Coarse fishing near Ashby De-La Zouch

[Errrm]

Hi,

 

I've trying to start fishing again after about 10 years and after moving to a new area I have no idea of the places to fish ( I have moved to Ashby De-La Zouch ). The places I have found on the internet so far appear to be day ticket carp waters which is fine but I'm worried that only modern carp tactics would catch ( ledger, bollies etc ). I want a place to fish that I can float fish with fairly basic baits maggots, lunchmeat, sweetcorn etc. Does anyone know if these tactics work on venues such as Springwood Fisheries, Willesley Lakes or Groby Lakes ( all near where I live ) or can you suggest a better location.

 

Thanks

 

Errrm

[John S]

Hello Errrm, and welcome to AnglersNet

 

I think you'll find that most of the 'carp' lakes will have a good head of perch, roach, tench etc in there as well, it's just that hardly anyone fishes for them there. If you don't want to target carp, I'd suggest you try one or two of these places with light(ish) float tackle and see what turns up in the margins.

 

I don't know the places you mentioned, but hopefully someone on here will

 

Tight lines, John S

[WickerDave]

Errrm,

 

Too far north for me but there are a few North Leicestershire posters who may reply.

 

Don't worry about the boilie/multi-rod leger approach, I prefer to either surface fish or margin float fish, just using simple baits like luncheonmeat and sweetcorn close in will still catch all species, although it is usually hard to avoid the carp.

 

There's details of a few Leicestershire waters on http://www.fisheries.co.uk, one northern one you did not mention is http://www.fisheries.co.uk/jandsfishing/index.htm.

 

WickerDave.

[Errrm]

Thanks for the advice so far.

 

Another lake I'm thinking about trying out this weekend was The Riddings Fisheries near Atherstone, has anyone ever fished there? Is it any good?

 

Errrm

[WickerDave]

Did you read the details of that on http://www.fisheries.co.uk/riddings/index.htm?

 

That seems a fair way to travel. If we keep bumping this to the top maybe the North Leicestershire posters will eventually respond with more local advice . Or you could pretend you are an exotic foreign female to get more responses .

[Errrm]

Did you read the details of that on http://www.fisheries.co.uk/riddings/index.htm?

 

That seems a fair way to travel. If we keep bumping this to the top maybe the North Leicestershire posters will eventually respond with more local advice . Or you could pretend you are an exotic foreign female to get more responses .

lol

 

Yeah I've read that page, it's where I got the initial information from and it's only about 12 miles from where I live so it's not too bad.

 

I think I'm going to try it this saturday unless I hear it's really bad.

 

Errrm

[WickerDave]

Re the "I have fished it once and it was good, I'm going again this sunday.", how was it for species variety and sizes?

[Errrm]

Re the "I have fished it once and it was good, I'm going again this sunday.", how was it for species variety and sizes?

 

I was only there for about 4-5 hours and hadn't really got the right tackle to catch, but I managed a few car up to about 2 pounds and a few crusician carp and skimmer bream. The people across the lake where fishing with method feeders and caught better with some fish that looked like they might get to 4-5lbs. I went for a second time last weekend and there were a couple of matches on ~70 people in all, I saw only about 3 fish caught all day

 

It's a really nice venue though so I'll probably go again to see if I can do any better this weekend, also the cafe is open in the morning now.

[WickerDave]

Thanks, it's always nice to get some feedback.