Central London's best-known lake sits in the middle of Hyde Park, and a Royal Parks day permit gets you bank fishing for perch, carp, and pike within sight of the Knightsbridge skyline. It's an easy, sociable spot to fish and a genuine oddity — proper coarse fishing a few hundred metres from Hyde Park Corner.
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