Ácsi Malomtó

实用信息

• Fishing camp
• Open 24 hoursEvery day
• Under 1 kmfrom Acs center
• 4.6 / 562 reviews
• Acs

A Lake With a Mill Name

The name Malomtó — mill lake — is not decoration. The water was created in the late 1800s as a horse-bathing pond and ran as part of a water-mill operation in the early 1900s. In 1963 the Ács and Environs Fishing Association was founded and began stocking the water intensively, and in the late 1980s the lake was enlarged from under a hectare to its present size of roughly 3.75–3.9 hectares. The association still stocks it several times a year, and veteran catfish, grass carp and carp from the earliest years of stocking are said to be among the lake’s biggest residents.↗↗

Today it reads as a classic Hungarian “orgonazott” match-and-carp water: a single, well-kept, easily overlooked lake where the atmosphere is quiet, the pegs are stable, and the community is active enough to run regular fishing competitions on the banks.↗

What You Can Catch

The stock list covers the full Hungarian lowland mix: common carp and grass carp for the specimen hunters, plus predators — pike, zander, catfish and asp — and smaller fish such as roach/bream-type “kecskefish” species and crucian carp for finesse anglers. The carp fishery is the headline act, anchored by the 18.5 kg lake record from 2021, and the size-protective rules (anything over 5 kg, and grass carp over 40 cm, must be returned) are designed to keep exactly that kind of fish in the water. Feeder, float and legered bottom fishing from the bank are the standard approaches, while spinning with factory-made lures is allowed for predator anglers.↗↗↗↗

Visitors with their own boat can launch here, and spring and summer are the peak window for carp and grass carp; autumn shifts attention to the predators. A useful planning note: fishing is closed for a period immediately after each stocking action, and carp fishing has its own seasonal closures, so check the water’s status before driving out.↗↗

On the Banks

The infrastructure is built for comfort over long sessions rather than glamour: established fishing platforms (stégek) and marked swims around the shore, wooden shelters (szaletlik) for shade or a sudden shower, toilets, and a spacious car park where, at many spots, you can pull up close beside your peg. There is shade on roughly a fifth of the shoreline. A fishing tackle shop (Bait Fishing) supplies bait and terminal tackle, and it is also the place to buy your permit. Around the water you will typically see keepnets, unhooking mats and the quiet ritual of the lake’s day-book, in which every angler signs in on arrival at the control cabinet on the lake’s north side.↗↗↗

The rules are detailed and genuinely enforced: two rods for adults, one for juniors; mandatory individual keepnet, a scale reading to at least 10 kg, and a carp mat for big-fish handling; monofilament mainline when targeting non-predators; no bait boats, no swim nets for live bait, no swimming in the lake, and vehicles kept at least five metres back from the bank. Bag limits are modest — an adult day ticket allows two named game fish up to 6 kg combined plus 3 kg of other fish — and a cheaper “sport” day ticket is available for catch-and-release anglers who want no take-home quota at all.

Getting There and Getting a Ticket

By car, take the Bábolna–Ács exit on the M1 motorway and head toward Ács — the lake is about 5 km from the junction, on the village boundary at postal address Ács, 2941. Ács also has a railway station and bus links with the surrounding towns (the area around Komárom and Tátatuba), with the water a short hop from the village. The association’s phone line, +36 20 921 2587, doubles as the enquiry number for visiting anglers, foreign guests included.↗↗↗

Day tickets in the association’s 2023 price list ran at 10,000 Ft for an adult fish-and-keep ticket, 5,000 Ft for youth, and 4,000 Ft for a catch-and-release “sport” ticket, with children under 12 at 4,000 Ft; annual area permits cost 40,000 Ft (adult) or 20,000 Ft (youth) for members. Day-ticket anglers may stay by the water from 6:00 to 20:00, while night fishing is reserved for annual permit holders — hence the 24-hour opening you may see online. All permits require Hungary’s basic national fishing licence (állami horgászjegy), and prices and seasonal closures shift year to year, so confirm the current tariff before you buy.↗↗

Who It’s For

Ácsi Malomtó is not a scenic showpiece, and it doesn’t try to be. It is a community-run Hungarian fishing lake of good repute — with a 4.6 rating from visitors who are mostly anglers — that suits carp match-fishers, predator spinners and families with children who want a safe, tidy bank to learn on. If you’d rather spend a quiet day reading water and keeping big carp well than ticking off landscapes, this is a satisfying detour off the M1. Travelers who want swimming, boating holidays or sightseeing by the water should look elsewhere; this lake’s currency is fish.↗↗