neil1970
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I've been grabbing an odd hour or two lure fishing when I can.
How did you get on?
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robtherake
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Spring was two months late this year, so that might have a bearing on it.
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They spawned as usual round here Rob, I remember the rudd spawning in early May.
dorsetandchub
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They look like a pair of villains straight out of a Liverpool dockside pub
thecrow
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How did I get on? you may well ask after trying to get fishing all week I finally made it to a local commercial this morning, got everything set up all within easy reach put a bit of feed in ( sweetcorn, catfood and meat) while I set up and everything looked good for a days fishing.
I had caught a couple of fish around 4/5 lbs in the first half hour when another "angler" turns up sees where I am fishing and promptly sets up directly opposite to me on the other side of the pool which is approx. 30 yards wide at the point I was fishing it there was nobody else on the pool so god knows why he chose to do that unless its my magnetic personality rather than say anything I packed up and came home.
Bait is in the fridge courtesy of the wife and I will be making an attempt tomorrow to use it up while fishing otherwise it goes in the bin.
after trying to get fishing all week I finally made it to a local commercial this morning, got everything set up all within easy reach put a bit of feed in ( sweetcorn, catfood and meat) while I set up and everything looked good for a days fishing.I had caught a couple of fish around 4/5 lbs in the first half hour when another "angler" turns up sees where I am fishing and promptly sets up directly opposite to me on the other side of the pool which is approx. 30 yards wide at the point I was fishing it there was nobody else on the pool so god knows why he chose to do that unless its my magnetic personality
rather than say anything I packed up and came home.
Bait is in the fridge courtesy of the wife and I will be making an attempt tomorrow to use it up while fishing otherwise it goes in the bin.
no-one in particular
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Your magnetic personality Crow, you either have it or you haven't:-
Blowing a hoolie today, must have been a force 6. Not easy sitting in that trying to do my Sudoku. Still had a fish, a tiny bass about 6inches long. Funny old game, float fished for bass for two days and caught bugga all and then went on the bottom with lugworm for flatties today and caught a bass. Sea right up and coloured, ideal for flatties, had quite a few knocks close in - in the swell, thought might be a bigger bass lurking after the small one. Oh, and one bootlace eel, not sure how it got the hook in. Then a bloke came up and asked if I minded if he could surf board along the jetty with his mate. I thought that was nice, they usually just do it. I thought of telling him to bugga oft but as I was about to pack in anyway, what the hell; at least he asked!
No pictures, forgot my phone but an interesting day nevertheless.
A nice Kittywake flying around, they fly very stiff winged, made a change from the sea gulls, every time I turned my back they tried to nick my lugworms, they even tried eating my fish cloth, dozy sods; bit of an on going battle this all day.
:-Blowing a hoolie today, must have been a force 6. Not easy sitting in that trying to do my Sudoku. Still had a fish, a tiny bass about 6inches long. Funny old game, float fished for bass for two days and caught bugga all and then went on the bottom with lugworm for flatties today and caught a bass. Sea right up and coloured, ideal for flatties, had quite a few knocks close in - in the swell, thought might be a bigger bass lurking after the small one. Oh, and one bootlace eel, not sure how it got the hook in. Then a bloke came up and asked if I minded if he could surf board along the jetty with his mate. I thought that was nice, they usually just do it. I thought of telling him to bugga oft but as I was about to pack in anyway, what the hell; at least he asked!
No pictures, forgot my phone but an interesting day nevertheless.
A nice Kittywake flying around, they fly very stiff winged, made a change from the sea gulls, every time I turned my back they tried to nick my lugworms, they even tried eating my fish cloth, dozy sods; bit of an on going battle this all day.
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peter crabtree
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Nursing a slight hangover I set off for S.Bucks to meet the teenage maestro at one of his club lakes which we had to ourselves all day. We picked 2pegs in the shade and set up.
I set up one rig on my topkit shallow at 12" deep in 4' of water and a dead depth rig for topkit+1. Started off on the shallow rig with caster and flicked out hemp and caster by hand. Soon got the decent roach and roach Rudd hybrids going but I didn't have the energy nor the inclination to fish competitively ( not to mention boy wonder was bagging up next peg along) .
Nice cup of hot tea and a hot cross bun as I left a small ball of groundbait settle on my bottom line and I felt even more tired. 10 minutes later I composed myself and dropped into my bottom rig in with double caster on the 20 hook.
Float buried and a feisty crucian hit the net.
We'd already agreed that any vermin would only count as 1lb only and I found onemg: no 5 elastic stretched out to infinity but landed after a prolonged tussle....
After 6 hours I weighed in 11lb 8 including 2 carps around 2lb each but only counted as @1lb each. I also caught countless small Rudd and roach which I didn't keep.
Teenage maestro totally battered me with 3 times my weight but probably feeling 3 times better than I did
I set up one rig on my topkit shallow at 12" deep in 4' of water and a dead depth rig for topkit+1. Started off on the shallow rig with caster and flicked out hemp and caster by hand. Soon got the decent roach and roach Rudd hybrids going but I didn't have the energy nor the inclination to fish competitively ( not to mention boy wonder was bagging up next peg along) .
Nice cup of hot tea and a hot cross bun as I left a small ball of groundbait settle on my bottom line and I felt even more tired. 10 minutes later I composed myself and dropped into my bottom rig in with double caster on the 20 hook.
Float buried and a feisty crucian hit the net.
We'd already agreed that any vermin would only count as 1lb only and I found one
mg: no 5 elastic stretched out to infinity but landed after a prolonged tussle....After 6 hours I weighed in 11lb 8 including 2 carps around 2lb each but only counted as @1lb each. I also caught countless small Rudd and roach which I didn't keep.
Teenage maestro totally battered me with 3 times my weight but probably feeling 3 times better than I did
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barbelboi
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I see you've nicked my old swim now Simon.................
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A week ago I reported on this the most hallowed of hallowed threads of my chance encounter with a decent sized carp, one week on...a bit of deja vu maybe.
Although early in the season for such things I thought I'd go to the lake holding the current BPC title holder and see if we could get on the leaderboard nice and early again.
First things first, catch some livebait with a top section, what could go wrong? 3 small carp and a handsome young tench later, none of which classified as livebait in my book, I was becoming a tad impatient, shortened up and the little roach and Rudd obliged for the sacrifices that lay ahead.
An hour or two into serious perch hunting I had a screaming take.....nothing, no resistance at all, same again an hour later. At 10-30 a much more pedestrian take..I was in, the rod tip shaking in unison with the perch's frantic quest to free itself.....definitely a good "3" on its way to the net, in my excitement I'd forgotten the infamous snag in the swim I was fishing, the perch hadn't! Another tale of what could have been.
A quiet few hours ensued before another screaming run, this time there was resistance, mahoosive resistance.... A record perch? No, I knew immediately it wasn't the case but what was it? no known pike in the lake, maybe a large eel? After a ten minute battle landed an eleven pound carp, couldn't find the hook or swallowed roach, they were deep in the carps belly, cut the line and my losses for the day......interesting though.
Although early in the season for such things I thought I'd go to the lake holding the current BPC title holder and see if we could get on the leaderboard nice and early again.
First things first, catch some livebait with a top section, what could go wrong? 3 small carp and a handsome young tench later, none of which classified as livebait in my book, I was becoming a tad impatient, shortened up and the little roach and Rudd obliged for the sacrifices that lay ahead.
An hour or two into serious perch hunting I had a screaming take.....nothing, no resistance at all, same again an hour later. At 10-30 a much more pedestrian take..I was in, the rod tip shaking in unison with the perch's frantic quest to free itself.....definitely a good "3" on its way to the net, in my excitement I'd forgotten the infamous snag in the swim I was fishing, the perch hadn't! Another tale of what could have been.
A quiet few hours ensued before another screaming run, this time there was resistance, mahoosive resistance.... A record perch? No, I knew immediately it wasn't the case but what was it? no known pike in the lake, maybe a large eel? After a ten minute battle landed an eleven pound carp, couldn't find the hook or swallowed roach, they were deep in the carps belly, cut the line and my losses for the day......interesting though.
maggot_dangler
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I see you've nicked my old swim now Simon.................
That looks a very me type piece of water the sort of place i like to find but probably found them all round here now ..
PG ...
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Not a catch report but started a new job this week and there's a stretch of the Avon literally 10 mins away that's on our club ticket so I popped over for an hour for a look. There's pegs above and below a weir, looked great. Can't wait to fish it
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Tee-Cee
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Checked all the pictures thoroughly but couldn't see Jerry anywhere........Definitely looks like his sort of water...............Perhaps he was wearing his Camo gear !
barbelboi
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Naa, all the rivers here are gin clear. Looked at the forecast for next week for any sign of rain and it's back up in the 80's with loads of sunshine...................
thecrow
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Finally made it onto the bank this morning, a local commercial that has 5 pools, I chose to fish one that is almost exclusively carp just for a change and the fact that I have never seen anyone fishing it.
Fished an 11ft pellet waggler as I didn't think my match/float rod would be up to the job should any of the rumoured "bigger fish" turn up, 6lb maxima through to a 4lb hook length size 14 spade with a loaded waggler set at a surprisingly (to me ) deep 9ft.
Started catching from the off on corn with meat being tried as and when bites dried up on corn. biggest fish would have struggled to make 5lb, the fish were in very good condition nicely scaled and mouths intact, had to keep the corn going in to keep the bites coming but by the time that ran out I had caught around 25 fish, an enjoyable day.
How this lovely little thing got the bait into its mouth I don't know.
will be nice when it grows up
Fished an 11ft pellet waggler as I didn't think my match/float rod would be up to the job should any of the rumoured "bigger fish" turn up, 6lb maxima through to a 4lb hook length size 14 spade with a loaded waggler set at a surprisingly (to me
) deep 9ft.Started catching from the off on corn with meat being tried as and when bites dried up on corn. biggest fish would have struggled to make 5lb, the fish were in very good condition nicely scaled and mouths intact, had to keep the corn going in to keep the bites coming but by the time that ran out I had caught around 25 fish, an enjoyable day.
How this lovely little thing got the bait into its mouth I don't know.
will be nice when it grows up
no-one in particular
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Finally made it onto the bank this morning, a local commercial that has 5 pools, I chose to fish one that is almost exclusively carp just for a change and the fact that I have never seen anyone fishing it.
Fished an 11ft pellet waggler as I didn't think my match/float rod would be up to the job should any of the rumoured "bigger fish" turn up, 6lb maxima through to a 4lb hook length size 14 spade with a loaded waggler set at a surprisingly (to me
Started catching from the off on corn with meat being tried as and when bites dried up on corn. biggest fish would have struggled to make 5lb, the fish were in very good condition nicely scaled and mouths intact, had to keep the corn going in to keep the bites coming but by the time that ran out I had caught around 25 fish, an enjoyable day.
How this lovely little thing got the bait into its mouth I don't know.
will be nice when it grows up
Your magnetic charm works on fish as well! You should bottle it and sell it to Binka, plastic bottle that is!
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edsurf
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Had a nice session on the Hants Avon yesterday , Nothing of any size but caught all day trotting, small chub and dace with the odd brownie chucked in ,proves you do not need to catch big ones to have a good session, was just nice been out on the bank in a beautiful place.
Float fished sand-eel at this jetty/spot yesterday looking for bass, more or less freshwater gear, a carp rod and a big red float, just in the race you can see in the picture but tried further out as well and different depths.. I have caught one or two here before but not a ****y. Bloke mackereling next to me; nothing either. Hardly any mackerel this year or last; I reckon they are on the danger list myself.. I did see a flatfish swimming at the surface though, they do this sometimes but I could not identify it, looked a bit like a small Brill, sandy colored with black speckles. Nice day, sea breeze in the face always welcome and always interesting float fishing no matter where and the sea always unpredictable except blanking!
Been lots and lots of them down here this year, but same as last year, none 'till about mid July then billions of them, maks that is, not Bass!
Used to go out for them first about mid April, and do fine,last few years not worth it.
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binka
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Another frustrating day on a river which fished badly due to very low and clear conditions, although on reflection I could just as easily apportion as much blame on myself for a) making a bad venue choice considering the conditions and b) continuing to try and force a square peg through a round hole in pursuit of a big perch.
And boy was it grim at just gone six this morning, siling it down with heavy rain which persisted for several hours afterwards and pitch darkness!
I feel as though I fished it well and had no shortage of bits along with a b***m of around 4lb on chopped worm and prawn so I guess, bream omitted, that it could have been worse.
Nevertheless the doldrums continue and I have taken the decision to sell all the gear and take up a model railway hobby instead.
Actually scrap that, I quite fancy a barbel session tomorrow and if that fails there's always the last resort...
:w
And boy was it grim at just gone six this morning, siling it down with heavy rain which persisted for several hours afterwards and pitch darkness!
I feel as though I fished it well and had no shortage of bits along with a b***m of around 4lb on chopped worm and prawn so I guess, bream omitted, that it could have been worse.
Nevertheless the doldrums continue and I have taken the decision to sell all the gear and take up a model railway hobby instead.
Actually scrap that, I quite fancy a barbel session tomorrow and if that fails there's always the last resort...
:w