Pike Help Please

[PikeHelpPlease]

Hello, i am trying to find somewhere to go pike fishing for the day could anyone recomende any where in my area please, i live in hertford.

[Newt]

Hi and welcome to AN. Sorry I can't help but I live too far away. Hopefully someone will respond who knows UK pike angling.

 

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[Dog Fish]

http://www.1fish.co.uk/Fishery%20List/hertfordshire.htm

or you could ask at your local kebab shop

[Jigotai]

Hello, i am trying to find somewhere to go pike fishing for the day could anyone recomende any where in my area please, i live in hertford.

I believe there is some good pike fishing on the lea navigation between Hertford and Stansted Abbots.

Sorry I can't be any more help but I don't fish for pike myself but see plenty of people fishing for them along the lea.

 

Andy

[JBee123]

Hello, i am trying to find somewhere to go pike fishing for the day could anyone recomende any where in my area please, i live in hertford.

 

Are you mobile?

 

There were some cracking waters around Hertford for pike fishing. Recent years they have taken a bit of a battering from whatever source, poaching being amoung these. The lea has some good stretches as does the stort at Hoddesdon prior to fields weir, sadly the weir has been poached to death and no longer holds the sort of fish and the numbers that it used to!

 

Get your walking boots on and try the lea, its certainly not the most peaceful of rivers and you will be plauged by crays but you should get some results if you pesevere!

[Ducktape Corkfeet]

Join the Pike Anglers Club of Great Britain - www.pacgb.com. Join the region, and you won't have any bother finding places, at least not in your area!!

[kestrel]

I used to fish Aldenham Country Park, not sure whether you can still fish it as the baliff used to tell me that the council were going to stop the fishing due to the boating club and walkers etc. Too dangerous !

I took photo's for a guy who had a 26 1/2 lb pike , absolute monster of a fish.

[Russell Fitzpatrick]

hi ya

 

i would help you out but i'm fully booked at the moment join the PAC,get a good idea of how to fish for pike and handle them safley (if you already dont, even still join up!)

[s_mac]

I used to fish Aldenham Country Park, not sure whether you can still fish it as the baliff used to tell me that the council were going to stop the fishing due to the boating club and walkers etc. Too dangerous !

I took photo's for a guy who had a 26 1/2 lb pike , absolute monster of a fish.

 

Hi i fished aldernham this summer, you can still fish on a day ticket, £4.00 a day, great perch and roach fishing on the wagler off the dam wall.

 

The baliff is a bit funny, but when you get to know him his is a nice guy with some good advice, i know he is going to spend this winter pike fishing day and night.

 

i offered him some sea baits to get him going.

 

he will allow night fishing by permission only, so what i would do is go along, fish a couple of times on the damn wall, and then chat to him..

 

i get the impression from him, that many people come for a day and never go back, alot of this is due to fishing wrong methods, or expecting to much.

 

i remeber the day, when i got there, had to fish the damn wall. he was on peg next to me, ledgereing, he told me to save my £4.00 as it did not matter how good a fisherman you are, you wont catch when they go off.

 

i had 40 fish that session, only small roach and perch, was great sport and good days fishing.

 

they had crayfish problem a while back, but that has been sorted out now. well they just vansished.

 

anyway, get down, offer him his peg money, and you will be ok from what i have seen of him.

 

best time to catch him, is early morning or evenings.

 

just another point, they have about 6 pegs in woodland, the rest is the damn wall, in front of the woodland 2 pegs is a nice island, and plenty of space to get a bivvy up or for 2 people to fish couple of rods each,

 

let me know how you get on.

 

 

 

regards

 

smac

Edited September 18, 2006 by s_mac

[kestrel]

Glad to hear you can still fish there, its a great place for spinning from the wooden platforms on the dam wall, the baliff was a bit funny as you say once you get to know him he's ok. There used to be a fishermans car park , you need to get the code from the baliff. The water around the island was quite shallow.

£4 per day , thats pretty good considering the size of the pike that are in there. I am sure it was that 4 years ago when I fished there. His number used to be on a notice board near the baliff's hut.