River stretch · Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire
Thames at Day's Lock, Dorchester
1.1 km along both banks — left and right are as you look downstream.
Reported as free fishing
Verify locally before fishing.
- Season
- Close season reported, 15 March to 15 June · What it covers
Nobody here has checked this water
Somebody told us. Nobody at CanI.fish has checked it in person or with the controlling body.
Page last updated 3 September 2026How verification works
Can I fish there?
- Free· no charge
This rule confirmed 2 June 2026
Types of fishing
- Coarse
Close season: 15 March to 15 June. Close season explanation.
- Night fishing unknown
Evidence
- No online source yet
- Not checked by CanI.fish
No source recorded yet. The information above is reported, not confirmed.
Page last updated 3 September 2026.
What’s in there?
Reported, not confirmed
- Maybe bleak
- Maybe chub
- Maybe dace
- Maybe perch
- Maybe pike
- Maybe roach
No catches logged here yet — and logging them is how the species list above fills up. Log one and it helps everybody who reads this page next.
What do I need?
Free
Plus an Environment Agency rod licence — buy or check one at GOV.UK.
Free stretch, but an Environment Agency rod licence is still required.
How do I get there?
Moderate access once you are there — but nobody has told us how to get in
No parking, no way in, no walk recorded. If you have fished here, tell us how to get there.
Is this still accurate?
If you have been, tell us whether the page matched what you found.
Help fill the gaps on this water
Know about parking, species, rules or access? Add what you know and leave the rest — no account needed.
Parking and getting thereWhere you leave the car, the way in, and how hard it is.1 gap
Missing here: no parking or way in recorded.
Left and right are as you look downstream. Required before publishing a river or a canal, and not applicable to a lake or a pond.
The way in, where to park, what methods are allowed, and any rules the fishery sets. One box — say whichever of those you know.
Species presentNothing missing
Leave it blank if you do not know. Blank says nobody has told us.
FishingNight fishing, methods, and the close season.1 gap
Missing here: night fishing permissions.
Defaults to yes on a river or canal and no on a stillwater. Change it only where the water is genuinely an exception.
Types of fishing allowed in this water. If none are selected, it does not mean anything goes. It means we do not know.
Permission and who runs itWhat it needs, who controls it, and what a day costs.Nothing missing
For example: 7am to dusk, closed Tuesdays. Leave it if you are not sure.
Add the page that shows it — the club’s own site, or the fishery’s contact page. We cannot take a number without one.
Photographs
The water, the way in, a sign on the bank. Every photograph is looked at by a person before it appears.
Add a photographAccount neededAnything elseSomething that changed, or something none of the boxes above asked about.
Where to next
Waters like this one
Matched on permission, discipline and what each water is set up for.
- Long Wittenham / Clifton Hampden Free Stretch3.0 km awayFreeRiver stretch · Clifton HampdenReported as free fishing — page last updated 17 September 2026.Also the same permission and coarse.
- Thames at Abingdon, St Helen's Wharf8.1 km awayFreeRiver stretch · Abingdon-on-ThamesReported as free fishing — page last updated 30 July 2026.Also the same permission and coarse.
- The Plough at Long Wittenham2.8 km awayFreeRiver stretch · Long WittenhamReported as free fishing — page last updated 4 September 2026.Also the same permission.
Waters nearby
Within 15 km, measured straight across the map.
- River Thame to Thames0 m awayMembers onlyRiver stretch · Dorchester on ThamesReported as club membership water — page last updated 5 September 2026.
- Thame Stream Bridge to Keen Edge Ferry50 m awayMembers onlyRiver stretch · Dorchester on ThamesReported as club membership water — page last updated 5 September 2026.
- River Thame near Dorchester150 m awayUnknownRiver stretch · Dorchester on ThamesReported as unknown — page last updated 3 September 2026.
Who contributed this
- First mapped by
- Anonymous
- Last edited by
- Anonymous
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