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Loved Yeadon Tarn back in the mid 70s some clonking Perch on livebait minnows from the wooden jetty by the youth club
Not sure what happened to them they seemed to disappear overnight
Once remember catching a Barbel in there never heard of another since
You are right about sitting on fishing baskets not the comfiest but catching those massive "stripeys" I didn't care
Couldn't do it nowadays am spoilt with my reclining fully padded Carp fishing chair

 

I think many kids started their fishing adventures there. I don't know if its because I was smaller but yes some of those perch seemed massive. From memory I think a nationwide disease pretty much wiped out the still water perch population. Like yourself fished off the jetty or just round to the left past that little connected island thing

 

I remember catching plenty around the 4lb mark biggest was just nudging 5
They were certainly big perch not been there for years must put it "on the list" for places to visit

 

Pilley’s dam, ( way back in mid 60’s) caught my first ever fish, a gudgeon. Next venue was the “Blue Lagoon” On way to Calverley from Thornbury, always plenty of people fishing but I never caught anything there.

 

2 of my old haunts those
Pilleys dam has a good head of fish big pike and carp rumour has it that a dog was once badly injured by a pike whilst it was swimming wouldn't go there on an evening !!!!
Blue Lagoon was a funny one owned by the Bradford University I believe to help with research, you're not alone apart from a couple of nice tench I never caught anything either, nice walk through the woods tho

 

Anyone else admit to a short lived fad of fishing Peel Park pond. There were some seriously big goldfish in there! Allegedly unwanted prizes from the fair released into the pond. Never caught a coconut though

 

Well, not fishing but when I was at St. George’s, we took some kayaks over and had a paddle about. That must be about 50 years ago. Not even sure who the teacher would have been.

 

I once caught a tench in Peel Park pond.

 

So you admit fising it too . I'm guessing maybe mid to late 70s?

 

Yeah the boats ruined the fishing

 

Definitely towards the back end of the 70s I'd say.

 

No blooming juniper smoked wild salmon and raspberry gin flavoured boilies back then

 

So not an endemic species then.