Langport & District Angling Association
Fishing News
River Parrett
River levels
The Fishing Info website appears to have been taken down by the Angling Trust and replaced with something inferior.
I've since found a very good alternative called riverlevels.uk.
The list of Somerset river level monitoring stations can be found with the following link:-
https://riverlevels.uk/levels/somerset#.X9NUk-a2Jpg
I find the 'Monks Lease Wq' at Combe and the 'Oath' at Oath Lock locations give meaningful levels for the river. Scrolling down a page with show a chart of the variation in river level for the past week.
I hope this site is of some use to you.
River Cams
The river cam at the head of the River Sowey at Combe is also very useful to see the level of the River Parrett and if its flooding over the Aller Moor spillway into the Sowey.
The cam at Beasley's Spillway which I think is further downstream also shows the River Parrett level.
The link for the cams is:-
Monks Leaze and the Parrett Spillways (eawessexnorthwebcams.org.uk)
Wednesday 16th September 2026
I fished the river above the footbridge at Oath.
It was overcast and there was an upstream breeze.
I fished a 6 metre whip with a 1.5 gram rig.
I started off with maggot over loosefed maggots and hemp. I caught a few small roach before the bleak moved in. I then fished maggot over just loosefed hemp and caught a few roach and bleak.
I tried a tare on the hook and had a nice roach. I continued to fish the rest of the session with tares over loosefed hemp and caught a succession of quality roach. They didn't seem to interested on hemp on the hook although I did catch the odd roach and a bleak on a seed. I wasn't troubled by pike which is so often the case when you start catching better roach.
Total weight in the end was 5lb 4oz.
Tuesday 6th October
Arriving at the footbridge at Oath , this is what I found; duckweed from bank to bank as far as you could see downstream and upstream. There was some flow so the duckweed may clear in a few days.
Hopeless to try and fish but as I was there, I decided to fish the River Sowey relief channel across the field from the footbridge. I've never fished the Sowey there before but it's free water and it was completely clear of duckweed and with a bit of flow.
I decided to fish for small fish to see how many species I could find.
I set up a 4 metre whip with a 0.6 gram rig as there was no wind. The water was about 7 or 8 feet deep, but with the weed, the float would only trot through at about 4 feet deep.
I fished maggot over loosefed hemp and maggots. I tried fishing a grain of hemp and a tare but with a few dips of the float, I didn't get any bites to connect with.
I caught bleak (there's lots of those!), roach, chublets, a perch and a skimmer bream.
At the end of the session I had 2lb in the net.
Combe Lake
WEED
I know some members aren't happy about the weed in our lake. However, the weed is very beneficial to our fish and the waterfowl. It contains lots of food in the form of invertebrates. It provides shelter and protection for our fish. It also helps to keep the algae levels down and improve water quality.
Most of our fishing can be done in front of the platforms so we only need to clear the weed from where we want to fish. This is easily achieved by spending a few minutes raking before we tackle up. This gives a short period for the swim to settle before fishing. Raking also stirs up the silt which attracts the fish into the swim.
A simple weed rake (as shown above) can be made by joining two garden rake heads back to back and securing with cable ties. A length of strong nylon rope can be securely attached.
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