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Is the stretch where we had the bank holiday knock up open to pleasure fish on next sunday (24th) or is it a private club stretch, or is there a match on there ?

The reason i ask is that i might be doing nothing on the above day and was thinking of a session on there.

ive not heard that there is a match on there so get down there mate and give it to em!!!

Is the stretch where we had the bank holiday knock up open to pleasure fish on next sunday (24th) or is it a private club stretch, or is there a match on there ?

The reason i ask is that i might be doing nothing on the above day and was thinking of a session on there.

Hi Rich

Get on down there!

It's now officially 'private' as I've just signed the contracts today from BWB. Cashmore's AC now hold the lease and fishing rights.

I'm also (self) designated 'match booking' secretary and can confirm there's no match on Sunday - the section is open.

Season tickets - covering almost a mile of cut from the pub westwards (including the common that we fished) will be £5, or day tickets £1 if I catch you    

It's really producing some decent bags at the mo - presume you've seen the other comments re 60-100lb bags.

For ease, if I were you I'd fish from the walkover bridge back to the pub along that length.

Lots of tench coming to corn, but Cotti's been having his fair share too on the punch. Not fishing 'light' either - 2lb straight thru with his biggest punch on the hook - feeding 2 lines - 5 & 9/10 mtrs. He's also giving them a fair amount of licki too

Best of luck - let us know how you get on  

went down there yesterday afternoon, had an amazing 6 hours, amassing a great weight of tench and bream and also losing 2 absolute monsters.

got there at 2pm to find 2 gents on the oak trees by the royal oak pub. so i walked further along,about half way between the bridges. was very overcast and was not sure what to expect. first chuck on single magg on 22 hook i get a perch touching a 1lb,followed by a prime roach about 10oz and a succession of roach,rudd up to 5oz and then bang, out came the no4 elastic,following a hefty fight i netted a great tench about 3lb. Out came the monster gear,14 elastic 5lb line 16 hook. Had another tench straight away about 3lb followed by a succession of skimmers up to 1lb+. Then came a boat which met a quiet spell, but having fed some more worm i got into the tench again, catching 4 in 4 chucks the biggest about 4.5lb. Then a bream came to top about 4lb and the smile could be seen on my face from a long way away.Nosey gents drinking in the beer garden ambled over to ask what i was doing,what didnt help was that one of them spued his guts up in the margin,human grounbaiting at its best. The missus came over and i set her up on a 5m whip and she was annoyingly outcatching me, perch,roach skimmer hybrids and bump a tench just as my laccy was out again, now this was awlkward, 2 tench on at same time..but we just about managed it even tho mine was a tad bigger than her 2lb specimen.I then had a succession of tench and 2 real quality bream about 4lb, the biggest tench was about 5lbs and snagged me up twice en route to the net. i also got smashed up twice, they must have been carp or monster tench to snap 5lb 12oz line.the missus went at 6 so i had last hour to myself and added a few more tench, a 6lb pike that took double maggot and another couple of real prime roach that looked like they'd never been caught before, 1 was well over the pound mark.last half hour was spoilt by a barge full of morons hammered out of their heads speeding thru,and a young child who accompanied and ecouraged by her father started shcuking bricks in the canal about 6 yards away.it was a fantastic days fishing, just goes to show what the curley wyrley canal is capable of. ended up with 14 tench 4 bream,6 skimmers and about 10lbs of roach rudd and perch. not to forget the pike.

Could someone give me directions please, I'll be coming from coventry.

Could someone give me directions please, I'll be coming from coventry.

This any good Rich?

http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planne ... p=true#map

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0.00 Start out at Coventry,West Midlands B4544 0.00
0.15 At traffic signals continue forward onto Gosford Street Gosford Street 0.15
0.24 At roundabout take the 3rd exit onto Sky Blue Way - A4600 (signposted M6, M69, Leicester) A4600 0.40
0.31 Branch left onto Walsgrave Road (signposted Leicester) A4600 0.71
0.89 At Walsgrave Road roundabout take the 1st exit onto Walsgrave Road - A4600 A4600 1.61
1.36 At Ansty Road roundabout take the 1st exit onto Ansty Road - A4600 (signposted Leicester) A4600 2.97
0.26 At traffic signals continue forward (signposted Leicester) A4600 3.23
0.41 At roundabout take the 2nd exit onto Hinckley Road - A4600 A4600 3.64
0.29 At roundabout take the 2nd exit onto Hinckley Road - A4600 A4600 3.94
0.31 At roundabout take the 1st exit, then join the M6 motorway (signposted The North West, Birmingham) M6 4.24
5.60 Corley Service Area (WELCOME BREAK) M6 9.84
5.54 Continue forward onto the M6 (signposted The North West, Birmingham) M6 15.38
9.31 Continue forward onto the M6 (signposted The North West) M6 24.69
8.93 Leave the M6 at junction 10, then at M6 Junction 10 roundabout take the 4th exit onto the A454 (signposted Walsall) A454 33.62
0.54 Continue forward onto Wolverhampton Road - A454. Entering Walsall A454 34.17
0.86 At traffic signals continue forward onto Wolverhampton Street - A4148 (signposted Ring Road, Cannock A34) A4148 35.03
0.30 At traffic signals turn left onto Green Lane - A34 (signposted Cannock) A34 35.33
0.64 Warning: Speed Cameras along the A34 A34 35.97
0.73 At roundabout take the 2nd exit onto Somerfield Road - A34 (signposted Bloxwich, Cannock) Entering Leamore A34 36.69
0.52 At traffic signals continue forward (signposted Great Wyrley, Cannock) A34 37.21
0.05 Bear right onto High Street - A34. Entering Bloxwich A34 37.26
0.44 At traffic signals turn right onto Lichfield Road - A4124 (signposted Brownhills) A4124 37.70
1.06 Continue forward onto Wolverhampton Road - A4124. Entering Pelsall A4124 38.76
0.85 At traffic signals turn left onto Norton Road - B4154 (signposted Hednesford) B4154 39.61
0.50 Finish on Norton Road,Pelsall B4154 40.11

Tony, do you park on the pub carpark below ???

CLICK ME

you can do ss as long as you have a pint afterwards, but in a match we'll have to go down track and park via the bridge

Cheers Yamo, gotcha now, I think

Just scroll westwards a couple of hundred yards and you'll see the walk overbridge and immediately above it the track (and canal cottage) that leads back to Norton Road  

Fancy it Si?

Not this week but maybe next week

And do you park next to that cottage that above the walk over bridge ?

No - park as close to the walkover bridge as poss, not the cottage, and save your legs - well 30 yards   

Then just walk over the bridge to the 'common'..........

Right, I see where you on about now. Cheers. If I don't go to the Willows I might pop down for the weigh in

Is the stretch where we had the bank holiday knock up open to pleasure fish on next sunday (24th) or is it a private club stretch, or is there a match on there ?

The reason i ask is that i might be doing nothing on the above day and was thinking of a session on there.

Did you snatch a session Rich?

Yes I managed a few hours, a dozen or so perch and a couple of small tench, i probably fished it too light as i was broken 5 times. and the landlord asked me to move my car as he said i shouldnt park there in case he got busy !!

they are powerful fish down there.