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SLUDGE FACTORY
I always wondered how the taff became such a good coarse fishery , I dont think it was ever stocked so it must have been you lot !
I take it over llandaff weir it becomes a trout only river again ? Is there coarse fish around radyr etc ?
I know the dock feeder canal is packed with roach , dace , chub , trout , perch , bream and jack pike , it leads into atlantic wharf which has some huge pike and bream and carp
What is interesting is how the Ely has grown as a coarse fishery , it had odd roach , dace and chub before which I assume were stocked by glamorgan anglers but now there are lots of pike in there , I assume they must have come up from cardiff bay which of course is now a huge freshwater lake .
The old glamorgan canal at forest farm was probably a coarse fishery many years ago and pike probably escaped from there into the taff
Used to coarse fishing neath as a kid but in terms of trout fishing my early angling was done on the ogmore in bridgend , plenty of sewin in there
I can fly fish and it is exciting but prefer to spin for the power of the take and you rarely have to strike and it's almost always caught in the jaws and easy to unhook and return alive , used to hate catching small trout on the worm or coarse fish like roach , perch , tench etc that were deep hooked , they would almost always die . I no longer sea fish as it's so cruel in that respect .