How did you get on?

[Tee-Cee]

Jon...In actual fact she was born in Stockton Heath, Warrington area and then moved to Wigan where she schooled. Her family all came from Aintree (local builders, Aintree property company) and great, great grannie lived in Crosby all her life with her grandfather a Captain on a ship working out of Liverpool. Until recently she also had family living in Ainsdale as well, so well scattered.
One of my lasting memories will be of walking the 'new' Liverpool area with my mum in law in her 80's some years ago because I wanted to learn about that time. We also drove around the area for ages so she could point out landmarks of her youth. I loved it!

Regarding pies; My wife says her mother was bought up 'well posh' (complete with servants!) and would not have considered having 'pies' in the house, hence her lack of knowledge about them. My wife was even sent to private school in Stockport, and this just to 'keep up with the Joneses' in her opinion! A whole different way of life compared to today.

Regardless, she was a wonderful women and I still miss her to this day.......

(My apologies to Simon, as this is hardly HDYGO material, now is it!!)


ps I hope to fish Sat/Sun and will report back, just to redeem myself !!!

 

[mikench]

She may be familiar with "a Wigan Kebab"; 5 meat pies on a poker:wh

My Mum is from Wavertree and because of her dementia she wants to go back(home)!

Having just walked to the post office I can vouch for the weather( here at any rate) being very cold, wet and windy: not fishing weather!

Tight lines!

 

[dorsetandchub]

So, a mixed Kebab would be:

Steak and Kidney

Chicken and Mushroom

Meat and Potato

Pork

Fish


As the late, great Eddie Wareing would have put it, "they breed them big in Wigan...."

Equal apologies, NOT HDYGO material :whmg:

 

[fishing4luckies]

In order to bring this thread back on topic a quick report on yesterdays sneaky 'day off work' session.

Venue - Gedges Lakes in Paddock Wood, Lake 2.

A second day out for the seatbox, this time slightly less **** hanging off it - just a big long Preston Slimline tray behind me and and a (Super) tray to my left. But rest arm, keepnet arm and feeder arm and thats enough.

I decided to fish for 5 hours (simulate a match sort of thing) and proceeded to start things off with a few balls of the usual homebrew groundbait.

Hookbait was the standard double reds with a pinch of reds fired out over the waggler at two minute intervals once the bites started coming.

Skimmers, skimmers and more skimmers. A few roach, some beautiful baby Perch (one VERY fat and squidgy) making up a bag of about 18lb by the time my 5 hours was up.

I did lose some time due to a few tangles and had to re-rig a couple of times but fortunately I'd remembered this time to mark the depth on the rod with a newly acquired tippex pen, so no real dramas there.

I was going to try one of the 'Angling Times' style photos with all the fish laid out neatly on my net but.....they were thrashing around like teenagers at a rave so that plan was abandoned. (How do they keep them so still for those photos? I reckon they must be doped!!)

Not a bad day then. Fishing from the box is starting to feel more natural. I've ordered some longer legs so that I can get the side tray higher to avoid bending to get to the bait. Also it'll mean the cross drawers can open properly. Why don't Preston think of these little details!! GRRRRRR!!!

 

[Tee-Cee]

Nice report on actually catching fish.....Just a pity about all those 'arms' and 'trays', not to mention drawers, and as for tippex pens, well I just had to sit down for a bit!

.......I for one am pretty pleased the AT style photo didn't work out, as dryish fish accompanied by a toothy grin, however handsome the chappie, just too much to bear on a Friday. It is why I stopped 'taking' the AT!!

Nice catch, though...

 

[fishing4luckies]

Nice catch, though...

Thanks Tee-Cee.

I know what you mean about needing a sit-down. After about an hour of almost mechanically catching, with everything exactly where it should be (including the tippex pen) I did start to wonder if it was exactly this type of hyper organised efficiency that I go fishing to get a way from (I'm married to a German....)

My preferred habitat is wandering up the banks of a small tributary somewhere in Kent, looking like a tramp with a slightly odd looking collection of tackle and a stupid grin on my face. I normally end up covered in mud, brambles and leaves having hunted down a solitary fish. The day is normally punctuated with a bankside sausage-fest, slightly salted Canadian Coffee and a short (?) doze under a suitable bush.

Roll on the 16th of June.

 

[rich4930]

Thanks Tee-Cee.

I know what you mean about needing a sit-down. After about an hour of almost mechanically catching, with everything exactly where it should be (including the tippex pen) I did start to wonder if it was exactly this type of hyper organised efficiency that I go fishing to get a way from (I'm married to a German....)

LOL me too (symbolically at least) but what I wouldn't give for our household to be half so organised! This week I found spare bike locks in my fishing journals and photo albums drawer. I was livid I can tell you

I think I just need to get out fishing. Not been out since November, not caught since October. Serious withdrawal symptoms, but Sunday it's finally time again!!!

 

[thames mudlarker]

Thanks Tee-Cee.

I know what you mean about needing a sit-down. After about an hour of almost mechanically catching, with everything exactly where it should be (including the tippex pen) I did start to wonder if it was exactly this type of hyper organised efficiency that I go fishing to get a way from (I'm married to a German....)

My preferred habitat is wandering up the banks of a small tributary somewhere in Kent, looking like a tramp with a slightly odd looking collection of tackle and a stupid grin on my face. I normally end up covered in mud, brambles and leaves having hunted down a solitary fish. The day is normally punctuated with a bankside sausage-fest, slightly salted Canadian Coffee and a short (?) doze under a suitable bush.

Roll on the 16th of June.

I can't be doing with all that match malarkey .....lols, high speed fishing with multi tray seat boxes with all side trays and draws n pole rollers n socks n pole bar and everything but the kitchen sink and gas cooker mg: PMSL

I'm more the sought that you just mentioned roving along in the wilderness along little river systems looking for those elusive fish taking just a lightweight box to sit on, a small bait bucket, rod n landing net and away I go

So much easier and enjoyable

 

[fishing4luckies]

The thing is that with a few exceptions (bum-sex and herbal tea being the most obvious) I firmly believe you should try everything at least once.

I doubt I'll ever get into match fishing but it's another way of doing things and an excuse to buy more gear.

 

[thames mudlarker]

The thing is that with a few exceptions (bum-sex and herbal tea being the most obvious) I firmly believe you should try everything at least once.

I doubt I'll ever get into match fishing but it's another way of doing things and an excuse to buy more gear.

Yea mate I must admit I have to agree with yer on that note, I suppose at least try it the once, not the kinky stuff though mg:....lols

PMSL

 

[peter crabtree]

Pies, the pros and cons of match fishing, kinky sex etc would all make interesting New threads
Hundreds of people read this thread to read about "How you got on?"
Imagine how disappointed they may be,(myself included) having to plough through all this off topic chat.
I appreciate its the Close season and not so many are fishing but please spare a thought before posting.

If you disagree with the above I'd be happy to start a new thread titled " Why Peter Crabtree is wrong to complain " or "Peter Crabtree is a pedantic ******"

 

[fishing4luckies]

You are of course quite right. My humble apologies.

I'll talk about pies, match fishing and bum sex somewhere more appropriate

 

[Graham Elliott 1]

Back to the Millpond to try and improve on my 3.5 perch last season. Prawns on the hook and maggots loose feed.

The day started poorly with me forgetting the way and enjoying the challenge of Hereford town centre at rush hours. It's gonna be one of those days I thought.

And so it proved for the first 5 hours. The roach rudd and bream that usually give you a chance to wait on a big bait early in March were active and bob bob float was a pain.
Those first few hours yielded 6 brim to 2lb, 6 roach only one about a lb, a couple of mini rudd and 6 gudgeon on whole large prawn.

Two carp guys fishing came around to moan that they were getting any bites and indeed the Millpond was like a....Millpond.

Up the feed, 10 halved prawns by the float and at last a slide away bite and the thump and erratic dives of a perch.
Into the net, a large spawny perch looking bigger that 3lb 2oz. The guy came round to take a picture for me and I guess his frustrating day led him to get half of my face in the picture with the fish.!

Three more followed 1.11/ 1.14 / 1.15. Then quiet till 5pm.
A carp of 10lbish followed after a few more greedy bits then a long long fight of honest 15minutes as something bigger bent the match rod to its maximum most of the time. It finally gave up and weighed 19.13 and possibly was one I caught last season.

The Millpond is a beautiful 3 and half acre lake. Good fun.

No naughty bits apart from my language when catching a brim were included in this report

 

[flightliner]

Up early today and was in deepest lincolnshire fishing a lake before eight thirty that gave me some fairly big roach and rudd to 1-12 last year using mussels for bait.
It was windy and to be honest about the coldest most uncomfortable day I, ve had since the start of winter--- it was raw!!!
Margin baited up and float set some six inch overdepth with the mussel morsel attached to a size fourteen and I waited eagerly for my first bite/fish that finally came hours afterwards, no roach but a sizable perch.
By 8ne pm It was obvious that things wer'nt quite what the roach wanted so I kicked the lot into touch and went in with the feeder at thirty yards hoping something would enjoy my trying double red curry flavoured maggots.
Things changed on the first cast with a bream that was followed by others mixed with some roach that averaged some five or six ounces each.
It was pretty hectic and I was enjoying myself but the wind changed to rain and I was shivering like a dog trying to pass a bone , if the bigger fish had played ball in the first place I wouldnt have packed away so early but it was nice to get back in the car.

 

[maggot_dangler]

Well normal Saturday morning chores out the way so a couple of hours on the local canal Bit breezy to put it politely plus trying to rain on me .

Started out with a medium skimmer around 3/4lb then waited while someone made a total dogs dinner of a simple left turn in a barge the darn junction is big enough to turn a tug and butty around in but the simple left turn took 7 goes at reverse full throttle forward full throttle before they finally got it sort of pointing the right direction that totaled the swim as per usual .

Wait a while for it to settle down again then the Rudd & Roach started ended up with a nice catch of 7 rudd most over the 1lb mark and roach much the same possibly slightly bigger Oh and 1 perch that only just managed to move the float all of 1 inch long , Othger than that i had to change the float i was using because there was a horde of fry sized fish around and they were giving the white patches on the float hell so it was almost impossible to tell bite from pest . :wh ..

PG ...

 

[binka]

I was chomping at the bit to get on the water this morning, following that great afternoon session I had at the beginning of last week.

Needless to say I was waterside, tackled up and enjoying a cuppa, fuelled with high expectations, whilst I waited for dawn and needless to say that in true sods law style I endured a proper grueller albeit not without its late but very gratefully received reward.

No need to point out that I was perching (again!) with my favourite close combat tactics, the only variation being that I was float legering due to the heavy tow and I used a set of ‘dumpy’ bobbers which I made last week and which only received their third coat of varnish yesterday.

I felt I did pretty much everything right except getting on the fish as a biteless morning progressed (?) into the afternoon where my worm was taken by a typical pike bite and I hit into a fish which promptly bit me off.

Grrr!

New hooklink, lower in and exactly the same again.

Double Grrr!

New hooklink, lower in and this time I’m waiting for him and sure enough he snaffled the large worm but this time I managed to net him and retrieve all three hooks from the writhing three pounds of attitude.

All’s well that ends well.

My mate had to go into work from 4 – 7am this morning and so he fished a more local lake and we kept in touch with regular phone calls and he was amazed at the number of pike I seem to get on worm and come to think of it I am beginning to feel the same way.

And…

That was just about it until some eleven hours later when I had packed one rod away and was giving the other a last ten minutes, I had to do one of those pinch yourself moments as the 3AAA dumpy bobber, which had been motionless since dawn except for a few interventions to rebait, simply slid away from under my nose and I struck into a nice fish.

Safely landed and it was a very respectable one…



Hard going but I’m happy enough with that… :w

 

[thecrow]

As the actress said to the vicar ................. that's a fat one

 

[103841]

I was chomping at the bit to get on the water this morning, following that great afternoon session I had at the beginning of last week.

Needless to say I was waterside, tackled up and enjoying a cuppa, fuelled with high expectations, whilst I waited for dawn and needless to say that in true sods law style I endured a proper grueller albeit not without its late but very gratefully received reward.

No need to point out that I was perching (again!) with my favourite close combat tactics, the only variation being that I was float legering due to the heavy tow and I used a set of ‘dumpy’ bobbers which I made last week and which only received their third coat of varnish yesterday.

I felt I did pretty much everything right except getting on the fish as a biteless morning progressed (?) into the afternoon where my worm was taken by a typical pike bite and I hit into a fish which promptly bit me off.

Grrr!

New hooklink, lower in and exactly the same again.

Double Grrr!

New hooklink, lower in and this time I’m waiting for him and sure enough he snaffled the large worm but this time I managed to net him and retrieve all three hooks from the writhing three pounds of attitude.

All’s well that ends well.

My mate had to go into work from 4 – 7am this morning and so he fished a more local lake and we kept in touch with regular phone calls and he was amazed at the number of pike I seem to get on worm and come to think of it I am beginning to feel the same way.

And…

That was just about it until some eleven hours later when I had packed one rod away and was giving the other a last ten minutes, I had to do one of those pinch yourself moments as the 3AAA dumpy bobber, which had been motionless since dawn except for a few interventions to rebait, simply slid away from under my nose and I struck into a nice fish.

Safely landed and it was a very respectable one…



Hard going but I’m happy enough with that… :w

You're catching some good perch Steve. With your patience and dedication a great one must be on the cards soon.

 

[dorsetandchub]

Nice going, Steve. Good to see a lifetime's experience of handling munters is serving you well for some lovely perch :whmg:

 

[peter crabtree]

GUC Tring today for a match with members of another forum, mild and cloudy accompanied by a very gusty SW hooly... The first 13 pegs had it blowing broadside but the last 3 pegs were like a mill pond so I was happy to draw one of them. The downside was the wind was on my back and likely to blow stuff straight into the water.. At the off having anchored everything down I cupped in a small pot of liquy up the far shelf @ 9m and a small ball of fish meal groundbait down the middle... Started on punch and had a nice run of small roach.



As expected this lasted for half an hour before they vanished. Out on the middle rig with double pinkie and nothing doing except this ruff.



During this period the angler to my left lost 2 topkits and a no4 section blown in by the wind whilst fishing his pole, all 3 sunk in front of him mg:



My net bag went flying too but I deftly stopped it blowing across to the opposite bank catching it with my pole tip and dragging it out...

2 and a half hours in the roach reappeared on the punchline so I concentrated on that to the all out at 3:30.
Wasn't exactly bite a chuck but I put together a respectful net considering the conditions and the calibre of the other participants, weighing in 2lb:7.



No cigar but I kind of enjoyed it despite the nerve twinging conditions, I don't mind rain, cold or hot but wind has to be my pet hate when trying to fish, especially the pole....

The winner had a 7lb carp on his roach rig first put in followed by a 4lb chub on the second! No blanks today but I beat some top matchmen nonetheless.
Had I drawn the lower section I think things may have been different:wh