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Posted on behalf of Jack Price. Please add all replies to this thread:

 

 

Im 15 and am currently studying like hell for my IGCSEs. In the summer i'm planning on travellng up to London to fish regents canal,focussing more within Little Venice. Has anyone got any tips/tricks or locations that i can fish for a good session. I will likely be targeting Pike and Perch with spinners and any live bait i can catch. Thanks, PLEASE REPLY!

 

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Hi...

 

I'm curious as to why you're travelling to London to fish when you presumably live out nearer the countryside where fishing is far better. I've never attempted to fish in town but I imagine it's fraught with all kind of restrictions and possibly the danger of being mugged (although Little Venice is pretty upmarket as the name suggests). I can't imagine trying to carry all your kit on a bus or the underground is very practical either.

 

There's some useful info here, turns out you can fish in LV...

 

http://www.londonangler.com/venue_display.asp?articleid=7

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I work near to - in fact my work often involves the banks of the regent's canal - and have never seen anyone fishing there. I've seen lots of small perch and a few dead fish, including one huge perch. Curiously, an arm of the canal known as Paddington Basin has a sign on it that suggests the fishing was very good at one time (see photo). If they could only get a signwriter with good grammar.

 

Go down towards Camden, where it goes through The Regent's Park, I think it will be better fishing down that way, if only because it won't be rammed with boats. I know this section quite well and walk it most days and the overhanging trees look distinctly fishy. Don't expect a quiet time though, and although I find it a safe environment, it is Central London and you would be wise to be aware.

 

I've no idea who controls the fishing, possibly LAA. Let us know how you get on, I might take a rod to work.

 

Mike

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Don't know if you are still following this thread Jack, but here are two photos of the stretch I had in mind at Regent's Park. I walked along it yesterday.

 

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I would imagine this is a good stretch for a bit of spinning or float fished worm. However, the bottom will probably be alive with mitten crabs and crayfish, so fish a bait in mid water or just off bottom..

 

Looks quite pleasant really doesn't it. Considering it's in London only two miles or so from Oxford Street.

 

Mike

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  • 2 weeks later...

thanks mike!

im up in London for 3 days and will probably fish near the Paddington Branch i'll will trot up and down from the the weird bridge outside Ziizzis, ill stay reasonably near the the shops/restauants so I'm around the general public, which may deter anyone wanting to 'borrow ya phone' if i dont get told to pi.....go away by any shop owners.

Ive got maggots to catch live bait would the crayfish take my maggots if i was using a swim feeder?

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thanks mike!

im up in London for 3 days and will probably fish near the Paddington Branch i'll will trot up and down from the the weird bridge outside Ziizzis, ill stay reasonably near the the shops/restauants so I'm around the general public, which may deter anyone wanting to 'borrow ya phone' if i dont get told to pi.....go away by any shop owners.

Ive got maggots to catch live bait would the crayfish take my maggots if i was using a swim feeder?

I've no idea really. Might not be too many crayfish, I really don't know, but everywhere else has. I would fish it on the float or spinning until I found the fish. It's not really somewhere to be sitting in one place. However, I would prefer to fish the stretch further away from the shop frontages etc. the bars and cafe's would be a bit off-putting for me. Might be no fishing in the paddington basin anyway. I'll have a look tomorrow when I go past.

 

Mike

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Thanks! I have a grandparent who lives in LV so reaching the bank wont be a dilemma. I have a 5 foot 6" spinner rod from Abu Gracia which i use for tributary trotting so im sure it will perfectly or disastrously adapt to the urban canals!

I think getting hold of a 4-5 metre pole or whip may be a better bet than a short spinning rod, for gfishing a canal. Thye can be bought at reasonably low cost.

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I considered fishing Regents canal a few years back and soon binned the idea as the more I looked in to it the less appealing the idea became. Most anglers I talked to including some that looked well capable of dealing with any potential issues from unsavoury types advised that its just not worth the effort. There are good reasons why you dont see people fishing most of the urban water ways of London even when big Carp and Jacks where plentyful. Over the last few years the big fish have disappeared from most spots and most London anglers head out of the city to fish, my advice would be to follow suit or if you really want to do some urban fishing then try to find an area that gets fished regularly by other anglers. Safety in numbers may be the way to fish London, if you want to fish alone then out of the city might be a better option.

 

Sorry to sound negative but in these times of austerity if good trouble free fishing where available on London's waterways do you think no one would be fishing?

Stephen

 

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It's a sad fact that many of our fishing venues in and around London are unsafe. West of London, at a water which has good barbel and chub, it's unwise to leave your car in the secluded car park due to break-ins and tow-aways. Canal bridges often have a collection of daytime drinkers. Now being past the age of retirement, at the other end of the spectrum to young Jack, I pick my venues with caution. 30 years ago, the London canals gave me hours of sport catching roach and skimmers on the bread punch, but today I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.

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