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Steven Ballard

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Hi all, im off to southampton in a few weeks with work, and fancied a few days fishing. Is there anywhere within an hour of there worth going? All species considered, especially roach/perch. I thought about the itchen?
Any recommendations appreciated!!
 
Hi Steve, there is a free stretch of the river Itchen below the Lower Itchen fishery bottom boundry,Roach,grayling chub sea trout etc and It also does barbel.Never fished it but i dare say you could google it.The Royalty on the avon is close as is Throop, on the stour, both day ticket,there is a free stretch of stour below longham bridge,park outside the lawn mower shopabove the bridge(can be a bit dodgy and lots of rubbish but some massive chub and roach) . Britford LAA fishery(day ticket) on the avon is about 30 minutes away just below salisbury and a nicer more prolific stretch you will rarely find,with a great bailiff and tickets on the bank.
 
Thanks Mark, I know royalty and throop well, just fancied a change, do you, or anyone know much about the free section of the frome at wareham?
 
The fishing is free,based around the town bridge,but the car parking used to be an issue,maximum time in car park by bridge.Others will know the situation better if anything has changed in the last few years .Might be worth an evening session after work,rather than a full day to see,if no more answers try ringing a local tackle shop.
 
The free stretch from lower Itchen down to woodmill pool, and beyond, which is tidal, is all in riverside park, which has excellent parking and easy access to the riverbank, it's mostly a tarmac path.
There is good parking around the Swan pub just below lower Itchen fishery and this stretch is where I would go. It's a proper chalk stream there with lots of features, as it goes down into the park it becomes slower and deeper.
As well as all the expected coarse fish there's a fair run of Salmon and sea Trout too.
There's a small tackle shop in Swaythling, opposite McDonalds, and they will give you good advice.
If you really want to treat yourself check out the Woodmill pool site.
Best of luck with it.
Cheers
Paul
Cheers
 
Free stretch of the Itchen definitely worth a go, plenty of parking around the White Swan pub. Homestores is the tackle shop in Swaythling and they're normally up to date on how the river's fishing.
 
The free stretch of the Frome at Wareham goes for over a mile of the south /west bank downstream from the bridge in the town. There's good roach there, but wall to wall boats moored along the bank. Very friendly and helpful tackle shop 40/50 yards from the bridge, the guy there will help with other useful info and waters.
 
By complete coincidence, the Itchen bits being ALL I know of down that way, I now have to ask a similar question.
Took my sisters partner, a dyed in the wool fanatic sea fisherman, to a nice club lake the other evening for his first attempt at coarse fishing. He had a 4lb bream, 3 pastie carp, and lost a biggie after a long fight.
The blatant attempt at conversion has worked, I don't think he'd ever felt a rod bend like that before! LOL.
They live in Fareham Southampton and initially would like to try some local day ticket coarse fishing, and I have advised that joining a club is the best option for the quality of the fishing and the privacy they would appreciate.
Any recommendations for ticket or club waters down that way? Stillwaters initially, I'll wean him onto rivers later.
 
Portsmouth & District Angling Society, News -, £98 plus £15 joining fee, or £155 for family membership. They have about a dozen lakes/ponds available. Also, gives access to some exchange books. Hansfords or Rovers tackle shops should be able to point them in the right direction.
 
Paul Collins said:
By complete coincidence, the Itchen bits being ALL I know of down that way, I now have to ask a similar question.
Took my sisters partner, a dyed in the wool fanatic sea fisherman, to a nice club lake the other evening for his first attempt at coarse fishing. He had a 4lb bream, 3 pastie carp, and lost a biggie after a long fight.
The blatant attempt at conversion has worked, I don't think he'd ever felt a rod bend like that before! LOL.
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Paul... I dont know what type of sea fishing your "bro in law" has been doing all these years, but I can tell him from 40 + years being a sea angler , beach, rock amd boat, uk and abroad, that if he has found the fight of a freshwater fish better than a saltwater specimen ( obviously depending on the species ) then he should try using some balanced sea gear instead of the "hook and haul em " gear used until recently for sea angling.

Having said that, all freshwater fish do give a good account of themselves, again if caught on tackle balanced to the species.

Jellyfish excepted :D

Dave
 
I am working on him David, and he has shown interest in some sort of 'new' light tackle lure fishing method. Like yourself I've also done a lot of varied sea fishing, usually packing a Carp/Avon type rod on any trip abroad at the very least.
He's mainly done beachcasting, very much a distance man and bemoans the lack of fish available now, he used to fish a lot of matches around Portsmouth and Southampton catching a lot of Flounders and Eels. Now there aren't any.
Weather permitting we're on a wreck trip, neap tide, 3+ the skipper, on the 20th. I'm hoping for Pollack and Conger, he likes Ling. Can't wait.
I'm down there for a few weeks and will be doing some Sea trout and Salmon fishing, and maybe even have a go for some coarse fish too.
Here's hoping
 
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