have been caught and you can ask any questions you need answered. Don't be afraid, come and join in the fun, you will enjoy it.

The water is mostly road run off from Roding Lane North and some that seeps through from the Claybury hills. Its filtered naturally through the silt trap, more commonly know as the King Fisher pool and through reeds on the islands where it finally gets pumped back to lake Cuthbert. You will be amazed how many pipes are under the landscape.

The lakes are about 60cm near the bank and 150cm in the middle, this is consistent across and around both lakes.

Access for those with difficulties has been taken into consideration and you will find we have appropriate disabled toilets and ramps into the café and other areas. We have built a hard pathway that leads around the nature trail and up to the bee hives. Access to the bankside for fishing is available in many spots and should not be challenging.

Opening time vary throughout the year depending upon the daylight conditions. As a rule of thumb, we open at at around 7am and close 30mins before sunset. We send out regular newsletters by email with lots of current information including open and closing times. The Café is staffed 3 days a week generally Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday and bank holidays where you can be served with a cooked breakfast or lunch. At all other times the café is open with a self serve facility

Fish welfare is of a major concern, so we only allow keepnets on competition days. At all other times, fish Must be returned straight away after gently being unhooked.

We don't have restrictions on baits. Yet we do ask you to use common sense and not introduce masses of boilies and other strange concoctions into the water More importantly, Please don't throw your unwanted bait into the lake or on the banks at the end of the day. This only encourages Vermin and stagnates the water causing oxygen deficiencies and harm to the ecology.

A barbed hook is much more difficult to remove from a fishes mouth and can cause untold damage, where a barbless hook is much kinder and is easily removed. Therefore BARBED HOOKS MUST NOT BE USE HERE.

Absolutely NO Swimming. Unless a prearranged open water swim is booked with our management team

Feeding the wild foul is not so good apart perhaps in the winter when the lakes are frozen. At other times the birds have plenty of natural food to eat here that is much better for them. Bread left on the bankside can encourage a vermin problem, so we do ask you to refrain from feeding the birds.

If you catch a nice fish and you want to take a photo: Remove the hook and place the fish into a landing net and keep it in the water whilst you are getting your camera set up. Ideally Big Carp should be held low to the ground upon or close to an unhooking mat. Other species can be held over the landing net and close to the ground. Please don't let us see a photo of you holding a fish whilst standing up, or swinging from a line. Fish welfare is of major importance, they give you lots of pleasure, so please treat them with respect and make sure they re returned to the water unharmed.

We have poles and landing nets here that you can borrow for FREE. You will need to purchase a rig costing around £5. that you can use again on another occasion.

Yes, So long as your activity does not restrict the other members , we will always try and accommodate you.

Mink and Otters are probably the only swimming creatures tough enough to break the fresh water muscle shells. We don't have any Otters here, but we do have a few Mink

So long as one person in the club is a member, we can arrange in advance for clubs to book a number of swims.

We built the lakes in 2008. Photographs of the build are outside the tackle shop

Occasionally we do have some Honey for sale normally from July to around September. Get in quick as it sells out very quickly

The recycle shop originated from the friends group to raise funds for the development and upkeep of the Nature Trail. Any access funds are donated to an appropriate charity. Members bring along items they wish to donate and other leave a cash donation for the item they wish to take.