An Old Haunt Of Mine...

Just had a nice walk this afternoon down to an old haunt of mine, this place is called The Loop, it's the former coarse way of the River Trent at Colwick in Nottingham, it runs through the out skirts of the Colwick country park that is owned by Nottingham City Council, who charge day tickets on their bankside. It runs back into the re-routed Trent just below the sluice gates and the opposite bank is free fishing, as you can see from the images below.

I used to fish this place regular, when I was younger, sometimes all by myself and other times with a few friends, where we caught dace, bleak, roach, gudgeon also plenty of perch, this place in the summer time was great for watching fish cruising up and down, such as carp, bream and double figure pike, I used to fish waggler and the pole on occasions using maggots, casters and hempseed, sometimes with chopped lobworms, but unfortunately I stopped fishing the place, due to the dreaded work comittments, some fair few years ago.

Just thinking to myself has I were walking around the complex, all it would need is raking before a good session, but at this moment in time or rather until this December, the Environment Agency are doing floodbank improvements work, as you can see in a couple of the above photos, this is just phase no.1 of the said works which has been funded by DEFRA and phase 2 and 3 are expected to be finally completed by 2013, so to all the moaners on certain barbel forums,that complain of the EA not doing a deal for the licence revenue (you know who you are!) there you can actually see where your licence money is being spent, anyway the loop used to colour up in the colder months when the Trent was in flood, which was ideal for a spot of chubbing.

Hopefully when the EA has completed all this flood bank improvement work, I shall be getting back down there for another bash, we shall see.

PS: to any of the barbel police that lurk upon here (yes there are a few), this place is has popular as is Ironbridge on the Severn, so no need to jump up the high horse about swim naming!!!!