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chefster
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Mind you Simon ,anyone can sit on a shedful,and by the sounds of it all the fish were solid in one area
,just a shame it werent you-innit!!!
How did you get on?
- Thread starter peter crabtree
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Mind you Simon ,anyone can sit on a shedful,and by the sounds of it all the fish were solid in one area
,just a shame it werent you-innit!!!
cal_sutt
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Fished on the Trent last night, we had no money so we had to look around for a free spot, was just going to settle for the free stretch of the Idle in Retford but we ended up fishing at the Trent Port in Gainsborough right under the bridge.
We got half way there and realised we had no bait, tackle shops were shut so headed to a mate's house near where we were to fishing - searched through his cupboards, came out with the world's smallest tin of sweetcorn and some out of date chilli hotdogs. We just fished a rod each, I took the margin swim and my friend decided to put a 4oz feeder out in the middle. The hotdog meat hooked fine, stayed on even after plonking a 3oz gripper lead 15-20 feet or so off of a high bank. Rod was in for 10 minutes them I was into a bream of about 3lb. Nothing amazing came in the end but had a good few fish, came out with six or seven bream to about 5lb, a carp of about 4 or 5lb and quite a few good-sized hybrids. Fished for 4 hours, good evening to say the least.
Fishing some ponds Monday that need some pike moving to a big gravel pit. Going to be lure fishing, float fishing for livebaits as well as 2 rods on alarms with the livebaits on. Should be a really good night's fishing.
May get a couple of hours in tomorrow or Saturday, then off to my secret barbel spot next Wednesday!
We got half way there and realised we had no bait, tackle shops were shut so headed to a mate's house near where we were to fishing - searched through his cupboards, came out with the world's smallest tin of sweetcorn and some out of date chilli hotdogs. We just fished a rod each, I took the margin swim and my friend decided to put a 4oz feeder out in the middle. The hotdog meat hooked fine, stayed on even after plonking a 3oz gripper lead 15-20 feet or so off of a high bank. Rod was in for 10 minutes them I was into a bream of about 3lb. Nothing amazing came in the end but had a good few fish, came out with six or seven bream to about 5lb, a carp of about 4 or 5lb and quite a few good-sized hybrids. Fished for 4 hours, good evening to say the least.
Fishing some ponds Monday that need some pike moving to a big gravel pit. Going to be lure fishing, float fishing for livebaits as well as 2 rods on alarms with the livebaits on. Should be a really good night's fishing.
May get a couple of hours in tomorrow or Saturday, then off to my secret barbel spot next Wednesday!
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sam vimes
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Nothing to write home about, but on a water where there's a lot of concern about the silver fish stocks, due to avian predation, I was inordinately happy to see these two decent roach and a rudd in amongst the more usual 2oz fish.
Tee-Cee
Senior Member
Due to the on-going GP/hospital visits that happen every month I 'did a Gerry' and only managed to leave home for a session at a very hot midday. I'd hoped for a totally shaded swim (you can't expect much arriving at that time of day!!) but settled for a partially shaded one from 1pm with around 7' of water in front of me.
They are early this year and I didn't expect to be using them yet, but nice plump Elderberries (picked an hour previously) seemed to be the ideal bait for the roach perhaps with a little hemp feed....
I wanted to be sure I had fish in the swim to begin with before trying the berry, so I started with the favourite flake and crust which produce fish from the off with the biggest around 3/4lb or so. A quick change of hook and it was on with a berry, and, I have to say, hopes were high. I tried just off bottom, then up in 6" stages, then back down again, for a couple of hours resulting in 3 fish of no great size...a bit of a slog, but these things take time and using a bait rarely, if ever, used on the water, I was probably lucky to get three fish !
All this time I'd been feeding hemp very lightly and as the float was 'dancing' with every few grains thrown in, another hook change had me with hemp on the hook and some nice fish followed.
I'm not as nimble these days so replacing the hemp at almost every cast with fading eyesight does not make for a relaxed session so at around 5pm I went back on crust and continued to catch reasonable fish. Unfortunately I was plagued with silly 4/6lb carp that followed the bait down despite changing the shotting and valuable time was spent attempting to land these fish - not easy with an 16 x 2lb bottom end gear !
I fished on until 7.30 in cool shade, when another 5lb perfectly scaled mirror 'had it away on his toes' with my crust (which damaged the hook length) so I called it a day, a day which I thoroughly enjoyed simply because a 'new' bait was used, and more importantly, produced a few fish......I always think a new bait makes for very exciting fishing - the unexpected, I suppose...
Might sneak a few hours on Saturday morning...the 'berries' don't last long and they can give some good quality fish so I hope to read of others giving them a run-out !!
They are early this year and I didn't expect to be using them yet, but nice plump Elderberries (picked an hour previously) seemed to be the ideal bait for the roach perhaps with a little hemp feed....
I wanted to be sure I had fish in the swim to begin with before trying the berry, so I started with the favourite flake and crust which produce fish from the off with the biggest around 3/4lb or so. A quick change of hook and it was on with a berry, and, I have to say, hopes were high. I tried just off bottom, then up in 6" stages, then back down again, for a couple of hours resulting in 3 fish of no great size...a bit of a slog, but these things take time and using a bait rarely, if ever, used on the water, I was probably lucky to get three fish !
All this time I'd been feeding hemp very lightly and as the float was 'dancing' with every few grains thrown in, another hook change had me with hemp on the hook and some nice fish followed.
I'm not as nimble these days so replacing the hemp at almost every cast with fading eyesight does not make for a relaxed session so at around 5pm I went back on crust and continued to catch reasonable fish. Unfortunately I was plagued with silly 4/6lb carp that followed the bait down despite changing the shotting and valuable time was spent attempting to land these fish - not easy with an 16 x 2lb bottom end gear !
I fished on until 7.30 in cool shade, when another 5lb perfectly scaled mirror 'had it away on his toes' with my crust (which damaged the hook length) so I called it a day, a day which I thoroughly enjoyed simply because a 'new' bait was used, and more importantly, produced a few fish......I always think a new bait makes for very exciting fishing - the unexpected, I suppose...
Might sneak a few hours on Saturday morning...the 'berries' don't last long and they can give some good quality fish so I hope to read of others giving them a run-out !!
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neil1970
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Another session for me, 12-2.30pm
One of the best things about it was sitting in a proper fishing chair for the first time since I returned to the pastime. For the last 21 months I've been sitting on a stool; and god what luxury that chair is
2/3oz lead, 8" mono hooklength and a size 18 kamasan, with two defrosted casters
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A perch
Then a chublet.
Then
Then
All small fish, a great early afternoons fishing
One of the best things about it was sitting in a proper fishing chair for the first time since I returned to the pastime. For the last 21 months I've been sitting on a stool; and god what luxury that chair is
2/3oz lead, 8" mono hooklength and a size 18 kamasan, with two defrosted casters
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A perch
Then a chublet.
Then
Then
All small fish, a great early afternoons fishing
Tee-Cee
Senior Member
Is 'chublet' an official word or just an FM thing....I need to know otherwise I won't feel as though I'm 'in the gang'....if you get my drift..
Regardless of size, all pretty little fish......and isn't variety just the spice of life? I mean, who wants to sit down and catch big roach and barbel all day long.......................
Definitely out tomorrow from 5am, to gain more experience on how to catch roach over 1lb - or not as the case may be..
Regardless of size, all pretty little fish......and isn't variety just the spice of life? I mean, who wants to sit down and catch big roach and barbel all day long.......................
Definitely out tomorrow from 5am, to gain more experience on how to catch roach over 1lb - or not as the case may be..
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neil1970
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Maybe a Leuciscus cephalus fingerling?
Tee-Cee
Senior Member
Loving the dive into hot wording Neil1970....I can see you have breeding, and er, experience ??
neil1970
Well-known member
I've got a Latin o level if that's what you mean Tee-Cee
Sorry Simon , derail.
Anyone else out this afternoon?
Sorry Simon , derail.
Anyone else out this afternoon?
sam vimes
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No, the term was in common use in my neck of the woods well before any fishing forum or newsgroup existed. As far as I'm concerned, a chublet = any chub less than about a pound. Small chub sounds a lot better!
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peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
You must be on nodding, or even kissing terms with that tench Neil?
And the perch....
And the perch....
Agreed Sam. I first heard it 40 yrs ago - in NW London (A. Tyler -1974) - he used it in preference to my description of 'big-gobbed dace'
to refer to the shoal chub which never seemed to grow any larger than Dace - 'chublet' has a certain sweetness/charm to it. mg:
peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
Possibly the A.Tyler who still posts on this site?
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binka
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One of the best things about it was sitting in a proper fishing chair for the first time since I returned to the pastime. For the last 21 months I've been sitting on a stool; and god what luxury that chair is
I bet he wouldn't lend me the chair for a week
I'd post it back in a nice envelope...
barbelboi
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Hope to be out on the river Monday to take advantage of all the wet stuff forecast for Sunday.............
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nicepix
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Sunday for me. I'll be cutting the grass and hedge trimming tomorrow, taking the garden waste to the tip and generally accumulating brownie points
There are electrical storms forecast for the morning and showers in the afternoon and I plan to put a rod out for zander and another for catfish on one of the two large lakes near us.
There are electrical storms forecast for the morning and showers in the afternoon and I plan to put a rod out for zander and another for catfish on one of the two large lakes near us.
flightliner
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I had a nice day today amongst a few decant bream that were "knocked off feeding" by the torrential downpour at two pm.
When the rain abated I had a pb eel of 3-1.
The juries still out tho as to wether or not I like em.
When the rain abated I had a pb eel of 3-1.
The juries still out tho as to wether or not I like em.