Horsey Angling
Information on booking and fishing Horsey Mere for the 2011-2012 Season.
NB: This may be subject to change for the 2012-2013 season,
Permits will be issued for individual days only, permits will not be issued to any one angler or boat for consecutive days, eg: Mon. Tues, Wed etc. A minimum 2 day break will be automatically applied for multiple date bookings by any one angler or boat
Applications are invited to state their preferred date on which to fish but will accept the date issued on their permit. Every effort will be made to issue permits as near to the date requested. Permits will be issued in order of completed application forms received.
PERMIT FEE - £15 (no VAT), by cheque only, made payable to ‘Horsey Estate Trust’.
Application forms, together with the appropriate fee and a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to: Buxton Property Management (Fishing), Speedwell House, Lingwood, Norwich, NR13 4ET. Permits will be issued by post only.
Alternatively download a copy below:
Conditions of Permit
Updated rules regarding fishing on Horsey Mere -(12/2011)
- Permits are issued to fish on Horsey Mere but the Horsey Estate Trust will cancel permits should it be found that the attached conditions are being violated and/or the presence of anglers on the Mere is found to affect the wintering wildfowl.
- Only 1 boat will be allowed on the Mere at any one time (these are not provided).
- Boats will access the Mere from Meadow Dyke only and fish within the zone shown on the attached plan. The boundary of the fishing zone will be marked by mooring buoys and a white post at either bank and boats must not go beyond this line. Boats are to keep to 30 metres from the bank as shown shaded on the plan.
- Petrol motors must not be used on the Mere. Boats must be rowed or powered by electric motor.
- Boats must have their name or authorised registration number painted on their hull or permanently affixed and must be clearly visible at all times. Boats names to be those duly registered with the Broads Authority.
- Permit holders will co-operate fully with the Horsey Estate.
- The use of livebait, gaffs and keep nets/sacks/tanks is prohibited.
- Fish are to be ‘landed’ with the use of a landing net and returned to the water immediately afterwards. Allowance will be tolerated for weighing, photographing and measuring purposes.
- All litter (including cigarette ends) to be taken away and not deposited on the Mere or surrounding area. Anglers to make every effort to retrieve any lost tackle.
- The use of radios or bait boats of any description or any form is prohibited.
- Only small open boats will be permitted.
- Boats will not enter the Mere before 08:00 hours on the date of the issued permit and will leave the Mere before 16:00 hours the same day.
- Each permit will be for one day’s fishing only.
- Permit holders will report any person seen violating these conditions.
- Boats will be allowed on the Mere, within the permitted fishing area ONLY, from 1st November to 28th February.
- The presence of considerable weed growth on the Mere requires that minimum nylon line breaking strain of 15lbs or 40lb braid, together with a wire trace of 28lbs minimum breaking strain, must be used.
- In the interests of the welfare of the fish, anglers must have a purpose made unhooking mat available in the boat to protect the pike while unhooking.
Horsey Mere Access Trial application with map as below:…horsey-permit-application.pdf
Download Hickling Wildfowl Refuges leaflet:…Includes the map below:…waterfowl-07.pdf
(Once downloaded double click the file to open it in Google Earth application if you have this installed, or install it to view)
NB: The new Google based map below shows the permitted fishing area as of the Winter of 2011/12
View horsey mere in a larger map