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Fishing locally

Post by Jakubclaret » Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:57 pm

Hi, can anybody recommend any decent stretches of the Leeds & Liverpool ideally near gannow top? talking to local anglers recently they’ve been drawing blanks, groups of people fishing probably without rod licenses have been taking without returning the fish, any good spots as far up as rishon down to nelson I’d consider ideally. Thanks.
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Re: Fishing locally

Post by Quickenthetempo » Sun Jul 29, 2018 12:08 am

Plenty of fish in the canal from the Bobbin roundabout to Hapton. Keep walking or cycling this stretch and see plenty of fish. Only small fish at the top but if there's big numbers of them there has to be big ones there as well.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by Millertime v1.7 » Sun Jul 29, 2018 1:24 am

Jakubclaret wrote:groups of people fishing probably without rod licenses have been taking without returning the fish
Mate HOW is this possible? So many lowlife scumbags in our society these days. I've even seen pikies in Falkirk and Denny fishing in canals which have raw sewage flowing into them. Fishing should be much more tightly regulated to elliminate the chancers.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by Jakubclaret » Sun Jul 29, 2018 6:17 am

Millertime v1.7 wrote:Mate HOW is this possible? So many lowlife scumbags in our society these days. I've even seen pikies in Falkirk and Denny fishing in canals which have raw sewage flowing into them. Fishing should be much more tightly regulated to elliminate the chancers.
Just people poaching, I don't think the canal & rivers trust check that often, British waterways before weren't that bothered. If it was salmon in the Spey ect it would probably get checked for permission only. Yes agree about the chancers.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by Martinc265 » Sun Jul 29, 2018 6:48 am

Coarse fishing has always been catch and release for me and everyone I know. I know some can be eaten but never fancied it especially from the canal. However Eastern Europe contains people who eat every type of coarse fish and when they arrive in the UK then any fish caught by them will not go back. If you read up on the Irish waters for coarse fishing the locals and visiting anglers are up in arms about groups of Poles leaving the banks with bags of fish and nothing being done about it.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by deanothedino » Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:46 am

Normally plenty of bites on here.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by karatekid » Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:01 am

Fishing Poles eh! :o

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:11 am

Ive always wondered this and I know a lot of polish and lithuanians do. But who in their right mind would catch never mind eat a fish from the leeds and liverpool?

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by bfc1984 » Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:22 am

Jakubclaret wrote:Hi, can anybody recommend any decent stretches of the Leeds & Liverpool ideally near gannow top? talking to local anglers recently they’ve been drawing blanks, groups of people fishing probably without rod licenses have been taking without returning the fish, any good spots as far up as rishon down to nelson I’d consider ideally. Thanks.
Go up to barlick mate plenty of fish in canal up here one of the best sections around.But even the poles up here have been on catching and taking them.Went for a walk with my daughter the other week with some bread for the ducks,couldn't see any at all in a mile long stretch! The girl at the locks cafe said our Eastern European friends had been taking them there was none.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by TheFamilyCat » Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:25 am

bfc1984 wrote:Go up to barlick mate plenty of fish in canal up here one of the best sections around.But even the poles up here have been on catching and taking them.Went for a walk with my daughter the other week with some bread for the ducks,couldn't see any at all in a mile long stretch! The girl at the locks cafe said our Eastern European friends had been taking them there was none.
The Eastern Europeans have taken the ducks?

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by karatekid » Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:28 am

TheFamilyCat wrote:The Eastern Europeans have taken the ducks?

Don't give them any ideas. Mind you i'd like to see them trying to abduct one of the local geese. That would be fun viewing.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by Dyched » Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:29 am

Dirty Bastards

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Post by bfc1984 » Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:18 am

TheFamilyCat wrote:The Eastern Europeans have taken the ducks?
Yep walked the stretch down to the lock stop cafe.Loaf of bread in hand must be a mile walk didn't see one duck so quoted to the woman at the cafe where all the ducks are as unusual.The response was that they had been taking them,and a year previous there loads.

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Post by bfc1984 » Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:19 am

*was loads*

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Post by TheFamilyCat » Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:36 am

bfc1984 wrote:Yep walked the stretch down to the lock stop cafe.Loaf of bread in hand must be a mile walk didn't see one duck so quoted to the woman at the cafe where all the ducks are as unusual.The response was that they had been taking them,and a year previous there loads.
I hope Ringo doesn't read this.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by BigChaCha » Sun Jul 29, 2018 12:14 pm

I used to work at a place in Accrington that owned it's own private lake!

It was heaven ... a stunning lake with nobody else on. Many times I had the lake to myself and it was teaming with fish, from roach to large carp!

Then it started ... east Europeans, making raids at night until it was every night and the security really did try their best but within no time they had emptied the lake of fish :cry:

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by ecc » Sun Jul 29, 2018 1:22 pm

Bring back Communism.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by Jakubclaret » Sun Jul 29, 2018 1:41 pm

Thanks everybody for the advice, I think I’ve gathered the picture now the fishing scene seems to be getting decimated. Private lakes with security may be the way forward but even that’s not guaranteed will no doubt ramp up the cost of fishing.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by Burger » Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:30 pm

Buy a burnley licence from Macks and it gives you access to some great fisheries in the area. Lowerhouse lodge and Cornfields are usually brilliant and teeming with fish. It also gives access to some good stretches of river for trout and chub.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by BigChaCha » Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:09 pm

The lake next to the McDonalds on the A59 nr Clitheroe was amazing when I used to go. Not been for 2 years though. It's free as well, just need a licence.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by Martinc265 » Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:48 pm

BigChaCha wrote:The lake next to the McDonalds on the A59 nr Clitheroe was amazing when I used to go. Not been for 2 years though. It's free as well, just need a licence.
Closed a while back

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Post by tim_noone » Sun Jul 29, 2018 6:26 pm

bfc1984 wrote:Yep walked the stretch down to the lock stop cafe.Loaf of bread in hand must be a mile walk didn't see one duck so quoted to the woman at the cafe where all the ducks are as unusual.The response was that they had been taking them,and a year previous there loads.
They wanted culling anyway.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by tim_noone » Sun Jul 29, 2018 6:30 pm

Dyched wrote:Dirty Bastards
If you mean ducks yes they are....gang bangs commonplace during the mating season at Barlick. The poor females don't stand a chance!

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by BigChaCha » Sun Jul 29, 2018 6:40 pm

Closed a while back
I don't mean Pendle View Fishery which indeed closed down. I mean the lake across the road, right next to McDonalds where the housing estate was built and is not run by anybody. I got told that a stream from Pendle View Fishery ran into it and that's where the fish came from. I think Pendle View Fishery is being changed into a holiday/leisure type park.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by Jakubclaret » Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:36 pm

BigChaCha wrote:I don't mean Pendle View Fishery which indeed closed down. I mean the lake across the road, right next to McDonalds where the housing estate was built and is not run by anybody. I got told that a stream from Pendle View Fishery ran into it and that's where the fish came from. I think Pendle View Fishery is being changed into a holiday/leisure type park.
I think I know where you mean, boothman park fishery at barley is spring fed, maybe that's the confusion.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by Jakubclaret » Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:50 pm

Think the keepnets are light pretty much everywhere due to the reasons mentioned above, the mink & certain birds get easily blamed though.

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Re: Fishing locally

Post by fatboy47 » Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:04 pm

Never saw the point of sticking a hook into the poor buggers' mouths and dragging them around for a few minutes before chucking them back in the drink..

I do enjoy an hour on the riverbank when in the west country though...nab a couple of decent perch and drop them into the pan, fire up the camping stove and hey presto..free dinner..grand. Other days I've always loved to bag an eel or two for hot smoking back at home....even the odd pike went down well in a fish pie....buggers to fillet mind.

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