Urban chub fishing among the shopping trolleys

[kenj]

My latest outing on my urban river.

http://www.urbanfieldsportsman.com/index.php/urban-chub-fishing-among-the-shopping-trolleys/

[wotnobivvy]

would that be the Blackwater near to Camberley/Sandhurst then ??

[kenj]

No, the Blackwater is brilliant in Sandhurst, this little river flows out of Bracknell. Don't tell anyone.

[The Flying Tench]

An interesting blog, Ken. Certainly there are swims here in Newbury where the shopping trolleys are good holding spots, though I realise that's not quite what you are saying on your small river - more a nuisance I think in this case

[Ken L]

The Tame in Birmingham is similar. The shopping trollies do get washed down in floods but they soon get stuck against something and then held fast buy a layer of mud. At this point, they become useful shelters for fish against the flash floods that occur when a big storm hits a town that's largely covered in tarmac.

We have something similar with the Stour in Kidderminster but it's only really the bit that flows through town that's grubby.

 

I've bagged up on the Tame when conditions are right using lures, the fly rod and occasionally traditional float tackle.

I even had a chub of about a pound taken from by line by a double figure pike within sight of Spaghetti Junction whilst fly fishing a few years back in a peg that was less than two feet deep. I could see the chub and the pike in the water clearly.

[wotnobivvy]

Ken,

 

You have PM

[kenj]

The shopping trolley in the canal, or river are a bit like having a skip and finding someone has put a mattress in there. It always seems to happen. As you say Ken L a shopping trolley can give good cover once it's accumulated a few polythene bags! On one of my other urban rivers, which is full of brown trout, the council cleared out one of the best reaches a couple of years ago, all the bits of concrete, bricks, lumps of wood, plus the odd trolley went, leaving a clean gravel bottom and no trout. I am worried that my little river is due for the treatments soon, as it's very overgrown.

[chavender]

i'm a member of the river erewash foundation who when we can get on there ,likes to clean up .we,ve removed a lot of trollies ,bikes ,Tv's & fridge freezers

 

 

 

we did leave some trollies in place as fish refuge's ,we try to keep things a little wild and overgrown .we hoping theres no so much flooding this year.

 

so theres none of this...................less need of this...................................................some of this.................................

 

..And more of this

 

and this

 

 

And maybe if i'm lucky something like this

 

 

cleaning out little rivers is about balance ,& sometimes nature needs a helping hand

[Steve Walker]

If removing metallic debris, maybe a good idea to build some wooden cover?

[Andy Macfarlane]

Love it Ken. Comparible to my favourite kind of brownie fishing. I really rate the swims that people regard as 'polluted' or 'devoid of life' and round Glasgow there's a few, most of which have thrown up several 3 and 4 pounders for me.