52 | 9 JULY anglersmail.comWHERE TO FISH
NORTH EAST
Alain Urruty
Knowledgeable Yorkshireman who
loves fi shing all types of venues.
Tel: 07808 367519
Email: [email protected]WHERE TO FISH
Alain Urruty
Knowledgeable Yorkshireman who
loves fi shing all types of venues.
Tel:
ERIVERS
River Calder
Where? Pear Tree Bridge,
Wood Lane, Huddersfi eld Road,
Mirfi eld, West Yorkshire, WF14
9DL. Day tickets £3, from local
tackle shops. Old Bank WMC
water. Tel: Calder Angling
Supplies on 01484 711063.
What’s being caught? There
have been some great bags of
dace, grayling, roach and chub
caught in the Mirfi eld area
in the fi rst few weeks of the
season.
Tactics? Stick fl oat or waggler
with maggots, casters and
hemp for the best action.
Little-and-often feed is the best
approach with a fl oat.River Don
Where? Hooton Lodge,
Kilnhurst Road, Rotherham,
South Yorkshire, S65 4TE. Day
tickets £5. Season tickets £40.
Night fi shing by arrangement
only. Tel: 07817 939458.
What’s being caught? The
season has started well here,
with some good carp, barbel,
chub and bream reported. Best
barbel a scraper double. Plenty
of roach to target as well.
Tactics? Legered boilies, meat
and pellets producing the
biggest fi sh. Stick fl oat, waggler
or pole with maggots, casters
and hemp all work well for the
roach. Tares worth a try to pick
out the better stamp roach.River Nidd
Where? Nun Monkton, York,YO26 8EP. Members only.
Bradford No.1 AA membership
£50 plus a £20 joining fee.
Tel: 01274 571175.
What’s being caught? Some
good catches of roach, dace,
perch and small chub, along
with better chub and barbel for
those willing to target them.
Tactics? Stick fl oat or waggler
with maggots or casters and
hemp for mixed bags. Legered
big baits such as meat, boilies,
pellets, lobworms and bread
best for the chub and barbel.River Swale
Where? Thornton Bridge, near
Helperby, North Yorkshire,
YO61 2RH. Members only.
Bradford No.1 AA membership
£50 plus a £20 joining fee.
Tel: 01274 571175.
What’s being caught? Some
quality chub, and barbel close
to doubles, reported from this
popular stretch. The area either
side of the bridge is favoured,
but this may be because it’s a
shorter walk.
Tactics? Bomb and halibut
pellets or meat the most
popular approach for the
barbel. Bread, cheese or
lobworms worth a try for the
chub.CANAL
New Junction Canal
Where? Top Lane Bridge,
Braithwaite, Doncaster, South
Yorkshire, DN7 5SX. Day
tickets £5. Doncaster & District
AA membership £30. Tel:Stainforth Angling Centre on
01302 846623.
What’s being caught? Sport
picking up, with roach, perch,
skimmers and eels being
caught, as well as some better
bream.
Tactics? Maggots and pinkies
over groundbait on a short polehas been the most consistent
approach for mixed bags.
Casters at the bottom of the
shelf or worm and casters in
a feeder across to target the
bream and skimmers. Hemp
and tares will start producing
good bags of roach as the
weather warms.STILLWATERS
Aldin Grange Lakes
Where? Bearpark, Durham,
DH7 7AR. Day tickets £9.
Tel: 07901 538587.
What’s being caught?
Blackbird Lake has produced
some good bags of carp to
8 lb, along with tench, bream,
roach and ide. Best recent
catch was 90 lb of mostly carp
with a few silver fi sh.
Tactics? Pole with banded
pellets over little-and-often
feed has given the best carp
sport. Maggots on a pole or
waggler for mixed bags. Some
carp being caught on banded
pellets and groundbait feeder.Elsecar Reservoir
Where? Elsecar, Barnsley,
South Yorkshire, S74 9BZ. Day
tickets £3. Elsecar Colliery
Society annual tickets £30
per rod. Tel: 01226 743933 or
07870 320126.
What’s being caught? OverI
’VE noticed over recent
years how secretive anglers
are becoming about revealing
where they are catching fi sh.
One Facebook group that
I belong to has now issued
a rule that no photographs
will be allowed unless the
background is blurred out or
obscured fi rst.
This is to try to prevent
other anglers working out
where people are fi shing and
overfi shing their stretches.
I can understand not
wanting to give specifi c pegs
away, but surely we should
be willing to say at least what
stretch the fi sh was caught
from.
Surely we want to
encourage more anglers into
fi shing, and by showing a nice
picture of a barbel caught
from whatever stretch, isgoing to tempt someone who
hasn’t been barbel fi shing to
give it a try, especially if it is a
nice local river.
They will still have to go
and use some watercraft to
work out where the fi sh are
likely to live, but at least the
knowledge that they do live in
that stretch will be enough to
give them a start.
It’s not only specimen
hunters who are doing this. I
have noticed in recent match
reports where photos of the
weigh sheets are shown,
the photos exclude the peg
numbers, to prevent humble
pleasure anglers such as me
fi nding out exactly where the
best sport is to be had.
I understand why these
things are being done, but I
think we are getting a bit too
hush-hush for our own good.Put me in
the picture
River Swale, near Asenby,
Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
This 9 lb 8 oz barbel was
caught by nine-year-old
Corey Stapleton and his
dad, David, on a glugged
Vortex Baits Hydroshrimp
& Shellfi sh hook bait and a
PVA mesh bag of matching
pellets, and is their fi rst
from the river, part of
which is controlled by
Leeds DASA.
Venue latest:
01132 482373.TOP
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