The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

Aquaerial wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:19 pm

JW1 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:53 pm Welcome Ian, I grew up in Norfolk and regularly fished the Little Ouse at Thetford for huge roach and the River Thet for good pike, but that was a few years ago, so perhaps things have changed.

JW

Oh how I loved those days...big dace too. There are a few nice fish show in Thetford town centre but apart from that the river has been polluted by Watton Produce, ottered by roving animals and on a canoe trip last summer to Santon Downham I found everything from discarded crude tackle to staked lines or drinkers with lines tied to a stick cut from the hedgerows. Its no longer the waterway it was sadly.

Aquaerial wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 1:01 pm If you are ex-services can you fish it as you can shoot it? An old friend of mine Bill Flynn used to stalk it when Dennis O'Leary was Commandant. Micklemere just over the boundary used to hold some massive bream and pike. The John Wilson program on bream was filmed there.

Silfield wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 4:09 pm

Aquaerial wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 1:01 pm If you are ex-services can you fish it as you can shoot it? An old friend of mine Bill Flynn used to stalk it when Dennis O'Leary was Commandant. Micklemere just over the boundary used to hold some massive bream and pike. The John Wilson program on bream was filmed there.

Not ex-services I'm afraid, I just shoot on the ranges with my club when we are allocated range days. I have asked a couple of the NCO's that invariably turn up when we shoot if there is any chance to fish but have never had a favourable response!