Re: Lee Flood Relief Channel
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:11 am
yep I quite agree about everyone's response to fishing the flood channel,
I can remember Terry Hearn doing a feature on the channel after carp and as Ted ( lea dweller ) rightly states that's it's a fair size water and one ideally needs to do there homework on the water,
I can clearly remember over 20 years ago that you could often see the the quality roach shouls that were under and around the Bailey bridge at the junction of the old Lea and the relief channel at Fishers green,
Yet again this is another river system that was in its prime in its former years, pollution and the dreaded Black Death are heavily to blame here as I've seen both decimate this river.
I noticed that ( Tizer ) mentioned about the channel that is below Fields weir which is on the ware club ticket, this section here is not actually part of the relief as this is part of the old Lea and runs from fields weir in ware and travels all the way downstream to Amwell nature reserve and the Magna fly fishing club which is the oldest fly fishing club in the country in the days of Izac Walton
I actually walked this stretch only last week after visiting Ted ( Lea Dweller ) and walked all the way back to st Margretts before heading back home, along the Ware club stretch I could see vast dace shouls with a few chub to about 4lb which to me was nice to see
Incidently whilst walking along the Lea navigation at Stanstead lock to my amazement I did actually see what I considered to be the largest shoul of baby 2 inch roach that I have ever seen from anywhere, the shoul was all traveling upstream and very very close to the margins ( bank ) of the canal,
Without no exaggeration I can truthfully say that there must of been in excess several thousand baby roach, I just just stood there in sheer amazement,
To me this is one of the very best of sights that one could ever see
Hopefully after so many years of decimation the Lea system maybe one day return back to its former self
I can remember Terry Hearn doing a feature on the channel after carp and as Ted ( lea dweller ) rightly states that's it's a fair size water and one ideally needs to do there homework on the water,
I can clearly remember over 20 years ago that you could often see the the quality roach shouls that were under and around the Bailey bridge at the junction of the old Lea and the relief channel at Fishers green,
Yet again this is another river system that was in its prime in its former years, pollution and the dreaded Black Death are heavily to blame here as I've seen both decimate this river.
I noticed that ( Tizer ) mentioned about the channel that is below Fields weir which is on the ware club ticket, this section here is not actually part of the relief as this is part of the old Lea and runs from fields weir in ware and travels all the way downstream to Amwell nature reserve and the Magna fly fishing club which is the oldest fly fishing club in the country in the days of Izac Walton
I actually walked this stretch only last week after visiting Ted ( Lea Dweller ) and walked all the way back to st Margretts before heading back home, along the Ware club stretch I could see vast dace shouls with a few chub to about 4lb which to me was nice to see
Incidently whilst walking along the Lea navigation at Stanstead lock to my amazement I did actually see what I considered to be the largest shoul of baby 2 inch roach that I have ever seen from anywhere, the shoul was all traveling upstream and very very close to the margins ( bank ) of the canal,
Without no exaggeration I can truthfully say that there must of been in excess several thousand baby roach, I just just stood there in sheer amazement,
To me this is one of the very best of sights that one could ever see
Hopefully after so many years of decimation the Lea system maybe one day return back to its former self