River Perry, Shropshire

[Duckett]

Does anyone have any experience of fishing the small River Perry in Shropshire? Helen and I are visiting the area in December for a few days and the landowner has kindly given us permission to wet a line. The stretch is north of Ruyton-XI-Towns.

He’s not an angler, so information is scant! From the few references I’ve found on line, it seems generally to be shallow and narrow over its 25 miles but seems to be home to Grayling, Trout, Dace, Roach and Chublets plus some of the micro species.

It seems like a good opportunity to introduce Helen to the basics of trotting so that she can beat me at that as well as still waters!

Cheers,

Phil

[Penninelad]

I probably fished it about forty years ago.I think the Prince Albert AS had the stretch north of Ryton Xll Towns.It was very shallow and fairly fast flowing and contained dace,roach and small chub.We used to fish when the Severn was in flood.

[Shropshire Lad]

I used to fish it in the 80s at myton mill near shrewsbury it was rented by the Sabrina angling club then, I was in my late teens used to catch big perch in the weirpool eddies very crabtree looking on lobworms with perch bobber floats, also jack pike by spinning and grayling trotting maggots inthe fast section out of the weirpool very good memories but between then and now the club lost the fishing, the stretch suffered a pollution and the mill area was converted to fancy apartments so all private now but fond memories.

[Paul F]

Does anyone have any experience of fishing the small River Perry in Shropshire? Helen and I are visiting the area in December for a few days and the landowner has kindly given us permission to wet a line. The stretch is north of Ruyton-XI-Towns.

He’s not an angler, so information is scant! From the few references I’ve found on line, it seems generally to be shallow and narrow over its 25 miles but seems to be home to Grayling, Trout, Dace, Roach and Chublets plus some of the micro species.

It seems like a good opportunity to introduce Helen to the basics of trotting so that she can beat me at that as well as still waters!

Cheers,

Phil

Sounds like a lovely stretch of water, i would takes some maggots and float fish it, every fish love a maggot, you should catch, look forward to you report

[Duckett]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

At the moment, I’m thinking 2-3lb line, small short floats, size 18-20 hooks and maggots as the starting point. Something a little beefier in reserve in case Grayling are present or waters up and fast!

[Paul F]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

At the moment, I’m thinking 2-3lb line, small short floats, size 18-20 hooks and maggots as the starting point. Something a little beefier in reserve in case Grayling are present or waters up and fast!

I guess it is not fished much, so the fish will not be pressured? if it has colour on, you will not need to fish so fine, it would be a shame to hook a big chub and be under gunned!

I'd load a pin with 5lb, take a selection of hook link, 12-16 hooks and take it from there.

[Duckett]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

At the moment, I’m thinking 2-3lb line, small short floats, size 18-20 hooks and maggots as the starting point. Something a little beefier in reserve in case Grayling are present or waters up and fast!

I guess it is not fished much, so the fish will not be pressured? if it has colour on, you will not need to fish so fine, it would be a shame to hook a big chub and be under gunned!

I'd load a pin with 5lb, take a selection of hook link, 12-16 hooks and take it from there.

Thanks for that, you make a good point. I’m used to busier rivers when I do fish them (it’s probably only 25% of my fishing this year) and I simply can’t find evidence of anyone fishing the Perry recently! Maybe starting a little heavier is a good idea.