This takes me back Steve, we used to poach for trout in the closed season on the Blythe between Knowle and Balsall Common when we were kids, must have been 25 years ago - got some good ones too. Unfortunately the stretch was the West Midlands Police Fly Fishers and we had a few hairy moments and close escapes!
On a more legal note, I'm not very up to date, but Packington Fisheries used to have a day ticket stretch. The Maxstoke stretch used to be Coleshill DAA but I don't know the situation now. However there used to be some BIG chub in there. We used to fish the New Years Day opens there.