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North Benfleet Hall Fishery is located on the A130 just north of the Saddlers Farm roundabout. Situated in a valley it is rather exposed and gets quite windy. There is a lot of bankside vegetation with various reeds growing along the margins.
Stock consists of mainly carp, the best being around mid 20s but there are lots of roach, rudd and tench to be caught.
All methods work well on here but if you are after carp then ledgered boilies and pellets work extremely well. For the tench use groundbait feeder with pellet, corn or maggot. For the roach and rudd float fish with maggots and you will catch all day.
I have not fished this venue often while coaching but the fishing has always been very good regardless of the weather and the owner seems very friendly.
Unfortunately the venue does not offer much in the way of facilities but there is a portaloo in the car park. Nearest tackle shops are approximately 5 miles away in Canvey Island.
I took Steve to North Benfleet Fishery for a day feeder fishing. The weather was very changeable and was going from warm to quite chilly with a strong wind, which was making the fishing very difficult.
We went over set up and using safe rigs and set up 2 rods, 1 with a maggot feeder and 1 with a groundbait feeder.
Steve fished 1 towards a small island and 1 along the marginal shelf, I had 1 off the end of the island and 1 off towards some reeds on my left.
The day was very slow and the weather changing every 5 minutes was making it very difficult. It was several hours before we managed to get a fish, and then it was only small roach. But a fish is a fish and no one else was catching in these tricky conditions.
The sun, when it had graced us with its presence, had been hitting the far margin, so I decided that it would be a good idea for Steve to put a bait towards the reeds on the far bank. A 2oz maggot feeder was cast to the far side of the lake, part way up the shelf in the warmer water.
It wasn’t long and the tip pulled round viciously, game on. The take made me think Steve had hooked into a small carp, but watching the tip of the rod during the fight I realised it was a large roach, now this was looking good.
After a brief fight Steve drew what I initially thought was a rather large roach over the net cord. On closer inspection we realised it was an Ide, we weighed the fish at 3lb1oz and then took photo’s before returning the fish carefully to it’s home.
A quick recast to the same spot and it wasn’t long before Steve had another take, unfortunately he missed it.
Confidence was now soaring and the feeder was soon on its way back to the same spot. A couple of minutes later and the tip pulled round and Steve was in again. Another large Ide slipped into the net and this time it went 4lb1oz.
A fantastic fish to finish the day off and we were the only people to catch on the day, showing what observation can do for you.
