Blue Mindfulness – Water and Nature
River kayaking, canoeing, paddleboarding and fishing
Encounter Cornwall – award-winning kayaking and paddle boarding tours on the River Fowey. Highly recommended river kayaking tours with a guide. Dogs welcome! Kernock guests receive a 10% discount – contact us for the voucher code. Encounter Cornwall won the Cornwall Tourism award for small activity business of the year in 2024.
T 07932 469803 SN PL23 1LW Email paddlecornwallsup@outlook.com
River Tamar – Experience a canoe trip down the Tamar River between Morwellham and Cotehele with a short break at the village of Calstock. These trips are in large, stable Canadian canoes and are suitable for all ages and fitness levels. You do not need to be able to swim.
T 01822 833409 SN PL19 8JE W www.tamartrails.co.uk/canoeing
Looe River – explore the Looe river by self-drive motor boat. Self Drive Boat Hire – Hire a Whaly Boat seating 5 to 7 people and pets with 6hp outboard engine, from £35 per hour per boat. Ideal for exploring the Looe River. The Looe River is a beautiful environment to explore, you will depart from the slipway adjacent to the RNLI Lifeboat Station (in East Looe, near the main beach). The start of your boat trip will pass the working quays of East & West Looe as you head under Looe’s famous arched bridge, which links our twin-towns.
You will then take the West Looe estuary where the ancient Cornish woodlands meet the water’s edge. You may see our resident swans and their cygnets, kingfishers and spot many other inhabitants on, and besides, our beautiful river.
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Email info@looeselfdriveboathire.co.uk
Siblyback Lake – For a freshwater experience, Siblyback Lake Country Park (14 miles from Kernock), on the edge of Bodmin Moor, is one of the premier watersports centres in the area, with a 140 acre lake.
It also offers tuition and hire in windsurfing, sailing and canoeing as well as rowing boats. They have installed a fantastic new wakeboarding cable and a highropes course (swing like a monkey 40ft up in the air!).
Fly Fishing is also offered – Rainbow Trout averaging 2lb are stocked at regular intervals. Boats are bookable with the ranger. Best flies Viva, Black & Peacock, Montana and Hoppers.
T 01579 342366 SN PL14 6ER W www.swlakestrust.org.uk
There is a lovely three and a half mile circular walk around the lake, and a café and children’s playground. They have Segways for hire.
For equipment hire, opening hours and rates see their website. Booking ahead is recommended for equipment hire.
Access – Trampers (cross country mobility buggy) and wheelyboats (wheelchair accessible boats) available for hire at very low cost (trampers are £4 for 2 hours). The path around the lake is now accessible for wheelchairs. Disabled toilets on site. T 01579 346522 SN PL14 6ER W http://www.swlakestrust.org.uk/lakes-and-facilities/the-lakes/siblyback-lake
Colliford Lake – At 900 acres, the lake (26 miles away) offers traditional fly fishing for natural brown trout and is regarded as Cornwall’s premier brown trout fishery. Open 15 March – 12 October.
T 01579 346522 SN PL14 6PZ W www.swlakestrust.org.uk/colliford
Bush Farm, just 1 mile down the road toward Hatt, has 3 lakes totalling 3 acres stocked mainly with carp (up to 32lb) but also tench, rudd, roach and bream. Day permits cost £9.00 dawn to dusk. Anglers are asked to use barbless hooks and keep nets are not permitted.
T 01579 351102. Call Mrs Irene Renfree to book.
Bake Fishing Lakes
Contact: Tony Lister, Broadmoor Farm, Saltash. Just off the Trerulefoot roundabout on the A38.
Still water trout and coarse fishing with nine lakes totalling more than 14 acres stocked with rainbow and brown trout. Also good range of coarse fish. Fishing all year. Phone for prices and fishing methods.
T 01752 849027 SN PL12 5BW W www.bakelakes.co.uk
Shillamill Lakes – Lanreath, Looe. Location: Signposted off B3359 between Taphouse and Lanreath. Still water coarse fishing with three lakes totalling 5 acres stocked with a variety of coarse fish. Fishing all year. Phone for prices and fishing methods. T 01503 220886 SN PL13 2PE
Tregonhawke Farmhouse – Millbrook, Torpoint
Still water coarse fishing with 1 acre of water in sheltered, wooded valley. Stocked with a variety of fish. Fishing all year. Phone for prices and fishing methods. T 01752 823210
Deep Sea Fishing is available at Looe, which happens to be the shark fishing capital of the UK, and also holds the UK record for shark fishing! For boat charters try www.looedirectory or UK charterboats