flightliner
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Great stuff, great fish, well done Steve.
How did you get on?
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bennygesserit
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Binka you look like Clint Eastwood has just caught a fish in some kinda spaghetti movie
Keith M
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That's a Barbel and a half, nice fishing binka :thumbs:
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I was thinking more Harrison Ford...Raiders......
dorsetandchub
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Not exactly got Jane Fonda's looks but how about.....Barbel Fella? 
barbelboi
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Terrific fish Steve..............
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You might look slightly happier about it. You've just had a great big thug of a barbel....cheer up FFS !
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dorsetandchub
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Which one, they both look like fatties
Crackin' Fish Steve...well deserved bud
Puts me in mind of Clive James - one of these is a bearded, mud dwelling bottom feeder......the other is a barbel
I think I'll nominate this capture for a 2016 FM Award, truly cracking fish.
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Puts me in mind of Clive James - one of these is a bearded, mud dwelling bottom feeder......the other is a barbel
I think I'll nominate this capture for a 2016 FM Award, truly cracking fish.
Don't forget this one is his second this year
!....some bottom feeders are just greedy :w
dorsetandchub
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Been a good year for the barbel as well then, I'm guessing......
Two is some result, unless he's just kidnapped the same fish of course. Need a hell of a flask though, wouldn't it??
Two is some result, unless he's just kidnapped the same fish of course. Need a hell of a flask though, wouldn't it??
- "And I've just had a big thug of a Binka!" said the Barbel - "Just watch what you're doing with that middle finger -
- easy now!" Nice one Binka :thumbs:
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Club fixture on the Wendover arm of the GUC near Tring today.
Luckily my peg wasn't too windy, it was gusting a bit in the morning but from behind me...Opposite I had ' the gusher' an outlet from the waterworks which gushes every few minutes..
My view from left and right...
Decided to start on 4m whip and punch down the track and caught roach and skimmers from the off and stuck with it throughout.
Ended up with 4lb 8oz for 3rd out of ten.
Winner had 8lb+ also on punch...
Luckily my peg wasn't too windy, it was gusting a bit in the morning but from behind me...Opposite I had ' the gusher' an outlet from the waterworks which gushes every few minutes..
My view from left and right...
Decided to start on 4m whip and punch down the track and caught roach and skimmers from the off and stuck with it throughout.
Ended up with 4lb 8oz for 3rd out of ten.
Winner had 8lb+ also on punch...
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binka
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Blimey Graham that had me panicking for a minute, I thought I'd posted that holiday snap of the missus in her bikini by mistake
Seriously though thanks for all the comments fellas, hat jokes n'all :thumbs:
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Fished club match on the GUC Slough Arm at Langley Boats. Mild and overcast with the wind off our backs and the smaller fish had a real go.
Drew four back from the Marina at Mansion Lane, always used to be a good area for skimmers but they never showed last year and no sign of them yet this. Set up three punch/ pinkie rigs from 4x10 up to half a gram all with 22 Green Gama to 0.07 and a maggot/caster rig 20 to 0.08. Started on punch at 5m and quickly into small fish catching best on the lightest rig with a lot of hold up bites- started missing too many if I shallowed up though. Punch fish gradually got smaller with a plague of tiny rudd and bottletop skimmers, switched to pinkie and big maggot but still not much over an ounce apart from a stray 4oz perch. The two to my right were both catching quicker than me, Ian on 4m whip and Don very close in, catching on punch more or less on top 2 to hand. Had around 130 fish at half time, well behind Ian on 160odd, but had a much slower next hour which saw me drop further off- think either a pike or a some proper perch had shown up as a couple of big swirls across near the boats. Had a quick look on heavy gear and a lobworm but no joy. Started catching again at 5m with a few slightly better roach and hybrids (and a couple of unexpected bleak) but not quickly enough to make any inroads- had been pinging a few casters tight to the boat all day, went over with an hour to go and found a few but not real caster fish at only 2 to 3 oz and couldn't get more than 2 without leaving them alone for 10 minutes
Ended up weighing just short of 200 fish for 11-9 which put me absolutely nowhere.
16-13 won it, all small fish on waggler and pinkie, then 15-11, 14-4 and 13-6
Average weight was over 12 lb and last had 9-1, Not bad for a clear canal in December.
Kicking myself for not taking whips - thought the wind, skim and leaves would be too bad for fishing to hand. Wrong.
Drew four back from the Marina at Mansion Lane, always used to be a good area for skimmers but they never showed last year and no sign of them yet this. Set up three punch/ pinkie rigs from 4x10 up to half a gram all with 22 Green Gama to 0.07 and a maggot/caster rig 20 to 0.08. Started on punch at 5m and quickly into small fish catching best on the lightest rig with a lot of hold up bites- started missing too many if I shallowed up though. Punch fish gradually got smaller with a plague of tiny rudd and bottletop skimmers, switched to pinkie and big maggot but still not much over an ounce apart from a stray 4oz perch. The two to my right were both catching quicker than me, Ian on 4m whip and Don very close in, catching on punch more or less on top 2 to hand. Had around 130 fish at half time, well behind Ian on 160odd, but had a much slower next hour which saw me drop further off- think either a pike or a some proper perch had shown up as a couple of big swirls across near the boats. Had a quick look on heavy gear and a lobworm but no joy. Started catching again at 5m with a few slightly better roach and hybrids (and a couple of unexpected bleak) but not quickly enough to make any inroads- had been pinging a few casters tight to the boat all day, went over with an hour to go and found a few but not real caster fish at only 2 to 3 oz and couldn't get more than 2 without leaving them alone for 10 minutes
Ended up weighing just short of 200 fish for 11-9 which put me absolutely nowhere.
16-13 won it, all small fish on waggler and pinkie, then 15-11, 14-4 and 13-6
Average weight was over 12 lb and last had 9-1, Not bad for a clear canal in December.
Kicking myself for not taking whips - thought the wind, skim and leaves would be too bad for fishing to hand. Wrong.
Tried for a chub today.Having not had much luck with my usual favorite bait,lob worms, recently,thought I would try bread.Turned out to be a good move.
maggot_dangler
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Well out on my usual price pool today all started well enough bites and from the off then it started to rain the wind trashed my brolly thread got trashed on the sliding joint so I got WET Grrrrrrrrr but kept on fishing wound up with just about 3 lb of roach the and perch.
So now I got to either repair or replace the brolly the more dang expense.
PG.....
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Well now recovering from the sniffles and hacks afre Sundays drowning lets just hope it is a better day tomorrow cus i hope to hit the local cut or a few hours minus brolly that is now heading for the crusher ( note to self ) must buy decent new brolly .
PG ...
So now I got to either repair or replace the brolly the more dang expense.
PG.....
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Well now recovering from the sniffles and hacks afre Sundays drowning lets just hope it is a better day tomorrow cus i hope to hit the local cut or a few hours minus brolly that is now heading for the crusher ( note to self ) must buy decent new brolly .
PG ...
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My congratulations to you Binka on catching such a beautiful fish.....You put in so many hours on the bank in all sort of weather so you thoroughly deserve your catch - in fact it was long overdue !!
Nice photo as well, although I have to say I thought you would be a little heavier..............................................add a winky smilie whatsit here..
Anyway, back to my session.....
It just doesn't do to go swanning off to the other side of the world for 7 weeks and expect to come back and pick up where you left off. For a start off, fishing the end of September ( my last session ) is entirely different to fishing at the end of November, but this isn't the truth of the matter as I think over those weeks of warm sunshine and wonderful food I became a little soft, with my usual sharpness ( ! ) a thing of history once back on the bank....
Yes, it was all wonderful; early mornings walking on soft sandy beaches looking out over the Pacific Ocean, climbing around headlands just to sit and enjoy the view for miles around followed by brunch, a good book and light chatter over afternoon tea. All of this is fine and dandy until ones thoughts turn to getting back home as the trip draws to a close.....
One begins to imagine still misty November mornings with a slight chill next to a river fining down to just the right flow and colour and a number of winter roach sliding over the net, and this within a day or two of reaching home. All of this day dreaming swirls around in ones mind, eventually reaching the point where it becomes reality and nothing else will do.
Unfortunately, life sees things in a different way and doesn't prepare you for the aftermath of seven weeks of pleasure, followed by several days wandering the streets of Singapore in 33 degrees and massive humidity together with jet lag, dragging suitcases around, airport lounges almost at freezing point, not to mention flight delays and grotty food.
I truly thought I was well rested and ready for anything, but three days of this had us ( I think the wife was still with me ) arriving back at Heathrow at 6am in a state something akin to wet dishcloths, a state which continued for the next two weeks, and, I might add which still includes afternoon naps and waking in the middle of the night !!
'Ready for anything ' was not on the radar.............
Fishing? Oh yes, I did manage this last weekend to finally pop down to the tackle shop and buy some bait, and yes, I did manage to drag myself from a warm bed with fishing in mind - not to the river ' fining down with a tinge of colour ' of my dreams, but to a protected little still water where the chill wind would be reasonable. I did not expect to catch an awful lot ( one has to take things in stages as my trip proved ) and I wasn't disappointed........
I started with a cup of tea for warmth and then managed to put together some sort of rig that might produce the odd roach or two. The second cast produce an 8" roach and this, over the next 4 hours to be followed by at least 20 perch, none of which reached 10" long. I loose fed maggots - not the best thing with small perch around - and fished at all depths down to around 8', finishing overdepth with a little light crumb which, at the death, produced another roach of similar size. That was it......
Of course, I didn't really expect anything more, but at least I made it to the bank and thoughts of said sunny beaches and watching fly fishermen land very large trout banished to history.........
It was all fantastic while it lasted, though....................
ps I'm pleased to say the winter gear is now out and washed, the extra flask cleaned and I'm ready to go again ( on consecutive days ! ) this coming week...Cold weather? bring it on !!!
pps New Zealand is a wonderful country with people who made us welcome wherever we went. We managed to drive 3000km over the 7 weeks, so we saw a lot more than most New Zealanders will ever do - at least that's what they told us !!
Nice photo as well, although I have to say I thought you would be a little heavier..............................................add a winky smilie whatsit here..
Anyway, back to my session.....
It just doesn't do to go swanning off to the other side of the world for 7 weeks and expect to come back and pick up where you left off. For a start off, fishing the end of September ( my last session ) is entirely different to fishing at the end of November, but this isn't the truth of the matter as I think over those weeks of warm sunshine and wonderful food I became a little soft, with my usual sharpness ( ! ) a thing of history once back on the bank....
Yes, it was all wonderful; early mornings walking on soft sandy beaches looking out over the Pacific Ocean, climbing around headlands just to sit and enjoy the view for miles around followed by brunch, a good book and light chatter over afternoon tea. All of this is fine and dandy until ones thoughts turn to getting back home as the trip draws to a close.....
One begins to imagine still misty November mornings with a slight chill next to a river fining down to just the right flow and colour and a number of winter roach sliding over the net, and this within a day or two of reaching home. All of this day dreaming swirls around in ones mind, eventually reaching the point where it becomes reality and nothing else will do.
Unfortunately, life sees things in a different way and doesn't prepare you for the aftermath of seven weeks of pleasure, followed by several days wandering the streets of Singapore in 33 degrees and massive humidity together with jet lag, dragging suitcases around, airport lounges almost at freezing point, not to mention flight delays and grotty food.
I truly thought I was well rested and ready for anything, but three days of this had us ( I think the wife was still with me ) arriving back at Heathrow at 6am in a state something akin to wet dishcloths, a state which continued for the next two weeks, and, I might add which still includes afternoon naps and waking in the middle of the night !!
'Ready for anything ' was not on the radar.............
Fishing? Oh yes, I did manage this last weekend to finally pop down to the tackle shop and buy some bait, and yes, I did manage to drag myself from a warm bed with fishing in mind - not to the river ' fining down with a tinge of colour ' of my dreams, but to a protected little still water where the chill wind would be reasonable. I did not expect to catch an awful lot ( one has to take things in stages as my trip proved ) and I wasn't disappointed........
I started with a cup of tea for warmth and then managed to put together some sort of rig that might produce the odd roach or two. The second cast produce an 8" roach and this, over the next 4 hours to be followed by at least 20 perch, none of which reached 10" long. I loose fed maggots - not the best thing with small perch around - and fished at all depths down to around 8', finishing overdepth with a little light crumb which, at the death, produced another roach of similar size. That was it......
Of course, I didn't really expect anything more, but at least I made it to the bank and thoughts of said sunny beaches and watching fly fishermen land very large trout banished to history.........
It was all fantastic while it lasted, though....................
ps I'm pleased to say the winter gear is now out and washed, the extra flask cleaned and I'm ready to go again ( on consecutive days ! ) this coming week...Cold weather? bring it on !!!
pps New Zealand is a wonderful country with people who made us welcome wherever we went. We managed to drive 3000km over the 7 weeks, so we saw a lot more than most New Zealanders will ever do - at least that's what they told us !!
dorsetandchub
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You're sure they weren't barramundi??
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You're sure they weren't barramundi??
Thought he was still at Inter Milan ! :wh