river severn winter fishing

[kleinboet]

Can anyone help? I am about to start winter fishing in the severn at sandhurst. I thought I might try double maggot (on a 16 hook) with a ball sinker cast out into the middle of the river and allowed to roll round to the side in the current. Any other suggestions? Is this a good idea? :confused: :confused:

[The Diamond Geezer]

As it's tidal there, personally I don't like to make things too hard for myself and so I tend to fish the non-tidal Severen & Avon above Tewkers.

 

I'd use a ball of meat paste instead of maggots, but of course it depends what you're after

 

Lovely pike and zander there too

 

DG

[Steve Randles]

The Diamond Geezer:

 

Lovely pike and zander there too

 

DG

Zander...Now there is a fish I have, since a lad I've wanted to catch and never managed.

 

...One day!

[The Diamond Geezer]

quote:

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Originally posted by Steve Randles:

Zander...Now there is a fish I have, since a lad I've wanted to catch and never managed.

 

...One day!

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You will, you will .... but I guess Old Bury Hill is nearest to you (not my fave zed venue :mad: ); alternatively there's Tewkesbury or on the other side of the country the Fens and the Cut-off Channel etc

I use dead freshwater baits, mainly sink & draw, but they will take lures, although my biggest fish have come on baits, usually at night BUT contrary to what you may have read, zeds wil take lures in bright sunlight and close to the surface .. I had 4 in a row one day in the Fens

 

Go for it ... and good luck

 

Try the day-ticket stretch at Twyford Farm on the Avon above Tewkers

 

Oh and if someone suggests the Gloucester Canal (as being closer) don't forget your Stanley Knife, because, for zeds, I've found it wrist-slashingly hard :mad:

 

DG

 

[ 19. October 2003, 09:57 AM: Message edited by: The Diamond Geezer ]

[kleinboet]

Sorry Diamond, I went fishing there Tuesday week ago and got three barbel, one of them weighing in at 9lb 3oz, my new pb

[kleinboet]

sorry, got carried away. I've never blanked there , mate. My PB on the canal is an 8lb 12oz Zander.

[The Diamond Geezer]

So your original question was a WOT

[kleinboet]

Maybe I should put my original question diferently. I have always fished a flat maggot-feeder upstream but I am about to try this method of 'rolling along the bottom' or is there a better way? :confused: