How did you get on?

[neil1970]

Last week I was on holiday in Lyme Regis, and naturally fitted a few fishing trips in while there.
First session was down the Cobb, the water was murky and I managed a single Blenny.

A day or so I decided to walk a couple of miles down a very rocky beach and fish the ledges at low tide.
I blanked and must admit I had a very unenjoyable walk back in the dark, managing to fall over twice on the way home....won't be doing that again in a hurry! mg:

Third session saw me reeling in a seagull from quite a height, and having to try and look what I was doing when untangling it in front of a good few spectators on the beach. An unpleasant experience for both of us.

Last session was the most enjoyable when a mate drove an hour up from Devon to fish the Cobb again.

mg:

 

[neil1970]

 

[103841]

An eventful holiday Neil!

 

[bullet]

Some nice looking ground there, Neil.
Nice to see a Patch 125 500g on the lure rod as well!

 

[The Runner]

Any sign of mullet around the Cobb, Neil ? Long time ago that I fished it , but had a few fishing at half depth with little bits of mackerel flesh on an 8 or 10.

 

[rich66]

Early start this morning fishing at 7am, had plans for the afternoon but wanted to make the most of my last few days of holiday.
Float fished about 3 foot out from a patch of reeds on my left. Sweetcorn from the off, plenty of fizzing and bubbles the odd tremble but kept me waiting for an hour when finally my float slipped away gracefully. Struck into what I thought was going to be a tench but as the fight progressed it was obvious it was a carp too much stamina for a tench, led me a right merry dance around my swim & almost under the ropes we have across the lake. Come back you devil I thought with my rod low to the water getting plenty of side strain on. Clutch kept slipping I dared not tighten it anymore! A Finger applied just a touch more tension, last minute run when the net was spotted ! Banked a lovey looking mirror carp, no idea of the weight nothing outstanding but one good fight.
Pretty sure the reason I was not getting many bites I think was my bait was sitting on the weed rather than the lake bed, so the fish where picking up my free offerings most which I think would filter through to the bottom. Something for me to think on.
After that had a couple of runs on the helicopter rig but nothing to connect with, finally connected with something and my 6lb hooklength just gave straight away. They love mussel meat on this lake.
Back on the float swapped to prawns had a couple of perch in between the heavens opening up on me. Last one was just scraped a pound so best one this year. Nearly lost that one with a careless dip of my landing net but fortunately the hook was still firm and I managed to get it straight back in the net !
Packed up at 11:30 had a quick chat with a few other anglers. And made my merry way home. A good day

 

[S-Kippy]

I was all set for another go at the crucians today but a call from the BF yesterday put the kibosh on that.....he went down on Friday and never had a bite ! This lake is known for suddenly switching off completely and by all accounts it switched off around Wed evening...just as I was packing up. Since then barely a fish has been caught...one bloke had been there for 2 nights and between him and his mate they'd only had a single crucian.

So....I had to rapidly think of something else to do and somewhere else to go, deciding on a bit of gentle carping on the clubs "runs" water. Nothing too serious and nothing too complicated.

Arrived to find the lake deserted which is unheard of for this place but nothing on the website to say it was closed. Picked a corner that the wind was blowing into and fished just one rod....a gentle lob across to a tree. Got off to a flying start with a fish of 15lb 2oz first chuck and caught steadily all afternoon. I had 11 fish with 2 lost. Smallest fish was about 9lb and the biggest went 18lb 1oz with backups of 16-2 : 15-8 : the 15:2 and one of 14-14. Mostly fully scaled commons but two of the smaller fish were mirrors. Packed about 6-30 having arrived around midday so not a bad return for an afternoons work.

Had one fish which pulled like a horse and fought the hardest by some distance. On the scales it went 10-8 but if I'd lost it I'd have sworn it was double that. Long and lean...bit of the look of the wildie about it.

I dont do this very often so this made a very pleasant change and I'm still catching. This can't last.....I feel a blank winter coming on !



A chunky 15-8



18lb 1oz



The mad 10 pounder.

I confess to using boilies today. Some spicy shrimp ones I found in the freezer which needed using up and Sticky Bait's manilla. Both caught.

 

[mikench]

That is an excellent group of fish. I'd be happy with any of them.

 

[nottskev]

I had a blank with comical aspects on Friday, so I was hoping things would improve today. I had a particular swim in mind, but it was 50/50 if the river would have gone down enough to let me get at it. I left the gear in the car and went to look. After slipping and sliding 200m along a path recently underwater, and finding I'd have to walk through a section that still was, I gave up on that one.

Instead, I went to the other extreme and installed myself in a comfy swim with the car 10m away. The two anglers on the far bank didn't mind - I checked - and the river is so wide at this point you could have an angler on each bank and one in the middle of the river (if he could stand up in the flow) without any being hampered.

Fishing over an eddy to the edge of the fast water, I started with just a punched meat hookbait on a bomb, and tried a few different spots. This got me one bite in half an hour- a decent chub that I left in the landing net in the water while I found my phone to take a pic. Which is why there's no pic.

I was really after barbel, so I put on a 40g feeder and fed pellets upstream with a catty.
Feeding them seemed to do the trick, and I had five over the next two hours between 5 and 7.30. The only drawback was that the bottom was a bit rough, and I had to tie up a new hooklength after each fish.

 

[rich66]

Some lovely looking fish coming out !

 

[108831]

Great stuff Kev.

 

[neil1970]

Any sign of mullet around the Cobb, Neil ? Long time ago that I fished it , but had a few fishing at half depth with little bits of mackerel flesh on an 8 or 10.

There was a bloke float fishing there whom had one on a tiny bit of brown mackerel flesh (he said they won't take the white flesh) He had a gilthead bream as well

 

[theartist]

Didn't have much time to spare so I went on the canal near home for a few hours this morning, it was long enough to catch one of these....

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and two of these....

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Plus the usual smaller bits and bobs, it was a short but fun session

 

[peterjg]

I'll say yet again - canal fishing is just so under rated!

 

[theartist]

I'll say yet again - canal fishing is just so under rated!

Sure is, I'm lucky to have some good bits near me, lost count of the number of perch over a pound I've had this year and they don't half go well, throw in the good roach and bream plus the odd chub it's a whole lot of fun on simple float gear

 

[Pete Shears]

A brisk SW breeze made it feel cool at the local reservoir this morning,3 carpers on the opposite bank and all of them up and about which is unusual,they don't emerge until after 10am on a normal day.
Two method feeder rods out with little action so set the float rod using corn and connected with a few roach,even had a pike chase the sweetcorn in.A kingfisher flew past whistling then a leger rod was away but nothing on the strike.Had a few more roach on the float but those bites stopped . .pike again?
Off went the leger rod again this time I connected with a battler of a tench,male 4lb 7oz. Half an hour later off again,another male tench 4lb 11oz.Everything went quiet,a kestrel flew by and the same rod went again resulting in a pristine roach of 1lb 3oz - all 3 fish on a small fruity pop up boilie - wirth getting up early for.

 

[bullet]

There was a bloke float fishing there whom had one on a tiny bit of brown mackerel flesh (he said they won't take the white flesh) He had a gilthead bream as well[/QUOT

The brown stays on the hook much better, it's much harder for them to peck off, especially when fresh.

 

[John Keane]

Usual day, usual time, usual lake, half-decent result.

We sought out a couple of pegs on the shaded, leeward side of the lake and I proceeded to set up an in-line bomb with a 15” banded hair rig and an 8mm hard carp pellet. In order to not lose my rod every time I turned away (or fell asleep) I set it up with a 2500 Baitrunner and a small alarm. I love this dinky little alarm, a Wychwood Signature, it’s around a third of the size of a Delkim and costs £19.99.

Anyway, long story short, it had an extensive workout, starting with a very fit barbel (not fussed on barbel in stillwaters, but these seem to be thriving) and progressing through various F1’s and mirrors concluding with a clonking F1 of around 5lb.

My mate couldn’t get a fish for around four hours and then came up with a dozen from 2:30 to 3:30 at which point we went home, having decided that next week we’d fish the evening from around 3:00 till dusk. I’m saving crusts to fish some floaters with my new Darent 0.75lb Specialist Rod if the solitary, resident Mediterranean Gull doesn’t dive bomb them all like he did today with my mate’s experimental dog biscuits.

 

[The Runner]

Decided on a trip to the mainland today, from the rocks near Eilean Donan castle. Had fished it in winter for only a couple of fish but worth a go at this time of year and also reputed to be a good spot to replenish mackerel supplies which stood at one packet from Morrisons and three smallish ones caught two weeks ago on Loch Portree (didn't think two hours flinging a string of feathers around for little reward was worthy of a HDYGO...)
Wet murky day when left Portree but clearing as soon as over the bridge and not too bad at Dornie although with the calm and damp the midges were out in force.
Looking back to Eilean Donan

and across the loch to Ratagan

Remembered from last time here that a horrendous ledge about 40 yards out needing a long chuck to clear it on the retrieve, wasn't sure would be able to hold at long range as tide running strongly so settled for a lazy lob of 25-30 yards which still put me in at least 40 ft of water, pulley rig and mackerel strip on a 1.
4oz lead getting pulled round against inside ledge and rocks, lost whole rig first put in, ditto 5oz so up to 6 and it held. Missed the first two bites but then an hour either side of high water it was pretty much non stop, bites often as soon as hit bottom. Nothing massive but decent enough, mostly coalies with a few pollack


Biggest I had probably went about a pound and a half. Slowed down as the tide ebbed and the water stopped moving (flood runs up my side of the loch, ebb after a while seems to form a huge area of slack where I fished) but added a few more coalies and a couple of small codling; ended up with twenty-odd coalies and five or six pollack. And nearly forgot, in the middle of all the action had this little chap, shortly to appear on the mini species challenge...

Mackerel ? Had a few goes with feathers when the action slowed but not a sign.

Not much wildlife, as to be expected with the A87 fifteen yards behind me, a couple of seals hanging around most of the day and one raven overhead. A few drones overhead as well... as was fishing in front of the last lay-by before Eilean Donan had a constant stream of visitors, and I think I am in the foreground of about 20 people's holiday snaps of the castle...

 

[seth49]

Just a quick report today, out with mick before he has an operation on his hand, which will stop him fishing for at least ten days, Day started badly when mick arrived half an hour earlier than our agreed time of five fifteen am, I’d only just gone downstairs to get ready, so no brew or breakfast, just loaded his car and away we went.

Arrived at fishery to find two cars on car car park, so we had a good idea the pegs we wanted would be occupied, which they were, so plan b I let mick have the best one that was left, and I went to one that I’d caught most of my tench from, very slow start, had carp in margins but no takes of them.

There was a bit of a diversion when micks brother Charlie started cursing, as he’d put his pole down for something and a carp charged off with it, tried to cast over it as it went out into the middle of the lake, but didn’t manage to hook it, Charlie set of in pursuit of it, but came back later to say that his pole had sunk out of sight, and it looked like he’d lost it.

An hour or so later mick walked up to say, that a pole float was on the surface below were he was fishing, so Charlie went to have a look, and came back saying he thought it was his, and he would try and hook it with his other rod, came back saying it was under some trees and he couldn’t cast to it.

So I wound in and took my rod to have a look, it was awkward, but there was a clear gap about three foot wide out to the float, so at the second attempt,I managed to drop the feeder over it, slowly wound in and hooked the line and managed to retrieve his pole, minus the carp.

So he was well pleased with this, as I’d saved him the expense of buying a new pole.
Fishing was really slow, managed one carp and two bream, mick had eight carp in the swim I let him have :dejection::
Ah well, three trips on my own now while mick recovers, so I’ll try and pick some good swims, out again tomorrow, somewhere different I think.