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rhornegold
16-06-2005, 12:11
Low double figure Mirror and 8lb Bream.
Bob
rhornegold
17-06-2005, 14:00
5 Brean to 8lbs and a 6lb Tench, Carp to just under 30 lbs and some Night Preditors.
carpycris
20-06-2005, 22:28
ill ave to get back down there in that case http://www.rmcangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif love it on fishers green. saw some lovely fish cruising during the close
rhornegold
23-06-2005, 09:13
30lb Common from Pickets Lock last night.
The navigation has been throwing up some big carp for the last couple of years and is mostly untapped potential. I've seen some cracking tench and carp above Broxborne and hardly anyone fishing there, ever!
There's undiscovered treasure in them there canals http://www.rmcangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif
whilst lure fishing the other day i spotted a lovely big common in dobbs wier right close in,another common below dobbs lock looked remerkably like the other one!?and i also spotted a lovely dark mirror above dobbs wier in the pads,looked a nice upper double.shame the carp dont float my boat....night preds do tho http://www.rmcangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif
carpycris
27-06-2005, 16:39
<------------ thats the fish mr hearne had at 38lb. i had her while fishing with my wayte a few years ago from the wier pool. theres defo a few real lumps in there now. had a little walk along the releif the other day seeing as i was in the area and it looked great. i feel tingly just thinking about it.
rhornegold
28-06-2005, 08:25
Carpycris,
The Fish you are refuring too, comes from the Fishers Green Relief Channel.
This is a thread for the Lea Navigation and fish caught or seen in the canal.
Bob
LUKUSPUKUS
28-06-2005, 14:35
Walked from Ware to the abbotts last night, never seen so many carp in that particular stretch, gonna have me some of them this year... if i can get through the snottys!!! http://www.rmcangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif
carpycris
29-06-2005, 15:43
oh ok. thought it was one and the same seeing as its linked one way or another. sorry mr hornegold
abbeylad
04-07-2005, 15:00
7lb Male Tench, 9lb bream, on bread flake and worm, from Lea Navigation, Waltham Abbey, above Old English Gentleman pub.
rhornegold
01-08-2005, 09:40
Carthagena fishing well, bream over 10lbs Tench to 7lbs, Perch 2lbs ans I was told a Large Mirror came from above the Weir pool.
I was down at Carthagena on Monday, not a lot happening on the chubby front but the bream were going bonkers on fry. At first I thought it was perch ripping into the fry shoal but one or two of them came a full body leangth out of the water in their excitement. I considered that they may have been just rolling through the fry and scaring them but the longe it went on the more obvious it became that they wre actually attcking them as skillfully as any fulltime preditor. I have actually seen this once before and shows how seasonal the fishes diet can be.
rhornegold
03-08-2005, 20:00
zinga, I was also there on Monday Morning--- early and the Bream were going mad then.
The weirpool and river hold many over 10lbs, not bad for River fish, there were also some very nice Carp Showing.
Unfortunately the Species I was after nid not put in an appearence, but I had a Jack and a Perch.
I hear the Crays are in full swing again, I told that Redtail to get some artificial Boilies ?
Ho ho
Bob
rhornegold
05-08-2005, 09:53
Fields Weir area, Crayfish a Nightmare, had a few Chub and lots of small Perch.
Impossible to keep any bait in the water for more that 5 minutes-- roll on the COLD weather ?
Bob
excuse my stupidity but where is the lea navigation?
It's the "canalised" parts of the Lea that the boats can use. Sometimes seperate from the old river, some parts are the old river. Follow the Lea on any map and they should be marked. i.e. from Carthagena Weir down to Kings Weir (then the nav splits off to run parallel to Fishers Green section).
11.8 Common and 4.12 Chub tonight.
25lb 8oz Mirror tonight. A new PB. Woo-hoo!
Interesting tussle on a Barbel rod. http://www.cemexangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif
No cray activity lately.
Paul_the_Bailiff
03-10-2005, 13:44
It seems as though congratulations are due http://www.cemexangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif. Well done! Hey, who needs those 12 foot 3 'n' halfs. http://www.cemexangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Nice fish red tail, top dangling fella!
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Well, a hair-rigged Canada Goose or two and we could have a bash for the Lea Nav "Cats" next Summer? http://www.cemexangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.cemexangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
rhornegold
01-11-2005, 09:25
Carthagena -- 12lb 12oz Barbel, to " Mick the Diver " last night-New Barbel record since Jerry Hammond took over the fishery.
I think it's Mick, Bob! But well done to him, he's been there for weeks catching not much but Bream, but he's also had a PB 5.12 Chub, too.
Good for him and his tenacity! http://www.cemexangling.co.uk/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif
12lb 4oz Barbel and a 8.4 Common in the mist with a bright (nearly) full moon.
rhornegold
12-12-2005, 08:54
6lb 3ozs Chub to Redtail last night-- well done
rhornegold
04-02-2006, 07:57
11 Chub to 6lb 9ozs and a 7lb Bream yesterday afternoon.
All fell to Bolt Feeder and Plastic Maggot ?
3 Chub to 7lb 5oz tonight.
All to boilies.
Very nice.
rhornegold
10-02-2006, 07:52
One Perch-One Pike Yesterday
Si, fantastic fishing mate and well earned.
Bob
Hi there, can anyone suggest to me places to fish for pike, im new to piking and any advice on hotspots, methods and what to do would be much appreciated.
Thanks
rhornegold
25-02-2006, 08:52
The Waltham Abbey stretch of the Navigation has produced some very Good Pike in recent Weeks.
Paternostered Deadbaits keeing the Bait of the Bottom, can be a Good method of avoiding the Crayfish.
I would give that a try.
Ive recently been fishing fieldes weir and had some success with pike, i was speaking to someone down there and they said that the Lea was open in the closed season from windmill lane in cheshunt towards waltham abbey and tottenham etc, can anyone clear up if this is true or not and if so why is it open from there onwards, is there a reason for this? Why not open it from broxbourne or where ever why just from windmill lane??? Any one clear this up for me???
Thanks
kensthename
16-03-2006, 00:29
Yes, The person you spoke to is correct. The lea nav from below aquaduct lock is a canal, not a river in the true sense . So it is open throughout the river close season. I fish at Dunlops during the close season and have had some very good results. give it a try.
Thanks, thats great news, mean i can carry on with piking as ive just got into it, where is this dunlops, does it hold pike any advice on fishing it???
kensthename
16-03-2006, 22:18
Dunlops bend as it is known to those of us who have fished there for years is at waltham cross, at the bottom of Lea road, Jewsons the building suppliers yard is on the corner and the pub called The Old English Gentleman is on the bridge over the canal. The pike fishing is quite good, and double figure fish do turn up quite often. I'm not sure as to the legal right to fish for pike after the close of the river season and it is possible that the local bylaws (british waterways or whoever is responsible for the canal) my dictate that the pike fishing ends in march. I could be completely wrong but it's worth finding out first. As for the other species, the tench and carp fishing can be good with some good bream, sadly the roach that made Dunlops famous no longer show as they once did.
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