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Verulam Angling

John Young

John Young

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Is this club easy to get in or difficult

am I right in thinking they have access to record breaking barbel on there tickets?
 
I don’t know how hard it is to get in but yes potentially you could catch record breaking barbel on one of their waters because they have the fishers green consortium which is just a short walk down from kings weir stretch where the current record is held.
It’s a hard water. Barbel are massive but few and far between.
You don’t need to join verulam to fish it though.
Quite afew clubs very reasonably priced with plenty of spaces have access to it.

Kings weir gets all the attention and fishers green is barely spoken about but these fish don’t just sit in one place. They can be caught on both sides of the fence.
 
Verulam is easy to join as long as you send an application at the right time. They usually don’t maintain a waiting list and start the renewals/applications process around May for the coming season.

No record breaking barbel on their club waters, although you might get a back-breaking bag of barbel; their stretches of the Lea are prolific.

As Richard says, Verulam are part of the Fishers Green Consortium. The full list of member clubs is listed here: https://www.fishersgreen.co.uk/contacts.htm.

There are some true monsters here but (and it’s a big but) it is a rock hard, hard as nails, true headbanger of water. I fished it 9 times last season with 7 blanks. The last night I fished it last season (end Feb) I spoke to an old geezer. He’d fished it nearly every week and blanked. Poor guy looked like a shell.

This season I’ve been once (one chub), spoke to another guy who fishes regularly, he’d had one bite (14lb). Pretty much everyone is doing the same, fishing for one bite. It’s bloody tough but that one bite has a good chance of being a PB. They are in there but they’re few and far between (part of the reason they are so big) it’s finding them and catching them that’s the tricky bit.
 
At Kings Weir Fishery but I don’t know whether he caught at the weir pool itself or further down the KW fishery stretch (ie the members section). You can fish KW weir pool on a day ticket. There’s a long waiting list for the members section. But again as Richard said, there’s no barrier for the fish between FG & KW, they move about the river.
 
John Young said:
was James Record caught at the weir or lower down on Fishers Green?
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It was caught on the members section.

I did a full season on fishers green River Lea. Afew years ago
I concentrated most of my efforts in the upper most swims not too far from where kw members section ends. It’s a beautiful section with a lovely set of fast S bends and stacks of features to fish
It’s fast, shallow, loads of cover, well oxygenated and to look at it you would think it should be heaving with fish. But it isn’t.
Not even shoals of small roach or dace. There literally is practically nothing in it but afew rouge fish that seemingly get extraordinarily big.
anyway back to my full season.
Mostly evenings from 6pm till kick off time
I worked round the corner at the time in Waltham cross.
Started in June right through till March slowed up in winter targeting other things but for around 40 sessions I caught 2 barbel.
Both big 13’s (although different fish)
Both from the same swim just 1 week apart in early March. Up until that point for the other 38 sessions I’d caught nothing

It is extremely hard to find them.
 
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