You may not like the walk but there are 4 or 5 areas on the stretch that get hammered because people don't like walking with their tackle or they like fishing on top of each other
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My advice - get a barrow, walk away from everyone else, fish the deeper/rockier water with open ended feeder, flouro hooklengths, pellets over hemp/pellet feed, into dark, and you cannot fail at Collingham from the weir right down into the 200+ peg numbers (or indeed for most of the Trent).