How did you get on?

[peter crabtree]

Club fixture today on Royal Berkshire fishery near Ascot. A bright and sunny day with showers ...

Lake 3 as usual and I drew no13, unlucky for some..

Last time I drew this peg was a few years ago on a silvers only match, I believe I sat next to Silvers that day?

Set up 15gr method feeder and just 2 pole rigs.

Started on the feeder and lost a good fish immediately! Hmmmm..

Fed a pole line at 11m in the middle and another to my left under some overhanging trees. 4’ depth in both. Had a few F1’s on the tip casting tight to the island, then tried the open water on the pole.
More F1’s around a pound and a couple of small roach.
Lost my feeder on the island so concentrated on my pole lines. 3 hours in I fed some chopped worm and gb and fished worm section and maggot, that had the desired effect and I was soon catching steadily,
all F1’s. Elsewhere on the lake people were struggling from what I could ascertain so I felt confident I’d frame at least.

Weighed in 30lb 11oz which won the match with 21lb:12 second and 21:5 third.

17 fished....

 

[Shmoobies]

Woke up Sunday around 10.30am with abit of a hangover, great start... Opened the curtains to find the sun blazing and decided the headache wouldn't stop me hitting a river before the season closes.

Decided to drive down to the river eden, been fishing the same spot for the last 4 months and haven't caught a single fish, so wasnt feeling very confident, but happy to be out fishing nonetheless. I got down to the river about 12.30 with the current rushing through and alot of colour in the water.

Went for a trotting tactic with some bread, a method I have hardly ever used, and it seemed today was the day a change in tactic was going to pay off after only 15 minutes of hitting missed bites I finally hooked into my FIRST EVER chub, weighing in at 5lbs 2oz, yay!



After around another 30 minutes in the same spot, my float dipped under again and when I struck, it felt like I was in a snag, whatever it was it wasnt moving. After a few hard pulls on my part, it became evident that there was a fish on the end of my line, an absolute lump to be exact. After about 20 minutes of playing the fish in the current and on 8lb line, it finally surfaced and what I saw was definitely the biggest carp I have ever caught, and from the river I've been fishing for months with no luck? Result.



This lovely carp weighed in at 16lb 14oz, beating my old PB by nearly 3lbs! Got one Saturday left for fishing next week but if it doesn't pan out, I'm excited that at the end of this season I caught a new PB and a new species.

Tight lines all, Joe

 

[108831]

Woke up Sunday around 10.30am with abit of a hangover, great start... Opened the curtains to find the sun blazing and decided the headache wouldn't stop me hitting a river before the season closes.

Decided to drive down to the river eden, been fishing the same spot for the last 4 months and haven't caught a single fish, so wasnt feeling very confident, but happy to be out fishing nonetheless. I got down to the river about 12.30 with the current rushing through and alot of colour in the water.

Went for a trotting tactic with some bread, a method I have hardly ever used, and it seemed today was the day a change in tactic was going to pay off after only 15 minutes of hitting missed bites I finally hooked into my FIRST EVER chub, weighing in at 5lbs 2oz, yay!

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After around another 30 minutes in the same spot, my float dipped under again and when I struck, it felt like I was in a snag, whatever it was it wasnt moving. After a few hard pulls on my part, it became evident that there was a fish on the end of my line, an absolute lump to be exact. After about 20 minutes of playing the fish in the current and on 8lb line, it finally surfaced and what I saw was definitely the biggest carp I have ever caught, and from the river I've been fishing for months with no luck? Result.

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This lovely carp weighed in at 16lb 14oz, beating my old PB by nearly 3lbs! Got one Saturday left for fishing next week but if it doesn't pan out, I'm excited that at the end of this season I caught a new PB and a new species.

Tight lines all, Joe

As you say,result,welcome to FM Joe....

 

[Shmoobies]

Proper result mate, hopefully my next result will be working out how to get pictures to sit up the right way on a post mg:

 

[mikench]

We are all trying to do that consistently. You would imagine if you take a pic in panoramic mode, it would post in the same format. I have never worked it out.

 

[dicky123]

I fished the Trent yesterday with the best of intentions. But the wind was simply crazy, I mean wild and insane. On arrival I set up a heavy 5 gram Avon on the inside of a big bend, but the wind was across, then down making presentation impossible. A big waggler was tried next, and finally a quiver tip, but even then bites could not be registered in the gale. I lost a hat, later removed a quarter mile downstream. Slices of bread had to be pinned down with leads, as it would blow away else. I packed fish-less and bruised. I'm out again Tuesday, this is the start of my season after too much prevarication.

 

[dicky123]

Club fixture today on Royal Berkshire fishery near Ascot. A bright and sunny day with showers ...

Lake 3 as usual and I drew no13, unlucky for some..

Last time I drew this peg was a few years ago on a silvers only match, I believe I sat next to Silvers that day?

Set up 15gr method feeder and just 2 pole rigs.

Started on the feeder and lost a good fish immediately! Hmmmm..

Fed a pole line at 11m in the middle and another to my left under some overhanging trees. 4’ depth in both. Had a few F1’s on the tip casting tight to the island, then tried the open water on the pole.
More F1’s around a pound and a couple of small roach.
Lost my feeder on the island so concentrated on my pole lines. 3 hours in I fed some chopped worm and gb and fished worm section and maggot, that had the desired effect and I was soon catching steadily,
all F1’s. Elsewhere on the lake people were struggling from what I could ascertain so I felt confident I’d frame at least.

Weighed in 30lb 11oz which won the match with 21lb:12 second and 21:5 third.

17 fished....

Very impressive Peter, well done mate. Rich.

 

[mikench]

I have copied and pasted the comments below verbatim from another forum.

Thanks for letting me know. It seems to be a bug in the vbulletin the software we use that makes photos taken with an iphone when the phone is heald verticle they show up rotated the wrong way. If you take the photo on the iphone with the phone turned sideways (the length of the phone paralleling the ground it works OK). It turns photos taken with the phone verticle (as you would use it when you talk) - sideways.

If you have a photo taken with the iphone verticle and you can get it on your computer with drop box or some other way you can, in windows,
-right click on it
-open with
-windows photo viewer and click the proper rotate button at the bottom and then
close windows photo viewer and then upload it.

I did that with photos you posted in this thread and now they are correct.
http://www.fishin.com/forums2/showth...2952-Dale-1-13

As a side note I tested some photos from my iphone holding camera both ways and when uploaded to computer they are also rotated the wrong way if photo taken with phone held verticle. So it is also an iphone problem. I am not sure if this is a problem with android?

 

[wetthrough]

It's the forum that doesn't respect the rotational information in the jpeg, you have to strip it (EXIF) out with a program such as IrfanView if you want to guarantee they look the same everywhere. The reason is that the position of pixel 0,0 (X,Y) is always in the same place relative to the camera. When you rotate the camera 90 degrees clockwise, 0,0 becomes top left, in landscape it would have been bottom left (although that depends on the camera). The EXIF information lets the receiving program know where 0,0 is relative to bottom left so that it can display it properly. If it ignores it, which this forum does, the above is what happens.

Nice catch schmoobies. Well rewarded persistence

 

[103841]

Woke up Sunday around 10.30am with abit of a hangover, great start... Opened the curtains to find the sun blazing and decided the headache wouldn't stop me hitting a river before the season closes.

Decided to drive down to the river eden, been fishing the same spot for the last 4 months and haven't caught a single fish, so wasnt feeling very confident, but happy to be out fishing nonetheless. I got down to the river about 12.30 with the current rushing through and alot of colour in the water.

Went for a trotting tactic with some bread, a method I have hardly ever used, and it seemed today was the day a change in tactic was going to pay off after only 15 minutes of hitting missed bites I finally hooked into my FIRST EVER chub, weighing in at 5lbs 2oz, yay!

View attachment 8318

After around another 30 minutes in the same spot, my float dipped under again and when I struck, it felt like I was in a snag, whatever it was it wasnt moving. After a few hard pulls on my part, it became evident that there was a fish on the end of my line, an absolute lump to be exact. After about 20 minutes of playing the fish in the current and on 8lb line, it finally surfaced and what I saw was definitely the biggest carp I have ever caught, and from the river I've been fishing for months with no luck? Result.

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This lovely carp weighed in at 16lb 14oz, beating my old PB by nearly 3lbs! Got one Saturday left for fishing next week but if it doesn't pan out, I'm excited that at the end of this season I caught a new PB and a new species.

Tight lines all, Joe

What a day! Well done on two amazing pb’s Joe.

 

[S-Kippy]

Still bored witless but with a couple of days of mild weather forecast it seems rude not to get out. Unfortunately neither me or the BF could think of anywhere we fancied. In the end after a couple of phone calls we decided to go see if the tench have switched on at Bury Hill yet....but thats for Wednesday.

I said I'd get the bait and as the ts is on the way to the river I thought I might as well take a rod and have a couple of hours on the Colne. It was up. Dirty and chugging through. Thought the barbel might have a go but you are either on them or not ie first or second chuck when its coloured. Not today.

I had one bite and one chub an ounce over 4lb. Was it worth it ? Not really.

 

[rich66]

Well a warm but windy start to the day. Hard going, the carp where cruising the surface getting some spring sunshine and warmth. Couldn’t be tempted with anything. I’d gone with the intention of catching some silvers so not too much of a problem today. Caught a chubby little perch after about an hour on double red maggot. Towards the end I changed down to a size 22 1.5lb bottom and single red maggot. Caught 3 fish in 5 casts, two of which where so small the float didn’t go under. Better than a day at work by a long mile though.

 

[john step]

Its getting a bit samey lately. To the Wolds again and some more sub doubles to worm and dead reds yesterday. I have a river trip planned for tomorrow and sods law its on the rise again. No doubt it will be perfect for the 15th.

 

[peter crabtree]

14 codgers fished yesterday at Winkwell upper pound, a very windy affair. Water spilling over the lock gates at the top created both colour and a fair tow.

My plan to fish a light punch rig was thwarted by the wind, controlling it was impossible. 3 BB waggler cast across then drawn back was easier.
Few small roach on pinkie to start with across by the boat. Fed chopped worm and a tiny ball of gb down the middle in the deeper water, a good hour passed before a positive bite on worm section and single pinkie cocktail, a skimmer. Next chuck and another bite, better fish, fell off.
2 more hours without a bite until a small skimmer turned up. With 15 minutes to go the roach switched on, typical!
That was it, had just 3lb which surprisingly got me 5th.

Winner on the next peg had 3 big bream for 11:7:0.

 

[S-Kippy]

As Simon said the wind was a complete pain today.

Me and the BF barrelled off to Bury Hill to see if the crucian and tench on Milton Lake had switched on yet. Arrived to find all our favoured spots occupied....especially those in the lee of the island and thus sheltered from the wind. We started during a quiet spell wind wise which very quickly turned ugly. Couldnt control the float and I couldnt buy a bite whereas Phil was having the life pestered out of him by little rudd.

After a couple of hours of fishing into the wind with only a few bits and a plump perch to show for it I'd had enough and moved simply to get out of the wind a bit. I care not what the temp was....in that wind it was bloody freezin.

Anyway.....we found a bit of quieter water and managed a decent crucian and a tench each. Phil backed that up with a couple of nice rudd ( plus loads of little ones) a hybrid and, get this, a zander of about 12-14oz on a single red maggot.

The only guys to catch with any consistency were those tucked away from the wind behind the island and even then it was terribly swimmy and the odd fish here and there. Just didnt look or feel right today. Shame....I was looking forward to this. It really needs a week or more of decent temps before it will start to fish properly. We were a fortnight too early really

Back in the car park chatted to 2 guys who had been fishing the main lake. Both had had 35-40 bream apiece to around 5lb. Jolly good luck to them too !

 

[108831]

Well turned up this morning to find the car park three quarters full at 6.20am so my planned walk up to the top end was thwarted,I opted for the swim I fished last Friday,this time with the cadence,the river was lower than Friday and the fish were at the upstream end of the swim and were being very tackle shy and after an hour or so only one chub to show,i set up a link leger and had three very quickly,then nothing,so i set the feeder up and had another,then the beggars disappeared,so I put more loose feed in,after a while I could see odd chub hanging just below where I was casting the feeder,out with the float again and bingo,stzrted catching again,ended with a very pleasing 17 chub and 3 dacepossibly my last day on the rivers this season...

 

[Another Dave]

Well my last river session of the season wasn't as productive as yours whitty, but it was a nice day and the birds were singing. A woodpecker somewhere behind me provided some percussion.

The river was pushing though at a rate. In the swim i'd chosen there's usually an eddy right under the rod tip but the floods had mixed things up, making it hard to find somewhere my 20g bomb would hold the bottom.



The bomb arced round into the main flow and my tip rattled, a rather dacey looking chub.



Another fish came off, blunt hook, nevertheless things looked promising. I tied on a fresh size 10 (6lb sensor straight through), and the next bite produced a fish - a fairly hooked minnow. Nothing after that, making me wish i'd opted for a roving approach instead of bringing a chair, live and learn boy, live and learn.

Looking forward to a 3rd season of trying to get a tench from the local pond, so i imagine my next report will be from there.

 

[wetthrough]

The weather, renovations and other domestic interruptions have made it difficult to get out over the last few weeks. Finally managed a session on the Bridgwater east of Lymm. On the bank around 7:30 and there's a little colour in the water. Fed the near shelf bottom with a little GB at just under 6', loose fed the far shelf with maggots and hemp, which varies, 30:39", it's wide at around 10M. First time out without casters. Hadn't been able to prepare any and couldn't buy any. 10:30 and nothing. Not even a hint of fish anywhere. Decided to float troll/twitch a red maggot in the vague hope of catching a small Perch, it worked. Well there's small, very small and this:



Surprisingly little tow given how windy it was - and that was it, not quite a blank. Packed up at 2:45.

 

[mikench]

When I say I didn't miss much , I know you won't be offended Gordon. Cute perch though.

 

[108831]

Blimey Gordon,thats a joker fish...