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IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ - AGM 2024 UPDATES


  • Membership fees and membership classes have been revised - Please the Membership page
  • Season dates have been revised - Season on Salden Lake re-opens 15th April 2024.
  • Fishery maintenance and improvements - Work Parties planned for March 24th and April 7th 2024

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The Winslow and District Fishing Club has been part of the local community in Buckinghamshire for over 50 years.  Our aim is to provide for the pleasure angler, with some modest member-only matches.  We are a social, family friendly club and always welcome new members. We have an active committee who can often found fishing and maintaining the water.



Origins:

Salden Lake has a long history, older than many more famous or high profile fisheries. Nearby Salden House was the original house, built during the reign of Elizabeth I by her Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Fortescue. At the time it cost £33,000 to build — equivalent to £5,750,000 today !


It's recorded that 60 servants were retained to run the property and it was visited by James I in 1603 to create 22 Knights, another sign of its magnificence and local importance. Much of the original house was demolished in the eighteenth century and a portion was converted into the current farmhouse and store. The original house would have been provided with fresh fish from a large pond, likely the origins of our current water. This was the custom of its day, as were the religious orders who provided us with the original ‘paternoster’ tackle.


Over time the pond has been enlarged, extending the original Salden Horse Pond (as it was known back then) to become the Salden Lake we fish today. It can probably be claimed that fishing has been conducted here, in one form or another, for well over 400 years. There are few man made waters that can claim a longer history or provenance in England. It is currently our turn to look after this well-hidden jewel and keep it going until its next chapter.

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