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robtherake
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What's the significance, fellas? Is it a sign of water purity or is its rarity the issue?
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binka
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A case of start as you mean to go on for the first official day of British Summertime (!), I had around twelve hours at it fishing the wag & worm for whatever pulled my string and I reckon I would have stayed another twelve if it had stayed light…
Very enjoyable.
I abandoned my plans to fish a gravel pit on the back of a changing weather forecast as it’s a fair old hike and I didn’t fancy lugging the brolly so I instead fished another local day ticket lake that used to be a club water.
Definitely a case of getting the brolly up and well anchored down as the strong, gusting wind did feel chill despite being a sou’westerly and the monsoons which swept through during the afternoon gave me a feeling of smug satisfaction knowing that I was nicely hunkered down out of the way of them.
I managed to get bites from the off, two little perch on the first two casts whilst I was still fine tuning the rig before any feed had gone in and gradually throughout the day things built up nicely with the main species being small netter skimmers of which I must have had around three dozen in addition to a couple of dozen small perch, a few small roach and one or two that looked like they had hybridised a little…
I did manage to glimpse a rainbow in the trees following one of the many afternoon downpours which seemed to end beside the water but despite a cast in that direction there was no 4lb perch at the end of it…
I now have a ‘pin that looks like it’s been chucked in a cement mixer with a kilo of chopped worm and a bag of Sensas Lake baked onto it, should be a nice sofa job tomorrow whilst the rain is pouring down outside… :w
Very enjoyable.
I abandoned my plans to fish a gravel pit on the back of a changing weather forecast as it’s a fair old hike and I didn’t fancy lugging the brolly so I instead fished another local day ticket lake that used to be a club water.
Definitely a case of getting the brolly up and well anchored down as the strong, gusting wind did feel chill despite being a sou’westerly and the monsoons which swept through during the afternoon gave me a feeling of smug satisfaction knowing that I was nicely hunkered down out of the way of them.
I managed to get bites from the off, two little perch on the first two casts whilst I was still fine tuning the rig before any feed had gone in and gradually throughout the day things built up nicely with the main species being small netter skimmers of which I must have had around three dozen in addition to a couple of dozen small perch, a few small roach and one or two that looked like they had hybridised a little…
I did manage to glimpse a rainbow in the trees following one of the many afternoon downpours which seemed to end beside the water but despite a cast in that direction there was no 4lb perch at the end of it…
I now have a ‘pin that looks like it’s been chucked in a cement mixer with a kilo of chopped worm and a bag of Sensas Lake baked onto it, should be a nice sofa job tomorrow whilst the rain is pouring down outside… :w
maggot_dangler
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Well day out on my fave pool today.
Having fixed the troublesome ABU507 mkII it caught some hammer today
arrived around 10:30 this morning , went to unlock the gates Err some muppet been playing lock rammed full of mud theres the first 10mins wasted cleaning said lock and gaining access .
Having decieded which peg i was going to fish (10 my fave peg ) setup doging the showers started fishing a few small roach and perch then sleep for what seemed like years then the fish had hoped to target got their heads down had 5 nice Crucians all around 1 to 1.5 lbs nice to see them again the usual collection of snotties followed by a couple of very nice Chubb of around 3lb gave me a bit of a run around and the repaired reel a workout .
Finally packed up at just short of 19:00 hoping they have tomorrows forcast wrong off till thursday and want to fish every day ..
The story about the reel i will post on my existing thread on the subject.
PG ...
Having fixed the troublesome ABU507 mkII it caught some hammer today
arrived around 10:30 this morning , went to unlock the gates Err some muppet been playing lock rammed full of mud theres the first 10mins wasted cleaning said lock and gaining access .
Having decieded which peg i was going to fish (10 my fave peg ) setup doging the showers started fishing a few small roach and perch then sleep for what seemed like years then the fish had hoped to target got their heads down had 5 nice Crucians all around 1 to 1.5 lbs nice to see them again the usual collection of snotties followed by a couple of very nice Chubb of around 3lb gave me a bit of a run around and the repaired reel a workout .
Finally packed up at just short of 19:00 hoping they have tomorrows forcast wrong off till thursday and want to fish every day ..
The story about the reel i will post on my existing thread on the subject.
PG ...
Chefster
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Tunnel Barn monday open today,fished on canal pool,i couldnt believe it when i pulled out peg 17,next to the rubbish peg i drew last tuesday!!!!
Still i knew there were a few fish there,so got my head down ,to just catch what was in front of me,wind was blowing a hoolie,but i was able to fish across,as its only 9m wide
Started across had a few on pellet,that died so went down the track on maggot,and had a few,that died,so i fished my 2 topkit lines,one in front,and one to the left,finished with 22 F1,s and a mirror and some skimmers and roach,for 49-10-0,and remarkably the Win,None of the "Big "pegs produced for some reason,and 29-0-0 was 2nd from peg 3,and 26-8-0 was 3rd,from 21.......Only 14 fished,as there was a festival on ,which has been running since good friday....Back tomorrow for a match on New pool,see how we get on,tight lines ,Gazza
Still i knew there were a few fish there,so got my head down ,to just catch what was in front of me,wind was blowing a hoolie,but i was able to fish across,as its only 9m wide
Started across had a few on pellet,that died so went down the track on maggot,and had a few,that died,so i fished my 2 topkit lines,one in front,and one to the left,finished with 22 F1,s and a mirror and some skimmers and roach,for 49-10-0,and remarkably the Win
,None of the "Big "pegs produced for some reason,and 29-0-0 was 2nd from peg 3,and 26-8-0 was 3rd,from 21.......Only 14 fished,as there was a festival on ,which has been running since good friday....Back tomorrow for a match on New pool,see how we get on,tight lines ,Gazza
sumtime
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A case of start as you mean to go on for the first official day of British Summertime (!), I had around twelve hours at it fishing the wag & worm for whatever pulled my string and I reckon I would have stayed another twelve if it had stayed light…
Very enjoyable.
I abandoned my plans to fish a gravel pit on the back of a changing weather forecast as it’s a fair old hike and I didn’t fancy lugging the brolly so I instead fished another local day ticket lake that used to be a club water.
Definitely a case of getting the brolly up and well anchored down as the strong, gusting wind did feel chill despite being a sou’westerly and the monsoons which swept through during the afternoon gave me a feeling of smug satisfaction knowing that I was nicely hunkered down out of the way of them.
I managed to get bites from the off, two little perch on the first two casts whilst I was still fine tuning the rig before any feed had gone in and gradually throughout the day things built up nicely with the main species being small netter skimmers of which I must have had around three dozen in addition to a couple of dozen small perch, a few small roach and one or two that looked like they had hybridised a little…
I did manage to glimpse a rainbow in the trees following one of the many afternoon downpours which seemed to end beside the water but despite a cast in that direction there was no 4lb perch at the end of it…
I now have a ‘pin that looks like it’s been chucked in a cement mixer with a kilo of chopped worm and a bag of Sensas Lake baked onto it, should be a nice sofa job tomorrow whilst the rain is pouring down outside… :w
If I show my g/daughter these pics, she'll want her nails varnishing on the inside just like yours.
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binka
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If I show my g/daughter these pics, she'll want her nails varnishing on the inside just like yours.
I've gone Goth ready for the new season
Gazza, well done on the win mate :thumbs:
lambert1
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Tunnel Barn monday open today,fished on canal pool,i couldnt believe it when i pulled out peg 17,next to the rubbish peg i drew last tuesday!!!!
Still i knew there were a few fish there,so got my head down ,to just catch what was in front of me,wind was blowing a hoolie,but i was able to fish across,as its only 9m wide
Started across had a few on pellet,that died so went down the track on maggot,and had a few,that died,so i fished my 2 topkit lines,one in front,and one to the left,finished with 22 F1,s and a mirror and some skimmers and roach,for 49-10-0,and remarkably the Win
Congratulations Gaz, you deserve it for all your hard work mate. ENJOY :w
Chefster
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Cheers Lambert and Steve
Went over to a complex of club lake in Ringwood today to do a bit of silvers bashing. Slept through my alarm at 6.00, eventually arose around 9 got the van ready off I went arrived at around 12 via the tackle shop, only to find I had left the gate keys at home. Went back home to get the keys and went to a different water as it was now 2. Got to the lake, arrived in my swim, set my rod up, just started fishing, now about 3.30, then the heavens opened, I packed up and went home. Should have stayed in bed. mg:
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Keith M
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Not angling, but related and my be of interest to some.
My wife is now involved in monitoring the local rivers and on one of her fly monitor trips on a tiny river she made a tiny but positive discovery.
Both Rob.
Rarely if ever seen nowerdays since the much larger Signals and Turkish varieties arrived from abroad and virtually wiped our native crayfish out of existence in nearly all of our rivers and streams; mainly because of the viruses that the foreign Crays carry.
Keith
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Chefster
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Match today on Top and New pool,due to big turnout-another poor draw-peg 22 on top,well out of the mix
In short i totally fished the peg all wrong,and should have fished pellet long ,until last hour or so,and come on maggot short,but i tried to force all the maggot lines too early,and it didnt work,ive ended up with a mixed bag of mirror,f1,s,skimmers,ide and roach,for 25-10-0,beat everyone around me,but no good in the match,50-0-0 won the pool,48-0-0 2nd,and 43-0-0 3rd....I think my peg was good for 40lb,if i,d fished it right,but we live and learn...Next match ,the Friday Flyer,back on Top pool againhopefully i can put right todays mistakes.....tight lines,Gazza
In short i totally fished the peg all wrong,and should have fished pellet long ,until last hour or so,and come on maggot short,but i tried to force all the maggot lines too early,and it didnt work,ive ended up with a mixed bag of mirror,f1,s,skimmers,ide and roach,for 25-10-0,beat everyone around me,but no good in the match,50-0-0 won the pool,48-0-0 2nd,and 43-0-0 3rd....I think my peg was good for 40lb,if i,d fished it right,but we live and learn...Next match ,the Friday Flyer,back on Top pool again
hopefully i can put right todays mistakes.....tight lines,GazzaAussie Bob
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Another after work session tonight before the clocks go back on the weekend.Bright sunshine but a chill in the wind as the sun dropped. Tried a small soft plastic with a offset hook specifically designed for weedless texas rig set up. Lost that after about 5 casts mg: so re rigged with a long shanked size 8 with a split shot just in front of the hook. After a lot of walking around and casting for nothing one of the 4 inch perch hooked itself to save the blank.I am not really sure the perch was feeding I cast a lot in the same area until it hooked up.
Bit too much in the weight of split shot in front of the plastic so I can correct that next time out and I don't think I will bother with the offset hooks which costs a bloody fortune and are probably too big (2/0) for my needs , the perch wont have an issue but I think the trout might struggle with them. Might use the avod rod as well rather than the 6 foot spin rod to give me better control and small twitches with an 11 foot rod should work better to lift and let the plastic flutter down especially at any range .....
Sunset was stunning I wish I could remember where I put my camera
mg: so re rigged with a long shanked size 8 with a split shot just in front of the hook. After a lot of walking around and casting for nothing one of the 4 inch perch hooked itself to save the blank.I am not really sure the perch was feeding I cast a lot in the same area until it hooked up.Bit too much in the weight of split shot in front of the plastic so I can correct that next time out and I don't think I will bother with the offset hooks which costs a bloody fortune and are probably too big (2/0) for my needs , the perch wont have an issue but I think the trout might struggle with them. Might use the avod rod as well rather than the 6 foot spin rod to give me better control and small twitches with an 11 foot rod should work better to lift and let the plastic flutter down especially at any range .....
Sunset was stunning I wish I could remember where I put my camera
Managing to connect with a few crucians on club lakes. Mainly on bread, but some showing to corn or small cubes of meat. The latter snared a small but very spirited ghostie, one of the skeletal looking ones.
Been getting some nicely coloured rudd on the drop which are growing on nicely now from a fry explosion a couple of years back. Very sharp bites which I miss too often. The crucians on the other hand are very different bites. Of the dozen I caught yesterday, about half were hooked when lifting the rod to check bait. No indications I could see at all but there they were neatly lip hooked. I changed shotting depth and float types to influence nothing at all. Even the tiny speck of superfine tip of a 0.4g pole float didn't shift and yet there was a crucian. Reasonable size up to a pound so I couldn't fathom what else to do, except maybe be feel grateful.
The crucians aren't really feeding full on and are maybe still warming up. The water is quite cool still. Normal behaviour do ya think? Any tips on a rig that will tell me when a crafty fish has mouthed the bait?
Been getting some nicely coloured rudd on the drop which are growing on nicely now from a fry explosion a couple of years back. Very sharp bites which I miss too often. The crucians on the other hand are very different bites. Of the dozen I caught yesterday, about half were hooked when lifting the rod to check bait. No indications I could see at all but there they were neatly lip hooked. I changed shotting depth and float types to influence nothing at all. Even the tiny speck of superfine tip of a 0.4g pole float didn't shift and yet there was a crucian. Reasonable size up to a pound so I couldn't fathom what else to do, except maybe be feel grateful.
The crucians aren't really feeding full on and are maybe still warming up. The water is quite cool still. Normal behaviour do ya think? Any tips on a rig that will tell me when a crafty fish has mouthed the bait?
Similar problems at the start of the last couple of seasons. I had some success with a Drennan Glo-tip antenna fished lift-method using a 'chain' of no.8s to 4-5" from the hook pinning it down. When they were going on Corn - found a plastic floating kernel hair rigged - helped keep it out of the silt. When the Cru's stopped - the Tench started - worked for them too!
Tight Lines!
I'll let ya know how it goes.
I do like those glow tips. With the exception that I have a growing collection of tipless glowtips. Occasionally I cast out with one, straighten up to it; can't see float;bite on the drop; lift to strike into nothing;glow tip missing!
Do they sell just the tip?
neil1970
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Half an hour in a lock saw a couple of these miniscule, but beautiful, perch to dropshotted isome.
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binka
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That's a huge monocle it's wearing Neil
dorsetandchub
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Didn't help it spot the hook though, eh, Steve??
Yesterday, I cleared out my tackle box and rounded up all the empty pole winders and tubed pole floats. Today, I dragged the whole lot in and with Time Team, Radio 5 and assorted music for company retied what finished up 64 pole rigs, from 1.5lb main line and a 22 up to 10lb main, 8lb trace and 10s and 8s.
I felt a lot better after finishing as it was a job I've been putting off forever. The box looks a lot better, I just didn't have the heart to tell it it's being swapped out for a bigger Daiwa model next month.
Back at work tomorrow so no fishing for a week but next week, everything's tidied up and raring to go.
Have a great week, all.
Yesterday, I cleared out my tackle box and rounded up all the empty pole winders and tubed pole floats. Today, I dragged the whole lot in and with Time Team, Radio 5 and assorted music for company retied what finished up 64 pole rigs, from 1.5lb main line and a 22 up to 10lb main, 8lb trace and 10s and 8s.
I felt a lot better after finishing as it was a job I've been putting off forever. The box looks a lot better, I just didn't have the heart to tell it it's being swapped out for a bigger Daiwa model next month.
Back at work tomorrow so no fishing for a week but next week, everything's tidied up and raring to go.
Have a great week, all.
Hi Neil,
Isn't there some restriction on fishing too close to lock gates? Think it's a C&RT byelaw?
Nice little perchy though :thumbs: