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[john step]

Went to my reservoir today as its deep and it can produce on those hot sunny days when other waters die.
One tench, one bream, lots of rudd and four carp. This was the biggest at 16.12. About time I had a bend in my rod. I must say the Shakey 1.5 Sigma Specialist are great fish playing rods.

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[Roger Johnson 2]

Got a new toy for my birthday!

And a kitchen pass for the morning so went to play on my local lily pond with it. Took with me a light lure rod and a selection of jigs, rubbers and topwaters with a hope for a black bass, as well as a fly rod hoping for a nice Rudd or two on a dry fly. I’d already had a practice paddle on the river at home, ( note to self:- don’t drift too far down a current until you know you can paddle back against it... stinging nettles, brambles and bare legs don’t mix well!), but getting in the water with steep banks, deep margins, and flippers on feet was challenging, still with no broken rods or dropped phones it was deemed successful. With the high temps we’ve had here the last couple of weeks I decided to wear trunks and bare legs and what a great decision, it was like spending the morning in a warm bath!
I started with a weedless frog lure that I could cast right into the lilies without snagging, unfortunately it also failed to snag a fish, so changed to a light jig to cast around the concrete piles and jetty of the boathouse/ restaurant, still no success. As I moved round the lake I baited a few areas with crust hoping to bring some rudd or carp to the top and noticed a point where there were fry scattering, so paddled over and every few minutes there’d be a swirl and a load of fry getting stranded on the lily leaves. I changed to a small white grub on a bare hook and started getting takes straightaway but kept failing to connect until eventually one little black bass hooked itself

( anybody out there know if “French” black bass are large or small mouth bass?), small maybe but as a first it became an immediate PB! I started whittling the lure and hook size down hoping to connect with a few more, which seemed to work. And then got the fly rod out which second cast got me a double hook up ( another first), cracked it! I thought....

after a few more biteless casts it was back to the rubber grub which was now just a tail on a size12 and a few more small fish followed and finally one more to the flyrod, but no troubling the landing net
So..... big thumbs up for float tubing, a very intimate and discreet way to fish, getting to places you can’t cast to. I’d love to get one out at Frensham ponds fly fishing for rudd, perch and pike but unlikely. Thumbs up for black bass they’re feisty little buggers and hope to connect with some bigger ones. And thumbs up for Pacific Peche for a bargain, float tube, flippers and pump for €101!
PS this all occurred yesterday but a 5 am start and a generous helping of Bordeaux Supérieur in the evening somewhat delayed this post!


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[stillwater blue]

( anybody out there know if “French” black bass are large or small mouth bass?)

Black bass are large mouth bass. Large mouth are divided into two sub-strains Northern and Florida strain, I think in Europe we have the Northern strain.

 

[bennygesserit]

Went to coppice Lane this week - got there late but the hot peg to the island was free !
Started setting up but noticed a guy three pegs down was fishing across me to the island
So I asked him where he was fishing

"To the island mate"

so I thought lets not spoil his day

"Ok I'll move down "

Inevitably I had a mare and he had a red letter day - I think he had 30 carp all about 10lb plus

He came and showed me one "look it wont even fit in the net"

I had 3 carp to 10 lb and numerous hook pulls

went home miserable

Went to the canal today with just a whip and some casters

caught about ten roach in an hour

and to be honest enjoyed it so much more than the commercial - where you measure the fun in how many carp you had out
I love catching these big fish that run the clutch


but there was something cool and relaxing about fishing a gin clear canal - with a whip



of the two I enjoyed the latter much better

I have caught numerous big fat carp I can do the hook a duck fishing any time I want

So Sunday I will be back at Coppice fishing the silvers lake
Not expecting to catch
Fishing Tom Sawyer style with a light whip and a few maggots and maybe some groundbait
and just enjoying being out side
catching a few roach
( I do love a good roach )
and simply being relaxed

 

[S-Kippy]

Just back from 3 days ( nights) fly fishing for sea trout in North Wales. Of all the fishing I've ever done this is by far the most challenging and physically demanding. It requires full on 100% concentration.

River was low,slow and looked stale. Neither of us had a fish 1st night though we both moved fish and had tugs. It rained all the following day and we nearly didnt fish but though the river had only risen marginally the pace was better and it looked fresher. More fish moving and I had a small fish of around 1-12 on a surface lure and one other splashy rise that didn't hook up. Phil blanked but also had a couple nip the fly.

Last night there were clearly more fish in the river but I think they were running on the extra water. I rose fish to the surface lure twice but both times they came short. Meanwhile Phil had a fish of almost identical size to mine from virtually the same spot.

And that was it. A fish apiece and any sea trout on the fly at night is hard won. For various health reasone ( him and me) we've not fished there together for 3 or 4 years so it was really great to be back and renew aquaintances with blokes we first met there over 12 years ago....and to prove that,despite advancing years, we can both still just about manage it.

Beautiful part of the country too. We didnt fish during the day, preferring to visit some wild and fantastic places and see the ospreys nesting on the Dyfi estuary and Cleweddog reservoir.

I am completely knackered now but what a brilliant few days.

 

[peter crabtree]

Last night I went down to the weir on the Colne in town.
It’s about 16m wide and depths range from 8’ directly below the sill to 1’ on the gravel bars downstream.

With a 15’ rod I used a 3.6g chubber float with a 3g Olivette+2no 6 droppers and set it at 8’ deep.
I used a dropper to get some maggots down onto the bottom as tight to the sill as possible. Throwing or catapulting them would see them go everywhere else but.
Double maggot on an 18 dropped in went straight down and it wasn’t long before the float disappeared and a fit perch was landed.

You’d think the float would be washed downstream by the force of the flow but it doesn’t, it just sits there in the white water gently wafting to and fro.
Loads of perch, minnows, dace, chublets and roach were down there, the bites were really fast.

As it got darker later on I shallowed up and tried some casts down on the gravels, once again good sized dace and some big gudgeon were lurking down there. I fed heavily with maggots hoping to tempt a bigger chub or perhaps a barbel but I think the bank is too high and the water too clear.
The angler must stick out like a sore thumb?

Later I was joined by another interested party...

I packed up at 9:30 before it got too dark.

This morning I saw my neighbour drive off at 7am which could only mean one thing. Chucked the gear in the car and was soon down the canal near Hemel in our Saturday spot...

As I was setting up, my gnome-like neighbour landed a clonking roach which took a fancy to his flake. For mid July it wasn’t particularly warm, in fact it was damn chilly, especially when the breeze stiffened occasionally. I also caught a good roach first chuck on maggot followed by a few chunky perch then 2 skimmers. I thought we were in for a good day but once the first couple of boats went through and turned the water to chocolate it went completely dead...

At least the first two hours were productive and I was pleased we’d started early.

Instead of staying until 3pm like usual, we were gone by 12midday....

 

[108831]

Been on the crucian lake today,had 11,one smaller one around 12ozs,all the others were between a pound and a pound and a half,plus quite a few roach to 6/7ozs.Reggie Cray got the moonstomp...

 

[Ray Roberts]

I took my wife and three grand children to Hawkhurst Fish Farm. I never take my own tackle in order to give the kids my full attention. The youngest one, Logan, is two and I set up a three metre whip for him. He caught his first fish today, a small carp of about a pound.

The two girls had seventeen carp each both using five metre whips.

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[barbelboi]

Nice one Stinger,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[bennygesserit]

Went to the local pool today - sadly we call it the chav pool absolutely stuffed with fish but also lined with litter
The council used to come and clean it up every month but they have given up

It was quiet at first and I was getting a bite a chuck fishing maggots on a whip
all very small roach but nice fish

then , on a whim , I moved left a bit got a nice "dink" and the elasticated whip went out about 20 yards
"I dont go this far on me holidays I thought"

kept the pole low in the water but inevitably the hook link failed

stepped up a little bit ( 6 LB BS hook link ) had less bites but was still catching

then the shouty McShouty family turned up from ShoutsVille and guess what it was Shouty day

so i wrapped up this would be a beautiful pool if it had a fence - its stuffed with some great fish but its also like fishing next to a landfill site - shame

 

[Roger Johnson 2]

Mrs J and I have been watching some nice perch loitering in a small slack just outside the back of the house, not a surprise with minnows, chublets and bleak in quantity, it’s an aquarium for us, a swimming pool for Molly and a snack bar for the perch. This evening I thought I’d give them a try using some mega grubs that are currently living in my wormery , ( they might be eating the worms!). Paddling out with my fly rod with fly changed to a plain hook baited with said mega grub and a bite indicator on the leader, after a few freebies it was a bite on the first cast, producing an immaculate hand sized rudd, another surprise from this trout/ grayling river. Little blighter wriggled out of my hand before I could get a photo. Rest of the evening, frustrating with several missed takes on the dray flay


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[Another Dave]

Chased a few chub round a few swims yesterday, had one on and the hooklength inexplicably snapped, watched a few more take the bait only for me to strike it clean out of their chops. It was clear they were feeding well though, and seemed to like my corn. I ended up in the drain swim, must be less than a foot deep all over but if you stand still for 5 minutes at this time of year there is always a nomad swimming through.

I threw out half a dozen grains which shone out like beacons, and decided to ledger this time and sit on my hands.





Always learning.

 

[sam vimes]

Wasted several hours in the early afternoon watching tench fizz and refuse point blank to take a hookbait. I did get a few tiny perch and a couple of decent rudd. Once the clock ticked round to about seven, the tench stopped being so picky. Ended up with six from 4oz to about 4lb 8oz. From extreme frustration to quiet satisfaction in a few short hours.

 

[maggot_dangler]

Fished the river Tern again today .

Nowt but dang Signal Crayfish so gave up and came home Still had no maggots or worms mind had hoped to get some this morning but not a hope without a 30 mile drive so tried spam Must have maggots next time .


PG ...

 

[theartist]

Back up the Severn yesterday as ever the river looked gorgeous maybe a little bit too much colour and a downstream wind made things hard. Had some nice fish but not a roach in sight. In hindsight I should have taken a back up bait but it says a lot about a river when you are a little disappointed with 10lb of chub and barbel, the missus took some great pics but can't seem to upload them so just imagine how good it looked and double it.

 

[padman400]

We need the photos

 

[theartist]

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Here's one hope it comes out ok

 

[The Runner]

Change of scenery this week as down in London- made it a Friday to Friday week so as to fish club match on our lake at Wraysbury this week, as distance to return from next weeks match woulf leave me cutting it fine for night train (and also after selling much of coarse tackle not really geared up for commercials.
Lake has always been notorious for switching off in matches- three weeks ago was the exception with 59 lb winning it and 49 needed for 4th. Back to normal today even with a holiday depleted turnout of 14
Drew peg 36 aka the Long Platform, happy with that as one of the more consistent areas although being shallow very weedy now with pondweed in clumps on the top all over the place to about 25 yards out and solid just about everywhere to my left. Set up 13' feeder rod, method to start and also pole and dibber for a gap in the weed close left.
Weed so thick that had to fish rod up to clear it as went about 35-40 yards where there's a slightly deeper gully,

Experimented with different baits on method, after an hour had a little skimmer on treble maggot but no other indications and our sec's usual ringround had that and a perch from the far corner the only fish caught so far.Kept feeding the gap on the inside (just out of shot above to the left theres a little cutting goes in about 6ft wide and twice that to its back and the odd carp often comes in for a mooch so fed it so behind the little island of reeds that you can see one end of)

Two hours gone and Ian on peg 21 on the other bank had a carp of 13-6 "on the board"- anything looking over 12lb or so to be weighed as caught and returned Brian on 42 getting a few bits, nothing in between me and him at which point decided to switch to open ender, longer hooklength and feed chop and dead reds through it. Immediately started getting a few more indications, added four little perch and a couple more skimmers in the next hour and three quarters, Derek two to my right had a bream and a tench in quick succession and with 90 minutes to go my tip flew round on double maggot and was into something unstoppable which ended up breaking me (on 0.19) about 40 yards from where I hooked it after going round the back of the big weedbed to my left.

Still no sign of anything on pole line, odd fish drifting around in the weed but obviously not feeding, one more skimmer (my biggest at about 6oz), Richard on peg 1 had two carp one after the other and a couple of tench caught on the island pegs so now needed a lump. Ten minutes to go and finally a couple of swirls next to the reeds, wound in feeder, manoeuvred pole rig around reeds and dropped it in about a foot out from their far side with three red maggots on a heavy duty 14. Twenty seconds, down a hole and the elastic (tight red hydro) was flying out. And that was when the fun started, by the time it had weeded itself and come out again twice there was a mass of pondweed on the connector so a dead weight with no direct connection from elastic to fish and couldn't get it on the surface. Went for a two yard paddle to get closer and finally with four sections in the air could see it circling slowly with another load of pondweed around its head. Thought one chance so had a quick scoop and it was there, 30 seconds before the whistle.
More fun getting it into big fish keepnet which had been drying out up the bank for half an hour. Scales came round quickly and it went 13-1

which together with the eight odds and ends in the other net gave me 14-9 and enough for second- Ian had added another carp for a total of 21-6 with 13-13 and 9-6 making up the frame.

Wildlife ? Lots of things I don't see on Skye- parakeets, kingfishers, coots and magpies....

 

[The Runner]

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[wetthrough]

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