Hi Carl,
I spent about a number of recent years fishing by bicycle, finishing with an electric mountain bike,I was lucky in that I had a a lot of fishing close to, but was happy to travel up to 10-12 miles ( being a keen, 80-100mile in a day,cyclist helped) but using an electric bike meant I was less likely to work up a sweat, whilst wearing my fishing kit. And strapping rods to crossbars took me back to being a kid again!
It’s amazing how much you can carry on a bike, I go with a rod or two and landing net strapped to the crossbar, a combined chair rucksack on my back, and a pair of cycle panniers on a rack for a bucket of bait and food. Easily enough space for a days fishing in mobile style. I find it a great set up for mobile fishing whether it’s river chubbing or carp stalking, and when taking into account loading up the car, unloading it and walking round the lake it’s often quicker door to swim, and very useful in that you can do a tour of a lake and bait up 3-4 swims in a quarter of the time of doing it on foot.
Other options could be an electric cargo bike which has a big box on the front ( modern take on the old delivery cycles), and/ or a bicycle trailer, which might even give enough space for a chair and bivy.
But after all that best way is travel light stay mobile and catch more fish (IMHO)
PS. I also used to travel to fish by motorbike, rucksack and chair on a rack and holdall over my shoulder, in retrospect maybe not the safest way to carry kit on a m’bike, but I was young and stupid then..... as opposed to old and stupid and still crazy about bikes and m’bikes.
PPS. Don’t expect anybody to take you seriously at the carp lakes cos you’re not following the bivvy up and fish with matching rods on buzzers rules, but when you turn up early and catch a couple before most of ‘em have unzipped the bivy, you can really start to wind people up, you’ll learn to develop a thick skin!
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