Fishing Venues

We are pleased to report that following a recent fly fishing session, we have updated myfools web with a new Fishing Venue - Moorhen Trout Fishery located in the meon valley in Hampshire in the village of Warnford - The venue provided a very warm welcome, excellent facilities and a really great days fishing.  Fishing fools felt the venue catered very well for beginners, providing a good introduction into how to fly fish, with the objective of getting you on the water catching top of the list.  You can find the full details of the venue along with directions and links [ HERE ]

Well today was a recognisance day to try and find some new venues for Fishing Fools - A list had been compiled of likely locations, the car topped up and the GPS programmed with all the coordinates - Arriving at the first lake found it to be completely empty of fish and water..doh! One of the lakes was at the end of a 3 mile green lane mud/dirt track that made me glad to have a 4x4 (I could of been stuck there for days otherwise ) There was a nice 4 acre lake over at Wainsford that went on the possible list, and the lakes at Whitemoor that got crossed of due to the size limit on hooks ! Once all the lakes had been viewed, a trip to the local tackle shop was on the cards to get costs for day tickets...unfortunately it was at this point I found out that all these venues had stopped doing day tickets Ah well, fun afternoon anyway, and it's certainly made me even keener to join an Angling Club to get access to more varied waters...

Just got back from a fantastic days fishing at Greenridge Farm Coarse Fishery near Romsey - The venue is made up of four canal style lakes with really good access to the car park, the swims are very good construction, and are spaced out enough to avoid beginners like me getting hooked on your next door neighbour - there's also a nice lake on site with around 10 well spaced swims.  The fishery location is very rural, set amongst dense woodland, with well established trees and features - a real struggle to find though, don't rely on the GPS, this is one for the old paper based map

 

Fishing was much more brisk then I was expecting, especially considering the time of year and the outside temperature only being a few degrees ! It took a good hour to get the fish feeding in the swim, with the initial influx of small roach grabbing the hook on every cast!  The fish were going crazy over some casters (maggots left over from last week ) I even had to switch to a larger hook from my faithful size 16 to a size 12 as the casters were being whipped of the end without the hook setting.  The feeding frenzy from the smaller fish also lead to the big fish moving in to find out what all the fuss was about, this resulted in some really high spirited carp catches from 2 - 5lb's and some really exciting bends on the rod ! see some of them in the photo gallery...

 

Certainly an interesting venue, which is worth another visit over the winter period