Fishing locally
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Fishing locally
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
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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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.Jakubclaret wrote:groups of people fishing probably without rod licenses have been taking without returning the fish
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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.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.
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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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Normally plenty of bites on here.
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Fishing Poles eh!
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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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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.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.
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The Eastern Europeans have taken the ducks?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.
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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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Dirty Bastards
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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.TheFamilyCat wrote:The Eastern Europeans have taken the ducks?
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*was loads*
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I hope Ringo doesn't read this.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.
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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
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
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Bring back Communism.
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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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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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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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Closed a while backBigChaCha 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.
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They wanted culling anyway.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.
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If you mean ducks yes they are....gang bangs commonplace during the mating season at Barlick. The poor females don't stand a chance!Dyched wrote:Dirty Bastards
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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.Closed a while back
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I think I know where you mean, boothman park fishery at barley is spring fed, maybe that's the confusion.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.
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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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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.
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.