chesterfield canal, drakeholes,!!!!

[TF_Leaky Lloyd]

thinkin of doing a bit of canal fishing,, aint done any in years,,
anyone got any info on this stretch????
thinkin of trying a couple of places,,
the stretch where the retford boatclub house is, think this is used for matches,,
and a litlle further back in the village, down the road from the church and over the hump back bridge!!!
any info welcome,,
or can you suggest some decent stretches around s,yorks,,,
cheers big ears!!!

[TF_daveyboy]

Fish clayworth and greys bridge leaky, plenty of fish in front of the boats at clayworth, and some big chub at greys bridge.

[TF_hempmaster]

The fish seem to prefer cover of barges along this stretch and because of the regular activity on the bank are not as bothered as anglers by boat traffic or even localised disturbance.Infact some of the quieter stretches seem to contain less fish.
We have had success on punch or pinkie over groundbait down the track with a choppie swim tight to the barge side were we alternate redworm/dendra/lobbie.There are some decent perch and chub so strong laccy is a good move here as they often dive under the keel.When water temps are up the skimmers/tench will settle over a sweet fishmeal and we’ve had em on expander this year but red maggot over micro’s is more realible.
As a alternative larger canal the Steak and Keadby at Thorne should soon receive its annual migration of fish to concentrate the shoals from Moors/Mauds bridges through Wykwell and past Blue marina into town centre.

[TF_Leaky Lloyd]

thanks for that hemp master,,
very similar to how i was thinking of approaching it!!!

davey boy can you give a few directions please matey,, maybe a link to google map,, if i see it from google map i will know the wy exactly,, thanks bud!!!

[TF_Leaky Lloyd]

just checked google maps dave and i think the claworth stretch is where the retford boat club is,, directly on the bridge????

but i still dont know where this grays bridge part is,, would that be the bridge at the bottom of st’ peters lane???

[TF_daveyboy]

here you are leaky, the bridge is where it says wiseton road
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=clayworth&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=7.658958,28.081055&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Clayworth,+Retford,+Nottinghamshire,+United+Kingdom&ll=53.39116,-0.911779&spn=0.0151,0.054846&z=14

[TF_Leaky Lloyd]

thats the one i now dave yeah,, cheers bud,,,
think im gunna give em a try cheers!

[TF_Dave Pellet]

not fished that stretch before, will you let us know how you get on leaky

[TF_Leaky Lloyd]

will do matey,,
might be there thursday,, phoned R&R Sports in bawtry and they reckon the best approach would be choppy and caster up to the boays and hemp at 4 to 5 meter by hand,,
think we’re gunna try both approaches,, see what happens!

[Anonymous]

Lloyd, after you,ve tried the chessy take hempmaster’s advice and try the stainy at thorne.take a matchpack of b and j and a few casters.i promise you wont be dissapointed mate.

[TF_Leaky Lloyd]

iok dude,, i might do that, but i would need directions to exact stretch and pegs and stuff,,
aint fished a canal in years and thats where i 1st learned to fish,, its gunna be a trip down memory lane and a change from puddles every now aand then!

[TF_Dave Pellet]

I love canal fishing, probably right up there with tench fishing on secluded lilly covered lakes (if I could find one!) & trotting for grayling

was wasting a bit of time on Google mapping yesterday, instead of working, and using the ‘Pegman’ streetview – at certain points there are photo’s that people have taken, and one of the photo’s is of a peg on the Chesterfield Canal at Retford, which brought back very happy memories for me as it was the peg I won my first ever match at!!

bit too late in the year now to be revisiting that one though as the tench that I won with will have probably stopped feeding by now!

maybe next year

[TF_daveyboy]

Thorne for you leaky, west street , wikewell bridge, moors bridge all
fishing well at the moment, try and get some bloodworm and joker in the winter
time, this is the best canal in yorkshire

[TF_daveyboy]

sorry heres the map,
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Thorne,+Doncaster&sll=53.612918,-0.964788&sspn=0.060083,0.219383&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Thorne,+Doncaster,+United+Kingdom&ll=53.607836,-0.958858&spn=0.007511,0.027423&z=15

[TF_Leaky Lloyd]

cheers dude,,
might give that one a go sunday cos the match i was on has been cancelled,,

“cheers big ears”!

[TF_Leaky Lloyd]

went today ,,,
not good,, its absolutely rammed with weed,, couldnt find a weed free spot anywhere in my swim and neither could our sean!!!
according to the bayliff,, they have been refused permission to rake it out and the fishing is suffering as a result, we had a knock up and i won the toss chosing peg 4, fished most of the day right up to the boauts with choppy and caster as the bottom of the near and far shelfs where way to weedy!
finished with 2 decent chubb and a few bits for about 5 lb,, pulled out of 2 very good fish aswell and every fish came back covered in,, you guessed it,, weed!
it was quite tough in the fact that if you didnt present abait touching bottom you simply couldn’t get any bites, but every time you shipped in you had a big ball of bloody weed on the hook!!!

our kid had a lot more fish,, but they where tiny and he must have had about 40 fish for about 3lb if that!!!

it was a really tuff session but as it was a break from the norm still really enjoyed it!!!!

they need to dredge that stretch or its gunna be unfishable soon!

[TF_Dave Pellet]

thats a pity LL, sounds like a grueller

cheers for the update though

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