Chub [up to 4lb] are plentiful with favourite baits including cheese, luncheon meat and breadflake. Barbel [up to 8lb] were introduced to the Ouse in the 1960s with most fish being caught on meat fished over hemp, or on maggots using a swimfeeder. Roach [to 2lb] are also present particularly in the Lewes stretch [although not in the numbers they used to be]. Carp are also present [to 20lb] and have been caught on breadflake, sweetcorn, and luncheon meat. Bream [to 6lb] shoal up in the deep water above Barcombe Mill . Worms work well when fished over groundbait. Worms also work well for the Perch [to 2lb] which are making a comeback as are dace which are being caught on waggler-fished maggots. The river can throw up the odd surpise such as mullet and the non-indigenous pumpkinseed which escaped from from a lake upstream in the 1980s during a flood.

• no night fishing allowed
• no fishing in the weir pool until November 1st
• no dogs and no swimming.