Wide Hole – Higher Poynton

Wide Hole is a wide basin on the off-side of the Macclesfield Canal, at Poynton. The water and the field adjacent is owned by the Association.

Fish congregate here at certain times of the year to spawn and take refuge. It provides good fishing for bream, roach, and pike in winter.

There is a WAA gated parking at the top of the hill over the cattle grid. Access the fishery by the gate on the right, just over the cattle grid.

There are approximately a dozen comfortable fishing pegs. Fishing is best done with pole, waggler or swimfeeder. Pike can be caught on small deadbaits or lures.

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