How did you get on?

[Jelster]

Well, a magic two hours on the Colne at Little Britain this afternoon.

I took my old feeder rod (a Silstar Powerwind) a few maggots and some worms, and fished a 16 with a pair of SSG about 6 inches from the hook. I was expecting a few Perch, which duly obliged and then I moved further down and here I had a great mixed bag..

Chublets, Roach, then a Barbel, only 6" long, but a Barbel none the less, followed by a pair of Gudgeon, then another little Barbel. All went quiet so I moved again and hit into a number of Perch, around 6-8" long.

It was then time to go home and start dinner. Can't believe I had those two Barbel, first I have actually seen in that stretch, and it's great to see the younger fish are there.

 

[Roger Johnson 2]

I thought I would have an evening off from fluff chucking and have an evening sitting in the garden behind a feeder rod in the hope of another barbel or two, the evening didn’t start well, I had to wade out up to my nadgers to remove a branch from the swim, then had to go back to the house for a rod rest,(not used one since Christmas) and then clear up some litter left by a family sunbathing this afternoon , finally got a rod out and snagged up by the 2nd or 3rd cast, I was a hair’s breadth from throwing in the towel, but after a retackle had a 2 foot twitch, hooked and landed a big surprise in the shape of a 5 1/2 lb bream literally yards, or should that be metres from where I caught grayling last week.

 

[john step]

Thats some garden!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Roger Johnson 2]

Thats some garden!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks John, it’s the River Dordogne in France, technically I own and am responsible for the the riverbed to halfway across, but still have to allow access for anglers and still have to buy my own permit to fish, but for 90ish euros it’s valid across 90% of France, so quite good value really.
To say living on the river is a dream come true is a bit of an understatement! We’ve just set up a holiday apartment and currently renovating the house to offer B&B by next year, come and have a visit I’d be pleased to show you around.


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[S-Kippy]

Well, a magic two hours on the Colne at Little Britain this afternoon.

I took my old feeder rod (a Silstar Powerwind) a few maggots and some worms, and fished a 16 with a pair of SSG about 6 inches from the hook. I was expecting a few Perch, which duly obliged and then I moved further down and here I had a great mixed bag..

Chublets, Roach, then a Barbel, only 6" long, but a Barbel none the less, followed by a pair of Gudgeon, then another little Barbel. All went quiet so I moved again and hit into a number of Perch, around 6-8" long.

It was then time to go home and start dinner. Can't believe I had those two Barbel, first I have actually seen in that stretch, and it's great to see the younger fish are there.

There was an LBH organised " Fishing for Fun" day at The Britain on Sunday. My brother was stewarding. I asked him what was caught and was amazed at the reply. From the lake they had loads of small carp...mirrors, commons and crucian plus tench, roach and perch. From the river the usual suspects plus chub and barbel. I was gobsmacked as I'd written the place off years ago.

Still wouldnt fancy leaving my car there though.

 

[Jelster]

There was an LBH organised " Fishing for Fun" day at The Britain on Sunday. My brother was stewarding. I asked him what was caught and was amazed at the reply. From the lake they had loads of small carp...mirrors, commons and crucian plus tench, roach and perch. From the river the usual suspects plus chub and barbel. I was gobsmacked as I'd written the place off years ago.

Still wouldnt fancy leaving my car there though.

I was planning on wandering down to the fun day to see what was going on, but Mrs J had other plans

I have had the idea of going down there with float & feeder rods, so now you say that, I may well do that tomorrow. I have a hospital appointment first thing, but I'll head down there straight after and see what gives.

I'm going to visit the Colne again this PM and see if I can catch anything else. May take a keepnet and see what happens....

 

[peterjg]

Jelster, I used to fish Little Britain occasionally 40plus years ago - it used to be really good for crucians. On the Colne there I used to cast upstream to the small weir for barbel. Just upstream Uxbridge Rovers had stretch that was excellent for big roach and just downstream was West Drayton Fisheries where there used to be a rickety old footbridge made of scaffolding and galvanised wire where more decent roach resided. Happy days.

 

[barbelboi]

A cooler day today with ‘only’ 24C forecast (back to 30C by Thursday apparently) so I ventured out for a tench session at a local gravel pit. I’ve fished this pit a couple of times before, the last time a few weeks ago for some carp off the top.

Like many similar pits this one has gin clear water and is well covered with pond weed.The other issue is finding the fish as it is quite sparsely populated. During the last carp outing we did a bit of feature finding before leaving and found a few smallish exposed gravel patches between 20 and 30yds out from a couple of swims where the pit narrows so decided to set up there. I seemed to have lost my weed rake whilst moving three years ago and keep meaning to construct another but,as most of my time is on the rivers I tend to forget ‘til the next visit.

The first part of the day (OK, the late morning) was mainly overcast then the sun showed itself for a while before clouding over again. The first two hours – nothing –the next three hours produce three tench in a 40 minute spell – then nothing(my fishing buddy had no tench but two decent carp and three ughhhhs). Fished from 10.30-3.30pm spending most of the time sitting in the chair watching the wild life – quite a change from the normal rod in hand at all times..........

 

[Jelster]

Well the Barbel are playing on the Colne, another 2 little ones, and one about a pound and a bit, plus a couple of lovely Roach. No sign of any "decent" Chub, just little ones up to a few oz....

 

[john step]

Well the Barbel are playing on the Colne, another 2 little ones, and one about a pound and a bit, plus a couple of lovely Roach. No sign of any "decent" Chub, just little ones up to a few oz....

What a good sign for the future.

 

[Pete Shears]

Another trip to the reservoir this morning sheltering from rain on strong SW/W/NW/W wind,seemed odd having to put up the brolly and even harder to keep it pinned down,it only cart wheeled the once into the water and the wind blew it back to me.Three roach,the biggest around 10oz was the reward on a 12mm esterberry boilie hoping for a tench.
Still two egrets,four herons and flock of about thirty lapwings made it worthwhile.

 

[103841]

^^^^ are you in any way related to the “one and only Billy Shears” ?

 

[Roger Johnson 2]

Another evening feeder fishing in the “swimming pool” a gentle lob of 30 metres or so into a deeper channel where the backwater meets the main river. 2nd cast and a 3 ft twitch gave up a 5lb barbeaux, I’m thinking I could be onto a winner this evening!
I persuaded Mrs Johnson to come down a keep me company on the promise of spotting a coypu ( and that isn’t a euphemism!).
After a couple of missed bites a 4 foot twitch sees me attached to a submarine, couple of head shakes followed by a run downstream of 30- 40metres and then the hook pulled, perhaps just as well that thing wasn’t going to stop until it reached Bordeaux...................l don’t think I even swore! I hope that was a serious barbel, but not discounted the possibility of a carp or even a catfish,.
Time to beef up the tackle I think .


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[stillwater blue]

I nipped out to my closest section of river for a short evening session on the lures. The river has a good flow and is fairly deep so I was using a 3g jig head and either a 1" chartreuse kopyto shad or a fox micro fry in stickleback, all the fish came to the good old kopyto shad.



It was very enjoyable fishing, all the fish came from one swim and where caught by casting tight to the bank after the bend and allowing the lure to come round in the current with the line tight and the reel barely turning, almost like swinging a wet fly.



The perch where stunning but not massive, good fun nether the less.

 

[tigger]

I had several hours trotting today and had quite a few small chub to around the pound mark, two gòd sized chub of about 5 lb'ish and quite a number of dace.
The river was up about 6inches on the last visit I paid to it and was quite coloured, a bit too coloured for my liking really. I used a Hardy supero 11ft avon rod and it was great, I only pulled the hook out of one small fish as I dragged it upstream along the surface. Again, I took one picture of a chub on the blower but I just can't post em.

 

[Jelster]

What a good sign for the future.

Agreed... I just need to find some of their larger cousins now

 

[peter crabtree]

Final match in the evening series this evening on the GUC at Marsworth.
The series winner had already been established but the 4 runners up would be sorted on tonight's result as the points were tight.
I set up my pole and just 2 lines, one at 6m and another at 11m. My plan was to fish punch on the short line for the first hour then cup groundbait and chopped worm in on the long line and fish worm/corn.
In the event I started and finished on the short line as the roach kept coming for the entire 3hours on punch. I felt there was no need to start a new line and complicate things.
Ended up with 5lb:10oz of prime roach and a skimbob for 4th overall. This gave me some points for the league but not enough to hold onto 2nd place. I did however come 3rd in the series of 9 matches and picked up a substantial envelope....

 

[seth49]

Nice afternoon till dusk session yesterday, set up mainly for carp, one rod in the margin, and floater fished with the other, one carp of the top on dog biscuits, some decent sized bream to about four pounds on the margin rod on bacon grill.

Best catch was my second tench of the year, nice male tench of three pounds one ounce, also on bacon grill.good to be out again, after my latest problems with gout.

 

[nicholaslukey]

Fished the Trent yesterday, caught caught in a serious downpour for 40 minutes. Had a nice chub just over 5lb followed by several bream, largest just under 6lb. Nothing else till midday, when a proper wrap round occurred and I was attached to my first ever barbel. After several runs of taking line, I eventually started to bring it in. Felt like a good fish, after a few more minutes I felt I was winning the scrap. To say I was getting excited was an understatement. I got the net ready, as it swirled on the top, made a lunge and I felt a ping, and it was off. I expected to see the hooklink missing, but no everything came back. Seriously gutted, I was in the pit of despair.

All went quite after that, had a couople of knocks on each rod, but no takes. Decided to trot out the day, it was fun catching small perch and dace, and brought some comfort. There's always another day.

 

[103841]

Stunning photography, thanks for sharing.