Fishing elsecar dam

[Don-Tron 10]

has anyone fished elsecar dam recently and whats it fishing like,what sort of fish are you catching?

[Don-Tron 10]

or wire mill dam?

[leosharpe 10]

not fished wire mill in ages but hammered it last year its great between march and june before it gets to hot and becomes more like a stagnent puddle.

 

carp up to 20lb

tench up to 7lb

perch to 2.5 lb

roach bream etc

[dars35 10]

used to catch skimmers & roach at elsecar some years ago

 

not fished it for a long time, but I drive past it often on my journey to or from work, and it's very very rare I see anyone on!

 

that would suggest to me it's not exactly prolific

[sskirrrow 10]

Elsecar is somewhere i have not fished for years. Had some really big pike out of there. I remember a few years ago, there was a dead on stuck on dam wall, easily in the 30s...

I walked around last years around this time of year (March/April) on nice sunny day.

On the far bank, in the shallows, all the Carp were spawning. There were hundreds of them, most in double figures. I was amazed. It was a day very similar to today, so get yourself down, you might be treated with the same spectacle...

[janicegriff 10]

can anyone tel me where elscar dam is i dont live very far away from there so i would not mind trying a day there

[Grandad.Malky 11]

On the road from the heritage centre to Wentworth.

[sskirrrow 10]

Across from Heritage Centre at back of Elsecar park...