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How Far ?

30 miles is my limit really, that takes me to the Wye Teme and Middle Severn, 5 minutes takes me to the Lower Severn and Warks Avon, I just wish the Lower Systems had a few more Barbel.:rolleyes:

Planning to fish the Middle Severn a bit more, but might have to invest in something with a better MPG, perhaps a Fiat 500 with a roof rack?

Or of course a Smart Car :)

Mark and Sue, if it helps you can crash here once I have the 'kids' gone, which I guess by then either all the Barbel will be just a memory, or your local rivers will be brim full of them again.
 
I live in dungeness in Kent,can see France most days,fish the Trent from Newark down, four hundred mile round trip,the joke is how many barbel we pass driving north, but I do love the Trent, and the company Audi does help,twice a month for two nights of class fishing, fished bewdley on Severn last season,low and clear,blanked a night so drove back to Trent one night for five beards,I must be mad!!!!!
 
I've lived in Hitchin, Arlesey and now Stotfold, over the last 25 or so years. So a trip to the Ouse 'above Bedford' was always the minimum requirement, anywhere between Milton Earnest and Newport Pagnell. Anything between 45 minutes and an hour plus. This was never a worry, as once the fishing was great, anywhere I chose between these areas. I even got done for speeding once, I was in such a hurry to get onto the bank. :( lol

And previously when I lived in Bath, anything over 20 minutes was considered a long trek, as normally a 10 minute hustle would see me tossing in a few pints of hemp and casters into a chosen swim.
 
Richard Borley said:
If I had a chauffeur I would spend all my time on the Thames.
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:D

I am trying to cut down on my travelling time this year as it saps valuable fishing time. If it takes an hour an a half to get from door to bank, that's three hours gone before I've even started :(

That said, there's probably nowhere that's local that is really viable for my barbel fishing unless I am missing something?

Stephen
 
I suppose really that I am in a great position, the Ribble, the Yorkshire Ouse, the Trent, the Calder,the Ure, Swale,Wharfe , Nidd, Don, Yorkshire Derwent,Calder , Aire, Dee,Hull,and a few more as well, are all within 90 miles at most from my front door,In fact there is a river just 2 miles down the road, the Calder, that has Barbel in it, but fighting your way past the odd floating fridge, garden shed, and sub surface supermarket trolley does put you off a bit.
I rarely travel more than 30 miles at most to wet a line....and thats Fresh .. 90 miles min to the Sea.


Dave
 
Hi men,

Cheers Neil ! Very kind ;) , just need to get me and sue back into some sort of fishing as we had it knocked out of us last week , long story .

Stephen , I'm searching fella , odd fish out here and there I hear , TBH always is at the start .


Hatter
 
I find its not so much the travelling there as the travelling back. Not so much the miles as the time. Leaving before dawn can be a trip of 1.25 hours, coming back can be up to 3 hours!
 
About 10 minutes for me to Radwell or any of the other stretches of the Gt.Ouse that I have access too. I could be on the river bank in five minutes if I bothered to fish my home town stretch in Kempston. Under normal circumstances I'd consider myself lucky but with the Ouse in its current state and all....
 
I must be getting old and lazy as I tend to think twice about going to my ''local'' stretches of the Wey which is only a 50 mile round trip, and usually wait for good conditions.
I have the Mole, Thames, Arun, Rother, Eden, Sussex Ouse and Medway within 45 mins and have fished them all. The Kennet and St Pats. used to take about an hour, but I have always preferred the Avon and Stour which is a 200 mile round trip to which I find the drive back home knackering, hence my recent thread about moving closer to both rivers.
I love the Wye, but that is a holiday not a day trip.
This thread got me thinking about the days,..some 25 - 30 years ago.. when,..prior to a week-ender at Larkfield, Kent...I used to motor the 70 mile round trip a couple of times in the week to New Hythe just to prebait!
Really must re-ignite my enthusiasm and get out more!:D
 
I did a 30/40 minutes each way bus journey (that doesn't count waiting time :mad:) 3 or 4 times a week, for 6 weeks of the closed season, to prebait my local one year Dave. It worked (invariablyly does) but I can't be naffed (nor afford) to do it every year :D

Cheers, Dave.
 
I think it must be lack of adrenalin Dave, the lack of excitment and expectation of whats to come,...according to my other alf!! :D:D
 
60 mile approx round trip to the Ribble, or about 160 mile approx round trip to the Severn. :mad: If only the Mersey had barbel instead of turds :eek:

Any other suggestions most welcome. :)
 
Derek Funcks said:
60 mile approx round trip to the Ribble, or about 160 mile approx round trip to the Severn. :mad: If only the Mersey had barbel instead of turds :eek:

Any other suggestions most welcome. :)
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My suggestion is to ban toilet use in Liverpool for 6mths a year, should soon clear up the problem :D
 
To be honest Ray, they really have made a huge improvement to the river over the last so many years. You often now see anglers fishing from the dock wall, catching flat fish and codling, even the odd small octopus, which i,m told is the sign of a clean river. :)
 
Derek Funcks said:
To be honest Ray, they really have made a huge improvement to the river over the last so many years. You often now see anglers fishing from the dock wall, catching flat fish and codling, even the odd small octopus, which i,m told is the sign of a clean river. :)
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Thats good news then Derek. I remember the times i used to go to New Brighton, if i missed the Royal Iris or Daffodil, i would walk across on floating cars and drums etc :D
 
I don't drive and it takes about an hour door to the river by shanks/bus that is maybe 6 miles or it is a 20 minute walk to Thames (which i don't fish enough). Bought a ticket this year to fish the Kennett but two buses and a train and 2 hours is putting me off...it's bad enough having to say you caught bugger all to people on one bus :D
 
Paul Dowgill said:
I don't drive and it takes about an hour door to the river by shanks/bus that is maybe 6 miles or it is a 20 minute walk to Thames (which i don't fish enough). Bought a ticket this year to fish the Kennett but two buses and a train and 2 hours is putting me off...it's bad enough having to say you caught bugger all to people on one bus :D
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Paul, go the fishmongers the day before ;):D
 
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