Fishing in Essex

[Peter M]

hermes:

 

.....RMC website is good but getting any information out of the members is like getting blood out of a stone, they are a real tight lipped mob...

Actually i found the regulars helpful and they put me on to a swim where i caught my first barbel. Mind you this was last July when there were a lot of fish coming out so as its got hard i can quite believe they have gone quiet. last few trips i have been going down the bottom of the Venue rather than the more popular "top end", I just have a feeling that there are big chub and barbel down there.

[hermes]

I think the same thing too Peter, I prefer the bottom end of the venue as well, I think it's got more potential than above the green bridge, everyone heads straight for the top swims, good reason to head downstream maybe!

Getting back to the RMC forum, I have asked a few times for Fishers Green advice and virtually got zero help, but having said that I have got more help through messages to me than posted in public, seems that members don't want to give anything away in public for some odd reason..

[Peter M]

I think they are helpful on the bank as well but don't want to give info in open forum. mind you i like this forum better than the RMC one.

[hermes]

Yes the RMC forum is somewhat stale to be polite, so many topics never even get replies but may have 100 view, your right again, I prefer this place to RMC's but there again it only specialises in their own waters so maybe thats understandable.

[Mat Hillman]

I find the same at RMC, everyone seems worried about posting info publicly on the site, but every angler and baliff I've spoken to on the banks while fishing RMC venues has been very friendly and helpful, especially the baliffs at Chigborough who put me on several nice swims through last summer!

 

Mat

[Maver]

If Basildon's not too far away, have a look at Gloucester Park.

 

www.micktoomer.co.uk

[Mat Hillman]

Gloucester park is certainly worth a look if you can fish weekdays during term time, weekends and school holidays it gets very busy and noisy.

 

Some great tench fishing there though, nothing huge but you can catch literally dozens of 1-3lb fish in a session.

 

The Warren at Stanford Le Hope is another day ticket lake worth looking at in Essex, pretty mature gravel pit, lots of tench and bream, quite a few carp to mid twenties. Day tickets on the bank, and the regulars and baliffs all seem very friendly.