How did you get on?

[ian g]

Tommos16 , I'd say perch almost always weigh less than you first expect . I've caught a good number of 3lb perch over the years and they all look huge. That's a decent perch , there will be bigger fish about

 

[tommos16]

Tommos16 , I'd say perch almost always weigh less than you first expect . I've caught a good number of 3lb perch over the years and they all look huge. That's a decent perch , there will be bigger fish about

Yeah I’d say that was the usual. This thing I knew was huge (in my experience) compared to usual. Gave a hell of a scrap. Yeah I was thinking that there’ll be some more sat in the same spot, with them coming up to spawning. I’ve left them alone for now but it’s noted


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[John Aston]

A steady day at a local semi commercial. Busy , with the usual bevy of amateur hour carp guys scrolling through their phones in the odd moment they weren't chatting loudly to their mates . It's a pretty, secluded water though , with lots of cover and a nice place to be before I start trout fishing on the rivers.

I fished waggler , with double maggot on a 16 and caught a steady succession of small ide , perch and a couple of reasonable roach . I then hooked something weighty , and although it fought with all the vigour of a crisp packet , it was a thumping great PB ide of 4-11. Inevitably, someone decided to move to the next peg and chucked in a silly amount of bait ,and a gratuitously large lead about 5 yards from where I'd been feeding . No more bites.

I look forward to catching some more ides of March . Sorry .

 

[Kirky_1]

Grayson I stopped getting bites when nugget and his friend started chucking basketball sized lumps of feed in too, they stayed less than an hour after one of them got a phone call where he informed the other "Rab has a bag of weed and a bottle of wine" they phoned a taxi and f***ed off... Quiet bliss resumed

Nice Ide ??

 

[Pete Shears]

Piking trip to the local reservoir yesterday morning and finding a strong easterly wind but clear and sunny.Set up on the windward bank using my brolly as a windbreak and soon had three deadbait rods baited and cast out. Had a lively fish on the sprat single hookrig but it pulled off.
Rebaited settled back in the chair watching buzzards and kestrel attempting to master the gusty wind.
A while later a run on a smelt had a six pound jack in the net and then a lot of nothing happened despite recasting to slightly diiferent spots about every 40 minutes or so but at least not a blank unlike Thursdays trip to a gravel pit near Melton where the rising water level saw me moving twice to avoid paddling after the torrential rain on Wednesday afternoon.

 

[mikench]

With my two local and favourite waters unavailable to me for a month I had a simple choice , stay home or try further afield. I decided to visit a 17 acre mere which I have fished before several time but not visited since the first lockdown.

This was the view at 8.30 am this morning.

I set up a specialist rod on a buzzer on the left of a 20' wide peg and a feeder rod to the right. What could go wrong?

I fished pellet and boilles wrapped in paste on the left rod and prawn and pellet on the feeder. I noticed as I was setting up a guy on the right hand bank packing up. He called to say hello on his way home. He had been overnighting since Friday and hadn't had a touch on 2 carp rods. After 4 hours neither had I and the blue skies had disappeared behind clouds, a cold breeze was blowing and I concluded rightly or wrongly , that I could stay all day and all night and not catch a thing. I will never know as I packed up and came home.

Cuddles with Little La have made up for the disappointment. There is always another day- tomorrow in fact with Gordon and it promises to be warmer and sunnier.

 

[wetthrough]

Sandiway Mike? Never caught anything there myself. At least we know there are fish where we're going tomorrow. Let's hope they play ball.

 

[mikench]

No it's near where we are going tomorrow i.e. .5 mile away.

 

[john step]

Visited my deep reservoir to get the feel of my new replacement pole section and a couple of spare top 2s. I had a good bag of roach and rudd on maggots but couldnt get anything bigger on hemp and tares.
When it warmed up and the rudd ousted the roach and became a nuisance I reverted to a bomb rod and 10mm boilies for a couple of 9 pounders.

 

[markcw]

Sandiway Mike? Never caught anything there myself. At least we know there are fish where we're going tomorrow. Let's hope they play ball.

Sandiway responds to long range feeder fishing to get past some of the weed in there. Long range of around 70-80 yards. Feed well to start off, and you should catch, there are some big tench in there .

 

[mikench]

It wasn't Sandiway which I have never fished and have no desire to. At 51 acres it's just too big and your car is at risk if not close by which isn't possible for most pegs.

 

[markcw]

I decided to have a few hours fishing today , had all my tackle on space shuttle from last week so all I had to do was drop the seats in the car , remove seatbox off shuttle and wheel shuttle in the car,and put seatbox alongside it. Rod holdall down the centre and carryall behind seat box , Then maggots from bait chiller and ready to go . ....
But.....
It was one of those days of where do I go ?
Back to Fritwell for a good days sport on the pole or Newlands with the possibility of a blank on feeder, waggler and margins . .....
So back into the garage for a couple of short margin poles and feeder and Waggler rod, box of feeders and a couple of bags of 6mm hard pellets .
These wer duly put in the car and off I went .
I knew I could decide on the venue a few miles down the road , either straight across at the third roundabout for Newlands or 3rd exit off it for the M40.

Straight across I went and carried on to Newlands .
Left shuttle and main holdall in car with pole rollers and roost . Got seatbox ox out , bag with bait and feeders and the couple of rods and margin poles that were banded together .
Dumped tackle on my chosen peg and went for a quick stroll to see what was being caught .
I was told over a hundred pound won the Sunday match, comprising of 12 carp. Double figure bags of silvers were caught as well.
It turns out nothing was being caught today ,even the venue expert had struggled for 2 fish after a biteless 2 hours .
I went to my peg and just set the Waggler rod up. Spent 3 hours casting around at various depths and feeding maggots , For two roach the size of a sardine,
Packed up and decided on Fritwell tomorrow ,

 

[mikench]

Gordon and I met up at a lovely water aesthetically but one which frequently frustrates and ultimately disappoints. I was late arriving as I had to go for a blood test. It was a perfect day weather wise being warm and not too sunny.

Gordon can be seen sat in the first peg and already in shade by 11.30 am. I settled in next door with more open water to play with and started on the feeder.

I tried a hybrid, maggot and pellet feeder with a variety of baits from the obvious to prawn , corn and bread but to no avail. By 3.00 pm a blank looked and felt inevitable. A member arrived and advised that the water was stocked with 200 tench 2 weeks ago. He regaled me about a corner peg further up which had provided him with quite a few tench last Sunday . It was his favourite pag. He then proceeded to set up on the opposite bank and in the 2hours I was there caught nothing . Gordon had around 10 small roach and Rudd none of which troubled his net. I managed a small roach on the float rod to save a blank. We both enjoyed the pleasant surroundings, chitchat and drew some small comfort from having dry landing nets to put away; sad or what ?

Thanks Gordon for another enjoyable day despite the lack of fish. We observed that the other 5 or 6 anglers fared the same as us. It's hit and miss at the moment.

 

[Ray Roberts]

I’m off to Bury Hill Fishery in the morning. Weather forecast says a tad chilly in the morning but warming up later. I will fish Miltons Lake. Apart from some tench and Crucians I had some nice roach on my last visit but that was a couple of years ago.


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[seth49]

Back on usual fishery today, fishing pole till about three pm for tench and silvers, then changing to fish for carp in the margins after, it was a nice day with no frost for a change, it reached 18 degrees C in the afternoon, so was pleasantly warm, I expected it to fish a lot better than it did, it was slow with awhile between bites, did finish with four tench, a barbel, and a couple of roach, and a big gudgeon, plus a few skimmers.

Later I did manage a couple of carp, 10lbs 15ozs, and 9lbs 15ozs, from the margins, which was nice, good scrap on the pole.

 

[Kirky_1]

Went to my local commercial today, I have a gripe... Poles

Guy rocks up to the peg next to me and proceeds to unload a small trailer then spent about an hour farting about, he had all kinds of sh!t coming off his box thing all to get to the island in the middle of the pond, about 20 feet. The constant pole in pole out, Cup out Cup in, bits off bits on, noisy as a noisy thing in noiseville... Had to move as it done my cranium in.

I don't get the attraction of them ?

 

[markcw]

Went to my local commercial today, I have a gripe... Poles

Guy rocks up to the peg next to me and proceeds to unload a small trailer then spent about an hour farting about, he had all kinds of sh!t coming off his box thing all to get to the island in the middle of the pond, about 20 feet. The constant pole in pole out, Cup out Cup in, bits off bits on, noisy as a noisy thing in noiseville... Had to move as it done my cranium in.

I don't get the attraction of them ?

Must have been a rubbish pole if it was noisy being unshipped,

 

[Ray Roberts]

My trip to Bury Hill Fishery didn’t go too badly. I had a nice tench and about forty rudd, some were a decent size but no roach and no crucians. The rudd were in nice condition, without the mutilated lips you sometimes see on commercial fisheries.

It must have been the warmest day this year and I spent the entire day in just a tee shirt. I obviously had other clothes on too, as I didn’t want to scare any passers by.

The float is one I made. Not quite up to Purple Peanut’s standard, but it floats and sinks occasionally. The rudd in the photo had someone’s hook still in its mouth though how you get snapped up by a six ounce fish I really don’t know. The spade may have cut the line. A bit of dentistry and it was good to go, lol.

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[john step]

Fabulous day in the sunshine on my new deep lake. There are only a handfull of people allowed to be on there so as usual I had the place to myself.
I had over a hundred roach on maggot/corn/worm . Many netters. One 11lb common interrupted things. A twisted tail so it will be identifiable should it pass my way again.

 

[markcw]

Went to my local commercial today, I have a gripe... Poles

Guy rocks up to the peg next to me and proceeds to unload a small trailer then spent about an hour farting about, he had all kinds of sh!t coming off his box thing all to get to the island in the middle of the pond, about 20 feet. The constant pole in pole out, Cup out Cup in, bits off bits on, noisy as a noisy thing in noiseville... Had to move as it done my cranium in.

I don't get the attraction of them ?

I'm staying out of it ?