How did you get on?

[binka]

it’s not easy taking a photo of a bird on your rod whilst it’s in the other hand waiting for some float movement...............

I'm going with...

'Following his wrong turn on the way back from town Jerry had a very enjoyable afternoon in the lap dance club'

 

[peter crabtree]

Dry, overcast and gloomy this morning with no wind. My first thought was its a roach day and half an hour later I was on the canal down the town. A spot where the Colne crosses the canal diagonally. A nice flow from right to left about 15 yds out.



Set up a light waggler rig with a 20 Kama b611 to 0.09 with single red maggot and let it meander slowly in the flow. Regularly Feeding 6 maggots by catty the bites soon materialised. First fish a pristine roach.



Then a netter dace...



Caught steadily for 3hours with most fish being netters but by 3:30 I was having a job to see the float so I reluctantly packed up..

 

[john step]

Had this today part of a roach and perch bag on red worm and dead maggot on bomb

Brightened up a grey November day

And hopefully this one of one of the perch will download.

 

[seth49]

I had this little fellow with me all day today, he certainly liked maggots,
Quite a nice day today,it was my first day's fishing for about a month, I've been laid up with this nasty virus that's going round, bad chest infection,sore throats and just feel weak,think I'm getting better and then it comes back again.

Anyway I got to the fishery this morning about eight thirty,it was fairly mild and the sun came out later so a nice day to be out, put the sleeper carp rod in first, but it was just a robin perch, not a touch all day.

I fished a small drennan maggot feeder with a helicopter rig on my tip rod, hoping for some of the good roach in here,started of catching skimmers with the odd small roach, it went a bit quite when the sun came out, just getting small twitches on the tip, missed a lot of these.

Then about one o clock the sun went behind the trees and I started getting some proper bites, slow ones from the skimmers and real pull rounds of the roach, finished up with twenty two fish all together, about eight roach to about a pound and the rest skimmers with a couple about two pounds, went quite after three, so I packed up in daylight and went home, good day, I enjoyed it.

 

[barbelboi]

Terrific pics and a lovely venue. I've never managed to get a robin pic that wasn't at least partially blurred.

Ah, but you never saw the 97 out takes........................or the superglue....

 

[Pete Shears]

Another morning after pike on the reservoir,very mild & a gentle westerly breeze - not many fish rolling or splashing anywhere first thing. Had two pike on sprat fixed to a single hook rig - 4lbish & 7lbish, may as well have packed the other two rods away which had mackerel - not a sniff - pleasant though,flock of fieldfares chattering away in the hedgerows - no cormorants did they go or were they pushed ?

 

[flightliner]

The warm weather and extra water kicked the planned pike trip into touch in favour of a chub/ barbel trip trentside.
Bait was steak n mince on one rod and lob on the other.
First put in with the steak produced a good wrap inside the first half hour.
Leaning into the bite I felt a fish before things went solid.
One last heave before maybe pulling for a break had the fish come free resulting in superb looking bream. Sadly one more wrapround on the lobworm produced nothing but thin air, lovely day for it with the levels falling and a nice colour, the tidal section downstream looked even better and to be honest I would rather have stik floated there than where I ended up but maybe next time.
Oh, the Bream taking steak was a first for me, must try it again.
windows 7 print screen
You can see the steak in the breams mouth.

 

[S-Kippy]

The warm weather and extra water kicked the planned pike trip into touch in favour of a chub/ barbel trip trentside.
Bait was steak n mince on one rod and lob on the other.
First put in with the steak produced a good wrap inside the first half hour.
Leaning into the bite I felt a fish before things went solid.
One last heave before maybe pulling for a break had the fish come free resulting in superb looking bream. Sadly one more wrapround on the lobworm produced nothing but thin air, lovely day for it with the levels falling and a nice colour, the tidal section downstream looked even better and to be honest I would rather have stik floated there than where I ended up but maybe next time.
Oh, the Bream taking steak was a first for me, must try it again.
windows 7 print screen
You can see the steak in the breams mouth.

Are you quite sure you don't mean stake ?

 

[flightliner]

Skip, very hard to tempt bream, I needed best sirloin, anything less and I might have blanked.
Jerry's to upset just now to make a comment.

 

[Aussie Bob]

Finally got some nice weather was going to spend a good few hours round the lake but decided to do some chores first. Went out without about an hour to go before sunset the air was thick with mayflies . dragonflies and red spinners. Fishing a stimulator again on the surface got a take within 5 minutes of a rainbow of about a pound and half. Had a couple of rises and refusals and within 20 minutes the hatch had ended and the sun was just about gone. Even the black swans with their little cygnets didnt hiss at me ...

 

[binka]

Jerry's to upset just now to make a comment.

Either that or he's too busy back down that lap dancing club again

 

[flightliner]

Either that or he's too busy back down that lap dancing club again

Allmost lost the irony there!. So why the aversion to a wet slippy bream.

 

[rubio]

Might that be a silver bream?
Not sure if it would be any more appealing to some even if it is.

 

[flightliner]

Might that be a silver bream?
Not sure if it would be any more appealing to some even if it is.

It crossed my mind rubio, something about the tailfin .
If it is it would be a record I recken.
To late now tho lol.
Maybe Mark Whintle would know, he's the expert!.

 

[S-Kippy]

Skip, very hard to tempt bream, I needed best sirloin, anything less and I might have blanked.
Jerry's to upset just now to make a comment.

Blanking for Brim works for me. I've still not had one this year yet and as I spend most of the winter after zander its looking good so far.
However....there is always a chance one of the stupid things will fancy a chunk of sardine as they have been known to do. mg:

 

[flightliner]

Dont use spinners either then skip, I,ve had one or two nice bream on them in the past!.

 

[theartist]

It crossed my mind rubio, something about the tailfin .
If it is it would be a record I recken.
To late now tho lol.
Maybe Mark Whintle would know, he's the expert!.

Doesn't look like a silver bream to me, mind you as it was on steak maybe it was a sliver bream

 

[edsurf]

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Fished the Stour At Throop on monday, the water level is so low and clear,it was hard going, had a couple of chub out, and then got smashed off by something very powerful after a canny fight. Walked a lot of the fishery trying to find them.

 

[theartist]

Had another short session yesterday afternoon, actually didn't get fishing till gone 1pm but it was warm and cloudy and there had been rains so had to get out. Trouble was the river was lower than last time so I looked for deeper spots and had to make do with an inherited a nice swim off a guy who had been trotting bread with limited success, I figured it may well fish better as darkness falls although following bread with maggot usually works well so I was happy to target dace before trying to tempt any big redfins.

The roach had other ideas as I was quickly into a chunky 'bull shouldered' roach around a pound first cast and in the clear water it looked at lot bigger than it was.

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More roach followed to 1lb 10oz although taking a photo of that one without the flash up was a 'duh' moment as it was darker than I thought and a blurry, almost black photo resulted. I wasn't worried as the dace were chipping in too and getting bigger before getting a real good one at 1lb. This was my third 1lb dace this season and good reason for investing in a set of scales which show drams as each time the scales were going half an ounce over the magical pound mark. Not a bad problem to have.

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As darkness fell the barbel pushed everything else out and I managed two medium sized ones which took up a good half hour of fishing on the light roach gear but made for a cracking finale to a great short session.

 

[S-Kippy]

Fantastic ! That sort of fishing would get even me off my backside and out.