How did you get on?

[Tee-Cee]

Yes, a really lovely looking spot Mikench. If I had such a pretty looking water near me, and producing decent roach, you wouldn't drag me off it in a hurry!

Did you try hemp/tares etc as they might just reduce the bites from small stuff and get you bigger roach?? Sounds like 'teaching grandmother...but not meant that way...

Very neat tackle layout btw...............................Man after my own heart!


.........................and it's just 'down the road' - how fortunate is that!

 

[mikench]

I plan to float fish next time out and have some hemp and tarés ! I hope the roach are in the mood! I have always struggled here on the float but there is always the first time Tony!

I have walked round this lake for over 30 years with the kids and dogs and always loved it but then I wasn't an angler! " you are still not" I hear you cry!

 

[nicholaslukey]

Had another session on the Trent yesterday. Started out at dawn, and was rather overcast and quite cool. Fished on the bottom with a mix of baits for several hours, the only take was on a size 14 with six maggots attached to a 3 oz feeder a nice Perch around 12 oz. The Barbel and Chub not to be found. As the sun climbed it got hotter, I decided I'd rather float fish. Started trotting and the catching was non stop for several hours. The majority of fish were Perch, had the odd nice Roach, and Dace. Even had a nice Chub around a pound. It was seriously hot, ended up in the River to cool me down, found a nice spot among the rocks around 3 foot deep to stand in, it was lovely.

I packed in at 4pm, as I was cooked. Ended up with over 40 fish, all the Perch were the same size, in fact at one stage I kept thinking I was catching the same fish over and over. The only annoyance was the boat traffic, the world and his wife were out on the river. Some being quite sensible and keeping to the far side of the river, however despite being stood in the water, one or two thought I would like to see their shiny toys, and came withing 20 feet. *****!!!

What a fantastic sky with these mares tails

 

[108831]

I'm afraid,I'm not bothering in this heat,bloody pointless,with no enjoyment for me in the oppressive sunlight...

 

[wetthrough]

Fished the WA Mill pool yesterday. At 24 degrees I'd generally give it a miss as it's shallow but as it was set to be several degrees lower than the previous week I thought the fish might just be in the mood for a feast. It could just be coincidence but I had a great day. Picking up Roach from the start at 6am and good sizes for this venue and no tiddlers. 7 Crucians from 1:12 to 2:3 and two more that slipped the hook. This was the smallest:



Started with two very small loose balls of groundbait about two rod lengths out, loose feeding maggots far out and hemp, tares, casters and corn a little at a time where I was fishing at two rod lengths. It's the second time I've done this feeding maggots far out and it seems to have kept the tiddlers busy both times. Not proof but worth a try if you think tiddlers might be a problem. In hindsight (I couldn't where I was yesterday) it might be better to feed the maggots to the side and out rather than beyond when float fishing (assuming it works!). If you're float fishing you have to cast beyond where you're fishing to sink the line which means firing the maggots quite a long way. Something else I've done recently with the intention of attracting fish on big waters is to fire tares straight up in the air over the feed area. It's a bit haphazard where they land but they make a lovely plop when they land. Make sure there's nobody else close by!

All caught with bread flake on an 18s light gauge hook and 3.3lb fluorocarbon hooklength. The Roach were taking bread and corn. Tried Tares, casters, meat and Adzuki but couldn't get much interest.

That was by 12:30 and I'm in the shade up until then when it went quiet. Picked up the odd Roach from then on until I left at around 4pm by which time it was seriously hot.

A lovely place to fish and I've seen these grow up:



There are maybe ten or eleven altogether. Dad and one of the youngsters might be out of the picture. Didn't she do well

A great days fishing.

[edit]
I usually mention how deep I'm fishing. I've fished the spot before when it was 44" deep. On this occasion it was 33"

 

[wetthrough]

Terrific picture Nicholas.

 

[mikench]

Ditto to that ; a lovely photo! CM can get seriously hot Gordon as I know! It's another beautiful spot!

 

[103841]

Made my umpteenth trip down to the beach in hope of catching a fish. I’m told the sea needs to be calm and clear when lure fishing for bass, this mornings conditions were perfect and with a high tide at 7-30am I was there moments before.

Fished from my usual spot and cast in hope.

After endless casts trying different lures at various retrieval speeds I was about to pack up when to my far right a few hundred metres away I could see some commotion on the surface, fry jumping clean out the water.

A short walk along the beach and waded out in the clear and very warm water and the first cast produced a tug, several more followed, not altogether sure if i was catching the bottom or was it fish attacking the lure.....finally my question was answered.

A small but perfectly formed beauty, my first fish from the surf, possibly the best pb yet! Caught a further six in the space of thirty minutes, all the same size and then just as quick as they appeared they vanished back into the depths.

There was an added bonus and for me a magical moment, a school of porpoises came into the shallows, feeding on the fry maybe? The beach still empty apart from a lone swimmer, I had this spectacle to myself.

Standing up to your knees in warm water in early morning sun is a rather nice way to fish, the tide timetables will be my first port of call when surfing the web from now on, surfing being an appropriate pun.

 

[mikench]

I couldn't wait to read your post John and it was worth it! Great photo and lovely fish! It doesn't get much better than that!

 

[Another Dave]

Mini lure fishing today, out for a hot hour and a half. Managed a rather ruddy perch and a rather nice jack pike.

 

[O.C.F.Disorder]

I'm afraid,I'm not bothering in this heat,bloody pointless,with no enjoyment for me in the oppressive sunlight...

Cant you use shade effectively? Take a brolly?

 

[peter crabtree]

Inter club match yesterday on the GUC, the visitors bought a good number, slightly outnumbering us. Drew at 8 and fished 9-2.
Needless to say it was scorchio at the start and double scorchio at the end. I had no shade whatsoever but was fortunate to have a big tree on the opposite bank which cast a big shadow on the water.

Decided to fish waggler all day to give myself more scope, punch just over the near shelf to start with which can be very successful at times but not yesterday. Just blade roach and tiny gudgeon. Plumbed up the opposite bank in the shadow of the tree and concentrated on that for the final 4 hours. Pretty much the same result on maggots but at least bites were fairly constant on my 3bb waggler rig.
The bream and chub failed to show as did the big perch but I persevered in the ferocious heat.
During the final hour as the sun moved across the sky the shadow diminished rapidly, becoming harder and harder to cast into..

Ended up with a bag of bits, small roach, perch, skimmers and gudgeon for 2:2. Despite being outnumbered my team won the day on weight. Our members came 1st (11lb) 3rd and 4th in the frame.
One of our members had 7lb of roach on hemp and tares on a 4m whip.... Silly me had hemp and tares but left them in the bag feeling it was too risky to give them a go.mg:

 

[neil1970]

I was out on the river at 5am on Sunday morning; not really by choice as I woke up with a pounding headache and couldn't get back to sleep.

Anyway I wandered the banks for a bit in a painkiller induced daze, surprised that the fishing wasn't that good even before it had warmed up.

I had a few tiny Perch, and was on my way back; dropped into a swim that has produced before and ended up with this nice little fatty of 1lb 2oz

 

[nicholaslukey]

Had a couple of hours on the Derwent at Darley Park, Derby. Trotting down from the weir, entertaining couple of hours, got hammered by Minnows even taking 3 maggots on a 16. Still did manage a nice pair of Dace and Grayling. Then along came a dog owner, twice the dog went in next to me, and twice it came out and showered me and my tackle.
I held my tongue, while they ****ed around. Grrrrrr !!!!

 

[mikench]

Nice spot that Nicholas! Not fished it but am tempted next time I visit my sisters who live in Darley Abbey/ Allestree! The still water nearby is on the Warrington Card!

 

[Another Dave]

Must have covered well over a mile of river today, ended up almost in town. Had a few perch, this was the best one:



Dropped into a few swims for a second go on the way back. A pike went straight through the 5lb fluro leader - barbless hook so i'm sure it'll be fine but i only ever had one of those green twintails. Going to have to use wire from now on.

 

[tigger]

Just got back from a super session on the river. I started off totting and had plenty dace and small chub from the very first trott. I moved a hundred yards downstream and first trott got me a chub of about 5lb then plenty small chub and dace with one huge dace, it really was a monster dace!
I moved back upstream to the first swin and started to get gudgeon and must have had about 12 none stop, i've never had so many gudgeon one after the other since I was an early teen! I had a few more dace and small chub with another odd gudgeon mixed in before deciding to make a move upstream, only 200yds lol.
Never fished there before in my life so it was all new territory.
As I walked across the lip of a natural wier to some bedrock I looked to my right and only 6 or 7 foot away there was a pod of barbel hugging the bottom in about 15inches of water. I manouvered myself to a spot above them and then noticed another group of em an arms length from my very spot, they really didn't give two hoots about me at all and weren't frightened in the slightest. As any angler would do I promptly dropped maggots on their heads to see what their response would be.....******, they didnt bat an eyelid. I decided to lay on right on top of them and as I lifted up my rod tip one must of sucked my maggots in and it was on! The fish thrashed about in amongst the others causing them to scatter and bolt about but they just just went round and back to their spots. I caught the fish and and took a quiick snap on me blower and then released it below the wier in the oxygenated water, it was fine.
Anyhow, I decided to remove my float and add several AAA's to hold bottom as I drifted my baited hook amongst them and touch legered or watched them suck up it up. This worked and I finished up with 8 fish the biggest of them must have been touching the 10lb mark, if not it wasnt far off.
At one point whilst catching the barbel I foul hooked one in it's pec and nearly got it out but played it really hard once I saw it was fouled hoping it would pull free and the hook did eventually pull out....just as it was going over the net but not quite enough of it was in the net to actually land it...obviously I didn't count it in the eight fish I caught.
After that I was busy chasing the others and noticed a large barbel just lying on the bottom in a groove in the bedrock and realised it was the one i'd foul hooked. I left it alone and carried on fishing but once i'd had enough I went to look at the foul hooked fish and it was still there. I stood right next to it and it didn't move. It was only in about 15 to 18 inches of water so I bent over and put my had on its back, it was so thick I couldn't get my hand round it and it seemed to wake up and go like the clappers Lol.
It must have been having 40 winks after its ordeal.

Forgot to mention that I used the 11ft 6inch hardy marksman supero float rod today. Although it was seriously bent it was fine with the barbel.

 

[stillwater blue]

Set off to fish a new section river.



It looked chubby so started off fishing wake baits just under the surface in all the swims with overhanging cover, 40 minutes later I covered a quite a bit of water and hadn't even seen a chub . I headed back up stream fishing kopyto shads on a wee 1g jig head around any cover I could find. Managed a bakers dozen of perch in 40 minutes or so, nothing big but good fun all the same.





Just before I left the river I spotted a couple of river carp one of which was huge. I'll be buying a sack of maize in the next few days and I'll start pre-baiting .

 

[103841]

thats one helluva session Tigger!

 

[tigger]

thats one helluva session Tigger!

Yeah, it was great, and it wasn't a long session either, just packed out with action....love it .
I took a couple of snaps again but just can't post em, annoying to say the least as a pic does improve a Hdygo post.