edsurf
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Nice session on a local mill stream today, lots of roach and dace in pretty windy conditions.
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Nice session on a local mill stream today, lots of roach and dace in pretty windy conditions.
peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
First dry day of the week but a chilly NE wind instead. Had to get out so Son of M joined me down the town this morning. The wind was blowing hard up the canal so we walked onto the Colne to some more sheltered spots.
Light stick floats set up to Abu 501 for me and 506 for him.
Bites came quickly for me on caster, roach and dace were sitting just in the crease far side which was tricky with the flow and the wind dragging on the slack line behind the float. We fished for about 2 hours then it switched off so we decided to koff home.
Light stick floats set up to Abu 501 for me and 506 for him.
Bites came quickly for me on caster, roach and dace were sitting just in the crease far side which was tricky with the flow and the wind dragging on the slack line behind the float. We fished for about 2 hours then it switched off so we decided to koff home.
I had 7 pike today on roach and lamprey. All were singles except this one
at a tad over 20lb.
The bonus was it stayed dry
A PS........no stopping me now posting photos, thanks to your instructions.... Thanks Binka.
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Pete Shears
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Two blanks in row whilst after pike - yesterday on a grey,wind swept gravel pit,water very clear,no bites whatsoever,today on the reservoir in brilliant sunshine,again no bites but the level had come up 2ft thanks to all the rain on Monday.Both trips turned into wildlife watching excursions - buzzards,kestrels,lapwings,fieldfares,canadas & greylags,must be mad but trying again tomorrow - frost & fog forecast - great.
flightliner
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Lower tidal trent today, in the lee of a bend today where the main flow hits the other bank.
Its a venue Ive fished since a small boy. The flooded swim some eight feet deep is normally a pebbly sandy beach turning to mud n mire in hot summers, swam, paddled and fished it with my dad years n years ago . Today the river at high tide had a bit of broth on it-- not good to look at but past visits in similar conditions usually produce fish.
On with a groundbait feeder with a quivertip, eighteen hook to a fifteen inch hooklength, a few first casts to put a sprinkling of freebies on the deck and I'm off.
An hour with souble red maggot produces nothing so on went a redworm tipped with a caster. Ten minutes and the tip pulls round connecting me to a fairly hefty trent bream that manages to get into the edge of the main flow but minutes later its in the net .
A guy walks over the field and says hes the bailiff and asks if Any fish are showing so I tell him about the bream when the tip goes round again giving me another bream similar to the first, he,s really interested now saying he's in a match there tomorrow. Anyway we start having a pretty lengthy chat about the river, tactics, rigs,catches and so on when a half hour later along comes bream number three---- its looking good--- my new aquintance , looking at my floats gives me a nice complement about the ones Ive made myself so I give him one he fancied which must have pleased him no end as he lets me off the day ticket --- how nice is that--- and him from the south--- just goes to show you never can tell, but joking aside he was a genuinly nice falla!!!!
The river was falling at a rapid rate now-- some three feet actually since my arrival and with the exception of one missed bite the fish pulled away and tho I started to cast around my three bream was my final tally-- no complaints tho--- they were a great result in the conditions-- maybe a few ounces of chopped worm would have held them a little longer but hey, I carried on hoping for more.
Around two pm I had a rendition of you take the hige road, scottish soldier, banks and breas , bonny bonny banks-- from someone far away on a pair of bagpipes!!.
Very surreal, but actually very nice!.
I wont be back untill another flood but its a super little spot in a trent mealstrom .
All in all a pretty fair week with my two trips out in difficult conditions turning up fish, better them than looking out of the living room window.
Ps-- binka, fluffed my pik --- doh! --any chance you could put the one up I sent you today please!.
Its a venue Ive fished since a small boy. The flooded swim some eight feet deep is normally a pebbly sandy beach turning to mud n mire in hot summers, swam, paddled and fished it with my dad years n years ago . Today the river at high tide had a bit of broth on it-- not good to look at but past visits in similar conditions usually produce fish.
On with a groundbait feeder with a quivertip, eighteen hook to a fifteen inch hooklength, a few first casts to put a sprinkling of freebies on the deck and I'm off.
An hour with souble red maggot produces nothing so on went a redworm tipped with a caster. Ten minutes and the tip pulls round connecting me to a fairly hefty trent bream that manages to get into the edge of the main flow but minutes later its in the net .
A guy walks over the field and says hes the bailiff and asks if Any fish are showing so I tell him about the bream when the tip goes round again giving me another bream similar to the first, he,s really interested now saying he's in a match there tomorrow. Anyway we start having a pretty lengthy chat about the river, tactics, rigs,catches and so on when a half hour later along comes bream number three---- its looking good--- my new aquintance , looking at my floats gives me a nice complement about the ones Ive made myself so I give him one he fancied which must have pleased him no end as he lets me off the day ticket --- how nice is that--- and him from the south--- just goes to show you never can tell, but joking aside he was a genuinly nice falla!!!!
The river was falling at a rapid rate now-- some three feet actually since my arrival and with the exception of one missed bite the fish pulled away and tho I started to cast around my three bream was my final tally-- no complaints tho--- they were a great result in the conditions-- maybe a few ounces of chopped worm would have held them a little longer but hey, I carried on hoping for more.
Around two pm I had a rendition of you take the hige road, scottish soldier, banks and breas , bonny bonny banks-- from someone far away on a pair of bagpipes!!.
Very surreal, but actually very nice!.
I wont be back untill another flood but its a super little spot in a trent mealstrom .
All in all a pretty fair week with my two trips out in difficult conditions turning up fish, better them than looking out of the living room window.
Ps-- binka, fluffed my pik --- doh! --any chance you could put the one up I sent you today please!.
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binka
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Lol...
No worries Mick
Here's one of Flight's heavily flattened Trent chub...
Nice picture is that mate.
flightliner
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Thanks Steve.
Tee-Cee
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Picture doesn't load for me................the usual 'can't be displayed' which is annoying..
flightliner
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Tee cee, Frustrating isnt it!!!!!!!!!!!
peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
GUC Aylesbury arm on the outskirts of Aylesbury today. A 3 club interclub match. Tring, Ampthill and Wycombe clubs involved.
Drew in the favoured middle section with a nice bush and the road bridge as features.
Pole across to the bush with squatt rig first fish a small perch followed by some roach. Caught steadily for an hour until my hook snagged and whilst shipping back it pinged out and wound itself in knots around my pole tipmg:
My punch rig for the track produced nothing so I shallowed up the float and fished punch against the bush across, bite a chuck for the last 3 hours, all roach but no size to them.
Weighed in 4lb7oz for 3rd in section, 2nd in section had 4:11 and 1st had a remarkable 8lb odd which was the top weight overall..
Twenty six fished.....
Drew in the favoured middle section with a nice bush and the road bridge as features.
Pole across to the bush with squatt rig first fish a small perch followed by some roach. Caught steadily for an hour until my hook snagged and whilst shipping back it pinged out and wound itself in knots around my pole tip
mg:My punch rig for the track produced nothing so I shallowed up the float and fished punch against the bush across, bite a chuck for the last 3 hours, all roach but no size to them.
Weighed in 4lb7oz for 3rd in section, 2nd in section had 4:11 and 1st had a remarkable 8lb odd which was the top weight overall..
Twenty six fished.....
Chefster
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Brilliant Simon,excellent net of fish,and great resultGUC Aylesbury arm on the outskirts of Aylesbury today. A 3 club interclub match. Tring, Ampthill and Wycombe clubs involved.
Drew in the favoured middle section with a nice bush and the road bridge as features.
Pole across to the bush with squatt rig first fish a small perch followed by some roach. Caught steadily for an hour until my hook snagged and whilst shipping back it pinged out and wound itself in knots around my pole tip
My punch rig for the track produced nothing so I shallowed up the float and fished punch against the bush across, bite a chuck for the last 3 hours, all roach but no size to them.
Weighed in 4lb7oz for 3rd in section, 2nd in section had 4:11 and 1st had a remarkable 8lb odd which was the top weight overall..
Twenty six fished.....
mikench
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I would have been proud of that lot! Well done!
Keith M
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I think that these are the three bream that flight had the other day on the tidal Trent.
Nice bream flight
NB: Thats if the word 'nice' can be used in the same sentence as the word 'Bream' Lol.
Keith
Nice bream flight
NB: Thats if the word 'nice' can be used in the same sentence as the word 'Bream' Lol.
Keith
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The Runner
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Another pleasure session this week (no match today, the one I missed on the GUC Slough Arm last week threw up 3 double figure roach weights) so wandered down the Colne at Uxbridge Moor again with float and bomb rods, nets and box of bits.
Gave myself a nice long walk by starting on the pollards swim aka "One below the motorbike " . Nice depth at about 3'6 to 4' even with the river as low as it is and dark water for most of the day.
Set up a 2BB stick with a size 20 Guru LWG (shop's run out of small B911s...) to 0.13 and bomb/ maggot feeder with 16 to 0.15, a bit heavier than would prefer to be on given the water clarity but the far bank here is a mass of underwater roots for the chub to find and there's also a decent chance of an unnecessarily large barbel
Not a bite for over an hour and a half swapping between stick and bomb, would have expected some dace and perch so did one of my old favourite small river tricks- give it a big handful and go for a walk.
20 minutes later after having a look at a couple of uninviting swims further down, got back to my swim and it had certainly worked- second run through float went under tight to the pennywort across and had a quick tug of war to keep the chub out of it. Won, nice fish about 4-8 or so . Half an hour later , straight down the middle on the stick and had another a bit bigger. Another two hours and nothing more, no sign of any smaller fish at all so decided to move back upstream to a barbel swim and look for one for the last bit of the day. Chub went 9-9 between them
Walked back up to just below where mate had his big barbel last week. Not a sign on feeder until sun went below the horizon and immediately started getting little taps and bangs off small fish. Ran a float through for half an hour until it got too dark to see, reasoning that if there were that many bits feeding there were no barbel down there, had a dozen or so dace 2-4oz and a couple of perch. Fished on into darkness touch-legering for half an hour, no sign of anything better so succumbed to the siren call of a pint of Pride in the Eliott...
Gave myself a nice long walk by starting on the pollards swim aka "One below the motorbike " . Nice depth at about 3'6 to 4' even with the river as low as it is and dark water for most of the day.
Set up a 2BB stick with a size 20 Guru LWG (shop's run out of small B911s...) to 0.13 and bomb/ maggot feeder with 16 to 0.15, a bit heavier than would prefer to be on given the water clarity but the far bank here is a mass of underwater roots for the chub to find and there's also a decent chance of an unnecessarily large barbel
Not a bite for over an hour and a half swapping between stick and bomb, would have expected some dace and perch so did one of my old favourite small river tricks- give it a big handful and go for a walk.
20 minutes later after having a look at a couple of uninviting swims further down, got back to my swim and it had certainly worked- second run through float went under tight to the pennywort across and had a quick tug of war to keep the chub out of it. Won, nice fish about 4-8 or so . Half an hour later , straight down the middle on the stick and had another a bit bigger. Another two hours and nothing more, no sign of any smaller fish at all so decided to move back upstream to a barbel swim and look for one for the last bit of the day. Chub went 9-9 between them
Walked back up to just below where mate had his big barbel last week. Not a sign on feeder until sun went below the horizon and immediately started getting little taps and bangs off small fish. Ran a float through for half an hour until it got too dark to see, reasoning that if there were that many bits feeding there were no barbel down there, had a dozen or so dace 2-4oz and a couple of perch. Fished on into darkness touch-legering for half an hour, no sign of anything better so succumbed to the siren call of a pint of Pride in the Eliott...
itsfishingnotcatching
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maggot_dangler
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Half a day at the pool today bit sloww for the first hour then a nice surprise one of the Chub about 2lbs followed by a couple of halfway decent Perch and a few sardine tin fillers
Not a lot but nce to get one of the Chub out there was about 20 put in but they do not come out very often at all nice fish thou .
PG ...
Not a lot but nce to get one of the Chub out there was about 20 put in but they do not come out very often at all nice fish thou .
PG ...
robtherake
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Bit of a 'mare today. Got the gear out, ready for the off and the trolley tyre was as flat as a fart. Blew it up at the garage and it was down again by the time I went for the maggots. Bother. No problem, thinks I, just dig out the Korum chair wheel kit and we're dandy.
An hour later than expected, arrived at the roach pool to find it heavily coloured and without the merest ripple. Plan A was out then - the roach definitely prefer a bit of wave action - so I went to make up a float rod for perchy (the murk doesn't seem to put them off here) and realised that my tackle box (along with my mobile) was still on the kitchen table, forgotten in all the kerfuffle.mg:
So float fishing was out, and it didn't take long to find out that the rubber stops on the used heli-rigs on the made-up rods were no longer holding fast, allowing the few roachies that were foolish enough to bite just enough slack to effect an escape. I finished up with just a few hand-sized fish for my efforts, which was probably as much as I deserved. Nice weather, though, and a friendly robin for company while life's cares ebbed away.
An hour later than expected, arrived at the roach pool to find it heavily coloured and without the merest ripple. Plan A was out then - the roach definitely prefer a bit of wave action - so I went to make up a float rod for perchy (the murk doesn't seem to put them off here) and realised that my tackle box (along with my mobile) was still on the kitchen table, forgotten in all the kerfuffle.
mg:So float fishing was out, and it didn't take long to find out that the rubber stops on the used heli-rigs on the made-up rods were no longer holding fast, allowing the few roachies that were foolish enough to bite just enough slack to effect an escape. I finished up with just a few hand-sized fish for my efforts, which was probably as much as I deserved. Nice weather, though, and a friendly robin for company while life's cares ebbed away.
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Out on a river for a change today - the Wreake near Hoby - roaming around got me 6 chub between 4oz & 2lb 14oz caught on trotted flake,legered flake,legered crust & legered worm,all in brilliant sunshine.Too hot in all the winter gear but brilliant to be doing something different to deadbaiting for pike.Wildlife abundant as always,kingfishers,fieldfares,jackdaws,buzzards,
green woodpeckers calling.
green woodpeckers calling.
Chefster
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Open match at TBF today was on Canal pool,i fancied peg 11,and low and behold,i drew it!!!After nearly 2 hours and searching every inch of the peg with pellets,without a bite,i was thinking i must be mad
I changed a line in 3ft @11m to maggot,and put a few fish together,odd F1,s,stockies,and ghost f1 stockies for 22-3-0,only had 2 fish short on maggotHowever good enough for a section win by default as runner up came from peg 7 with 43lb...Tunnel Legend Pete Hancox easily won the day with a massive 72lb from peg 16,and John johnson was 3rd with 39lb from peg 18..Back there again on saturday for teams of 4 winter league,Tight lines,Gazza
After nearly 2 hours and searching every inch of the peg with pellets,without a bite,i was thinking i must be madI changed a line in 3ft @11m to maggot,and put a few fish together,odd F1,s,stockies,and ghost f1 stockies for 22-3-0,only had 2 fish short on maggot
However good enough for a section win by default as runner up came from peg 7 with 43lb...Tunnel Legend Pete Hancox easily won the day with a massive 72lb from peg 16,and John johnson was 3rd with 39lb from peg 18..Back there again on saturday for teams of 4 winter league,Tight lines,GazzaTee-Cee
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I went today for a six hour roach session and managed 11 or 12 fish mostly in the 12oz class which fell to single red or white maggots fished at all sorts of depths. I had to change as bites fell away so it was a very busy time, but very enjoyable in the weak sunshine.
The downside of the day was lifting into a very slow bite and feeling the thump of a better quality fish. Fishing a 22 I didn't take liberties but after a few minutes it was, or so I thought, ready for the net, but the fish wasn't on the surface waiting to be slid over the edge of the net, and in the nano second of me taking my eye of the ball the fish made another surge on the ultralight and managed to find the only bit of worthwhile rotting lilly pad in the lake.
I tried hand lining and waiting for some tell tale sign of attachment but in the end I knew it was lost. Not massive by any standards but at 1,5lbs or so (my estimate!) it was a pity to lose it...I thought about it afterwards and decided it was my own fault and this because I probably played it too carefully......
All of the above was a follow up to a session I had on Saturday last in the same swim when some reasonable success with roach in the early morning saw bites fade so I whacked on two white maggs to a 20 and fished over depth in the part of the swim that I had lightly ground baited for an hour or more.
I sat watching the very slim, straight pheasant quill float (fixed top and bottom to avoid leaves) for some ten minutes when suddenly the float started to move sideways. No change in the amount above the surface, just sideways movement. My eyes are not as good as they once were so I blinked a couple of times to refocus. Yes, it was still moving, so having travelled, (I make a guess) some 12" without submerging I struck into what was a very solid lump.
The 14' ultralight arched over and all remained solid for a few seconds . Eventually a bit of pressure started movement and the fish went back and forth for a bit until I gradually bought it to the surface.
Shocked, no not really, but bl**dy surprised, most definitely, as a 2lb plus crucian lay in the net and yes, glistening in the sunshine! I was chuffed to bits as they don't make themselves known too often, least of all at this time of year.
Needless to say it was the only one caught but it made my day and I've even had a few looks at the photograph since then.
Really enjoying my early winter sessions in the chill of the day, BUT make no mistake, I shall not be venturing forth tomorrow, when the mercury will fall to -7 degrees in my neck of the woods. I'm not that brave!!
Hope to try again Thursday, though...
The downside of the day was lifting into a very slow bite and feeling the thump of a better quality fish. Fishing a 22 I didn't take liberties but after a few minutes it was, or so I thought, ready for the net, but the fish wasn't on the surface waiting to be slid over the edge of the net, and in the nano second of me taking my eye of the ball the fish made another surge on the ultralight and managed to find the only bit of worthwhile rotting lilly pad in the lake.
I tried hand lining and waiting for some tell tale sign of attachment but in the end I knew it was lost. Not massive by any standards but at 1,5lbs or so (my estimate!) it was a pity to lose it...I thought about it afterwards and decided it was my own fault and this because I probably played it too carefully......
All of the above was a follow up to a session I had on Saturday last in the same swim when some reasonable success with roach in the early morning saw bites fade so I whacked on two white maggs to a 20 and fished over depth in the part of the swim that I had lightly ground baited for an hour or more.
I sat watching the very slim, straight pheasant quill float (fixed top and bottom to avoid leaves) for some ten minutes when suddenly the float started to move sideways. No change in the amount above the surface, just sideways movement. My eyes are not as good as they once were so I blinked a couple of times to refocus. Yes, it was still moving, so having travelled, (I make a guess) some 12" without submerging I struck into what was a very solid lump.
The 14' ultralight arched over and all remained solid for a few seconds . Eventually a bit of pressure started movement and the fish went back and forth for a bit until I gradually bought it to the surface.
Shocked, no not really, but bl**dy surprised, most definitely, as a 2lb plus crucian lay in the net and yes, glistening in the sunshine! I was chuffed to bits as they don't make themselves known too often, least of all at this time of year.
Needless to say it was the only one caught but it made my day and I've even had a few looks at the photograph since then.
Really enjoying my early winter sessions in the chill of the day, BUT make no mistake, I shall not be venturing forth tomorrow, when the mercury will fall to -7 degrees in my neck of the woods. I'm not that brave!!
Hope to try again Thursday, though...
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