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Hi all,

I haven't posted on here for a while 'cos life, new job etc got in the way.

Finally managed a session on Saturday with my dad and bloody hell was it cold! We headed over to Cobham Hall lakes hoping the cold wouldn't put the fishes off. When that wind blew across the lake it felt like it was direct from Siberia.

Anyway it turned out to be a pretty good day. Pops legered his secret spicy sausage in a sheltered bay in the margins and picked up 3 carp each about 5lbs or so. I float fished maggot towards the middle for roach and ide and then switched to worm in the margins under a bush for a bunch of decent perch all around the 1lb mark.

Hot tea kept us going until sun down and I was glad to get back in the warm after packing up!

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Cobham Hall top lake just as the sun started to set

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I think this was an Ide. Just didn't feel roachy (no red in the eye, tail too deeply forked and just looked...different)

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Dad had three carp all around the same size, all in good condition

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Some really nice perch in the margins, pristine condition and beautiful fin colours

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I'd pretty much lost the feeling in my fingertips by this point :)
 
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qtaran111 said:
Hi all,

I haven't posted on here for a while 'cos life, new job etc got in the way.

Finally managed a session on Saturday with my dad and bloody hell was it cold! We headed over to Cobham Hall lakes hoping the cold wouldn't put the fishes off. When that wind blew across the lake it felt like it was direct from Siberia.

Anyway it turned out to be a pretty good day. Pops legered his secret spicy sausage in a sheltered bay in the margins and picked up 3 carp each about 5lbs or so. I float fished maggot towards the middle for roach and ide and then switched to worm in the margins under a bush for a bunch of decent perch all around the 1lb mark.

Hot tea kept us going until sun down and I was glad to get back in the warm after packing up!

IMG_0790-M.jpg

Cobham Hall top lake just as the sun started to set

IMG_0780-M.jpg

I think this was an Ide. Just didn't feel roachy (no red in the eye, tail too deeply forked and just looked...different)

IMG_0777-M.jpg

Dad had three carp all around the same size, all in good condition

IMG_0786-M.jpg

Some really nice perch in the margins, pristine condition and beautiful fin colours

IMG_0796-M.jpg

I'd pretty much lost the feeling in my fingertips by this point :)
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Well fished Dan, others have found things hard there recently, see any deer?

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Good to see another 30 Plus chair! I love mine and as it was bought for me by my eldest daughter last xmas, it is just as well!!;)
 
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Quote barbelboi.

FFS Ian, I keep telling you - if you want to trot the far bank you're on the wrong side of the river................


And facing the wrong way!
 
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qtaran111..........Great day, nice fish and very good pictures. We just need to keep an eye on the 'new job got in the way' bit of your post. These things can be habit forming, and we don't want that happening too often, as it tends to spoil the fishing...............
 
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Had a piking trip on the river today. Very cold in the wind but I still have a rosy glow in the face due to the bright sunshine.
I had two tiddlers about 7lb. Nothing on my expensive bulk buy lampreys just caught on good old sardines.

I have noticed that as every year that passes it gets more and more difficult to actually get close to the water. The bankside bram bles are getting thicker and the reeds now extend out from the bank so you cannot determine where the bank ends and the water starts.

This was a stretch that used to be fished by all and sundry and had special trains from the cities.Most will know where I mean.

The Ancholne is the same.
All this makes landing and releasing fish very awkward.

On a plus side, I havn't seen so many roach topping at dusk for a long time.
 
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Piking on the reservoir again - sunshine to start with,actually had 3 fish & one dropped run.
The first two fish were around the six pound mark but the last one was bigger at 14lb 12oz with bright red edges to each pectoral fin,never seen that before.Also had a wound at the base of the skull,probably a cormorant as three have been on the reservoir for the last month or more and are continually diving in the same area where I hooked this fish.Even the kingfisher caught its breakfast near the overflow.
 
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mikench, yeah during the summer I was thinking "I miss fishing on a crisp, cold morning" :eek:mg: The 30 plus chair is kindly donated by my dad as he needed to buy a taller chair (old knees)

s63, it's funny lake in some ways. It seems to switch on and off, but we've always been lucky (touch wood). There seems to be a lot of underwater features (small but deep holes, logs, etc) and if you can find them you can find fish. No deer on Saturday, they were probably cuddled up somewhere warm :D

Tee-Cee, I kinda phrased it wrong. I should've said "old job = stress + no time for fishing, new job = minimal stress and time for fishing". Expect more posts in future. This weekend I need to get on the river bank.
 
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Punch fishing again yesterday, almost 300 fish last week.
Temperatures last week 9c through the night with up to 16c through the day.
Yesterday 3c through the night rising to 6c through the day.
Fish numbers drastically reduced. 62 fish though a bit bigger roach and skimmers than last week but no rogue carp.
Expected the bit of early frost to slow it a bit and it did. Nippy but still a nice day.
I had the whole pond to myself again, perfect.

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Don't you mean 22.5 grotes when you were a boy??:D:D:D:D:D:D[/QUOTE]

Think he meant half a crown.
 
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No fishing yesterday,as my little pooch had to go to the vets:(,but managed to get on the open at TBF today,good turnout ,so fished over Jennys,Club,and Canal pools...Got near the front of the queue,and pulled out Jennys 26-Flyer!!:D
Started dobbing bread against the far bank reeds,45 mins not a sniff,no-one had caught ,that i could see
Next stop ,pellet at 10m,just at the base of the slope,in about 4 1/2 ft,F1 straight away,then another,then a load of liners,so picked up my rig for 3ft of water at the top of the slope at 13m,caught another 10 f1,s in next couple of hours,but it was hard going....i,d been feeding the 2+1 line with maggot,by hand and dropped on that,managed 2 f1,s,and a few silvers,by now,i couldnt get a bite anywhere,so went back on pellet at 10m,and had another 2 F1,s and lost 3...and that was that!!! 35-10-0,and thanks for coming:(.Match was won by Alan Lines(Banbury Gunsmiths),from Jennys 18,with 58lb,Steve Stokes(TBF) was 2nd with 46lb,from Jennys 16,and my mate Bad H was 3rd with 41lb from Jennys 8......Phil Moore(Rugely Miners) won Canal pool with 46lb,and Steve (the maggot) Johnson won Club pool with 39lb......2ND Round of the TBF Winter League this Saturday(more misery)...Tight Lines,Gazza:D
 
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