Angler’s Mail – July 09, 2019

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WHERE TO FISH

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WHERE TO FISH

Tom Legge

Cambridgeshire angling coach who is always

fully informed with the latest fi shery news.

Tel: 07801 627465

Email:

RIVERS

Old River Nene

Where? Ramsey St Mary’s,

Cambridgeshire, PE26 1JW.

Day tickets £3.50. Ramsey &

District AA membership £15.

Tel: Keith Rayment on

07551 840409.

What’s being caught? Tench

to 5 lb showing well, bags of

three or four fi sh possible in

early or late sessions, backed

by roach, rudd and perch. Jack

pike also active early and late.

Tactics? Pole with lobworm

tails, triple caster or double

sweetcorn over chopped worm,

casters and groundbait for

the tench. Pole or whip with

pinkies, squatts and bread

punch for the silver fi sh. Lures

or deadbaits for the pike.

River Thurne

Where? Martham to

Coldharbour, Norfolk, NR29

5JE. Free fi shing. Tel: Lathams

Tackle on 01692 670080.

What’s being caught? Lots

of skimmers of 12 oz to 2 lb

throughout the Martham

Ronds and High Mill stretch.

Lee Carver found some larger

bream to 5 lb at Coldharbour,

to record the best weight of the

recent Norwich DAA two-day

pairs contest, with 69 lb 8 oz.

Tactics? Groundbait feeder or

long pole with casters, worms

or sweetcorn for the bream.

Maggots for the smaller silver

fi sh, including roach and perch.

River Waveney

Where? Bungay to Beccles,

Suffolk, NR34 9QB (local

tackle shop). Day tickets £6

on Bungay Cherry Tree AC

stretches, free fi shing on some

sections. Bungay Cherry Tree

AC membership £60.

Tel: Angling Direct on 01502

713379 or Avenue Angling on

01502 710963.

What’s being caught? Busy

sport with roach and dace

upstream of the sluice at Falcon

Meadow. Occasional chub

from tree-lined far bank swims

towards dusk. Roach bags to

10 lb reported on the

Shipmeadow section. The

newly dredged Beccles Quay

to bypass bridge section is

producing mixed bags of roach,

perch and ‘blade’ skimmers.

Two large carp were caught by

holidaying boat anglers at night

near the yacht club.

Tactics? Pole or waggler with

maggots over groundbait

for the silver fi sh at Falcon

Meadow. Legered cheese or

freelined black slugs tempting

the chub. Pole and casters

over hemp for the roach at

Shipmeadow. Waggler and

maggots mid-river best at

Beccles.

STILLWATERS

Aldeby Hall Farm

Where? Aldeby, Norfolk,

NR34 0AJ. Day tickets £6; £10

overnight. Tel: Mark on 01502

677648 or 07799 767216.

What’s being caught? Tench

to 5 lb-plus, backed by smaller

‘soap bars’ from a recent

stocking, from Crossing Water.

Silver Lake producing nets to

25 lb of skimmers to 2 lb and

quality rudd. Carp to 20 lb

reported by night anglers on

Otter Water.

Tactics? Sweetcorn tight to

margin reeds for the tench, or

fl oating bread for carp to 10 lb,

on Crossing. Pole with casters

or bread punch over groundbait

for the skimmers and rudd on

Silver Lake. PVA bags with

10 mm Salmon Supreme boilies

scoring for the carp on Otter.

Henlow Bridge Lakes

Where? Henlow, Bedfordshire,

SG16 6DD. Four-lake complex

Short, but sweet, session

D

ESPITE ‘Dad’s Taxi’ duties

ruling out fi shing for me

last weekend, I managed

a quick after-work Friday

evening session ahead of a

450-mile round trip to collect

my daughter and all her

belongings from Lancaster

University.

I had only three-quarters

of a pint of casters in my bait

fridge... a meagre bait stash

that I eked out for an hour and

20 minutes on a local stretch

of the lower River Cam.

In perfect conditions, with

overcast skies, steady fl ow and

a strong upstream breeze, I

had a bite a cast on my all-time

favourite tactic – waggler – to

land 37 fi sh, topped by several

quality rudd to 1 lb 13 oz,

before the bait fi nally ran out.

Eight different species came

my way – rudd, roach, silver

bream, bronze bream, dace,

bleak and roach/bream and

rudd/bream hybrids.

Another bonus was the fact

that the wind kept the dreaded

mozzies away.

Truly a short, but sweet,

evening session.

Simon Smith with

part of a 29 lb 9 oz

match catch from the

Thurne’s Martham

Ronds section.

Tom with a 1 lb 13 oz rudd,

the biggest fi sh of a very

enjoyable evening session

on the River Cam.