Ray Roberts
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Today I went fishing for salt water crocodiles, I didn’t manage to land any and got bitten off a few times. Whole chicken carcass was the top bait. They were awesome.
How did you get on?
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ian g
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Another invasive species ?
The Sogster
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I thought it was fractionally less cold today. The sun even came out for a bit. I've no idea where to catch coarse fish just now, so I drove up into Derbyshire and fished for trout and grayling. I fished the warmest bit of the day, from 12.30 to 3pm, when the sun dropped behind the hill opposite.
The river was right for float fishing, but that east wind blustered up the valley, rippling and flattening the surface so I went with a little maggot feeder which I swapped with a bomb. It was nice to get a few bites. I missed a few as I don't like them to have time to swallow the bait, and ended up with a half a dozen. I wondered if I caught any more than once, they were so similar.
The river was right for float fishing, but that east wind blustered up the valley, rippling and flattening the surface so I went with a little maggot feeder which I swapped with a bomb. It was nice to get a few bites. I missed a few as I don't like them to have time to swallow the bait, and ended up with a half a dozen. I wondered if I caught any more than once, they were so similar.
mikench
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We went, we froze and we blanked. Nothing left to say as there were no positives to draw. It even started to rain heavily so we packed up. The highlight of the day, if one can call it that was that Gordon after being snagged got his float and hook length back. At least expectations were not dashed.
I think we've all been there lately Mike. One good thing - it makes you appreciate sitting in the warm watching tv with a beer.
Mark Wintle
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On my local Dorset waters and within membership of my local clubs it's automatic loss of permit for putting up pictures of out of season game fish. Also a good way to get prosecuted! Yes, I know you can't help catching them!
Alan Whitty
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Not a bite, yet again, wonderful for the soul...
Butcherboy
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I sat in the new warmth of 14'c. A strong warm breeze. Caught a good chub.
Then a storm arrived. Sideways rain
Best storm ever
Then a storm arrived. Sideways rain
Best storm ever
Out yesterday after barbel. Night before, mixed some smelly groundbait, cooked some spicy hemp, flavoured some small pellets and picked assorted smelly hookbaits (meat/pellet/boilie-type things).
Met up with mate and trolleyed it down the river to swims with violent wind and rain going over our heads, a kink in the bank creating a 60 yard crease that let us fish in 8-10' of water at any pace from slack to speedy. We helped each other get down the high bank with ropes and spikes.
I fished here and there down the swim with just a smelly hookbait and a lead, as we've found dumping feeders or bait-droppers in can be counter-productive. With no bites after an hour I added a feeder, to no effect. After an hour of this, I picked a spot and bait-droppered it, again to no effect. I had a rod in the holdall made up with a big (10g) float, so I tried to run this down off the rod end, but it snagged up wherever you put it in.
Mate had much the same experience, and we stood it for 4 hours before trekking back to the cars and trying to clean some of the mud off. If you blanked lately on a nice clean bank near your car, consider yourself comparatively lucky
Met up with mate and trolleyed it down the river to swims with violent wind and rain going over our heads, a kink in the bank creating a 60 yard crease that let us fish in 8-10' of water at any pace from slack to speedy. We helped each other get down the high bank with ropes and spikes.
I fished here and there down the swim with just a smelly hookbait and a lead, as we've found dumping feeders or bait-droppers in can be counter-productive. With no bites after an hour I added a feeder, to no effect. After an hour of this, I picked a spot and bait-droppered it, again to no effect. I had a rod in the holdall made up with a big (10g) float, so I tried to run this down off the rod end, but it snagged up wherever you put it in.
Mate had much the same experience, and we stood it for 4 hours before trekking back to the cars and trying to clean some of the mud off. If you blanked lately on a nice clean bank near your car, consider yourself comparatively lucky
Alan Whitty
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No mud, just loads of goose shit...
Goose shit? We used to dream of goose shit.
ian g
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I had some fencing to do at my wife's stables , bloody hard work but not to muddy and no goose shit. Hope to get out on Sunday
@Clive
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I endured a day on River Charente in a sou-westerly gale. I collected a half litre of maggots from Pacific Peche to go with a bag of groundbait and a bag of cereals from the freezer. I also had a few home grown worms and some pellets.
I started trickling maggots in while setting up the Wizard and 'pin with a sliding 6g float and worm bait. First tactic was trotting just off the bottom, then laying on and finally float-ledgering without a sniff of a bite. Changing to an inline maggot feeder resulted in a barbelesque bite before I had settled the rod. It was a bream around 3lb that was probably foul hooked. It got off.
Two hours later I put the tackle in the car and drove fifteen minutes upstream to another swim. I had developed Man Flu yesterday and was feeling the cold more than usual and also felt yucky. I set the Wizard up with a 55g cage feeder and lobbed it into the main flow whilst imagining FWK Wallis turning in his grave at my blatant abuse of his creation. I tried maggots, worm, sweetcorn, chick peas and soft pellets. The only bite I got was on maggots, a roach around 8oz. There were fish topping mid-stream just after midday, but I couldn't see what they were.
There was a bit of goose schit, but the main problem was that there had been very heavy rain last week and the feet of the seat box sank into the soft mud so it rested on the base of the box.
At least I didn't blank.
I started trickling maggots in while setting up the Wizard and 'pin with a sliding 6g float and worm bait. First tactic was trotting just off the bottom, then laying on and finally float-ledgering without a sniff of a bite. Changing to an inline maggot feeder resulted in a barbelesque bite before I had settled the rod. It was a bream around 3lb that was probably foul hooked. It got off.
Two hours later I put the tackle in the car and drove fifteen minutes upstream to another swim. I had developed Man Flu yesterday and was feeling the cold more than usual and also felt yucky. I set the Wizard up with a 55g cage feeder and lobbed it into the main flow whilst imagining FWK Wallis turning in his grave at my blatant abuse of his creation. I tried maggots, worm, sweetcorn, chick peas and soft pellets. The only bite I got was on maggots, a roach around 8oz. There were fish topping mid-stream just after midday, but I couldn't see what they were.
There was a bit of goose schit, but the main problem was that there had been very heavy rain last week and the feet of the seat box sank into the soft mud so it rested on the base of the box.
At least I didn't blank.
Alan Whitty
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Hooray, went fishing and actually caught some, lol, went to the small stream and got a decent peg, the river was up, but falling, I caught more fish in the first ten minutes than I have in total from five trips, I had 29 nice roach between 4-10ozs, more than that number of chublets between 2ozs and a pound, 7 rudd???, a dace, two chub just under 2lbs and a barbel of around 7-8lbs on stick float and maggot....
ian g
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I wasn't sure if I'd go today , after sitting in the garden at my mum's in a T shirt chatting with my bro yesterday,it was back to shit weather and City v Liverpool on the telly but I needed to go so pitched up at around 11.30 at Atcham. Bloody windy and soon raining as I made the long hike . The wind or more like gale was blowing upstream , it was hard to tell which way the river was flowing . Out with a barbel rod with meat as bait and a home made slider on the float rod float legering . I didn't really fancy it to be honest and was surprised when the float disappeared and I landed a bream around 2 lb so blank avoided . Swapped meat for worms on the barbel rod with a maggot feeder. Nothing to report on the barbel rod but with the wind blowing the rod about it was hard to tell . The float worked well in tricky conditions and after an hour disappeared again this time a nice perch around 2 lb was the culprit . I decided to call time at 3 o'clock as the rain persisted . Back for the game , so far so good
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terry m
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Hants Avon extremely high again and running through like hot chocolate. Nonetheless I am busy the next few days so I found a slack and lobbed a couple of baits out. 90 minutes in and the mackerel float lifted, fell flat then chugged off. A good fight and I was sure a 20 lay in the net. Alas it went to 19lb 5oz, and whilst not pristine condition, I was extremely happy. Another couple of hours produced zilch, so I called it a day.
Butcherboy
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Didn't catch much but what a lovely day on the river
Alan Whitty
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Decided to fish a club lake I haven't fished for more than 25 years, they built an industrial estate where you turn off making it impossible to recognise, anyway, picked a swim which turned out to be more than seven feet deep, fished with maggot, putting some ground expander g.bait, had 8 F1's to 2lb 8ozs, 8 smallish skimmers, several small roach and perch...