River Coln

The River Coln is the best known of the Cotswold trout streams and the club has access to seven different stretches of the river, several of which require prior booking.

The river rises above Andoversford on the Cotswold escarpment and flows through one of the most beautiful valleys in Gloucestershire. It passes through the tourists’ favourite Cotswold beauty spot Bibury and the smaller villages of Coln St Aldwyns and Quenington before reaching the market town of Fairford. From there it heads south-east, joining the Thames about a mile above Lechlade.

The water was historically gin clear and is still usually clear enough to stalk individual fish. It has good fly life with early season hatches of LDOs and grannom, a good mayfly hatch and summer hatches of BWOs and pale wateries.

Some of our fisheries on the Coln have supplementary stocking of trout but all contain wild trout of a good size and some grayling.