How did you get on?

[peter crabtree]

Arrived at the club farm pond early this morning to find only 4 members had turned up due to a good few of the regulars fishing in a National match.
The pond was unusually clear and a bit overgrown so we headed for the GUC nearby.



After potting in a big cup of hemp and caster down the track I fished a punch rig across under an overhanging tree. After an hour or so of steady bites, mainly roach and skimmers, a boat ploughed through. Poured a cuppa and let it settle for a few minutes then tried my maggot line over the hemp.
First bite was this little fellow...



After that I caught steadily, mainly more roach and skimbobs. I did hook a lump at one point which ripped my 4 elastic out but unfortunately the hook pulled...





Ended up with 5lb 9oz for 5th place.

5 fishedmg:

 

[itsfishingnotcatching]

We better start saving up floats for the Wye trip Jerry

Don't worry about me guys, I'm just going to attach a pair of size 4 trebles to a 4oz feeder and cast around a bit (might even foul hook a few decent floats for later)

 

[barbelboi]

Don't worry about me guys, I'm just going to attach a pair of size 4 trebles to a 4oz feeder and cast around a bit (might even foul hook a few decent floats for later)

Oh, and I thought you might try something different for a change...............

 

[Chefster]

Arrived at the club farm pond early this morning to find only 4 members had turned up due to a good few of the regulars fishing in a National match.
The pond was unusually clear and a bit overgrown so we headed for the GUC nearby.



After potting in a big cup of hemp and caster down the track I fished a punch rig across under an overhanging tree. After an hour or so of steady bites, mainly roach and skimmers, a boat ploughed through. Poured a cuppa and let it settle for a few minutes then tried my maggot line over the hemp.
First bite was this little fellow...



After that I caught steadily, mainly more roach and skimbobs. I did hook a lump at one point which ripped my 4 elastic out but unfortunately the hook pulled...





Ended up with 5lb 9oz for 5th place.

5 fishedmg:

Still a nice net of fish though mate

 

[binka]

I was woken at 5.45 this morning by even more torrential rain drumming on the tiles, it was a good old storm to say the least!

Luckily I hadn’t planned on an early start which allowed for a couple of extra cups of tea and by 7.20 it was looking much better and so, with the last slice of my butter soaked toast slumped across me mouth, I made a hasty move.

With plenty of options in the bag I settled on a light stick session again for some silvers and had a cracking day at it bagging bleak, bream, chub, gudgeon, perch, pike and roach on a light set up with maggot.

I did say pike and not just one either, I bagged three in total that had snatched small fish on the retrieve and I suffered a further bite off, this was about the chunkiest to give me a good run around at 6lb'ish…



Might have a go at the barbel again tomorrow evening.

Variety the spice of life :w

 

[Graham Elliott 1]

Ian.

My Mate Ernie is bringing one along for you it'd be hard to lose.

Its multi purpose. And you can offer S-kippy help with his tackle.

A Milk Float.

 

[The Runner]

First match, and only second time out at all, in three and a half months, on our club lake near Wraysbury. Had a walk round before the start and plenty of carp moving in places but the lake has a habit of switching off in matches so didn't read too much into it.
Got peg 39 in the willows on the shallow bank, decent draw if not as good as a few years ago when it was the bream flier- the increased number of carp seems to have scattered the bream and while they're still in there they tend to show only in ones and twos all round the lake.
Anyway, set up method feeder, groundbait feeder with longer hooklength and, optimistically, pole to fish at 11-12 m just past the drop off to around 6 ft of water (can catch close in on pole on deep bank but rarely on the shallow side.)Started on method at about 25 turns into a slightly deeper channel but not much activity anywhere in the first hour apart from Richard on 29 getting a bream and a tench and Tony on 41 finding a good eel. Then tried a bunch of 4 red maggots on the method to replace the pellet, tip went round a few inches and landed , of all things, a bleak; proper one as well , easily an ounce, which had somehow got a size 14 QM1 into its gob. At around this point Ian more or less opposite me on peg 6 had something that looked to be taking him all over the lake and when he eventually landed it even from where I was 100 yards away it looked BIG especially when he called the scalesman along to put it "on the board" rather than retain it.
Two hours in and my rod finally went properly, smallish carp on a pellet followed half an hour later by a bigger one on a wafter. And that was that, not another touch all day. Had kept the pole line fed and had a few 5 minute looks but not a sign.
Ended up with 13-1 for fourth. Ian walked it with three carp and a tench for 42 2, his big carp at exactly 26 lb enough to win on its own.
20-4 second, then 13-10 then me. A few blanks in a line in the middle of the deep bank which was unexpected given that this area had produced a lot of fish midweek. One peg that was alive with carp before the whistle threw up an 8-14 bream from his only bite.
Frustrating place but a good challenge.

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Oh, and nice ruffe Simon ! Haevn't caught one in years.
Think the last one I even saw was about 5 years ago on the Pylon Bank at Farlows when the guy on the next peg wound in to find one wedged inside his feeder ...

 

[dorsetandchub]

Arrived at the club farm pond early this morning to find only 4 members had turned up due to a good few of the regulars fishing in a National match.
The pond was unusually clear and a bit overgrown so we headed for the GUC nearby.



After potting in a big cup of hemp and caster down the track I fished a punch rig across under an overhanging tree. After an hour or so of steady bites, mainly roach and skimmers, a boat ploughed through. Poured a cuppa and let it settle for a few minutes then tried my maggot line over the hemp.
First bite was this little fellow...



After that I caught steadily, mainly more roach and skimbobs. I did hook a lump at one point which ripped my 4 elastic out but unfortunately the hook pulled...





Ended up with 5lb 9oz for 5th place.

5 fishedmg:

Some days you just have to take the ruffe with the smooth, eh? mg:

 

[maggot_dangler]

Clubs first Annual match today

Finished 3rd with 3lb7oz my own fault just could not get going at all , All fingers and thumbs first 2 rigs turned into birds nests no sooner the maggot was hooked mg: so away went the pole and out came the 13ft float rod and 507 with a 1 gram Peacock on board .

Almost instantly into the sardine tin fillers and apart from 2 decent bream it was sardines all morning .

Must do better next time Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :wh

PG ...

5 fished

 

[S-Kippy]

Still a nice net of fish though mate

Looks like more than 5-9 there to me. They skimmers must be very thin !

 

[itsfishingnotcatching]

Oh, and I thought you might try something different for a change...............

Well it works on the Itchen

 

[Chefster]

Hello there,open today at TBF was on Canal pool,i drew peg 5,not great,but not bad either,at least i was on the side,i wanted to beIts been a bit hit and miss,ive caught on pellet,over and down the edge,worm over and down the other edge,and banded maggot shallow,and ive had to keep swapping,i weighed in 72-10-0 of F1,s,mirrors,barbel,skimmers,and perch,which was good enough for a section win,and only 4th overall,but it was tight...78-8-0 won,73-12-0 2nd,73-4-0 3rd,i only lost 1 fish,so apart from getting more bites,i couldnt of done much more....18 fished....we are scheduled for Extension and House tomorrow,for the open,but there was talk of it being changed to High Pool,we,ll see in the morning..tight lines,Gazza

 

[peter crabtree]

Today I spent a couple of hours down the Colne on this lovely peg.....



Trotting maggot on the stick I took roach, perch, chublets and a couple of nice dace.



Few beers in the pub then home for the footie.....

 

[Pete Shears]

Fishing on the reservoir again this morning,cool strong NW breeze - the confines of the swim put paid to float fishing so legering it was using fake buoyant sweetcorn anchored with a no.1 shot about 1" above the hook. Not much doing at first apart from acting as ghillie for my mate Clive in the next swim along. Had a perch of 8oz whilst reeling in,grabbing the sweetcorn but eventually managed to land 2 tench - 5lb 11oz & 6lb 5oz and lost a real fighter in the thick weed.

 

[Graham Elliott 1]

Walked down to the river at 3.30pm and had dropped a bit to summer levels with nice colour.

Banded 8mm with maggot feeder holes enlarged filled with 3-4mm.
Into bites and barbel straight away with 3 around 5-7lb in the first hour.

Bit slower next hour with just one more so banged a cast to the far bank and picked up another small barbel abd two chub in next three casts.

Back to the centre and some strange bites just like crayfish pulls and drops???? Possibly small eels???

Quiet then one slow pull round for a rather sad looking 10.12 slightly kinked and blind in one eye. Very rare on the Wye to get a bad conditioned fish. 1 more chub to finish then back for footie.

Very pleased to see the mandarin duck still has 10 fairly sizeable chicks. Probably that size cos they've had about a kilo of pellets in 3 trips


.........before I typed this 1-1!!!!

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I've no found my boots, put some dubbin on, ready for the England call.

What a load of tosh.
£3m a week in wages that lot earn. Disgusted.

 

[robtherake]

Today I spent a couple of hours down the Colne on this lovely peg.....



Trotting maggot on the stick I took roach, perch, chublets and a couple of nice dace.



Few beers in the pub then home for the footie.....

Shoulda stayed in the pub.

 

[thecrow]

Had my second go at the still water I have chosen to fish for Roach yesterday.

Wind was blowing into the swim I fancied it has a large tree that gives some overhead cover to anything that might be knocking about in the area, depth is around 5 feet 2 rods out with no sudden changes just a steady sloping off until around 8 feet is the depth but that's a good way out and far to far for float fishing on this water where the undertow can be a problem.







Started with the same set up as previously i.e. 4bb loaded insert waggler with a size 16 to 2.5, I had taken maggots, hemp and tares as baits and intended to fish maggots feeding them and small amounts of hemp intending to fish the tares as a change bait if bites on maggots dried up.

Unfortunately the best laid plans don't always work (haven't worked at all on 2 trips) and after 4 hours without a bite and no sign of any fish the arrival of a Carp angler? in the very next swim with over 20 acres to choose from who proceeded to lash the water to a foam with marker float and spod gave me a reason to knock it on the head so another blank, might fish a commie on Friday morning just to make sure that the float I am using is not a super buoyant one that struggles to sink we will see.

Talking to 2 other anglers it appears that the whole pool has been fishing very poorly so perhaps it aint just me, I hope the Roach haven't done a disappearing act for the season as has happened in years gone by only to reappear the next season.

 

[barbelboi]

I had a session on a local river stretch today fishing between 10.30 and 3.30pm deciding to give the stream a rest this week. The idea was to trot bread flake along all the likely looking slacks, etc, for roach and if any chub joined in so be it. We haven’t had the heavy downpours that some of the country has been receiving and the river was in quite good fettle.

The first couple of hours produced small roach to around 8oz so I was moving around a fair bit. My belief is that if I’m catching small roach I’m not going to catch the larger ones in the same place so decided continual movement was the way to go as I was using a pin and my Wally casts are not up to reaching the tail end of the trot.

The afternoon became overcast after a sunny start but stayed dry for the duration. I managed two decent roach, both over a pound and a half with the larger hitting the scales at 1.12....

 

[Tee-Cee]

I'm definitely going to give this 10 - 3.30 slot a go ...obviously the best time for big roach - regardless of what the big roach fishing ' names ' say !

Nice fishing Gerry....fresh air probably did you good after almost suffocating during the match last night !

 

[Chefster]

Hello guys,Top pool and High pool today for the open,peg 3 on Top pool was my home for the day,in whats known as the "Bowl",ive never fished here before,i knew id be in for a tough match,with Kevin"the Legend"Folwell on the next peg
I started with 4mm expanders on the deck at 6m,feeding micros through the kinder,and throwing 4mm feed pellets by hand..,after an hour i had 10 f1,s,so i tried shallow over the top,with pellet,but it wasnt right,so i changed to feeding casters,and fishing a banded caster or maggot,working the depths from 6 inch to 2ft,ive caught in spells and bursts of fish...for 90-13-0 of f1,s and ide,which was only good enough for 2nd on the lake,Kev,the legend ,dishing me out a battering,and weighing in 118-0-0,Wayne Sweetman was 3rd with 89-12-0,so i only just snuck 2nd..High pool fished brilliant,as did Steve"maggot"Johnson,with 207-9-0,135lb 2nd,and 133lb 3rd..Tight lines,Gazza