Timsbury

[Steve Walker]

Looks like the place is now expensive day ticket fly fishing in the trout season and members only through the winter.

 

http://timsburyfishery.net/

[BobH]

That's a real shame, I always enjoyed fishing Timsbury ?

 

Bob

[goosequill]

That's a shame but it was fun while it lasted - i enjoyed a few of the early AN fish ins here which were always good fun.

[Dick Dastardly]

I always found the fish to be small there (well compared to the LIF stretch we used to visit regularly) but I did love the variety of water available. as soon as this stoped though it lost its appeal for me.

[Paulg]

Fished it a couple of times but got a bit fed up with the WW1 trench-like conditions of the path from the hut to the river, and as DD says above, the fish did tend to be of a smaller average size than the LIF. Had my one and only attempt at nymph fishing there, and caught a tiddler grayling so was well pleased. There were supposed to be some big roach in that section of river, but I never got to see one or talk to anyone else who had either.

[Steve Walker]

I had my first fly-caught grayling from there too. I really enjoyed the numbers of fish there, but I can now catch decent numbers of modest grayling elsewhere, so LIF is more attractive.

[Chris Plumb]

Always thought the place was oversold (and over-fished). Not been down there in a decade despite organising one of the very early AN grayling fish-ins there (2002ish?? - edit 25/01/03!). I won't miss it!

 

C.

Edited September 12, 2014 by Chris Plumb

[BobH]

I had some really nice Roach from there, but it was a bit swimy, so it's the LIF for me now, shame there are other areas of Day Ticket on the Test and Itchen.

 

Bob

[Dick Dastardly]

Don't think any of us managed one of the Slow Carriers big roach though did we? My best was on an AN Fish In and went 1lb 4ozs.

[Anderoo]

Nope! In fact despite repeated attempts I don't think I ever caught any roach from Timsbury!

 

The first couple of fish ins there were great though, plenty of fish and simply beautiful surroundings, and decent weather. The last couple I seem to recall were rainy and muddy, no access to the carrier and catching mainly trout.