River stretch · Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire
The Plough at Long Wittenham
Nearest postcode OX14 4QH
Reported as free fishing
Verify locally before fishing.
Free
- Night fishing by arrangement
- Right bank, 30 m — left and right are as you look downstream.
- Rod licence needed
ReportedHow we know
Information, not permission. Check locally before you fish.
One thing we do not know yet: fish species.
Add what you knowCan I fish there?
- Free· no charge
This rule confirmed 4 September 2026
Plus an Environment Agency rod licence — buy or check one at GOV.UK.
Rules
- Night fishing by arrangement
Rules
No rules recorded. The club or fishery will have its own. Know them? Add them.
How do we know?
Nobody here has checked this water
Somebody told us. Nobody at CanI.fish has checked it yet.
Visited by DT on 4 Sept 2026.
Page last updated 4 September 2026How verification works
Evidence
- No online source yet
No source recorded yet. The information above is reported, not confirmed.
How do I get there?
Moderate access
On the bank
Park at the pub. Buy a pint, do some fishing. Make sure you let the bar staff know you would like to fish.
Near the water
- Didcot Angling Centre — Tackle shop, 3.1 miles away
Boundary: Estimated. Drawn from local knowledge. The line is roughly right and its ends are a guess. How we know.
River level 0.06 m · within the usual range · read 05:00 on 2 November
The river today
From the Environment Agency gauge at Clifton Lock, River Thames (Long Wittenham).
- River level · Stage
- 0.06 mabove the gauge’s own datumRead at 05:00 on 2 November.Steady over the last 6 hours.-0.03–0.26 m49 readings · 6 daysWithin the Environment Agency's typical range for this gauge (0.00 to 0.85 m).
Nothing newer has arrived from the gauge. These readings are as old as their timestamps say.
We report what the gauge says and when it said it. We do not judge whether a water is safe or worth fishing.
This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta).
Forecast for this area
Sunrise 07:02 · sunset 16:33
1025–1030 hPa48 hours- TodayOvercast12° / 7°13 mph NEWaning crescent, 32% lit
- WedLight drizzle10° / 6°0.2 mm · 6%15 mph NEWaning crescent, 22% lit
- ThuOvercast9° / 6°10 mph NEWaning crescent, 14% lit
- FriLight drizzle10° / 7°0.4 mm · 13%7 mph NEWaning crescent, 7% lit
- SatLight drizzle10° / 8°2.6 mm · 10%4 mph NWaning crescent, 3% lit
- SunOvercast10° / 6°7 mph NENew moon, 1% lit
- MonOvercast10° / 5°28%11 mph ENew moon, 0% lit
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)
What’s in there?
No species confirmed yet. A fish goes on a water's list once two anglers with accounts have reported catching it, once we have looked at a photograph of one, or once we have checked the water against a source that lists it.
No catches logged here yet. Log one and it helps everybody who reads this page next.
Recent visits
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What has changed
What has changed
- 3 Oct 2026The nearest postcode added
- 3 Oct 2026Which river it is on added
- 2 Oct 2026How hard it is to reach changed
- 29 Sept 2026A river level gauge added
- 27 Sept 2026One species removed
- 19 Sept 2026How hard it is to reach changed
- 16 Sept 2026How hard it is to reach changed
Anything else about this water
Anything elseSomething that changed, or something none of the boxes above asked about.
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Where to next
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- First mapped by
- Dave
- Last edited by
- Dave
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