How did you get on?

[103841]

All barring two days, it's been one year since I caught my pb perch of 3lb 10ozs, so I thought I would try and repeat history with a return to the same venue....same swim, same rig, same bait, but fishing doesn't work out like that, however, it was to be another memorable day.

After six hours trying to tempt a stripey with lobs, sardine and prawns only to have them snuffled by a chub, eel, skimmers and a few small carp I got bored and decided to surface fish with a few dog biscuits I had in the bag, this resulted in my pb for a carp, nothing huge, just under 16lb.

Memorable though, I was using a fairly light rig with 4lb hooklength to an 18 hook, must have spent a good fifteen minutes trying to tame the beast and tire it out, the lake hadn't fished that well today and I was attracting an audience, round and round the carp went but wouldn't budge off the bottom, and then.....ping! the line snapped, usual profanities echoed around the water with a few smirking anglers looking on. My float was in landing net range so decided to salvage that at least, whilst I continued to curse my luck. As I picked the float out the net it was still attached to line, the line had broken strangely above the float, and yep you've guessed it, the carp was still on! Amazingly the fish just gave up the fight and submitted on the surface, netted and landed, a ripple of applause around the lake.

Would rather have had a perch though.?

 

[barbelboi]

I took a 20 minute trip south along the lanes today for an exploratory visit (with a rod) to part of the Gt Ouse. With brilliant sunshine and clear water I didn’t expect to catch much and I didn’t disappoint myself. A most relaxing way to spend a couple of hours with just the interruption of reeling in a couple of small barbel, one about a pound and a half, the other about 7lbs. Also an angry Reggie - to boot..............

Fished from 10am -1.30pm.

 

[maggot_dangler]

Had a day on a section of the local canal yesterday that i have not fished before
and a very productive day as well .

Never seen Rudd as big as these were before between 1.5lb and somewhere over 2lb
very nice next time i get out i will be taking a WORKING camera with me.

Nipped out today and snapped a quick one of the area who would think this is no more than 3/4 mile from tipton .

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PG ...

 

[Graham Elliott 1]

Well continued my search for a wye perch over 3lb.

It's starting to show some common outcomes.

Fishing bleak nearly always a perch first put in. About a 1lb. Within the next hour two more, the best about one and a half, beautifully coloured.

In the first couple of hours between 3 and 6pm the odd sign of feeding fish out in the flow with the odd bleak skipping.

Yes in common with the last two efforts, apart from a spiked dorsal chasing the bleak hookbait.....the prime time wasn't!

Well tomorrow my first attempt to catch a zander from the severn. Just to say I have. Wish me luck.......popped to the nearby pond to collect a dozen roach x rudd for bait earlier

 

[benny samways]

I took a 20 minute trip south along the lanes today for an exploratory visit (with a rod) to part of the Gt Ouse. With brilliant sunshine and clear water I didn’t expect to catch much and I didn’t disappoint myself. A most relaxing way to spend a couple of hours with just the interruption of reeling in a couple of small barbel, one about a pound and a half, the other about 7lbs. Also an angry Reggie - to boot..............

Fished from 10am -1.30pm.

I love that spot! What a small world.

Incidently, did you get a barbel bite at 10:30am?
You used to be able to set your watch by it, even when rude canoeist's play in the white water under your rod.

 

[flightliner]

Up really early yesterday but still wasnt fishing untill 8-45.long drives dont really suit me these days but it was nice to be somewhere differant.
An early dissapointment was realising that I had forgotten my low chair, not good, in fact it amounted almost to the equivalent of standing on the Trent For eight hours when I'm running a float down river --- I paid dearly for the mistake , sitting on an unhooking matt all day is not to be reccamended!!.
I put a carpet of feed some twenty five yards out with my old home made spod that used to be a big big kinder egg twenty years earlier and eventually settled down (hardly!) to await the results of my very careless, chairless vigil.
Come 2pm and some two or three casts the indicators never fell or lifted once, not only that but one of my optoniks batteries died on me without so much as the fair warning that preceeds such events by squawking before death finally stops play, and I had only checked them both the previous evening, fortunately I had spare one in the ruckie to continue.
At that point I decided to spod out the remainder of my bait and during 5he process it developed a crack that finally shattered ending a long and valued part of my big fish angling accessories arsenal, very sad but I ended the task with a big catapult so no drama.
five pm came and went and with along journey home I decided enough was enough, no chair, no spod, no batteries, no fish ,no feeling in my a- - - , no hope (er) was good reason plus!.
This morning I have a new spod made from the original (thanks Mr Kinder), fresh batteries in the optoniks, (the old ones disposed of at a local supermarket--- the new green party dual leaders would be proud of me-- will they be on half pay if elected?)a new hook on the garage wall that puts the chair in better veiw, and most importantly, new hope!!!!

 

[Hugh Bailey]

A very quick session on the Wey this evening, 3 or 4 fields up form Skippy's Barbel desert.

It was a last minute effort - picked up some maggots and lobworrms about 5.00 p.m. and was set up (but pretty wet) by 6.00. Feeder fishing maggots mid-stream with a bobber fished lob under the near bank for Perch. I used strongish tackle just in case the bearded ones showed up.

First cast a cracking roach about 12oz, followed by a big gudgeon, more roach ( 2 other lovely ones), 2 chublets, more gudgeon & small perch - pretty much a bit a chuck. The lob resulted in a goodish eel of about a pound and a half - didn't weigh or photo anything as it was chucking it down for most of the session.

Packed up about 7.45 - had hoped to fish longer but it was nearly dark and I couldn't see the bites or to bait up.

I know the barbel have been a struggle this year but the river is in top form for silverfish - it just seems to get better and better. I'm going to give the roach a proper go this year if I can - I think there are some good fish around - I've been using 8lb hooklinks and 14 wide gapes in case of barbel, but come autumn I'm gong to fine down and take a chance.

 

[devon stalker]

Had a day on a section of the local canal yesterday that i have not fished before
and a very productive day as well .

Never seen Rudd as big as these were before between 1.5lb and somewhere over 2lb
very nice next time i get out i will be taking a WORKING camera with me.

Nipped out today and snapped a quick one of the area who would think this is no more than 3/4 mile from tipton .

View image in gallery​

PG ...

things have changed a bit there MD since we left in 1986

 

[maggot_dangler]

things have changed a bit there MD since we left in 1986

Yep .

There are parts of the local canals now that are as you can see very nice indeed and fish nicely as well .

I can get to best part of 10 areas along those lines in very short time The biggest problem is when the EA or the canals & river trust come along to " treat the weeds" it then screws things up for ages once again foutunately the stretch in the picture is not treated like the other branch of the canal .

PG ...

 

[devon stalker]

do they get fished much now ? ,when i was a kid we were screaming out for places to fish ! and it was a very popular pastime locally

 

[Graham Elliott 1]

My first dedicated zander trip.

Produced nowt. Nothing . Ziltch.

Dead half roach and suspended half on the other rod. I fished a pool linked to the Severn that has some nice zander pics
in the gallery. After 3 hours thought I should be on the river instead.
However spoke to a chap that had zander fished it all night without a touch. Bit dispiriting but I only want to catch one!

 

[peter crabtree]

Club fixture on the river Colne today, nice overcast day for it too.
Pegged over a half mile of riverbank with many different kinds of swims.
I drew about midway, downstream of a fallen tree.



Stick float and maggot trotted down my near side produced small perch during the first hour. Pole and worm @13m off the end of the snag looked good but only produced more perch. After 3 hours I decided to go for a barbel or maybe a big bream on the bomb in the opposite margin. Tried hard pellet, worm and bunched maggots all to no avail.



Came nowhere with 2lb:2oz....

Winner found some bream a few pegs upstream from me for 45lb+....

21 fished...

 

[binka]

Another dour and slightly weird session today.

I thought I would go for a perch session being as Crabbie’s BPC has begun and the river was completely off, In the same swim I fished with Crow a couple of weeks ago and had four takes in four put in’s which produced three perch including one very nice one, I couldn’t get a sniff on paternostered livebait.

And this despite the fact that a pike was shaking the keepnet all morning in an attempt to get to the dozen or so occupants which I had amassed for bait in the first half hour!

I did nobble a pike after changing to a circle hook and dropping the livebait at the end of the keepnet and it went within seconds but it wasn’t the fish that had been persisting earlier and at a good 3lb it didn’t really get the adrenalin racing either, a very clean hook up right in the scissors after a long delayed strike gave me confidence in the circles once again.

I managed a lone bigger perch of just below a pound on trotted big worm but that was it, and I flogged it at that.

My mate took a small barbel of around 6lb very early on and a surprise and very nice river rudd of around 12ozs and then that was it for him too.

Very few out on the river compared to a normal Sunday.

Not sure what’s going on but with a bit of luck I will be there when it changes again for the better.

In the meantime I decided after many hours from 5am to cut and run around late afternoon to give a bit of attention to a fish of a rather different kind...



"The lesser spotted Bob James Shad"?

:w

 

[itsfishingnotcatching]

Nipped out today and snapped a quick one of the area who would think this is no more than 3/4 mile from tipton

Brades Village PG ?

 

[103841]

Have you tried crab hooks for live baiting Binka?

 

[binka]

Have you tried crab hooks for live baiting Binka?

No...

What's the advantage?

 

[devon stalker]

Well i finally got around to getting out on Friday for a few hours to my local water ! "the first time course fishing in over 30 years " ive been spending the last couple of months enjoyably choosing and getting together tackle to get me started and friday was the day to see how the memory has held up ,well the casting was ok but it took an age or seemed to to get tackled up and in a routine of baiting etc but after a couple of hours things settled down very nicely and BOY DID IT FEEL GOOD ! something just felt right,i set a couple of rods up for carp which were the main target (its a large water 200 acres + and only a small head of very good carp) its going to be a long job i think getting to know the habits of the fish and water as im a tadge arthritic and limited to the swims i can fish ,but in no rush !i put in a reasonable couple of areas of particles with a spod and fished a couple of grains of corn over one and a tigernut boillie over the other and set a small method feeder up on another rod in the hope of a tench( a bit cold maybe up here now for them) or a bream .no fish to report but i did have a dropped run of sorts on the boillie of about 6 foot but it was fairly slow and not a screamer "which i think it should have been as it was a bolt rig" so could possibly have been a liner BUT really looking forward to getting out this week for a longer session

 

[103841]

No...

What's the advantage?

Fine wire, wide gape, even a size 1 is very light.

I have bought some circle hooks but yet to try them.

 

[binka]

Fine wire, wide gape, even a size 1 is very light.

I have bought some circle hooks but yet to try them.

Thanks for that, are they still strong despite the fine wire?

The circles are still an unknown quantity for me with perch, I don't see any reason why they shouldn't work just as well if not better given that perch seem to have more rounded scissors than pike and zander

 

[103841]

Thanks for that, are they still strong despite the fine wire?

The circles are still an unknown quantity for me with perch, I don't see any reason why they shouldn't work just as well if not better given that perch seem to have more rounded scissors than pike and zander

I landed two of my 3lbers on them last year. It's a fine balancing act, a hook strong enough but one that is also lightweight, thin and sharp when hooking livebait