Hi fellas, i am visiting family in wakefield next week... would like to get a days fishing in...

anyone recommend a nice cheap day out, i fished the wharfe last time but the tickets are a bit pricey...

thanks

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I know it's North Yorkshire but the Nidd at Pateley Bridge is only £12.00 per day and it's a great stretch, I went a few weeks back.

How about the Calder round by Sowerby Bridge? I've fished there on John and Gina's weekends and the fishing has, on occasion, been spectacular. Dead cheap on a day ticket, I believe. I'm sure Sedgeking might have some ideas too.

Hi Icky, if you fancy the Calder then tickets can be obtained through:
http://www.britnett-carver.co.uk/ajjewsons/index.html

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Ten minutes from Tweed, Teviot, and Kale.

Rotherham is only 30 miles, and 12 quid to fish thrybergh country park is good value. And you should get plenty of action there.

and i thought it wur only us yorkshire folk that wur tight

icky where did you fish the wharfe last time????????

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WHEN YOU LEAVE THE RIVER, TAKE NOTHING, AND LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINT'S!!!

THA CAN TELL A YORKSHIREMAN ,BUT THA CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH !!

It's really good there and you can fish at Glasshouses and Dacre Banks on the same ticket and Scarhouse Reservoir which is full of wild brown trout too.

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Thrybergh country park, is its normally very very busy with walkers and they are only a couple of metres behind you on the footpath. However, if you get there really early in the morning, you can avoid most of them.

You can actually get a five hour ticket for 9.50 and fish any five hours at any time during the day. You will need loads of pound coins though as the machine in the car park does not take notes.

As you say though, you are almost gauranteed a few pulls from the rainbows. On reaching the car park, down to the left, in the bottom corners, is full of rainbows at this time of the year and if its windy, black buzzers are excellent on a floating line and when the wind drops later in the evening, there is lots of activity on the surface and have loads of suspender buzzers, eg, hairs ear, black buzzers, green buzzers. The lake is eutrophic so loads of fly life. The fish don't stay deep on a calm day like at Ladybower but are mostly on the surface feeders.

Poole in Wharfedale is 4.00 a day but rubbish. Linton and collingham is cheap at 4.00 a day and it gets stocked with trout and a few grayling too but is bait fished from june 16th.

The upper river Don at Wortley Stocksbridge angling club is reasonably cheap at £30 (erm no day tickets, but they do a half season ticket in October to april for £15) for the season. It's very similar to the Nidd in its shape and contour/ at Pately bridge. It's full of rising wild brown trout and in winter it's full of grayling. The problem is, it's wading all the time and you have to be a mountaineer too.

Hope you have a nice fishing day.

Andrea

i AM a tight yorkshireman... i am merely a missionary in the sarf...

my last trip to the Wharfe was at Bolton abbey, we fished starting fron the viaduct that indicated the end of day ticket fishing up stream though Bardens bridge and the Strid up to the boundary of the fishery...

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I too am a tight Yorkshireman on missionary work in the sarf...and I'm a member at nidderdale which has the Pateley Bridge stretch of the Nidd mentioned above. £90 a year and well worth it even though I only get to fish it 3-4 times a year. Not all of the water is available on a day ticket, and no day tickets are available for the grayling fishing in winter which is excellent

Regards

Peter

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