arthur2sheds
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That old girl is in semi-retirement.... Circa 1937 she only comes out on the odd day... the spool is very loose, but I have 7 pins all told, all of various vintages
How did you get on?
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neil1970
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I managed to get out with my UL set up on the canal and lake today, from 2pm til 3.30pm, in seach of a Perch.
Walked up the canal and jigged a 2" worm thing for an hour.
I then decided to clip on a tiny spinner and try the lake for a bit.
I stayed in the same swim the whole time, casting as far as I could, with the tiny rod and reel (the same one used for LRF on the mini seafish last week)
On the drop something solid hit the spinner, and then continued to cruise around before making for the near bank snags to the right of me.
After about 3 minutes I got the fish into the landing spot, but still too deep.
Far too big, for the net I had with me so it needed to be chinned.
I fumbled with the clip securing the unhooking mat to my rucksack... and let the line go slack - and that was that.
The fish was 15-17lbs in my reckoning, judging by the width and 1m (give or take) length.
Hmmm
Walked up the canal and jigged a 2" worm thing for an hour.
I then decided to clip on a tiny spinner and try the lake for a bit.
I stayed in the same swim the whole time, casting as far as I could, with the tiny rod and reel (the same one used for LRF on the mini seafish last week)
On the drop something solid hit the spinner, and then continued to cruise around before making for the near bank snags to the right of me.
After about 3 minutes I got the fish into the landing spot, but still too deep.
Far too big, for the net I had with me so it needed to be chinned.
I fumbled with the clip securing the unhooking mat to my rucksack... and let the line go slack - and that was that.
The fish was 15-17lbs in my reckoning, judging by the width and 1m (give or take) length.
Hmmm
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The fish was 15-17lbs in my reckoning, judging by the width and 1m (give or take) length.
Hmmm
Jeepers Neil, that's one hell of a perch
nicepix
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Jeepers Neil, that's one hell of a perch
He's borrowed Spider's scales :wh
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That old girl is in semi-retirement.... Circa 1937 she only comes out on the odd day... the spool is very loose, but I have 7 pins all told, all of various vintages
There was a similar model made by a Bradford Company ELO (not the pop group). It differed from most centrepins other than being Bakelite in that you could add or subtract drag using the central boss screw. I had one for ledgering for barbel but it had to go when I downsized my gear before moving out here.
peter crabtree
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I was fishing in 2 1/2 ft of water using 6lb sensor straight through to a 14's super spade stuffed with maggots...7 to a dozen with about 10inch of line laying on the bottom. This was to try and stop the rudd from swallowing them and to get the tenche's attension also since it was tench I was after. Unfortunatly the tench didn't show but the rudd where like piranha's and attacked the maggots as soon as they hit the water. You would have struggled not to catch'em to be honest. Later in the year when the waters warmed up propperly you can literally drop in an unbaited hook and catch small rudd, the place is thick with them.
I caught plenty to 2 1/2lb last year (mostly after dark) using a maggot and corn cocktail so there are larger ones also.
dorsetandchub
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A shorter than usual session today which was of greatest interest because of my mode of transport. The current future ex Mrs H needed to convey a number of people so plea begged my recently fully fuelled Freelander in exchange for a Kia Picanto with a four Guinness piddle of petrol in it. I filled it up for about the third of my normal cost and had change for a Mars bar.
Squeezed in myself, a Drennan tench float rod and a ruckbag with a Preston PXR 5000 and terminal tackle. With a box of cubed 8mm Spam for the hook and landing net, the available room was, to put it mildly, minimal.
Arriving at my usual Commercial, the chatty tackle shop guy opened his mouth but was silenced with a look that simply said "Don't".
Got to my usual end of lake swim and cattied in a couple of fair helpings of hemp and a few 4mm Spam cubes and grains of corn.
The 2BB waggler (an MAP straight waggler for those with a detail fetish) went under surprisingly quickly and the little red Kia was starting to soften my cardio vascular granite as the first fish was a rudd around 1lb, very possibly my biggest ever. I nearly smiled.
Very quickly, this was followed up with a roach of around 12oz. No great surprise, the skimmers turned up with half a dozen on the bounce between 6oz to around 1lb.
Another roach and more skimmers then the first, inevitable carp (of around 3lbs). Skimmers and several more carp followed, the biggest carp between 5 and 6lbs.
Into the fourth hour and a perch of maybe 12oz. Nothing massive but fun and relaxing and some nice sun in the face.
Plenty more skimmers and, at 3.30pm, I was on the way home. An estimate of around 20lbs.
A quick but enjoyable session.
Squeezed in myself, a Drennan tench float rod and a ruckbag with a Preston PXR 5000 and terminal tackle. With a box of cubed 8mm Spam for the hook and landing net, the available room was, to put it mildly, minimal.
Arriving at my usual Commercial, the chatty tackle shop guy opened his mouth but was silenced with a look that simply said "Don't".
Got to my usual end of lake swim and cattied in a couple of fair helpings of hemp and a few 4mm Spam cubes and grains of corn.
The 2BB waggler (an MAP straight waggler for those with a detail fetish) went under surprisingly quickly and the little red Kia was starting to soften my cardio vascular granite as the first fish was a rudd around 1lb, very possibly my biggest ever. I nearly smiled.
Very quickly, this was followed up with a roach of around 12oz. No great surprise, the skimmers turned up with half a dozen on the bounce between 6oz to around 1lb.
Another roach and more skimmers then the first, inevitable carp (of around 3lbs). Skimmers and several more carp followed, the biggest carp between 5 and 6lbs.
Into the fourth hour and a perch of maybe 12oz. Nothing massive but fun and relaxing and some nice sun in the face.
Plenty more skimmers and, at 3.30pm, I was on the way home. An estimate of around 20lbs.
A quick but enjoyable session.
itsfishingnotcatching
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Few hours after work this afternoon, spent the first 90 minutes watching the angler in the next peg land a fish a cast including some large-ish looking Roach while my float hardly moved! Had two small Perch in quick succession before it all went quiet. My neighbour was packing up so I asked her what she was using as bait, turns out she's feeding 4mm green pellets (halibut or elips?) and using red maggot on the hook but threw some pellets in for me and advised feeding consistently. Had a Crucian around a pound, a Tench about 8oz, a Carp pushing double figures and a Roach that just about required the net. There were a lot of Carp leaping around all afternoon which would suggest they're starting to spawn already.
peter crabtree
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dorsetandchub
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Betane = an anagram of beaten.....
I'm saying nowt though, I've been battered by next peg lasses on a few occasions....
I'm saying nowt though, I've been battered by next peg lasses on a few occasions....
itsfishingnotcatching
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Absolutely Simon, and at these pools a far more knowledgeable angler than me mate!
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Betane = an anagram of beaten.....
Very clever Phil
Living close to the town in question I bet you can figure out the tiresome old anagram of Newark
itsfishingnotcatching
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Could be Steve, they looked a little darker though
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barbelboi
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Followed the wind to fish a bay on the south side of a local gravel pit today (9.45am-2pm...... early start!). Although it was quite a cold night by the time I was fishing it was wall to wall sunshine and quite warm with not a ripple on the water. I decided to use the lift method for some tench and caught, err, mainly carp with one tench gatecrashing the party. Not an easy day.......................
itsfishingnotcatching
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barbelboi
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Good to see you back out there Jerry, fancy the next Fish-in at the Flask?
Na Ian, I might actually catch something and spoil years of tradition.............................
PS I wish I was up for the do on Saturday but it;s a bit too soon...............
First Tench session of the year today on the local club lakes. Fished a waggler on 4lb line straight through to a size 16 hook with triple red maggot, over a bed of brown crumb laced with hemp, corn, 4mm halibut pellet and more red maggot. Had 11, smallest being 3lb 7oz biggest being 6lb 2oz. Would have been a perfect day but for being smashed up by a ****.