Rules on Fishing in the River Isbourne

Wormington and the River Isbourne sit in the Midlands Region of rod fishing bylaws. The government's website for the Midlands Bylaws is here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regional-rod-fishing-byelaws-severn-trent-midlands

The National bylaws apply as well. See here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-rod-fishing-byelaws-for-england-freshwater-fishing-with-a-rod-and-line

Some of the basics:

• Before you go fishing in England and Wales, you must buy a rod fishing licence. Licences for children between 13 and 16 years old are free. Children under 13 do not need a licence.
• The annual close season for coarse fishing is 15 March to 15 June. A close season is the period each year when certain types of fishing must stop to allow fish to breed.  A stated period, such as 15 March to 15 June, includes the full day of 15 March and the full day of 15 June.
• The close season for brown trout and rainbow trout in rivers, and for brown trout in unenclosed stillwaters, is 8 October to 17 March.

• There are a lot of rules to do with rods, hooks, baits and lures, but whatever else, it is illegal to leave a rod and line unattended with its bait or hook in the water. You must be in control of your rod and line at all times.
• You must not take or kill any trout (except rainbow trout) shorter than 20cm from any water.

The maximum daily catch is:

• a total of 15 coarse fish (barbel, chub, common bream, common carp, crucian carp, dace, perch, pike, roach, rudd, silver bream, smelt or tench, including any hybrids of these species), other than grayling, of not more than 20cm
• 2 grayling sized between 30cm and 38cm
• 1 pike of not more than 65cm