Feeder fishing lakes in norfolk offers great sport across the county. Deep pits, mixed coarse lakes and estate waters all reward a simple cage feeder and a bit of thought. Below are five fishing lakes in Norfolk where a feeder rod isn’t just “an option” – it’s often the smartest way to fish.

How this guide is different

Most lists just name venues and say “put a feeder out”. This one looks at what each lake teaches you about feeder fishing:

Taswood’s Grebe: stocky coarse lake, reading mixed shoals.
Broome Pits A Lake: classic pit water, building a swim rather than chasing bites.
Weybread Ocean Lake: big pit, distance and patience.
Blickling Hall: estate water, natural fish and light feeders.
Shallowbrook Snipe: small, deep lake, fine margins and winter work

Each section links to a lake guide so can be viewed if you wish.

Taswood Lakes – Grebe Lake

Grebe at Taswood is built for a feeder rod. It’s a 20‑swim coarse lake, extended and heavily stocked with carp, bream, tench, roach, rudd and perch, with the odd barbel showing. It feels more like a modern coarse pit than a carp water, which is exactly what you want for proper feeder work.

The trick here isn’t just “cast to the island”. Grebe lets you learn how mixed shoals move: tench sliding in first on a soft bed of feed, bream lining up behind them, roach and skimmers picking off stray particles. A simple cage feeder with pellets and a bit of natural bait – worm, maggot, corn – can be tuned to whichever species you want to pick out, without ever getting too fancy.

Full guide for Taswood Lakes

Fishing this lake I love because it offers something different than just carp. I love how it fishes entirely differently from early morning through to late afternoon. Catching carp becomes much easier after 3pm and catch some nice bream during the morning hours. I love that you can set little traps in the margin for the carp and the sweeter ground bait in the middle of the lake for the bream.

I would consider fishing along the straight towards the end before you get to the bend. You have some open water and a nice little margin where the overhanging tree is.

Broome Pits – A Lake

Broome Pits is a great feeder fishing lake in norfolk sits in that space between old gravel pit and everyday club water. A. Lake is the one to take a feeder to when you want to build a swim instead of chasing bites around the lake with a float.

You’re fishing open water here. The job is to pick one line, commit to it, and let the feeder do the heavy lifting. Short cages for keeping bites coming; larger feeders when you want to pull in bream and better roach from further out. The carp are there, but they feel like a bonus when you’ve got the coarse fish feeding properly.

Full guide for Broome Pits

I’ve been fishing here for many years. A pit is very deep so I do recommend making your groundbait up slightly wetter. In recent years, they’ve moved a lot of the fish from C pit in to A meaning there’s a lot more smaller carp now in the lake which can be caught on match style tactics like smaller pellets. I prefer natural baits and sitting over a bed of bait. I’ve seen the same pike here for years in the summer hanging about near your feet. It will go for you bait when reeling them roach in. Fish the pegs which are way below the top bank. As you go through the gate on turn right, they’re the first pegs to the left. Good pegs if you’re fishing with a mate.

Weybread Pits – Ocean Lake

Ocean at Weybread is another great feeder fishing lakes in norfolk and is where a feeder angler finds out if they really like big water. It’s said to be around 100 acres, and feeder fishing there can be hard work – some anglers openly admit to blanking and still call it a good day out because of the scale of the place.

Ocean is low‑stock for carp but stacked with quality bream that can reach mid‑teens. They respond well to pellets backed up with natural baits like worms and maggots, and average bream weights around 5–7lb are realistic when you get it right. In daylight, a large cage feeder and a steady trickle of feed works; at night, a big single pellet over a bed of mixed naturals and pellets is hard to beat. It’s the lake that teaches you distance control, patience and how to feel comfortable casting the same line all day.

Full guide for Weybread Pits

This lake is big, holy mother of carp this lake is big. I’ve fished many pegs and offers similar fishing. I pick the peg that the wind is blowing to when I arrive. Bring a lot of bait because this lake consumes it. You will have to wait for the fish to turn up. I fish this like proper bream fishing and does bring in the other species with it. I’ve seen a 25lb carp come out of here on a double red maggot. If you hit the shoals, you can easily have a red letter day or at least a red letter 2 hours easily bagging over 120lb of bream.

Blickling Hall Estate Lake

Blickling Hall has been a well know feeder fishing lake in norfolk for decades. It is the opposite of Ocean pit: a National Trust estate lake, tree‑lined and old‑fashioned, with coarse fishing for bream, carp, tench and roach on a more traditional season. It feels like a place where a feeder rod should be light, simple and neat, not overloaded.

On Blickling you learn restraint. Small cage feeders, modest amounts of groundbait, single or double maggots, worms or sweetcorn, all aimed at natural fish that aren’t hammered by commercials every day. It’s a good lake for anglers who want to dial back the big pit mindset and remember what a proper estate‑lake bream or tench bite looks like on a quiver tip.

Full guide for Blickling Hall.

There’s something about this lake that’s enchanting. Estate lakes always give me that rural wild vibe which really brings back my younger days. It is part of the National Trust so it’s open to the public. If you do not want to be approached all day, fish the car park side on some of the wooden pegs. Carp get big in here, over 30lb maybe closer to 40lb. Large shoals of bream and you need to fire a decent amount of bait out. I’ve had some beautiful tench out of this lake. Pike are aggressive so be prepared to go through many hook links throughout the day. Pay for the parking in the car park, and updated for 2026, you have to pay for fishing in the barn next to the main car park. National trust members pay nothing for parking.

Shallowbrook Lakes – Snipe Lake

Snipe at Shallowbrook is a tight, deep, classic feeder practice water. It’s around 2.5 acres with roughly 20 swims, margins of soft weed and lilies, and water that drops quickly into 10–18 feet. A long thin island with a noted bay gives you obvious features without making the lake feel cramped.

The stock is perfect for feeder fishing: plentiful roach, rudd and perch for bite‑a‑chuck, backed up by tench, big bream, crucians, eels and perch pushing up towards around 3lb 12oz. In warmer months you can get away with pole and pellets, but once it cools, a cage feeder with maggots and worm becomes the best way to keep fish coming from that depth. It’s the lake that teaches you how little feed you actually need to keep a line alive when the water is dark and deep.

Full guide for Shallowbrook Lakes.

I put this lake on the list of feeder fishing lakes in norfolk as it’s perfect for people that are inexperienced as there’s a lot of smaller fish. You can catch here on pretty much anything on any peg. I normally fish pretty lightly and stick to maggots if you just want to fish for bites.

Each lake on this list offers something very different. Each lake make you think slightly different and involves a different style of feeder fishing. Like all lakes, it’s best fished over a long period so you can really become a lake expert

Grebe – mixed coarse lake
A Lake – holding a line on a pit
Ocean – distance, patience, big water thinking
Blickling – Estate‑style
Snipe – Bite bashing

These are all Fishing Lakes in Norfolk. Norfolk isn’t just about the broads and carp fishing. It has some of the best feeder fishing in the UK.