mikench
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I will bring my 15' Antares when I give that pool a try.
How did you get on?
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mikench
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Today was a strange and frustrating day but not fishing wise particularly. The sale of my late parents home should have completed last Wednesday but did do today . My phone was fully charged at 6.30 and at 17% by 8.30 on the one day when I needed to be in touch with my solicitor. I spent at least 2 hours returning to the car to charge it up. Very frustrating.
Anyway the venue is a popular one with Gordon and I and we usually catch. I needed to avoid a blank and was successful in that regard.
You can just see Gordon. The lake is shaped like an inverted comma with various islands.
I managed 8 carp all around 3 to 5lb and Gordon had over 30 small roach. It was a very benign day and despite my frustration, an enjoyable one. Thanks Gordon for your company and the hemp and micros. My favourite peg had collapsed but new pegs are due this week.
Anyway the venue is a popular one with Gordon and I and we usually catch. I needed to avoid a blank and was successful in that regard.
You can just see Gordon. The lake is shaped like an inverted comma with various islands.
I managed 8 carp all around 3 to 5lb and Gordon had over 30 small roach. It was a very benign day and despite my frustration, an enjoyable one. Thanks Gordon for your company and the hemp and micros. My favourite peg had collapsed but new pegs are due this week.
well things didn't go to plan today.the fella to my right got a 14lb 13oz common.to make matters worse the fella to my left landed a 15lb 9oz mirror.i ended up with 9 f1's and 4 tench and none of them over the 2lb mark. DOH!i did lose one early doors but didn't feel that big to be honest.
this is a small pond but does hold some good fish but at 10.00am there were 18 anglers on it.lovely day the sun beating down was nice but overcrowding can be a problem as i saw on a couple of occasions where lines were tangled due to anglers casting across one another.
this is a small pond but does hold some good fish but at 10.00am there were 18 anglers on it.lovely day the sun beating down was nice but overcrowding can be a problem as i saw on a couple of occasions where lines were tangled due to anglers casting across one another.
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it was nice to see the smile on the fella to my left's face when he landed his mirror.i could see from the smile on his face that was probably his biggest ever carp.when i asked him if he'd like me to weigh it for him and better still take a photo on his phone of him holding it i could tell from the look that meant yes.when i told him it was 15lb 9oz he was over the moon and thanked me for taking the time and trouble. 
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An early start at the local reservoir which was shrouded in mist and looked to be the ideal tenchfishers morning, no wind and the surface like a sheet of glass. Four of us on the same bank, all struggling for bites.
The highlight was an osprey stopped by for breakfast around 06.45. A little later a solitary jay flew across the water with buzzards and kites and a lone oyster catcher were the best of the birds with pale blue damsel flies and red dragonflies enjoying the warmth after yesterdays dull, cold weather.
Eventually a bite resulted in the fish weeding itself instantly leaving me to reel in a swan mussel which was clamped around the method feeder.
The highlight was an osprey stopped by for breakfast around 06.45. A little later a solitary jay flew across the water with buzzards and kites and a lone oyster catcher were the best of the birds with pale blue damsel flies and red dragonflies enjoying the warmth after yesterdays dull, cold weather.
Eventually a bite resulted in the fish weeding itself instantly leaving me to reel in a swan mussel which was clamped around the method feeder.
seth49
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Back on the club water yesterday, arrived at six thirty am to find three all ready fishing, it finished being fairly busy with 12 on, I didn’t get the peg I fancied so picked another one, which has done ok for me even though it’s number 13.
It was a funny sort of day, plenty of fish fizzing over the feed but only picking the bait up occasionally, tried different baits but half a worm was the only thing getting me bites, the tench were there but not taking well at all.
I only had four tench, plus eleven assorted silvers, did get four carp from the margins later, best one 13lb 2oz, it needs some hot weather so they can spawn, then it will hopefully improve.
It was a funny sort of day, plenty of fish fizzing over the feed but only picking the bait up occasionally, tried different baits but half a worm was the only thing getting me bites, the tench were there but not taking well at all.
I only had four tench, plus eleven assorted silvers, did get four carp from the margins later, best one 13lb 2oz, it needs some hot weather so they can spawn, then it will hopefully improve.
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After a stressful few weeks of selling everything that could sold (made a profit on the boats and trailers!), even the house is now sold.And now after a miserable 3 days and 1700 miles living in a 3.5 tonne van, I’m actually having a few days to myself taking myself, motorbike and a fly rod back to UK via the long way, taking in Andorra and Spain and fishing in a couple of spectacular spots, unfortunately the only catch has been an unspectacular chublet. I had been hoping to find some “”black” bass as it would be my last opportunity for a while but no luck, and with the weather set to rain all day, I think it will be one final slog on the motorway to get back to Blighty.
So this is “Roger’s French Fishing Life” signing off….for now
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mikench
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Good luck Roger. If you relocate anywhere near me I will buy you a pint or three.
A very average afternoon on the 6-bites-a-session estate lake, with only 4 fish to show from 5. I was disappointed not to catch more in warm, calm conditions. I even had the lake to myself for an hour after one of the pair of anglers on the far side fell in and they left. I got snagged twice in different places in a previously clear swim on the bar sloping down from an island 50m out, and it looks like an angler fishing to it from a different angle has left line in it having cast into the trees. I had to give that swim up, and only occasional fish came into the margin swim by the bush.
mikench
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That Ide is a real clonker Kev.
The average size of the Ide (locally called Vederbuk) in Norway was around 3 kg.
I have only ever caught 3 of that size here in England . . . . .
In most of the local matches in Norway, and in Sweden, Ide were your target speces together with the bream.
I have only ever caught 3 of that size here in England . . . . .
In most of the local matches in Norway, and in Sweden, Ide were your target speces together with the bream.
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A wonderful day on the river , with mayfly , olives and midge hatching all day and lots of surface activity. I started the day with one of our routine bug sample sessions , which we use to monitor the water quality . All was well , a three minute kick sample producing over 500 invertebrates, form tiny olive nymphs to lumbering great caddis . I think the AT is promoting bug sampling at present and I really do encourage all anglers , not just game fishers, to get involved as sampling bugs is not only fascinating in itself , it is a vital 'canary in a coalmine ' to monitor water health.
I managed to lose two very big (2-3lb ) wild browns in - damn and blast - successive casts but redeemed myself by catching 11 , including fish of 1-8 , 2-0 and 2-1 , all of which fought like tigers on a 4 weight rod in snaggy pools . Some were on a size 8 mayfly nymph , fished deep and others were on dry fly when the fish moved upstairs - a size 10 ls mayfly dun pattern , then a size 16 dry Adams when the fish switched to small olives. Five hours fishing , a mile of river waded , totally absorbing and bloody tiring - I fell asleep when I got home with aching legs and tired eyes.
One bonus was this chap ,who was stationed in 18 inches of fast flowing water at the head of a pool - he took a dry mayfly pattern with gusto and fought very well- exactly 4lbs . A good day all round
I managed to lose two very big (2-3lb ) wild browns in - damn and blast - successive casts but redeemed myself by catching 11 , including fish of 1-8 , 2-0 and 2-1 , all of which fought like tigers on a 4 weight rod in snaggy pools . Some were on a size 8 mayfly nymph , fished deep and others were on dry fly when the fish moved upstairs - a size 10 ls mayfly dun pattern , then a size 16 dry Adams when the fish switched to small olives. Five hours fishing , a mile of river waded , totally absorbing and bloody tiring - I fell asleep when I got home with aching legs and tired eyes.
One bonus was this chap ,who was stationed in 18 inches of fast flowing water at the head of a pool - he took a dry mayfly pattern with gusto and fought very well- exactly 4lbs . A good day all round
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I had my 3rd and 4th close season still water trips over the last few days and it was back to the bay end of the large gravel pit for some more tench. Once again there were only the two of us on 15 acres of water and it certainly is looking like a heavy pond weed year. Still, only a few more days and I’ll be back on flowing water again.
The bait was hair rigged tiger nut pellets (8mm) which tench seem to love and thankfully snotties don’t. However, I almost fell off my chair as I thought I’d hooked a snottie – phew, it was a tench blindfolded by the weed that slowed it down somewhat. I managed 11 tench over the two 4 hour (12-4pm) sessions plus a couple of rogue carp.
The bait was hair rigged tiger nut pellets (8mm) which tench seem to love and thankfully snotties don’t. However, I almost fell off my chair as I thought I’d hooked a snottie – phew, it was a tench blindfolded by the weed that slowed it down somewhat. I managed 11 tench over the two 4 hour (12-4pm) sessions plus a couple of rogue carp.
After a thoroughly miserable May with only small perch to trouble the scorers June has started well. I went last Wednesday fishing two rods on my syndicate lake I finished up with Tench 8lb 9oz 8lb 4oz 4lb approx and two Perch of 3lb 2oz and 2lb 3oz. All fish came on the kebab work rig with a open end feeder with dead maggots and worm sections in the feeder. The second rod was set up for the method using either small 10mm boillies (cell) or fake corn. At the start of the session I used a castable rake to forge a channel through the extensive weed and spombed a pint of dead maggot before commencing fishing. Due to the short range I was fishing I used 10lb x line with a helicopter set up on a lead free Taska leader.
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Back to the canal today, with a friend who'd just bought the ridiculously cheap £25 ticket. He mostly fished the river, so we spent a bit of time tuning his tackle and approach.
The bigger fish, the carp, tench and bream, have been awol for a couple of weeks, so it was no surprise that ide, roach and perch feeding in the top 18" were all we caught.
The bigger fish, the carp, tench and bream, have been awol for a couple of weeks, so it was no surprise that ide, roach and perch feeding in the top 18" were all we caught.
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Today was a lovely day early doors but with a gradual deterioration in the weather forecast. For once the forecast was correct and heavy rain began to fall around noon and barely stopped.
I needed to get out of the house as Er indoors had booked the cleaners for a deep clean prior to the wedding and I can't just sit around watching others work. I had limited success On the feeder with just a few decent roach and a skimmer. This was one of the roach.
I switched to the float and had around a dozen small skimmers, roach and the ubiquitous gudgeon. By the time I packed up the rain was falling again and a breeze was very noticeable but it remained warm. An enjoyable few hours .
I needed to get out of the house as Er indoors had booked the cleaners for a deep clean prior to the wedding and I can't just sit around watching others work. I had limited success On the feeder with just a few decent roach and a skimmer. This was one of the roach.
I switched to the float and had around a dozen small skimmers, roach and the ubiquitous gudgeon. By the time I packed up the rain was falling again and a breeze was very noticeable but it remained warm. An enjoyable few hours .