Having moved to the slough area i am busy trying to find available waters to fish having sorted the rivers out was wandering what stillwaters are
available,bearing in mind i dont drive it has to be quite close any ideas?
Lakes in berkshire
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 seanybarbel |
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Posts: 58 (14/05/08 21:05) |
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 2331 (14/05/08 21:18) |
The Taplow pits - just down and close to the A4, just before you reach Maidenhead - are probably the nearest and best. Huge carp in them, once upon a time, and
other stuff. I'd phone or visit King's Tackle in Maidenhead for details of these and others.
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Posts: 157 (15/05/08 16:04) |
Taplow pit is now a syndicate with a very long waiting list (still got huge carp ).Berry hill lake almost opposite is run by Kingsmore anglers,not sure if they
have a website.Intertype Angling society have some fairly local waters in Burnham and Colnebrook..Bath road Piscatorials also have some waters not that far
away.But to be honest without a car you are going to struggle.
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Posts: 7875 (16/05/08 09:16) |
Try Farlowes lake situated between iver village (swan pub) and cowley (shovel pub), only a shortish distance from slough, also other lakes in that immediate
area too, farlowes is a day ticket/season ticket water containing good tench, carp and big carp, bream by the sackful lol and other stuff too,
theres lot not too far from you, good luck....j.w |
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davhall |
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Posts: 1835 (16/05/08 10:32) |
go canal!!!
fish the slough arm at langley,plenty of tench and carp,on day ticket,that's if tom get's to you,you may well fish for nothing most of the time. |
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Posts: 762 (16/05/08 19:00) |
John
Does Little Britain and Cowley lakes still exist? Suggest you watch your gear all the time if fishing the Uxbridge area. The local travellers like to permanently borrow your tackle. Mike |
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davhall |
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Posts: 1839 (16/05/08 19:05) |
little britain still exist's, very few fish left, either stolen or eaten, now it's free, better to stick to the colne down there.
pity, crucian carp and tench fishing used to be brill. |
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davhall |
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Posts: 1840 (16/05/08 19:19) |
cowley have had problems with poachers in vans and nets,every time i go past the gates are locked.
if you join harrow,you can fish rowley lake,5 minutes from slough,very nice it is to. |
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 2340 (16/05/08 20:01) |
mikevwilson wrote: Bandit Country just fifteen minutes walk from me. The travellers, present year-round (Huntsmoor and the M25 and Iver Heath and down to West Drayton), are currently doubling their numbers, with the better weather of summer coming. A garage local to me (a mile or so away from the Little Britain etc) has had two "drive-aways" in the past week or so, and expects more; a local off-licence and grocer's is back on its annual summer security-alert for flashily dressed women with children in big four-wheelers etc. As for fishing over there - stillwater, canal or river - well, let's just say that it is one of those areas where a reasonably nice, albeit fish-less (it has been nailed), day can turn suddenly very very nasty. Known it all my life, but don't fish there. |
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davhall |
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Posts: 1841 (16/05/08 20:16) |
your right paul,it's been nailed.
i won't bother anymore,last time i fished the colne at little britain last season,a woman walking her dog near quakers was robbed by two men who nicked her phone and punched her in the face,the police got them and they were gypos from langley...nice. |
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mikevwilson |
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Posts: 763 (16/05/08 21:51) |
Paul and Dave
Slightly off topic but do you know if the River Frays is producing any fish like it did in the 50's and early 60's? Mike |
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 2341 (16/05/08 22:26) |
Mike,
I had a 10-01 in 2003 from a spot (which Dave, I believe, also knows) that, if you were to fish it now, would require you to permanently forfeit your ass to a pair of Alsatians. I have had a less than a handful of fish to seven or so since then, fishing a bit which a girlfriend of mine and her neighbours live beside. Said girlfriend's six-year-old, fishing with a converted fly rod I had made for her and bigger sis' and pals to use, caught a "Oh, it's a gudgeon, Paul" four-inch barbel in front of me last summer. Definitely not worth getting "all serious" about, though, Mike. |
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phil webb10 |
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Posts: 158 (16/05/08 22:30) |
"if you join harrow,you can fish rowley lake"
Forgot about Rowley,it is a very pretty lake.You would never guess you were only minutes away from Slough centre. I also echo the sentiments about the hazards of fishing in the Uxbridge ,Iver,West Drayton areas. Farlows is supposed to much safer these days but I no longer fish there and I still wouldn't fancy a night. Phil.W |
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davhall |
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Posts: 1842 (16/05/08 22:48) |
there also used to be carp nearing the 40 mark in black park lake across the road and a good few 30's,don't know if still there or being pinched by
now.
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davhall |
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Posts: 1843 (16/05/08 22:57) |
the frays is a weird river,i hear rumours of barbel in groups,i know of one place but you would be very brave or stupid to try as the landowner is a nutter!
i do not know about the 60's as i was only born in 1970 but paul b was around then...sorry...lol. |
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 2342 (16/05/08 22:58) |
Oh, good old Black Park!
Look at some old British movies. Like anything in a "Carry On" (all outdoor, rural scenes) - shot in Black Park and the surrounding lanes, cos it was nearest to Pinewood. Like any Transylvanian forest in a classic, "How do you want your stake?", Hammer movie - Black Park. Swum and sunbathed with girls there many times in my yoof. Just watch out for the werewolves and vampires. |
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 2343 (16/05/08 23:14) |
davhall wrote: Mike is referring to a time, Dave (a time before even my own), when there were big barbel in the upper Frays (the bit above Uxbridge, just a long-ish cast across the valley from the U.R. M40 stretch). Take it from one relentless walker and stalker: they are NOT there now. |
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phil webb10 |
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Posts: 159 (16/05/08 23:20) |
" be carp nearing the 40 mark in black park lake across the road "
Dave I think you might mean Langley Park Lake which is on the opposite side of the Uxbridge road almost directly opposite Rowley.It was also controlled by Harrow at one time.It did contain a few 30,s although I am not sure they got near 40.It also contained some fercious snags.Some nutty woman got fishing banned to protect the nesting swans.The year it was banned one cygnet got trampled to death by the cattle and the other got killed by a dog.Must be a moral in there somewhere. Black park lake is just around the corner from Rowly,I think there was a few fish to around 30.Fishing was difficult because they banned fishing in the shallow weedy end where most of the fish hung out.I think it was drained a few years ago to do some repairs to the dam end so I don't know what is in there now.It was always a bit of a circus with model boats,swimmers ,dogs and walkers among other distractions. Phil.W |
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 2344 (17/05/08 00:17) |
Okay. More from the Boote Archive.
Langley Park. Alan Tomkins gave it a fair pasting in the 1980s before the Hug a Swan No-Life Lady got fishing banned. I often used to visit him there, also (till very recently) some good, non-angler friends who lived in one of the gatehouses to the Park Often walked the lake (and saw the occasional fish landed), though never fished it: my attention was drawn to barbel and to other stuff. Just a few years after the South Bucks Council's Angling ban, most of the Swan-Hugger Lady's birds - swans, ducks, grebes, moorhens, coots and all - died horribly together with the remaining fish in the lake: no anglers on the banks to sound an early alarm, you see? Such is no-life Bunny Hugging. Rowley. One of the best coarse-fishermen that I have known, a man I have mentioned here before (pioneering Colne Mere, and, before thiat, the Crayfish Lake, Horton), a man introduced to me thirty or so years ago by a mutual friend, a man whom I subsequently sent off to fish in India, a man who phoned me at almost this very time thirty years ago - "Meet me in The Crooked Billet carpark, Paul. I'll show you some fish in a lake I've been fishing..." I still have some lovely FujiChrome slides of what he showed me that afternoon: carp, some good ones among them, ploughing up little Rowley, spawning.
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Carey Street |
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Posts: 119 (17/05/08 09:10) |
URACS have Cowley Lake - locked until the 16th and 'completely secured behind locked gates' says them
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Posts: 107 (17/05/08 11:50) |
This thread is like a trip down memory lane for me. Lived in Slough in the 70s and fished Black Park, Langley Park, Stoke Park etc. Night fishing Black Park in
the middle of a graveyard film set for a 70s horror film was quite an experience. I loved Stoke Park, a really secluded little lake that was incredibly
atmospheric. Made the mistake of dropping in a few years ago to find that there appeared to be a scorched earth policy; the trees that once shrouded the lake
had been ripped out and it was now basically a water hazard for the golfers to fire their balls into!
Also fished Taplow when it was on the ICI ticket. Everything grew big and I have some faded old photos of double figure carp that probably grew to be the big fellas that prompted the syndication of the lake. Slough Canal is a great venue. I fished there before the housing estates sprung up and have very happy memories of tench, crucians, perch, pike etc. I remember once stumbling upon a shoal of mega roach under the Uxbridge Rd bridge. The water was crystal clear and I finally tempted a smaller fish on a lobworm. It is still my one and only 2lb roach some 35 years later! I think it still has the potential to throw up some specimens but look out for feral hoodies who made my last trip there one to forget! On the barbel front the Thames at Datchet & Windsor were my preferred haunts with many a happy night spent at Victoria Bridge trundling lobs between the bridge supports. Oh happy days! Steve |
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