How did you get on?

[The Runner]

Fished inter club match on our lake near Wraysbury- the place is notorious for switching off in matches and the increased attendance today combined with sun and flat calm certainly didnt help. Drew peg 8 on the road bank (2 to 6 is where most people wanted today) and quite fancied it even after chucking a bomb around pre-whistle couldn't locate any clear areas in the weed out on the shallows. Began on method feeder up against the start of the weed in about 7ft of water and fed two inside lines , one very close in and another at 6m where found a nice flat spot at about 9ft deep (Its anything up to 18ft further out before it shallows right up at about 25 m out). Anyway, no sign of any activity apart from one liner after about an hour and with half the match gone, peg 22 had had a carp about 8 lb, peg 5 had a decent eel and apart from a few small roach from the shallow bank that was it.
Quickly set up a waggler set shallow and had a look on maggot out to the weed- half a dozen roach and rudd in fifteen minutes but they soon disappeared and anyway not big enough to build any sort of weight, so switched to open end feeder with worm and caster reasoning that might be better off on a smaller bait and longer hooklength given how hard it was (this was always my banker on a hard day when I used to fish all the matches at Farlows) but again no joy. No sign of anything on pole either- also like Farlows was, if pole is going to work here you usually catch very quickly after going over to it if there's anything there, so didn't waste much time on it. With 15 minutes to go started getting some explosions of bubbles around the feeder line and then the tip went round but nothing there and bait unmarked so assume it was a liner although it didnt look like one. Two minutes to go and it went round again- thought it was a bream at first but then got the telltale backwards movement and soon netted a nice eel.
Whistle went and thought that it might be between myself and Richard Lear for second depending who had the bigger eel as hadn't heard of anything more at all. Nope... scales arrived and found that three people had had single carp in the last ten minutes ! I had 2-15. one out of frame, a tie for first both with 10-0, then 8-2 and 4-7.

 

[tigger]

I've had a few short sessions over the last week or so and have done pretty well on them all, no monsters or exotic species but plenty chub etc. Today was pretty much like the other sessions with lots of chub between 1 1/2lb and 2lb, loads of tiddly little chub of 3 to 6inch long, plenty dace and a few perch around 10 ounces. This chub caused me all kinds of problems trying to extract it from weeds at the bottom of a banking that even spiderman would have had trouble climbing, it was touch and go wether I fell in the river on a few occassions whilst trying to get the bu&&er out !!...

 

[denzinho]

Hey guys!


I haven't shared my adventures lately due to having the luxury of fishing a lot . Last week I went after pike using a savage gear dirty roach with a friend just in case I caught one! good news is I did.

The little guy at around 2lb even did the famous tail walk, I will be piking more over the winter that's for sure.

after that I decided to go to my local small river which holds lots of chub......me favourite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9cQ8ssD84&list=UUHWaL1ygctP6u2tNQbZGBow

I managed to catch this footage of the chub.Roach and dace feeding. I later nicked a chub of 1.8oz which was great.

Saturday just gone I decided to chase my PB Perch which was pretty much anything over a pound. so went to my local pond and used Prawns as bait. I knew from previous sessions that the Carp had a taste for them which explains this picture.

This was the biggest at 13lb, I had 3 at 11lb and another 3 at around 3lb. I also had 2 massive Eels!!! urg. The baliff congratulated me as well and I looked at him in disgust . Both were around 5lb for all you Eel lovers, they always make me think of tissue's....I wonder why :wh.


I broke my Perch record on this session and I loved every minute of it.
I struck into this fella at 1.8lb.

The famous dorsal we all appreciate.

I also went fishing today and hooked up a 2lb on the dot chub which was very welcome.

Thanks for reading

Have a cookie

 

[Aussie Bob]

Blowing an abosolute gale on sunday but pleasantly warm i decided to go out for a few hours. Ditching the lure / drop shotting attack i found a bag of groundbait and with a half used can of corn in the freezer.
Started by trying fishing some power bait on one rod just off the bottom and a small soft plastic lure suspended under a float on the 2nd rod . After an hour of nothing started throwing in a few handlfuls of groundbait a couple of rod lengths out in front of me. Chucked on a home made float more like a pike bung that i wanted for really choppy water like today and couple of pieces of corn on the hook. Nothing really happening started talking to a passer by and out of the corner of my eye saw the float disapear , after good fight with some aerials i landed a 3lb 13 ounce brown trout. Once the swim died down again another aggressive bite and another brownie of about 2lb which was released.
A bit more groundbait and about 20 minutes later another strong bite a very strong fish and a rainbow of dead on 4lb...so beat my P.B twice on one day and have some fish for the smoker.
I have caught more fish in this lake with corn , why i keep on spending money on lures braid etc when it has caught me stuff all is beyond me.....

 

[neil1970]

I got out 10 -12.30 on the river for a very useful center pin tutorial.

Cheers Simon:thumbs:

 

[edsurf]

Had two nice perch out of the Dorset Stour on Saturday, both over two lb .

 

[neil1970]

Thanks for reading

Have a cookie

That sounds like a lot of fun you've had mate, nice one:w

 

[barbelboi]

Met up with Simon, and another friend, for a few hours trotting a stick on a local stretch of the Colne today - 10am-3pm). No zoo monsters but manged to locate the dace in large numbers at long last, although not so many roach as usual. Also some decent perch, a few chub and a couple of gobios...

 

[David Dalton]

Fished on the lower Royalty on Sunday. Had lots of roach on hemp or sweetcorn, and four decent bream on sweetcorn after dark. All on a short pole.

When I walked back after dark, I met a guy fishing for bass. Although I have heard of them coming up as far as the Royalty, this was the first time I had heard of anybody fishing for them there deliberately.

 

[neil1970]

Good long session today with a mate.

I baited up with hemp and meat and was fishing by 5.30am.

There was not a sign of fish until daybreak, when I switched to a maggot feeder.

I had a tiny perch, then a half pounder.

Then I hooked into something decent, which snapped my 8lb hook length with one shake of its head.
Half an hour later the same thing happened to my matemg:

Then the baby barbel moved in; I think we had 10 between us until 2.30pm, and a little trout.

So nothing big but lots of fun.

 

[barbelboi]

I've a feeling I might know that swim Neil......

 

[neil1970]

Not as well as I do Jerry

 

[flightliner]

Trentside yesterday, a barbel or two maybe, but a difficult awkward stiffish breeze, bright sun , low ultra clear water never bodes well here when floatfishing is the intended method but the place was /has been deserted of late of guys trying their luck with the lead but, confidence still up from my last visit I began running my balsa swan avon along its intended barbelly route.
First run down and the floats gone but a strike is met with a solid "No, I aint budging" feeling that wasnt a fish.
A few leans back with the rod and things loosen up and I, m retrieving someething lumpish.
It turns out to be an undamaged pete drennan flat bottomed feeder, nice, useful, but not today.
Three hours or so later and my back hurts, standing on those trent rocks is pretty hard at times but stopping isnt an option, breaking rythem when floatfishing is something that doesnt help, particularly on hard days, years ago when the river was in constant use with the best of float anglers trying to beat each other in the many matches held week after week it was often the "last man standing" that took the purse on dour days when bites were hard to come by.
Anyway, the float that has been run downstream so so often dissapears and its nice to feel connected to a decant fish --- 9lb plus---- the very next run down and the floats away again with another fish thats brother chip to the last.
more effort failed to produce another fish but, considering the conditions that others seemed to be put off by I was satisfied with the result.
Bring on a little rain!!!!.

 

[greenie62]

Then I hooked into something decent, which snapped my 8lb hook length with one shake of its head.
Half an hour later the same thing happened to my mate

Any salmon in the water?
Years ago - well before the barbel invasion on the Upper Severn - we used to get these 'hit & run' takes with an unstoppable run and a ping ! Occasionally we would see a salmon jump in the vicinity immediately afterwards!
'Spose that's what happens when you're trotting for chub with a bunch of maggots in waters that contain salmon! mg:

 

[binka]

............

 

[flightliner]

There are a fair few in the Trent at the moment Greenie, I've spotted the odd one myself and suspect I've "heard" many more.

Talking to a guy in the local tackle shop and three were taken by separate anglers along one stretch in the same evening recently, from what I've heard a like for like fish, weight wise, will give a much better account on heavy barbel gear than the barbel themselves.

I look forward to finding out...

Binka, in the coming month towards days end on the tidal its pretty common in recant years to see the odd fish leaping, at the start of this century my mate had a salmon of ten pounds just below carlton village.
Two years ago I connected with one on barbel gear that saw me off, it just kept giong upstream--- completely unstoppable-- exactly the same thing as happened in the mid nineties after I played a fish for some twenty minutes.mg:

 

[terry m]

Snuck out for a few hours piking yesterday PM as it was 1st October.

One missed run (probably a jack) and one other run that resulted in a 17lb 8oz hard fighting beauty.

Still seemed too mild for piking though.

 

[neil1970]

Out today, 2-3.30pm on a backwater.

I used a 60mm perch patterned shad and caught a couple of small perch.

I also got to see a barbel fisherman's pictures of this season's captures from the same place, which made me jealous

 

[binka]

............

 

[barbelboi]

Nice one Steve, no rain of any note here - apparently Sat/Mon/Tues looks good for some of the wet stuff - still, a little thing like low levels, clear water, little flow, bright sunlight, etc. won't keep me off the rivers......