Welcome To Durham City Angling Club
Formed in 1962, D.C.A.C. control several excellent stretches of the River Wear in and around the City and is one of the longer established clubs in the region.
Durham City Angling Club, one of the fastest growing clubs in the area, has waters to satisfy the needs of all freshwater fishermen, from salmon/sea trout and specimen/specialist coarse fishing on the River Wear to still-water coarse/match/specimen fishing on its five lake still-water complex at Brasside...and all for the same very affordable annual membership fee, amounting to no more than the cost of half a dozen ‘commercial water’ day tickets. Junior membership is free. Members' spouses fish for free, as do their children and grandchildren under the age of 16.*
*Restrictions may apply at Brasside.
See the latest newsletter from the Angling Trust & Fish Legal
26/05/2022
Graham Hedley and Ian Dennison
Tributes to Graham and Ian -- founding members of this club -- both sadly passed away in 2022 -- can be seen on
the Club Officials page.
Pike Fishing at Brasside
As the result of a resolution passed at the AGM on 26th of April 2022 Pike fishing at Brasside is prohibited between May 1st and October 1st every year.
During the closed season all lure fishing is prohibited.
27/04 /2022 updated 07/06/22
No Day Tickets
"NEW!" Membership 2025 (fees same as last year! )
2025 memberships now on sale, valid until January 31st 2026
Prices:- Senior £70
Retired £45 (over 65)
Intermediate £25 (aged 17 to21)
3 Year membership £195
5 year membership £325
Junior £Free ( up to 17th Birthday, for non members children)
Children/Grandchildren may fish free with Parent/Grandparent members (see rule 5)
See further down this page or membership page for how to join and conditions on Junior membership.
Pollution of our rivers.
The following information has been passed to us by Jim Bumby, Secretary of the Wear Anglers Association.
We all know that our rivers are not very clean and that the EA have recorded over 400,000 discharges of sewage in the last year. If anyone saw the recent BBC Panorama programme, that was quite scary!. Check out the discharge map produced by the Rivers Trust,click link https://www.theriverstrust.org/
You can zoom in to see what is happening on any particular section of any river.
Worth checking out but be prepared to be shocked!
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Dip Your Nets
Prevent an outbreak of Koi Herpes Virus (KHV)
KHV can destroy 80 to 100% of a sites fish stocks!
A Net Dipping Station has been set up at Brasside.
The Dip station contains a disinfectant called ''Virkon Aqua''recommended by the Fisheries Health Inspectorate.
All anglers are required to disinfect their nets and unhooking mats before fishing any Brasside water.
Items to be disinfected should be fully submerged.
Protect your fish stocks!
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Matches.
2025 Canal & New Pond matches Click here
2025 Carp Matches
Civil Service Match 14th July 2025 now to be held on the East Lake.
The East Lake will be closed to members on that date 'til 5.00pm
New!
Club Clothing
Club Clothing bearing the club logo is now available through Clubmate.
10% of the purchase price is donated to the club. click the button to see the range available.
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A Brasside sunset
21st Nov. 2023
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Ice on the East lake
1st Dec. 2023
Membership
Please note that if you are a renewing member but have not used the online system before then you must create and account as though you are joining anew. For this please use the green "Join the Club" button below.
There are two ways of obtaining a membership for 2025:-
ON LINE (Preferred method if you have an email address and a bank account.)
Click on this "Join the Club" button to take you to the 'Clubmate' registration page and follow the instructions.
BY POST (for those who don't have an email address)
Send a completed application form together with your fee (Cheques only please no cash) and a stamped self - addressed envelope (SAE) to the following address:-
DCAC Membership
22 North View,
Meadowfield,
Co. Durham DH7 8SQ
Allow 3 weeks for processing. No callers please. No SAE no ticket.
Download application form
New members buy now and get til January 31st 2025 free.
Stocking at Brasside 2022
Stocked 25/02/2022
New! Interim stocking 28/10/2022
In late October the committee was made aware of a quantity of Carp to about 3lb that were available from a local accredited fish farm. The deal was too good to pass up and the decision was made to spend £1450 which bought us 276 fish weighing a total of 658lb. These have been put (101) in to the Backwater and (175) into the East lake.
Stocking February 2023
31 Carp 5 to 8 lb for £1000 were put into the West Lake.
200 Tench 6"-8" were split between the East Lake, Canal and New Pond. (£840)
200 Bream 6"-8" (£600), 200 Carp 6" -8" (£540) 500 Crucian Carp 4"-6" (£690)
Were split between the East Lake, New pond, Canal and the Backwater in various amounts. The total cost was £ 3,670.
Membership Renewal Due 1st February
Memberships now on sale, valid until January 31st 2026
Senior (21 - 65) £70
Retired (65+) £45
Intermediate (17 - 22): £25
3 Year Membership £195
5 Year Membership £325
Junior (up to age 17) £0
There is no charge (£0) for a Junior membership.
A Junior member (Children/ Grandchildren of nonmembers) must register as a member on our online system or by post to the address shown on the website.Junior members must purchase an intermediate membership on reaching their 17th birthday.
Junior members must be supervised at all times when on club waters by a parent or legal guardian or other adult as designated in writing to a club official by the parent or legal guardian.
Parents, Guardians or designated Adults who are not themselves members of DCAC, and do not fish, should contact the Secretary requesting a concessionary membership.
New members buy now get til January 31st 2025 free
Chester Moor
DCAC no longer owns the fishing rights for this stretch of the river Wear
Photo Paul Cleasby
Keep nets prohibited on the Back Water which is now being used as a growing on pond.
Click below for Google Earth View
Keep nets are temporarily prohibited on the New Pond and Canal due to the extremely low water level
Please note that
DOGS ARE NOT ALLOWED
AT BRASSIDE
Pending rule change
With effect from June 1st 2025 all hooks used at Brasside must be barbless.
( for dead bait a single barbed treble is allowed)
5lb 10 oz, 3 ft 6" EEL taken from the West Lake on 26/08/2024
By Steve Skelton.
DCAC member John Austin has written a book entitled Game Fishing in The North Country: An Historical Miscellany. It is due to be published by Coch y Bonddu books www.anglebooks.com at the end of 2022 or the beginning of 2023.
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" The original Durham City Angling Club was founded in March 1893.They had as their official newspaper The Northern Angler which was very like The Fishing Gazette."
Click on the book to go to the website