Blake Hall Fisherys

They say that success breeds success, and this is certainly proving to be the case at Blake Hall Fisheries in the countryside on the outskirts of the small Staffordshire town of Cheadle. As recently as 1990 the site of the current fishery was just boggy ground fed by springs from the local uplands. For farmer John Heath, who runs the 450-acre mixed cattle and sheep farm of which Blake Hall forms part, the options were either to drain the land and use it for his livestock – or harness the natural water sources and turn the wetland into a lake which would attract wildlife.