River Ouse – Linton-on-Ouse (Bottom)

The lowdown

• First off, Bottom and Top are separate listings, so don’t lump them together when planning your day. Bottom covers the two fields downstream of the Top length — that’s the bit to keep in mind when picking your water.
• You’re fishing the left bank here, with permanent pegs numbered 264–294. Those numbers give you a handy way to identify the stretch, rather than relying on a vague description of a field or a bankside landmark.
• Getting in uses the same entrance as Linton Top, marked by a notice board. Sharing an entrance doesn’t make them the same stretch, though, so keep the Bottom peg numbers handy and save yourself a bit of faff.
• This isn’t somewhere to turn up expecting an ordinary public day ticket. The venue is listed for yearbook holders only, so get your society membership sorted before loading the tackle and heading for the bank.
• Parking needs a little care. Stay out of the airfield car park; the shared directions allow parking on the grass verge clear of the road, or down the lane to the fishery. Leave yourself time to get that bob on.
• Using the lane parking? Reverse your car towards the hedge, as instructed. Parking is at the owner’s risk, and only anglers are permitted on the fishery — worth knowing before arranging a tag-along for the day.
• There’s no stated depth or flow character to build a proper swim-by-swim plan around. Keep the approach flexible rather than banking on a particular glide or crease, and check overnight permission with the society before planning a night session.

Methods: Keep your tackle plan flexible and assess the swim before settling on an approach. The listing doesn’t name species, depths or flow character, so there’s no firm steer towards trotting or feeder fishing here.

Access & tickets

Get a yearbook through the society’s membership arrangements; membership runs from January 1 to December 31, with no joining fee and postage and packing included in published yearbook prices. Fishing can begin immediately after payment, using your PayPal receipt as membership evidence.

Fish the club names

The club doesn't list species for this stretch, so we haven't guessed.

Key rules

• The venue is listed for yearbook holders only, not ordinary public day tickets.
• Only anglers are permitted on the fishery.
• Do not park in the airfield car park.
• Grass-verge parking must be clear of the road.
• Cars using the lane parking must be reversed towards the hedge.
• Parking is at the owner's risk.

River level

Where it is