HELP ME

[NoelK]

Can anyone help I live in Hackney,East London and have just taken up fishing I've fished the local Canal but need to spread my wings,Can anyone please tell me of some other places to try.

[Craig1]

Excellent! I have just taken up fishing and was from the East end.

 

Suprisingly there is a lot of places in the east end. The first thing would be go to anywhere in epping forest as it is all free to fish now, i was told.

 

My Uncle used to fish over Wanstead flats. I know it has been drying up and so on, but it has now been re-opened. I am not exactly sure though that there are any fish in there.

 

Then you have Hollow Ponds which is just at the top of Lea Bridge Road. Some people call it the boating lake. There has been some big Carp caught in there and Pike, however, the ranger told me they had taken all the pike out. This Lake is just over the road from Whipps Cross hospital.

 

Just a couple of steps away from Hollow Ponds there is a Pond called the Eagle pond. Never fished it, but my uncle did years ago and he saw a few big fish being caught in there. I don;t know what state it is in now, but if you are over the Boating lake, then you can give it a go.

 

Another great place to fish is in wanstead park. which is down the road From the boating lake (a bit of a walk). You are best getting directions as i can;t really remember how to get there as i went by bus. I do know it is off the road where Tesco's in leytonstone is though. you should be able to find it. That has a lot of lakes, however the first two are not allowed to be fished. (i heard they are putting big fish in there from around epping forest and selling them to private lakes. Not sure how true that is though.

 

The two that are fishable is the Ornamentals, where a bloke i was talking to said he could see the carp swimming about feeding, he hadn;t fished for a number of years and went home to get his rod.

 

The other one there is the Perch Pond. everyone i spoke to hadn't been there for years and hadn't caught anything there yet, but i was told a lot of pike i think were put in there, again, not sure how true that is. I have not caught anything in there. Over the ornamentals there is another small river. I am nots sure where it was, but we couldn;t see any no fishing signs there. We ended up pulling out around 30 roach. My brother went back and caught another 30.

 

Then you have the canal on the River lea which is down Lea bridge road, which i don't know too much about.

 

In Hollow Ponds there are a lot of different species of fish. Carp, Perch, Tench, eel, Bream some pike and roach. Although i have not caught out of there, i love it. The only thing to watch out for is the boats. They try and go round the shallowest areas and most don;t are aif you are fishing and will just carry on the way they are going. However at the front a place is supposed to have been cordoned off but they knocked down the barrier and still go through.

 

you may be best going Early morning, weekdays or around 6pm, but there is no night fishing there.

 

If you want more areas, you could use the Online fishery.

 

Hope this is of some help and sorry for such a long post.

 

<small>[ 24. July 2003, 11:30 AM: Message edited by: Craig1 ]</small>

[Peter M]

craig has given you some very good pointers. In addition you could give walthemstow reservoirs a go they have lakes to suit all abilities.

[Craig1]

If you do go to anywhere i or peter had pointed out please post and tell me how you got on and if you find another place around the east end as i like to go fishing there when i am down.

 

In addition, you could go to carpenters road canal. My brother tells me many stories of that place and him catching fish, including the one that got away.

[gorton]

Hi Noel

 

If you have a car you can follow the Lea out through North London into Hertfordshire and beyond.

 

If not do not despair you can catch the train from Hackney Downs along either the Lea Valley as far as Hertford East or along the Stort Valley as far as Bishops Stortford. Both railways tend to run parallel with the rivers so that most stations are very near to the water with the odd exception.

 

Both rivers are very underrated apart from the dreaded crayfish plague and there are also plenty of gravel pits with big fish potential. Another bonus is that due to the current love of "holes in the ground" you can have vast tracts of riverbank to yourself.

 

There are far to many venues to mention here but if you want any further info just drop me an email.

 

Good luck

[parsons]

hi guys ive only just taken up coarse fishing but ive been going sea fishing since i was 5 im 13 now and im just wondering if any1 knows anything about predator fishing i have already caught a 13lb carp and a 12lb pike they are my personal bests.

 

 

parsons