where are they?

[newbieneil]

Ive never caught a grayling and living in the birmingham(somebody has to) im pretty sure ive got some travelling to do to find some,where do you think the closest place i have a chance of catching them on the float ?...ive heard the upper severn by shrewsbury has a few but is there anywhere else i can try for them with a 70mile radius of birmingham?

Cheers-Neil

 

[Sean Meeghan]

I think the upper Severn on the BAA book is your best bet. The area around Welshpool is a good bet if memory serves.

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The other place to try is the Dee around Llangollen, but that might be just outside your target radius.

 

[cg74]

Neil, the upper and middle Teme would be one of closest rivers to you with grayling in, take look on here:
Birmingham Anglers Association

 

[Sean Meeghan]

Forgot about the Teme!

 

[terry m]

Search out clean chalk streams and you will find grayling. Chalk streams my not however be in abundance around Brum

 

[newbieneil]

They certainly arent in abundance in brum terry! sean-i will take a look at the baa-im going to get a season ticket anyway in the new year so can shoot up to welshpool no probs ,as for the teme -ive fished it quite a few times around knightwick and bransford and . I know parts of the teme have been so dry this year that they have dried up completely and the e.a have had to rescue fish that were cut off,not sure where exactly though.

cheers for the info chaps

p.s-when would be a good time to fish for them?...are they more prolific in the winter months?

cheers

 

[dnahacker]

River Kennett is a good bet

 

[itsfishingnotcatching]

Maybe someone will get the Itchen fish-in organised, then some of us "Northerners" can have a go at this Grayling fishing

 

[sam vimes]

Maybe someone will get the Itchen fish-in organised, then some of us "Northerners" can have a go at this Grayling fishing

Northerners are quite well served for grayling fishing, thank you very much.

 

[flightliner]

Ive never caught a grayling and living in the birmingham(somebody has to) im pretty sure ive got some travelling to do to find some,where do you think the closest place i have a chance of catching them on the float ?...ive heard the upper severn by shrewsbury has a few but is there anywhere else i can try for them with a 70mile radius of birmingham?

Cheers-Neil

Neil, bang on your seventy mile radius, if all else fails then nip up to sheffield town centre, loads in the river Don thereabouts.Easy peasy too.

 

[cg74]

I'm not trying to be argumentative or anything like that, but the Kennet must be 100 miles from Birmingham and the Itchen has got to be even further?
I am sure the OP stated a 70 mile radius of Birmingham.


Neil, if you do get a BAA ticket, I reading a write up on their stretches of the Lugg and it was singing its praises, I've never fished there though, so I am only relaying others findings.

 

[Jim Crosskey 2]

I caught grayling in the teme near tenbury wells in September... pretty sure that's within range.

(They all sounded a bit brummie round there anyway )

 

[Paul Boote]

Don't even think about the expensive, often snotty South - think Severn, think here - Introducing the Caersws Angling Association

 

[mark knowles]

70 miles from Brum covers a lot of water, most of the upper Severn, Dee and Wye, the Vrynwy the Cheshire rivers, the Monnow, it does indeed reach the Don but you'll pass the Derbyshire Derwent to get there. It reaches the Gwash in Rutland, I believe there are a few in the upper Welland and the upper Witham too. I'd look at the first two maybe the Derwent and as Paul Boote suggested I think I'd look further up the Severn than Welshpool.