The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

I spent the weekend on the river Trent and on Sunday I fished the tidal river at North Clifton. Whilst I was there I took the opportunity to have a look for the J W Martin plaque at Dunham Dubbs.



If you want to pay a visit it's on a sycamore on the riverside path on the apex of the left hand bend about half a mile above Dunham bridge. The tree can be spotted easily as it has a large angling club sign on it. Vertically challenged people will struggle though as the plaque is now over six feet up as you can see by the reflection of my arms in the picture (I'm over 6ft tall). You'd better hurry as the tree is doing its best to eat it.

Here's a view of the river from the sycamore:



Here is my best fish of the day, a rather pale Trent barbel of 9lb 3oz:

A fine catch Sean, well done.

Yes well done Sean, lovely write up.

A nice barbell and the river looks great .

Ooooh that river looks nice Sean.....you lucky feller!

It might look nice Nobby, but it's BIG and it's got forward and reverse gears!

SeanM wrote:It might look nice Nobby, but it's BIG and it's got forward and reverse gears!

Nice sean, and so true

still chuckling at that.


Down South here we have the Arun.....really wierd to watch it flow up hill!

What's the reason for the plaque being put there Sean? I mean was it to commemorate something?

I'm not sure why the plaque was put there. It's obviously relatively modern, probably done in the last 20 to 30 years. I tried googling it, but found no information.