Roving with a pin on the Lea

[The Tuesday Swim]

Can anyone recommend a spot on the lower/middle lea for a spot of trotting or rolling a bait for roach and chub?
I fancy a day away from those pesky canal carp!

[Vole]

Fishers Green or Carthagena estate, I'd have thought.
Just above Hertford is Welwyn Garden City A.A.'s stretch. Chub are there, but the carp will drive you crackers. Ravening hordes of 'em, mostly lying well-fed and complacent by the garden centre's cafe.

[Tench Dreamer]

Having spent much time on the Net, Dog walking Recce trips, picnics etc, and even a few days fishing. I would make the following points on to your question. A question Ive asked myself many times in the last few years.

Even the so called best reaches...Fishers green/ Dobbs weir/Kings wier and also Broxbourne, wormley and Cheshunt are quite popular but , how can I put it, not teeming with medium sized fish, well hardly any really. But there are some Crackers.....which is how my attempts at a Lea Tench has nearly driven me. :brickwall:

If I was in your Roving with Pin situation...and I might be soon( well with a Closed Face :notlisterning: ) I would walk down stream from Dobbs weir lock to Broxborne( conkers), and back again.

You would certainly catch a gudgeon, you may catch a roach, you may have hear another angler tell you they heard someone had caught a chub!(yesterday) But you would be in a natural beautiful part of the magnificent River Lea

[Ljm183]

If I was in your Roving with Pin situation...and I might be soon( well with a Closed Face :notlisterning: ) I would walk down stream from Dobbs weir lock to Broxborne( conkers), and back again.

You would certainly catch a gudgeon, you may catch a roach, you may have hear another angler tell you they heard someone had caught a chub!(yesterday) But you would be in a natural beautiful part of the magnificent River Lea

Or crayfish, they were catching them at Dobbs weir last week

[Tench Dreamer]

If I was in your Roving with Pin situation...and I might be soon( well with a Closed Face :notlisterning: ) I would walk down stream from Dobbs weir lock to Broxborne( conkers), and back again.

You would certainly catch a gudgeon, you may catch a roach, you may have hear another angler tell you they heard someone had caught a chub!(yesterday) But you would be in a natural beautiful part of the magnificent River Lea

Or crayfish, they were catching them at Dobbs weir last week

And Dace too Lee