How did you get on?

[d.owens]

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Didn't realise you could only upload 5 photos!
This was my other nice sized common and a beautiful solid little mirror.
What an enjoyable little session at a small pond, hidden in an urban woodland.

 

[mikench]

Gordon(wetthrough) and I decided we needed another days fishing and decided on Dunham Massey Fishery which, whilst a day ticket commercial ,is on our club card. It's a lovely setting and doesn't look like your typical snake lake.

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I foolishly, with hindsight, opted to fish with a bomb rod and feeder whereas Gordon stuck to the float and caught 54 fish to my 10. There were 4 crucians in my paltry total like this.

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I saw lots of fabulous dragonflies which are difficult to photo at the best of times and with a proper camera but with a phone......! This is the best I could manage. It was purple with very dark wings.

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All in all still an enjoyable day and the rain which threatened on several occasions clearly had someone else's name on it. Cheers Gordon and I may see you on Friday at the Dam.

 

[108831]

That is a male damousel Mike,may be spelt wrong...

 

[108831]

Went today and had seven crucians,three tench,probably twenty roach from 4-10ozs and a common carp 13lbs,to put a lid on my day I had a pair of red kites doing their bonding display above me,passing food from talon to talon,brilliant.

Just to add,had all the fish today fishing 0.3gm pole float on a top two,pellet on the band(6mm),18 hook,in around two feet of water.

 

[mikench]

I love dragonflies but haven't a clue on names. Cheers Alan.

 

[108831]

It's actually a species of damsel fly,Dragon flies eat them,usually the females(green ones),trout like them too,specially the nymphs,chaffinches spend days harvesting them as they hit landfall to feed their young.

 

[103841]

My fish i.d. Isn’t the best Mike, are you sure that’s a cru?

 

[mikench]

No John. It looked like one but Gordon and I were undecided. I am happy to be advised .

Alan it had 4 wings helicopter style and behaved like a dragonfly. Here's another pic.

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[Keith M]

It doesn’t look like a Crucian Mike, it looks suspiciously like an f1 but still a good fish.

This bar of gold is a Crucian :


Keith

 

[Pete Shears]

Another early start at the local reservoir this morning,flat calm to start with unlike Saturday when there was thick fog and my only fish was a jack which snatched at a red boilie as I wound in to recast.
Two method feeder rods out and a cold breeze sprang up swinging from SW to N.Two bream of around two pounds each was the reward for getting up at stupid o'clock again.Still no blank and there were four herons bickering for the best sunbathing or fishing spot,same as two white egrets.Spotted two buzzards over the fields and an osprey paid two visits and on the down side two cormorants came and went - migratory my a$$.

 

[mikench]

I agree Keith it doesn't. Gordon and I thought it could be a hybrid or a young common. Whatever it was it was worth catching.

 

[seth49]

That’s a banded damsel fly mike, see them often by the ribble.

 

[mikench]

Thanks Keith , a beautiful insect nonetheless . Man cannot compete but we can come close .

YouTube

 

[108831]

Banded demoiselle,looked it up,did spell it wrong...

 

[103841]

Enjoyed a visit to the estate for the first time in a week or two. Seems so intimate and tranquil compared to the vastness of Stonar lake where I fished a few days ago.

What’s also so very different is the diversity of the stock, I’ve never caught anything really small out of Stonar, nearly everything needs netting. The estate however, is full of tiny Rudd and skimmers which makes getting to the better fish a lot more difficult, today was no exception, putting on a large bait doesn’t do the trick, the Rudd still manoeuvre it around keeping the float active all the time, this lake would benefit so much from a netting and reduction of smaller fish, but that’s never going to happen.

Did eventually manage a nice tench and a lovely crucian, I think it’s a crucian!

 

[108831]

Certainly is a cru.

 

[Keith M]

Looks like a Crucian to me too, and a nice male tench.
I love fishing estate lakes like this.

Keith

 

[bracket]

Fished a small three lake complex yesterday which now contains solely tench and pure strain crucians. The crucians are a recent stocking and are around hand size but coming on well. After two sessions on the Rivers I was due a sit down so plonked my box on this peg:


About six foot deep off the lily pads at around 9-10m on the pole. The more observant of you will have noticed that the date on the picture does not match yesterday. This is because, as I wrote in a previous post, I dropped my camera into the drink and I am using My Lady's which appears to need the date and time resetting. I fished expander pellet on a 16 hook and a 0.75g float shotted with No 10 Stoz all strung on the last 2ft 6" to deck it quick. First put in produced this:



Thank you very much. There then followed a succession of the main quarry:


A beautiful little pure strain crucian. The next two hours produced a run of crucians, interspersed with the odd 2-3lb tench. At the end of the 3 hour session I had a good rhythm going and everything was ticking nicely. Forty six fish recorded on the clicker, used up the last of the pellet, time to wrap up and go. Well satisfied, you don't need to catch big fish to be happy. Pete.

 

[103841]

My idea of fishing heaven Pete, just tench and cru’s, lovely.

Going to be even better as the years roll on and they gain weight.

 

[S-Kippy]

Back on the local water today after the big tench.

More of a social trip than a serious go...the BF was on the water about 8 am and i strolled down about 2-ish after sorting everything out from yesterday. He'd had a few liners and a few perch and just the one tench at 6-9. I dropped in next to him and also had a few liners but no proper bites. The BF lost a lump mid afternoon that got its head in a snag....he says big tench but I am more inclined to think carp. Either way it got off.

Phil packed at 4-30 with mo more fish....I hung around a bit longer as I felt like I'd only just got there. Had a perch around 1-4 before my only one proper bite...tench of 5-12 before packing up to get home in time for the WWC semi.

Speaking of which can anybody who saw it tell me why the USA defender that clipped Ellen White's shooting leg for our penalty wasn't sent off ? If that wasn't a clear goalscoring opportunity I dont know what is. Pity there's no football equivalent of rugby's " penalty try".