Simple Match Fishing Forum

17th July 2010

Common Road Evesham (upstream of Crown Meadows)

Postcode WR11 4QY will get you to Common Road

Confirmed casualties

HaHa
Big Baz
Sprucey
R Cashmore
G Cashmore
Cotti


Confirmed visitors

Abuman
Glyn

In fact that looks like that's Cotti's challenge for the individual title over for this year...........being as he misses the next two matches

TK. Looking on google maps, am I right in thinking you can park behind most pegs on Common Road??

Not sure about right behind your pegs, but its certainly parking by the river a 'good path' along the bank


Confirmed casualties

HaHa
Big Baz
Sprucey
R Cashmore
G Cashmore
Cotti
Veste
Tommy Cooper


Confirmed visitors

Abuman
Glyn
Phyllis Pearce

I dont know the Common road stretch but I fished the Crown Meadow at Evesham last friday, peg 5. ( As I did the week before  )

Fancying an easy afternoon on my day off I decided it was the place to go, with parking behind the peg and being a river of coure

I'd got in mind how I was going to fish it, chuck a maggot feeder out with just the one rod, nice and simple, just for the pleasure of it. No thoughts whatsoever about how it should be fished, just going to enjoy myself and have a pleasant afternoon.
And it was.

First chuck a perch and thats how it continued, one after another. In between the perch I had a couple of small skimmers and a couple of roach.

Most of the perch were 4-8oz but a couple pushed the pound and one i'm sure was there. They're chunky blighters and if you really look at one, beautifully coloured, absolutely perfect.

The sun was blazing and the water clear. I could see the fish coming back across the river to me from quite a distance but it didnt put them off feeding at all. They were ravenous. Temperature probably nudged 30c 

Got fed up after a while and decided to try for some hemp roach at 10m on the pole. Had half a dozen which pleased me as i'd not fished that style on a river before.

I'd miss a couple of bites and then have one, before losing contact. I'd find them somewhere else in the swim and the pattern continued, miss a couple, have one lose, need to find them again and so on. But all very enjoyable. Nice knowing the fish are there and if there had been some colour in the water might have fed properly.

No idea what i'd caught but it was well into double figues and that was without really trying. If I'd been weight interested, i'd have stuck catching those perch. Didnt fish as long as in a match either.

It's hard to believe its the same river and pegs that can seem almost fishless during the Evesham Festival.

I did notice though, that when people stopped to chat or watch on top of the bank, bites slowed. Not stopped, but slowed. Even though I was fishing the far side.

I hope you catch a few up at Common Road and this heartens you. Theres more fish in the river than you might think 

Thanks for that little insight Mark - heard that the Common Road section has a greater head of skimmers than the Crown Meadows

Plus should be less pedestrian traffic

Hotlips is taking his caravan down for the weekend so he can fish and keep the better half happy...........


Just need to find out where exactly so we can pop round early for a bacon butty


That's if FK dont beat us to it and scoffs em all

heard that the Common Road section has a greater head of skimmers than the Crown Meadows 

Yep. I would expect so, deeper and slower maybe ?

I fished the peg in front of Hampton Ferry cafe a couple of weeks back, after it had produced around 47lb of skimmers.

Hot footed it down there early, in case it was occupied 

Anyway, nowt.

But decided they must be around still, so moved next door and had just the one, a big old thing 4-5lb plus bits.

Is Common Road fishable on day ticket, I wonder ?

Yes it is mate, same club owns the water as the crown meadows.
It's fishing well at present.

Yes it is mate, same club owns the water as the crown meadows.
It's fishing well at present.

Yep - I originally tried to get us on Crown Meadows at the request of a member, but obviously couldnt until Sept because of the qualifiers.........as we couldnt fish the C M it was suggested that we 'divert' upstream onto Common Road instead which came with positive comments regarding the section.

Good to hear that C W H 

where do we park TK? looks like several places on map

As close to the river as we can get KOD

Seen some cars on emaps by some canoes at the start of the section

ycan park outside my house if you want K.O.D

ycan park outside my house if you want K.O.D

lookin at weather gez might take you up on that

    rumor has it the casualties list is out of date

                                   

Any info on the day anyone ???

Just for Markv, a full report on the days event............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................I won.... yippeeeee

Come on then, spill a few more beans 

wll done bazza big catch or wot