How did you get on?

[sam vimes]

An impromptu couple of hours this afternoon when I realised that the wind wasn't half as bad as the forecasters said it was going to be. Found the river back down to close on summer level but with the nasty peat staining that leaves it the colour of stewed tea, not a good sign. It was fairly heavy going. Started in one of my unfavoured swims rather than a banker and managed two grayling, a trout, a dace and a horde of damned minnows. Had a quick ten minutes a little further upstream for no reward before I bit the bullet and walked to a banker. I really should have fished it from the off (or gone miles upstream where the minnows are less prevalent). Managed another three grayling, a trout, a dace and a further host of minnows after no more than 45 minutes.

 

[sam vimes]

Last gasp session grabbed when I realised that the river was still dropping and, despite the fairly gusty wind, the rain was holding off for longer than expected.
Was fishing by three, had four fish by ten past. Then, as it tends to, it slowed down rapidly. Had another three fish by the forty five minute point and persisted, despite the increasing wind and rain, and failing light, until four before I knocked it on the head. Seven grayling in an hour wasn't bad though.

 

[edsurf]

Twenty six carp and four tench, Not the practise session I had in mind for Sunday but a bit of fun as the local rivers are right up at the moment.

 

[denzinho]

Yesterday before the high winds and rain hit I decided to give cheese ago as I haven't experimented with baits all that much this year on my local small River the Chew. I knew the water was coloured and up a few inches and thats kind of why I chose cheese.

My first swim had a good couple of plucks of my cheese which was a tesco stong and and punchy mature. A roach of around 10oz came to the net then nothing after 10 minutes.

I decided to move upstream into the faster,shallow..

I caught this fella just off the inside tree

He was 2lb 03oz I had caught a 2.7lb just the day before on luncheon meat but didn't get a picture due to an audience . Still very happy and nice to see such a fat gut on him/her.

After more of those "shall I strike" plucks I decided to move way down to the bottom end of this venue.
I had an eel in between moving down but another Chub came to the net which was great

Around 1.8lb

When I put this guy back I realized that for the first time I had caught 2 decent Chub from this venue for the first time ever.

 

[nicepix]

I've got cabin fever

Little Wife has bu99ered off to England leaving me with a list of decorating tasks to do that are taking ages to complete. I've only managed an hour in the garden practicing casting with a new baitcaster to get the settings right, and a couple of hours to try it out on the river while waiting for the filler and / or paint to dry before cracking on again. IF I can get it finished today I'll be off for a session tomorrow as it is a good forecast for zander fishing, i.e. dark, breezy and mild. Fingers crossed.

 

[littleal]

Fished Alvechurch today, two tiny carp and a roach.

Meh.

 

[Tee-Cee]

Decides to give the roach a rest (!) yesterday and enjoy a slower day, so I headed for a lake in Bucks where the odd late autumn carp can be had.
Arrived at the water in the mild gloom around 7.30, as is my wont, to find a fair number of fish topping with some backs and tails out of the water so it all looked very promising.....

You can probably guess the rest.............

By 8am I was settled in and with the first cast of the day made I had time to look around and take in the brightish morning. Unfortunately this didn't last as 'looking around' 30 minutes later ceased to be an option when a heavy, damp, cold mist descended on the water and the opposite bank disappeared for short spells. In the space of the next half hour all surface activity stopped and I could almost sense the rest of the day was lost, and so it proved.
Over the next five hours I fished really hard, trying each and every one of the five bait options which normally work, and apart from a couple of short 'line bite lifts' on the indicator, I didn't have a touch. The mist did eventually lift, to a degree, around 11am and a once or twice a fish swirled in my swim, but I knew I was heading for a blank. Even a nice tasty, flavoured 'banker' prawn was scorned !
Certainly the fish were there and it's quite possible they may have fed later in the day, but by 1.30pm I'd had enough and headed home somewhat disappointed, but more frustrated because the morning had, initially, promised so much....

Not all bad though, as I enjoyed a plate of quality lamb stew and some reasonable rugby during the afternoon !!

This morning I shall sort the gear and prepare for another go come Tuesday, but I shall go back to the roach, and probably end up getting cross about them as well !!


I wouldn't want it too easy..........would I ???

 

[flightliner]

Fished a lincs/notts water yesterday, matey got lost in the fog coming over to my place but we eventually arrived at the carp runs water-runs being the word- good off the rod training !!.
It was roach we were after and my mate was into some nice stamp fish from the off but a gentle breeze died away and for the both of us things died a little tho my friend was getting more of the slow sport than I was.
We were both float fishing wag n magg on largish hooks but changin g down to size twenties didnt improve things so with around two hours of daylight left I went back to a larger hook and discarded the maggots in favour of mussels for bait.
A few minutes laying on and the float buries but the bite was missed but a recast gave me a perch, then another, not big, maybe five/six ounce.
Another positive bite and I had a nice roach followed by two tench-- a female followed by her male friend-
Another good roach followed by the best of the day at 1-8!.
During this end period my friends pitch had come to life and he totalled 15lb of lovely-- almost never fished for redfins.
Just to end the day, on the way back the fog had returned and I did the same trick as matey by missing my A1 exit and had to go on to the next one- doh!!!.mg:

 

[binka]

Just to end the day, on the way back the fog had returned and I did the same trick as matey by missing my A1 exit and had to go on to the next one- doh!!!.mg:

I don't think that we would have been many miles away from you flight and the fog never lifted all day, the far bank drifted in and out of focus occasionally and almost dark by 4pm.

A typical damp November day if ever there was one.

Sounds like you enjoyed some decent sport though, not been going too bad over here

 

[flightliner]

I don't think that we would have been many miles away from you flight and the fog never lifted all day, the far bank drifted in and out of focus occasionally and almost dark by 4pm.

A typical damp November day if ever there was one.

Sounds like you enjoyed some decent sport though, not been going too bad over here

The fog was something of a mare for sure Binka.
maybe ten miles max between us I would hazard a guess.
A cathederal spire with (not on foggy days)the odd display from the red arrows in training the usual sort of diversion.

 

[stu_the_blank]

No fishing this weekend, our Autumn work parties over both days to get the lake ready for the winter. Amazingly mild still, carp moving around yesterday, less today. Got most done, a few pints and a chat on both days afterwards. Thoroughly enjoyed the weekend.

Stu

 

[sam vimes]

An enjoyable but slightly disappointing afternoon on the river. I cocked it up, fed too much and ultimately killed a normally productive swim. I also lost four half decent fish, which never helps. One was definitely a trout that smashed me up as it jumped like a lunatic, another was a good grayling that pinged off when all but played out. The third felt like a good trout but the last one was a bit of a mystery, both were played for a fair while but didn't break me. Dog chub, barbel or a big spotty thing? Very difficult to tell in a good flow. Five grayling, six trout and a bad case of what might have been.

 

[law]

I hqd a real red letter day today!
The stream I was going to fish for roach was rushing through far too fast, so I popped to one of my club waters instead for some silvers.
As per usual, for this time of year, I dropped down to a size 18 and 2lb hook link as by now, the bream have shoaled up at the far end of the lake.
I cast 4 feeders into the swim before chucking a baited one in, with a single red maggot.
First bite was almost instant and nearly took the rod in. Amd snapped me up.
Re-rigged and next cast again, had an almost instant bite which was a tench, which I lost at the net.
Next 2 fish I lost, so went up to a size 16 and 3lb line and 1 red and 1 white maggot.
Then it was fish a chuck. Bream after bream. No smaller than 3lb and up to 6lb. I didnt have ti wait more than a few minutes for a bite, more often than not,less than that. And they all fought lke mad for bream.
I fished for 4 hours and went through 2 bags of groundbait running out at mid day.
Sadly, I didnt have a keepnet, but I must have had over 70 fish (I lost count at 50) and all but 3 were big bream.
I was gutted to run out of bait!

Heres the lake when I arrived.

 

[The Runner]

Rock hard...
Club match on the R Colne at Uxbridge Moor. River had dropped about 9 inches from yesterday at the start and dropped about the same again during the day but still carrying a nasty grey roadwater colour.
Saw Peter Crabtree in the tackle shop yesterday and said that one barbel would probably win it- well, if anyone had caught one it still might have done....
Had 1-8 of bits ( 8 different species ) virtually all in the first hour, for nowhere. Sat out most of the last two hours on a big lump of smelly meat, but more in hope than expectation.
Winner had a nice net of roach though, only about 25 fish up to 12oz, all on the stick float for 7-14. Very good average size for the venue, weights tailed right off after that, 3-4, 3-0 and 2-9 making up the frame. No sign of barbel or chub anywhere.

 

[andreagrispi]

Went on the river today with intention of fishing 5 AAA waggler - the river (although it had dropped since the last downpour) was still a little tricky, especially with a slight down stream wind. Cobbled together some basic feeder stuff and fished hemp and caster. Had a couple of 4lb chub and a cracker of 5lb 7oz - good fish for Yorkshire. Capped it off with a grayling.

 

[S-Kippy]

An enjoyable but slightly disappointing afternoon on the river. I cocked it up, fed too much and ultimately killed a normally productive swim. I also lost four half decent fish, which never helps. One was definitely a trout that smashed me up as it jumped like a lunatic, another was a good grayling that pinged off when all but played out. The third felt like a good trout but the last one was a bit of a mystery, both were played for a fair while but didn't break me. Dog chub, barbel or a big spotty thing? Very difficult to tell in a good flow. Five grayling, six trout and a bad case of what might have been.

I had a mare on the Itchen last year losing at least half the grayling I hooked. Today I tried the pole elastic trick....a short [2inches or so] bit of no 6 elastic,loop one end to attach the main line,micro swivel at the other for the hooklink. Only lost one fish all day and that was one of those mad trout. Every grayling hooked stayed on. I'm sold on this now so far as grayling are concerned. Looks odd but it works.

 

[neil1970]

I went out for a couple of hours this morning to use up the rest of my maggots from Sunday.

Started upstream then worked my way down, through six swims.

Two roach, a perch, a chub and a dace, then I set off home.

On the walk back I passed the weir and decided to give that a go.

Cast tight to the sill and tried to keep in contact with the float as it swirled in the foaming water. It dipped, and I struck into a good fish, which after an exciting 5 minutes snapped the 3lb hooklength.
A loud expletive was uttered, then it was definitely time to go home!

 

[sam vimes]

Fished a swim that I have considered to be a feeder peg for many years. I invariably try to fish the float, it's my default setting, but usually have to reluctantly get the tip rod out to catch consistently. It's also been a place that has reliably produced 1lb+ grayling for me, shame that they've usually been on the feeder.

It was a very slow start on the float, the first bite took the best part of half an hour to materialise. There wasn't quite as much action as I'd have liked, but the bites were just about frequent enough to keep the tip rod in its bag. Ended up with eight trout, seven grayling (four over the pound mark with the best going 1lb 3oz), five dace (6 or 7oz) and a very welcome chublet. Only when the bites dried up completely on the float did I succumb to the tip rod. It yielded quite a few plucks and rattles but only one daft trout that actually hung on.

 

[Tee-Cee]

The Hiatus Hernia struck late last night and I ended up with very severe pains in the tube that carries food to the stomach (exciting stuff eh ?). This resulted in me sitting up for a couple of hours at 2am in considerable pain, so I was anyone's come 7am this morning !

I made do today with the excellent 'reports' of others on this Thread...

More doctor and medication stuff followed by a grim resolve to overcome the left overs of the discomfort and head for the bank tomorrow....

Looks as though it will be a decent day, weather wise anyway !!

 

[barbelboi]

Hope all's OK for tomorrow Tony - don't leave too early............