mikench
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It sure wasn't love at first bite.
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Had a lovely day stick float fishing on the lower reaches of the River Hull today. Aimed to fish either side of low tide and found it alot lower than I expected , usually have around 10ft in this swim and it was down to 7 and still running off, lovely emerald colour to it though so I had high hopes.
First put in onto a nice roach then followed a decent stamp of roach and perch at 6oz/8oz. After an hour and about 10lb it went dead for all of about 10 minutes and I struck into something better, as it surfaced I though wow big roach, but then I saw that big mouth and new it was my first proper chub, about 14oz. Next hour I had 10 of these beauties the biggest going 1lb 4oz. At this point the tide had turned and water had already come up a metre in 40 mins. Stayed another hour taking the odd roach, best of which went 13oz .
Pic of biggest roach and biggest chub.
First put in onto a nice roach then followed a decent stamp of roach and perch at 6oz/8oz. After an hour and about 10lb it went dead for all of about 10 minutes and I struck into something better, as it surfaced I though wow big roach, but then I saw that big mouth and new it was my first proper chub, about 14oz. Next hour I had 10 of these beauties the biggest going 1lb 4oz. At this point the tide had turned and water had already come up a metre in 40 mins. Stayed another hour taking the odd roach, best of which went 13oz .
Pic of biggest roach and biggest chub.
sam vimes
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A nice evening session on the gravel pit. Hordes of small perch on the maggot saw me resort to sweetcorn. Thankfully, that was enough to give the tench a look in. 4lb 8oz and 4lb 10oz.
neil1970
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Popped out at dusk for 1/2 an hour...thought I was going to blank until I hit upon a little shoal.
mikench
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Had those perch been courtmarshalled Neil; no stripes.
steve2
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Went to a club lake, first time out for a couple of months. I had a good day best thing was I left most of my gear at home and just took a rod, a Rapidex centrepin and some bait. Set up a pole rig and fished just off the rod tip in 3ft of water. Had perch to a 1lb, bream to 2lbs and plenty of roach. Fished worm and Decathlon Caperlan soft hook pellets.
Keep this and I might get out again before Christmas.
I was the only on the lake not fishing for carp and there were plenty being caught to over 20lbs.
Made me realise just how easy carp are to catch in some waters these days and when a 20lb carp use to be a big fish not just avarage.
Keep this and I might get out again before Christmas.
I was the only on the lake not fishing for carp and there were plenty being caught to over 20lbs.
Made me realise just how easy carp are to catch in some waters these days and when a 20lb carp use to be a big fish not just avarage.
S-Kippy
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The BF was still smarting from his ignominious blank down on the club crucian lake so it was up and away at silly oclock again to see if it had switched back on again. Great plan but it dont count for diddly if you turn up before its properly light to find just about every swim occupied ! It really is getting ridiculous down there....there must have been 15 blokes bivvied up of which I reckon only 2 were proper full on carpers.
There seems little point getting up early when virtually every swim is already occupied before you went to bed. No wonder the fish have switched off....the place is getting hammered. You can imagine how the BF was when I rang and told him.
So...plan B was launched which was to fish one of the adjacent Marsh Farm lakes. Though on the club book these can be fished on a day ticket. We've never done any good when on a DT and we havent fished it since joining the club so it was all set to be an interesting day. The lake we chose was very quiet and looked gorgeous with rushes and lilies in virtually every swim....proper crucian water.
Couldnt buy a bite on the float so out with the lead lobbing it just short of an island. The BF was away first with a schoolie tench which I trumped with a crucian bang on 2lb about 10 mins later. Things then started to follow a familiar pattern....he sat biteless while I was picking up fish here and there...and bar one tench they were all crucian. He was almost speechless. After 6 fish between 1-14 and 2-4 I decided to rest the feeder line and try the float again. There seemed to be a bit of a ledge about 2 foot past the lilies where it was a bit deeper so I pushed the float up and fished the bottom of that ledge. Within a minute I'm in again and its another crucian and the best of the day at 2-6. Next chuck I had another a few ounces smaller before the bites petered out in the bright sun. The BF did manage a crucian of about a pound and lost another tench. I finished with one tench and 8 good crucian off the next peg. My current purple patch continues. It surely cannot last.
Back on the big crucian lake people were packing up and going home fishless so in a way the fact that it was rammed this morning worked in our favour...or in mine at least. Not as big as in the other lake but I will never ever turn my nose up at a 2lb crucian...they are just the most gorgeous looking fish.
I am completely sold on rubber corn now. Once again it accounted for all my feeder caught fish with real corn doing for the 2 fish I had on the float.
There seems little point getting up early when virtually every swim is already occupied before you went to bed. No wonder the fish have switched off....the place is getting hammered. You can imagine how the BF was when I rang and told him.
So...plan B was launched which was to fish one of the adjacent Marsh Farm lakes. Though on the club book these can be fished on a day ticket. We've never done any good when on a DT and we havent fished it since joining the club so it was all set to be an interesting day. The lake we chose was very quiet and looked gorgeous with rushes and lilies in virtually every swim....proper crucian water.
Couldnt buy a bite on the float so out with the lead lobbing it just short of an island. The BF was away first with a schoolie tench which I trumped with a crucian bang on 2lb about 10 mins later. Things then started to follow a familiar pattern....he sat biteless while I was picking up fish here and there...and bar one tench they were all crucian. He was almost speechless. After 6 fish between 1-14 and 2-4 I decided to rest the feeder line and try the float again. There seemed to be a bit of a ledge about 2 foot past the lilies where it was a bit deeper so I pushed the float up and fished the bottom of that ledge. Within a minute I'm in again and its another crucian and the best of the day at 2-6. Next chuck I had another a few ounces smaller before the bites petered out in the bright sun. The BF did manage a crucian of about a pound and lost another tench. I finished with one tench and 8 good crucian off the next peg. My current purple patch continues. It surely cannot last.
Back on the big crucian lake people were packing up and going home fishless so in a way the fact that it was rammed this morning worked in our favour...or in mine at least. Not as big as in the other lake but I will never ever turn my nose up at a 2lb crucian...they are just the most gorgeous looking fish.
I am completely sold on rubber corn now. Once again it accounted for all my feeder caught fish with real corn doing for the 2 fish I had on the float.
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Hello S-Kippy,we spoke briefly on Johnsons this morning,before you departed for Harris,good move mate, could it just did not happen today Johnsons.I packed up at 13.00 without a bite.
Cheers Dave
P.S say hello to Dave the driving instructor for me hope he,s keeping well & catching.
Cheers Dave
P.S say hello to Dave the driving instructor for me hope he,s keeping well & catching.
The Runner
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Wind strength and direction today meant that there could have been some H & S issues with the swell at all the usual pollack marks so decided to have another look to see if the wrasse had turned up along Scorrybreac. Good tide for it, 7pm high, so went to dig some bait at lunchtime. Hard work after a lot of rain, don't know if the fresh water had sent the worms deeper but only got 20 lug in 60 minutes rather than the usual 30 in 30. No rag in the usual spot either so bulked the worms out with some mussels, and home for some lunch and walked out to the usual spots for half tide.
Standard view with added rainbow
and added cruise ship
Worm on the out rod, mussel down the inside against the kelp, nothing happened apart from keeping the crabs fed for an hour and a half but then finally started getting the odd bite at about 70 yards- ended up with 4 codlingettes like this
and one cast produced a mixture all on one hook, dab, crab and spag…
Had two other dabs a little bit bigger, never had a thing on the inside other than a couple of crabs. No idea where the wrasse have got to.
Will check wind again in the morning as if it stays turning West it could flatten the swell at Staffin or East side of Aird.
Strong winds had up to 4 ravens at a time practicing their acrobatics over the crag behind me, and had an otter pop up about 20 yards out and look me over for a few seconds
Standard view with added rainbow
and added cruise ship
Worm on the out rod, mussel down the inside against the kelp, nothing happened apart from keeping the crabs fed for an hour and a half but then finally started getting the odd bite at about 70 yards- ended up with 4 codlingettes like this
and one cast produced a mixture all on one hook, dab, crab and spag…
Had two other dabs a little bit bigger, never had a thing on the inside other than a couple of crabs. No idea where the wrasse have got to.
Will check wind again in the morning as if it stays turning West it could flatten the swell at Staffin or East side of Aird.
Strong winds had up to 4 ravens at a time practicing their acrobatics over the crag behind me, and had an otter pop up about 20 yards out and look me over for a few seconds
flightliner
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A day on the Trent yesterday, a little extra fresh water but the levels were good. I chose a swim that looked smooth and ended with it flowing a little slower so went in with pellet bait and a feeder. Big mistake, it was a snagpit that cost me two feeders in the first hour so I upped sticks and moved further down by three swims.
First throw a boat comes piling thro at daft mph on what was a sandbar covered with 24" of water, how he didn't ground was a mystery , oh well, maybe said good thing as if he did come to ground I would have to move again.
Two friends turned up and I spent the next hour chatting but time (and a change of tide) was pressing and I carried on an hour later hoping for a result in the next and last two hours available.
It was a deep lazy swim and in the next hour and a few minutes I had seven good Bream before they mysteriously decided to move elsewhere or wait until dark, a puzzle as always but I had done ok , so happy with the relatively short day out I headed back home on the A1.
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First throw a boat comes piling thro at daft mph on what was a sandbar covered with 24" of water, how he didn't ground was a mystery , oh well, maybe said good thing as if he did come to ground I would have to move again.
Two friends turned up and I spent the next hour chatting but time (and a change of tide) was pressing and I carried on an hour later hoping for a result in the next and last two hours available.
It was a deep lazy swim and in the next hour and a few minutes I had seven good Bream before they mysteriously decided to move elsewhere or wait until dark, a puzzle as always but I had done ok , so happy with the relatively short day out I headed back home on the A1.
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rich66
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Grabbed 1/2 pint of maggots as I fancied an evening by the bank float fishing for roach. I was catching at different heights in the water column.
Need to take more maggots next time, ran out by 8. So I switched to pellets and had nothing.
Always pleased to see a crucian and a tench, plus I got a few roach too.
Need to take more maggots next time, ran out by 8. So I switched to pellets and had nothing.
Always pleased to see a crucian and a tench, plus I got a few roach too.
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Hello Dave, good to see you again this morning....glad I went on Harris now. I will certainly remember you to Big Dave when I see him next.
sam vimes
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Back to the gravel pit for another go. Hordes of tiddly perch, one roach, a couple of tench (3lb 8oz and 4lb 5oz) and a real surprise with four proper eels. I only weighed the first, which I suspect was the biggest, but the other three weren't far behind. It was 2lb 4oz. Probably the first eels I remember catching in the better part of twenty years.
3lb 8oz.
4lb 5oz.
2lb 4oz.
3lb 8oz.
4lb 5oz.
2lb 4oz.
Two months into the season and I've still not fished for anything except barbel and chub. I won't keep this up for long, but I've noticed that my understanding of how they behave as the river goes up and down like a yoyo has increased. Sunday evening, there was still 18" on and a good colour. A mate who can't catch a cold at the moment suggested we fish together to boost his confidence, and we were sat 15 yards apart. But when your luck's out, your luck's out and fishing 4 til 7.30, I ended up with 8 barbel to his none. At 6.30 he came and sat on my box while I drank tea and provided encouragement. After a fishless half-hour, he went back to his chair, Before he'd sat down I was playing another barbel. Neither of us knew what to say. (Although he might have muttered something.)
Tuesday evening the river had shed most of the extra water, and the colour had largely dropped out, so instead of a feeder with smelly groundbait I opted for a light bomb fished close in over some baitdroppered hemp and caster. I has a 2lb chub after a few minutes, followed by a barbel
Followed by a spell of cat and mouse with chub. I was using hair-rigged punched flavoured meat on the hook - it's gone down well with the barbel this year - and the chub were managing to chew it off without getting hooked. After a rummage in the bait bucket, I swapped the meat for a couple of Source mini boillies and cast to a different part of the swim. I'd hardly put the rod down when pulled it over
I bought myself some scales a few weeks ago, and this one seemed worth weighing. It went 12lb 12oz and looked like a fish that had scope to grow even bigger.
Tuesday evening the river had shed most of the extra water, and the colour had largely dropped out, so instead of a feeder with smelly groundbait I opted for a light bomb fished close in over some baitdroppered hemp and caster. I has a 2lb chub after a few minutes, followed by a barbel
Followed by a spell of cat and mouse with chub. I was using hair-rigged punched flavoured meat on the hook - it's gone down well with the barbel this year - and the chub were managing to chew it off without getting hooked. After a rummage in the bait bucket, I swapped the meat for a couple of Source mini boillies and cast to a different part of the swim. I'd hardly put the rod down when pulled it over
I bought myself some scales a few weeks ago, and this one seemed worth weighing. It went 12lb 12oz and looked like a fish that had scope to grow even bigger.
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seth49
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Out early again yesterday, away at four twenty, half a mile on my way and the heavens opened, and it rained heavily all the way to the fishery, o well I’m on my way I’ll see what it’s like when I arrive, luckily five minutes wait and it stopped, at least I was the first there.
At the peg I wanted at least, so set up, usual barbel rod and pin for the margin, and tip rod and fixed spool for across, both with method feeders, filled with soaked two mm pellets, and either chocolate orange wafters, or eight mm robin red pellets on the hair.
It was a bit slow today, but there had been a lot of overnight rain which never helps , but I was getting a few carp, although I seemed to be loosing about half of the fish I hooked, just came of mid play.
Any way I landed nine carp and one bream, but easily lost as many more, at least it stayed fine, apart from one shower, felt cool for August, I kept my coat on all day, certainly not T-shirt weather, back to my other fishery tomorrow, fancy a change from carp, will have a go for the silvers, I think.
At the peg I wanted at least, so set up, usual barbel rod and pin for the margin, and tip rod and fixed spool for across, both with method feeders, filled with soaked two mm pellets, and either chocolate orange wafters, or eight mm robin red pellets on the hair.
It was a bit slow today, but there had been a lot of overnight rain which never helps , but I was getting a few carp, although I seemed to be loosing about half of the fish I hooked, just came of mid play.
Any way I landed nine carp and one bream, but easily lost as many more, at least it stayed fine, apart from one shower, felt cool for August, I kept my coat on all day, certainly not T-shirt weather, back to my other fishery tomorrow, fancy a change from carp, will have a go for the silvers, I think.
John Keane
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Went for an evening session at the lake, for a change, set up on a shady bank with the sun on the water and did a few casts to the island (40yds) to get clipped up. Fished a single rod on an alarm with a 2500 Baitrunner which proved to be a wise decision due to the violent nature of some of the runs.
Used an in-line bomb cube, 15” hooklength and a banded 8mm Dynamite Baits pellet with others fired over the top as feed.
First half to 3/4 hour were slow with only a small F1 and a mirror of a couple of pounds. After that it got busy with fish, for both myself and my mate, kiting right and left and causing problems with lines crossing. Not had that before in the years we’ve fished together.
During the course of the evening I must have fired out around half a kilo of pellets and got the fish into a sort of feeding frenzy as it got to the point where I would cast, tighten up and reach for the caty, and the alarm would be off.
Having lost a bait band I switched to a Quickstop rig and a pre-drilled Dynamite Baits 8mm red Garlic pellet (Jeez, they stink) and these were hardly touching bottom before being taken.
Took my Darent Valley 0.75lb Specialist to have a go fishing floating crust, however this proved to be abortive due to a stiffish breeze, ducks and a solitary Med Gull that was mopping up the freebies so I didn’t give the DV it’s christening.
Anyway, finished with 20+ carp, F1s and a solitary bream. Weather permitting, I prefers the evenings to the daytime as I no longer rise at sparrow-fart and there’s often a “dead” period from late morning to mid-afternoon.
No photos, sorry, but they’d only be the usual net/mat shots.
Used an in-line bomb cube, 15” hooklength and a banded 8mm Dynamite Baits pellet with others fired over the top as feed.
First half to 3/4 hour were slow with only a small F1 and a mirror of a couple of pounds. After that it got busy with fish, for both myself and my mate, kiting right and left and causing problems with lines crossing. Not had that before in the years we’ve fished together.
During the course of the evening I must have fired out around half a kilo of pellets and got the fish into a sort of feeding frenzy as it got to the point where I would cast, tighten up and reach for the caty, and the alarm would be off.
Having lost a bait band I switched to a Quickstop rig and a pre-drilled Dynamite Baits 8mm red Garlic pellet (Jeez, they stink) and these were hardly touching bottom before being taken.
Took my Darent Valley 0.75lb Specialist to have a go fishing floating crust, however this proved to be abortive due to a stiffish breeze, ducks and a solitary Med Gull that was mopping up the freebies so I didn’t give the DV it’s christening.
Anyway, finished with 20+ carp, F1s and a solitary bream. Weather permitting, I prefers the evenings to the daytime as I no longer rise at sparrow-fart and there’s often a “dead” period from late morning to mid-afternoon.
No photos, sorry, but they’d only be the usual net/mat shots.
peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
7 codgers fished the GUC at Berkhamsted yesterday, a warm, sunny day with a very light breeze. Whether it was the rather chilly night before or what, it didn’t fish as well as 2 weeks ago when the 2lb roach and 3 over a pound came out.
The bigger bream also failed to show. The gudgeon however were all over whatever bait was presented, they were tiny ones too.
I caught the biggest fish of the day, a 1:14:0 perch which tested my light waggler set up.
Octogenarian angler Brian clocked up his 3rd consecutive win with 6:2:0 of roach taken on hemp and tares..
The bigger bream also failed to show. The gudgeon however were all over whatever bait was presented, they were tiny ones too.
I caught the biggest fish of the day, a 1:14:0 perch which tested my light waggler set up.
Octogenarian angler Brian clocked up his 3rd consecutive win with 6:2:0 of roach taken on hemp and tares..
mikench
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Some lovely fish caught there so well done to all. It's heaving it down here and has been since dawn. When the app says a 99% chance of rain I believe it!
I plan to emulate Skip tomorrow with fake corn. I do find fresh corn doesn't last when out of the can and soon turns into a horrible gloopy mess. Does putting glug of some kind on the corn help. I have never ever caught anything on fake bait.
I plan to emulate Skip tomorrow with fake corn. I do find fresh corn doesn't last when out of the can and soon turns into a horrible gloopy mess. Does putting glug of some kind on the corn help. I have never ever caught anything on fake bait.