cal_sutt
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Thank you, Benny, much appreciated!:w
How did you get on?
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Thank you, Benny, much appreciated!:w
neil1970
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Great day today. I bought my mate a ticket.
He's a much more experenced fisherman then me,
robably his best moment has been a margin carp on the float, 26lbs.
He's really wanted to catch a barbel for a long time and generally had an urge to get on the local river.
After sorting out his rod - an unfortunate mixture of marker and the top end of a spod rod (" I cant believe this!") fixed with electrician tape to make the joints fit, things went well.
Happily he caught a trout, 4 baby barbel and a couple of fit chub.:w
I took a back seat with a couple of baby barbel, a trout, a ruff and the largest gudgeon I've ever seen (on cheese paste)
He's a much more experenced fisherman then me,
robably his best moment has been a margin carp on the float, 26lbs.He's really wanted to catch a barbel for a long time and generally had an urge to get on the local river.
After sorting out his rod - an unfortunate mixture of marker and the top end of a spod rod (" I cant believe this!") fixed with electrician tape to make the joints fit, things went well.
Happily he caught a trout, 4 baby barbel and a couple of fit chub.:w
I took a back seat with a couple of baby barbel, a trout, a ruff and the largest gudgeon I've ever seen (on cheese paste)
dangermouse
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Lovely barbel Cal, well worth getting wet for. :thumbs:
Neil, that`s a cracking gudgeon, maybe I`ll have to give cheese paste a try on the local cut.
Neil, that`s a cracking gudgeon, maybe I`ll have to give cheese paste a try on the local cut.
flightliner
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Cal, nice idle barbel. Arm aching stuff on those snaggy reaches. More reasons to go back thats for sure.
Derek Gibson
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Nice fish Cal bet the enthusiasms sky high now , go get em mate.
bennygesserit
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as a change fished the canal today , there is a nice rural spot I have found that seems to be chav free , few joggers and dog walkers all very polite though.
found a nice swim , deliberately took only my pole , started off on the far side by the reeds fishing punched bread and feeding 6 grains of hemp by t---- pot.
5 casts 5 fish four of them requiring the net , including a skimmer and this which I thought was a roach but the fins are black , shape seems wrong shape to be a ide, nice fish though.
Think i overfed as I started putting small balls ( oooer missus ) of groundbait in and the whole swim died I should have taken maggots with me but the very delicate "proper" fishing was a nice change - just needed more fish.
found a nice swim , deliberately took only my pole , started off on the far side by the reeds fishing punched bread and feeding 6 grains of hemp by t---- pot.
5 casts 5 fish four of them requiring the net , including a skimmer and this which I thought was a roach but the fins are black , shape seems wrong shape to be a ide, nice fish though.
Think i overfed as I started putting small balls ( oooer missus ) of groundbait in and the whole swim died I should have taken maggots with me but the very delicate "proper" fishing was a nice change - just needed more fish.
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sam vimes
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5 casts 5 fish four of them requiring the net , including a skimmer and this which I thought was a roach but the fins are black , shape seems wrong shape to be a ide, nice fish though.
Benny,
I'd chalk that down as a hybrid (roach/bream) if I'd caught it.
bennygesserit
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thanks Sam !
certainly fought like a roach , if only bream and perch would hybridise what a fish that would be.
certainly fought like a roach , if only bream and perch would hybridise what a fish that would be.
barbelboi
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I'd go for hybrid too, they often fight better than both their parents.................
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I Fished a pairs match today at the Grebe lake,at Wolvey,leics.....Although the lake is solid with carp,f1,s ,crucians,tench,bream,skimmers,roach,barbel etc,it was hard going,i drew peg 8,smack in the middle of the match length..I caught on PW,bomb and pellet,method,and pole and meat in the margin,just rotating swims to keep fish coming,managing 49lb,losing a few doubles in the process,which would have bumped my weight up nicely....Luckily for me ,i was partnered by Stevie(Bagger) Brinley,from Lychgate,who caught 89lb!!,from peg 2(island peg)again on a variety of methods...Giving us second overall with a combined weight total of 138lb.....all the kit got thoroughly soaked as it didnt stop raining for most of the day!!!.....I,m not sure who won,but their combined weight was 160lb!!No fishing the w/end,as i,m working,next match,an open at Toft silver on tues...then off to Butlins(Bogner) with the family for 7 days,Cheers Gaz
flightliner
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Some would think that snot possible?.:wh
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lambert1
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Had an after work session yesterday and caught a varied selection of tiddlers, Gudgeon, Roach, Dace, Chub and lots of Perch (only one big enough for the net). In common with some of the opinions expressed in the thread on why we fish, this was certainly valuable me time and if I was to ask myself whether I would swap all the small ones for one good specimen, I am not sure that I would as the constant action was a wonderful antidote to a hard and frustrating (heavy rain) week at work. I felt like a Dentist, the number of times I looked at a set of little nashers, but you don't have to ask Perch to open wide at least! I used a little swimfeeder and red maggots that had had two tablespoons of Krill flakes added the night before. Whether this made any difference or not I do not know, but I did not have any lulls in the action, which was just what I wanted Good luck to all those out this weekend.
I used a little swimfeeder and red maggots that had had two tablespoons of Krill flakes added the night before. Whether this made any difference or not I do not know, but I did not have any lulls in the action, which was just what I wanted Good luck to all those out this weekend.
Well, today was supposed to be a match at Clattercote.
So, over the past couple of days I got my kit ready, 2 rods with Shimano 4000's new 8lb line for the Method Feeder and 6lb line for the pellet waggler.
Landing nets and Keep nets x3 all checked out and quick lock fittings all working properly.
Yesterday after lunch I drove down to see Dave Moody at Reid's tackle at Witherington Farm Lakes, bought my meat and corn and pellets and had a right good chat with Dave as is always the case. I also picked up a new MAP Meat Cutter with a couple of extra blades as my old one had wires that bent too easily.
About 6-o-clock and after dinner I set about decanting baits as I hate taking tins to a venue, so with corn into 2 bait boxes, pellets soaked and groundbait mixed I then set up the new meat cutter.
In went a tin of spiced Meat, and the cutter did a great job, perfect little cubes of 10mm meat. Next, to change the blade to a 4mm one for feeding regular unflavored meat.
The existing blades seemed to be firmly stuck and it took an effort to get one out, and then when struggling with the in line blade it slipped and sliced into my middle finger and the two digits either side of that.
Blood everywhere, air ringing with the sound of loud expletives and a drop-kicked meat cutter into the laundry room wall!
One very blood soaked tea towel later and I was in my daughter's car heading to A&E. I got seen pretty quickly and now have a couple of sutures in my middle finger and butterfly plasters on the others.
We got home a little after 9 and tried to post to my friends that I wouldn't be joining them today, and ended up having to dictate it to my daughter who did the typing.
This morning the damn digits are still throbbing but pointless trying to fish today . . . . . . . so, how did I get on?
Don't bloody ask!!!!!!
PS: anyone want to buy a slight damaged MAP Meat Cutter with a blade still stuck in the useless P.O.S?
So, over the past couple of days I got my kit ready, 2 rods with Shimano 4000's new 8lb line for the Method Feeder and 6lb line for the pellet waggler.
Landing nets and Keep nets x3 all checked out and quick lock fittings all working properly.
Yesterday after lunch I drove down to see Dave Moody at Reid's tackle at Witherington Farm Lakes, bought my meat and corn and pellets and had a right good chat with Dave as is always the case. I also picked up a new MAP Meat Cutter with a couple of extra blades as my old one had wires that bent too easily.
About 6-o-clock and after dinner I set about decanting baits as I hate taking tins to a venue, so with corn into 2 bait boxes, pellets soaked and groundbait mixed I then set up the new meat cutter.
In went a tin of spiced Meat, and the cutter did a great job, perfect little cubes of 10mm meat. Next, to change the blade to a 4mm one for feeding regular unflavored meat.
The existing blades seemed to be firmly stuck and it took an effort to get one out, and then when struggling with the in line blade it slipped and sliced into my middle finger and the two digits either side of that.
Blood everywhere, air ringing with the sound of loud expletives and a drop-kicked meat cutter into the laundry room wall!
One very blood soaked tea towel later and I was in my daughter's car heading to A&E. I got seen pretty quickly and now have a couple of sutures in my middle finger and butterfly plasters on the others.
We got home a little after 9 and tried to post to my friends that I wouldn't be joining them today, and ended up having to dictate it to my daughter who did the typing.
This morning the damn digits are still throbbing but pointless trying to fish today . . . . . . . so, how did I get on?
Don't bloody ask!!!!!!
PS: anyone want to buy a slight damaged MAP Meat Cutter with a blade still stuck in the useless P.O.S?
I had a much better day on the Don. Tried a new stretch, bit of a jumper ripper through the brambles to get to but always worth a go. Stuck the feeder to far bank, and it stayed there all morning not even a twitch.
Wire stem float ran down the nearside margin with some worms on an size 18. Every other trot pulled a perch. Secret weapon, a rag soaked in predator plus tied to a bit of string let that give off its juice..... Half an hour later some bigger perch starting making appearance. Was a good morning. Even on the retrieve they were following so a stop, twitch, reel approach came about. And proved successful. The water was pretty clear and mid trot could watch the perch get positioned and clearly see the slow take . Really Enjoyed myself and makes a change from trout!!
Wire stem float ran down the nearside margin with some worms on an size 18. Every other trot pulled a perch. Secret weapon, a rag soaked in predator plus tied to a bit of string let that give off its juice..... Half an hour later some bigger perch starting making appearance. Was a good morning. Even on the retrieve they were following so a stop, twitch, reel approach came about. And proved successful. The water was pretty clear and mid trot could watch the perch get positioned and clearly see the slow take . Really Enjoyed myself and makes a change from trout!!
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The Runner
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Fished Gerrards Cross club match, inter club with Yeading AS on Yeading's club water.
Nice little lake tucked away in suburbia but with 12 or 13 a side and nearly every peg in it didn't really fish at its best with the carp doing a vanishing act and only a few bream showing.
Drew Peg 5 right in a corner, usually a good carp peg but not a sign. Had 6-13 of roach and rudd on pole and maggot at 9m nearly all in the first couple of hours but couldn't do anything about it when they backed off as anything more than 10.5m put me in someone elses swim...
Wasnt complaining though as had the wind into my corner all day and was sure would get a couple of carp late on in the margins where I had a wall to my left and a reedbed to my right both with 4 ft of water tight in. Not a sniff.
Tie for first with 17-4, one had all roach and rudd on wag and mag, other had 9lb of these and the days only carp. A 14 and a 13 made up the frame. A few blanks dotted about among those who sat it out for carp, including the lad on my right who had had 7 carp for around 70lb pleasure fishing the same swim five days previously...
Nice little lake tucked away in suburbia but with 12 or 13 a side and nearly every peg in it didn't really fish at its best with the carp doing a vanishing act and only a few bream showing.
Drew Peg 5 right in a corner, usually a good carp peg but not a sign. Had 6-13 of roach and rudd on pole and maggot at 9m nearly all in the first couple of hours but couldn't do anything about it when they backed off as anything more than 10.5m put me in someone elses swim...
Wasnt complaining though as had the wind into my corner all day and was sure would get a couple of carp late on in the margins where I had a wall to my left and a reedbed to my right both with 4 ft of water tight in. Not a sniff.
Tie for first with 17-4, one had all roach and rudd on wag and mag, other had 9lb of these and the days only carp. A 14 and a 13 made up the frame. A few blanks dotted about among those who sat it out for carp, including the lad on my right who had had 7 carp for around 70lb pleasure fishing the same swim five days previously...
peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
Yesterday I fished an annual match with friends at Clattercote Res near Banbury. I set up 2 rods, 12' feeder rod, 1oz lead and teabag.12' 6" feeder rod and method. Bream and carp were the target fish.
Conditions were ok with a gusty westerly and intermittent sun and cloud. Started on the bag and it was small skimmer a chuck. Tried the method but it seemed the bag got me the bites I wanted. Winner had 5 carp and bits for 40lb. I came joint 5th 13lb 6. all skimmers...
Today a club match at willows lakes (26 acre pit) near St Albans. Same set up as yesterday. The wind was blasting diagonally into my face and at one point it chucked it down. Once again no carp and 6lb+ of skimmers, roach and a lunky perch on the method for nowhere...
Winner 32lb.
19 fished.
Conditions were ok with a gusty westerly and intermittent sun and cloud. Started on the bag and it was small skimmer a chuck. Tried the method but it seemed the bag got me the bites I wanted. Winner had 5 carp and bits for 40lb. I came joint 5th 13lb 6. all skimmers...
Today a club match at willows lakes (26 acre pit) near St Albans. Same set up as yesterday. The wind was blasting diagonally into my face and at one point it chucked it down. Once again no carp and 6lb+ of skimmers, roach and a lunky perch on the method for nowhere...
Winner 32lb.
19 fished.
barbelboi
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Well done Simon, Clattercote was gusty enough on Saturday - you must be cream crackered, probably see down the river Tuesday if you've recovered........