neil1970
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I went out for an hour and a half at 4pm - 10 perch and one minijack 
How did you get on?
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peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
I was just upstream of you Neil and had this whopper...
fruitowl
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I was just upstream of you Neil and had this whopper...
I bet it took longer to take the picture than land the fish
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barbelboi
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Didn't know you had a action man doll Simon..................
nicepix
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Didn't know you had a action man doll Simon..................
I thought it was Corkers with his 2oz perch from Dam
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neil1970
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I had a long session today 4pm-til now - Tried many different swims, after bigger fish, and chalked up my first BLANK of the river season - I'm sure there will be many, many more to come
- Tried many different swims, after bigger fish, and chalked up my first BLANK of the river season - I'm sure there will be many, many more to comeitsfishingnotcatching
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Just over three hours on the Severn only produced what are fast becoming "The usual suspects", very small Chub, with a couple of Minnows and Gudgeon, best fish were the five Perch up to a good half pound. Not an expert but I reckon an extra foot of water is needed. Teme or Salwarpe on Sunday I think.
neil1970
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Really lovely afternoon today. Simon took me to a bit of club water I had never visited before.
Simon caught lots on the stick float.
I blanked with one foul hooked bream on the lure, but who cares with weather and scenery like this -
Simon caught lots on the stick float.
I blanked with one foul hooked bream on the lure, but who cares with weather and scenery like this -
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theartist
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Went down the Ver yesterday just for a short session managed a few nice dace and good chub to just under 3lb lost a decent brownie which was a shame as it was inside the m25
Took dad out for a few hours on the Gade down at the moor today and had 60 roach, dace and perch but not a single chub or even a chublet. Nice to see the silvers coming back there but the big stuff are thin on the ground.
Took dad out for a few hours on the Gade down at the moor today and had 60 roach, dace and perch but not a single chub or even a chublet. Nice to see the silvers coming back there but the big stuff are thin on the ground.
peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
Iwhile Neil went roving I sat in one spot, mainly for its shade and a nice short glide of gravel across to my right.
Started on bomb and maggot and got bitted out in seconds so I changed to banded pellet. A few pulls and twitches but nothing definitive.
Changed to stick float and pin and pinged maggots and pinkies for a few minutes and then cast across. Float buried for 3 consecutive casts and 3 pristine chublets around 8". Quiet for a while so I stopped and pinged more bait for a few minutes before trying again. First chuck a small dace followed by a perch then a better dace. Interestingly I couldn't get a bite on single red maggot, double pinkie various colours, all they wanted was red maggot and white pinkie combo?
Proper good afternoon out.
Happy dace....
Started on bomb and maggot and got bitted out in seconds so I changed to banded pellet. A few pulls and twitches but nothing definitive.
Changed to stick float and pin and pinged maggots and pinkies for a few minutes and then cast across. Float buried for 3 consecutive casts and 3 pristine chublets around 8". Quiet for a while so I stopped and pinged more bait for a few minutes before trying again. First chuck a small dace followed by a perch then a better dace. Interestingly I couldn't get a bite on single red maggot, double pinkie various colours, all they wanted was red maggot and white pinkie combo?
Proper good afternoon out.
Happy dace....
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Not a bad afternoon on the river by any account and not without its moments either.
I fair fancied a day on the stick and maggot amassing silvers but with the light float rod in for the tip repair I opted instead for the ultra-light 10’ bomb rod and got myself nicely dug in under some welcome dappled shade.
A cosy little number with just a hint of tension, low enough as to just avoid the wash from passing boats and high enough to just about keep me backside dry…
I’d just started rigging up when something caught my eye slightly downriver and given that the river’s around seventy yards wide at this point I was surprised to see a snake that had decided it looked nicer on my bank, I’d heard they were good swimmers but this fella maintained a bolt straight line even in the strong flow…
I managed to get a couple of pics before putting the phone on a large rock behind me when low and behold another snake started to make its way across the river, if I’m lucky enough to manage another thirty years of fishing I doubt I’ll ever see again what then unfolded as the snake got around a third of the way across before there was an almighty hit from below and it vanished for good!
What are the chances eh?
Anyway on to the fishing...
With silvers the target I had decided to go reasonably light seeing as the water was so clear and tied up a size 16 spade end to a 3.6lb hooklink and rigged up a micro cage feeder to take a mix of light groundbait laced with red maggots…
After a few initial casts the bites started to materialise along with the desired silvers, mainly chublets with a few perch of which a couple were nettters and a decent stamp of roach which surprised me a little considering the bright conditions and clear water…
Cracking!
I think I enjoyed a good two or three hours of fish-a-chuck and then things went very quiet very quickly which usually means one of two things, either a pike has moved in or the whiskers have arrived and fearing the latter on the gear I was using I slackened off the drag and sat patiently.
I didn’t have to wait too long and after about ten minutes the three foot twitch materialised and it was then a case of easssy does it and hang on in there as a barbel tore off from the bottom of the nearside shelf where I’d been underarming the tiny feeder all afternoon and straight out into mid-river and the battle was on.
Without going into things chapter and verse I eventually managed to get the net under her after she had displayed some exceptional manners and swam upstream in the closing seconds which made the job of drawing the fish over the net with the flow in my favour much easier and I think I’d just managed my second double of the season on a 3.6lb hooklink!
Now… Does anyone remember the pic I posted last week of a barbel of around 4lbs with the deformity of a kink in its body?
Well have a look at this…
This is from pretty much the same stretch of river albeit around half a mile away from where I caught the previous one and there were no signs of surface damage to either fish so I reckon there’s something genetic that’s gone through the breeding and become hereditary.
In both cases the fish were otherwise in tip top condition, I tried to get a better view of the kink from above whilst I was resting her…
Anyway, as the barbel had arrived I quickly whipped on a size 10 spade end which would be crammed with as many maggots as I could get on it along with a heavier 5lb hooklink (the maximum the rod is rated to) which assisted me in landing another barbel of around 5lbs and this time a straight one (!) along with a few bits and an eel of around a pound last off which sent me packing around 8pm and half an hour or so earlier than planned due to the fact I’d bent the hook removing it.
I think that’s more than enough for one day, next out Saturday and I think the float rod might just be ready in time… :w
I fair fancied a day on the stick and maggot amassing silvers but with the light float rod in for the tip repair I opted instead for the ultra-light 10’ bomb rod and got myself nicely dug in under some welcome dappled shade.
A cosy little number with just a hint of tension, low enough as to just avoid the wash from passing boats and high enough to just about keep me backside dry…
I’d just started rigging up when something caught my eye slightly downriver and given that the river’s around seventy yards wide at this point I was surprised to see a snake that had decided it looked nicer on my bank, I’d heard they were good swimmers but this fella maintained a bolt straight line even in the strong flow…
I managed to get a couple of pics before putting the phone on a large rock behind me when low and behold another snake started to make its way across the river, if I’m lucky enough to manage another thirty years of fishing I doubt I’ll ever see again what then unfolded as the snake got around a third of the way across before there was an almighty hit from below and it vanished for good!
What are the chances eh?
Anyway on to the fishing...
With silvers the target I had decided to go reasonably light seeing as the water was so clear and tied up a size 16 spade end to a 3.6lb hooklink and rigged up a micro cage feeder to take a mix of light groundbait laced with red maggots…
After a few initial casts the bites started to materialise along with the desired silvers, mainly chublets with a few perch of which a couple were nettters and a decent stamp of roach which surprised me a little considering the bright conditions and clear water…
Cracking!
I think I enjoyed a good two or three hours of fish-a-chuck and then things went very quiet very quickly which usually means one of two things, either a pike has moved in or the whiskers have arrived and fearing the latter on the gear I was using I slackened off the drag and sat patiently.
I didn’t have to wait too long and after about ten minutes the three foot twitch materialised and it was then a case of easssy does it and hang on in there as a barbel tore off from the bottom of the nearside shelf where I’d been underarming the tiny feeder all afternoon and straight out into mid-river and the battle was on.
Without going into things chapter and verse I eventually managed to get the net under her after she had displayed some exceptional manners and swam upstream in the closing seconds which made the job of drawing the fish over the net with the flow in my favour much easier and I think I’d just managed my second double of the season on a 3.6lb hooklink!
Now… Does anyone remember the pic I posted last week of a barbel of around 4lbs with the deformity of a kink in its body?
Well have a look at this…
This is from pretty much the same stretch of river albeit around half a mile away from where I caught the previous one and there were no signs of surface damage to either fish so I reckon there’s something genetic that’s gone through the breeding and become hereditary.
In both cases the fish were otherwise in tip top condition, I tried to get a better view of the kink from above whilst I was resting her…
Anyway, as the barbel had arrived I quickly whipped on a size 10 spade end which would be crammed with as many maggots as I could get on it along with a heavier 5lb hooklink (the maximum the rod is rated to) which assisted me in landing another barbel of around 5lbs and this time a straight one (!) along with a few bits and an eel of around a pound last off which sent me packing around 8pm and half an hour or so earlier than planned due to the fact I’d bent the hook removing it.
I think that’s more than enough for one day, next out Saturday and I think the float rod might just be ready in time… :w
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fruitowl
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Nice fish binka and I saw the picture of the barbel you posted earlier similar fish concerning that their seems to be a generic deformity in that stretch of river.
I do have a question for you do you by any chance own a suit of armour if not I would get one think you may need it for the bite protection just make sure you rust proof it.
I do have a question for you do you by any chance own a suit of armour if not I would get one think you may need it for the bite protection just make sure you rust proof it.
sumtime
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Lovely post, Binka, the snake would have made my day alone.
no-one in particular
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Lovely post, Binka, the snake would have made my day alone.
Ditto-interesting snake story, they are good swimmers though, seen plenty of grass snakes swimming over the years and they like to be near water.
neil1970
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A quick session, just over an hour produced two tiny jacks and eleven small perch; great fun
lambert1
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Following on from Steve's thread on the humble Gudgeon, I went in search of some, with the tactics I used as a kid. I gathered a tub full of worms from the compost heap and headed off to the river. A home made float fished on the deck and some liquidized bread for ground bait. Result Perch after Perch. I stopped counting when it got into the teens. The biggest was about the size that Neil is holding in his report. I did manage one Gudgeon, which was a very modest specimen indeed. When I was a kid it would have been the other way round, with Perch only turning up occasionally. I had a great time though and it was a great way to unwind after a tiring week in the heat. Good luck to all out over the weekend.
. When I was a kid it would have been the other way round, with Perch only turning up occasionally. I had a great time though and it was a great way to unwind after a tiring week in the heat. Good luck to all out over the weekend.
sam vimes
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Another shortish session on the river this evening, with no soggy ending this time. Decided to try a swim I rarely bother with, it ticks plenty of low water boxes, but rarely produces much for me, today was little different. An interesting start when a daft trout took a fancy to my plummet. Once I'd actually started fishing, I had a quick fire five trout and a dace before the swim died a death. Fish that had previously been topping n my swim dropped thirty yards downstream where I couldn't get at them.
A move to another spot was made fairly rapidly. It turned out to be a good move. The obligatory daft trout turned up almost instantly, but once I'd waded through them, the dace turned up in reasonably good numbers. Ended the evening with a tally of eleven trout and thirty one dace, with a couple of chublets thrown in for good measure.
A move to another spot was made fairly rapidly. It turned out to be a good move. The obligatory daft trout turned up almost instantly, but once I'd waded through them, the dace turned up in reasonably good numbers. Ended the evening with a tally of eleven trout and thirty one dace, with a couple of chublets thrown in for good measure.
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I had several hours on the river this evening but only caught one chub of about 3lb, a few chub of 6 or 7 ounces and some trout which went to around 2lb. A bit dissapointing as I was on the hunt for a barbel or three but there's always next time.
No pic's as it was too much hasstle to get to dry land, and none of the fish were worth photographing anyhow lol.
No pic's as it was too much hasstle to get to dry land, and none of the fish were worth photographing anyhow lol.
maggot_dangler
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Not a bad afternoon on the river by any account and not without its moments either.
I fair fancied a day on the stick and maggot amassing silvers but with the light float rod in for the tip repair I opted instead for the ultra-light 10’ bomb rod and got myself nicely dug in under some welcome dappled shade.
A cosy little number with just a hint of tension, low enough as to just avoid the wash from passing boats and high enough to just about keep me backside dry…
I’d just started rigging up when something caught my eye slightly downriver and given that the river’s around seventy yards wide at this point I was surprised to see a snake that had decided it looked nicer on my bank, I’d heard they were good swimmers but this fella maintained a bolt straight line even in the strong flow…
I managed to get a couple of pics before putting the phone on a large rock behind me when low and behold another snake started to make its way across the river, if I’m lucky enough to manage another thirty years of fishing I doubt I’ll ever see again what then unfolded as the snake got around a third of the way across before there was an almighty hit from below and it vanished for good!
What are the chances eh?
Anyway on to the fishing...
With silvers the target I had decided to go reasonably light seeing as the water was so clear and tied up a size 16 spade end to a 3.6lb hooklink and rigged up a micro cage feeder to take a mix of light groundbait laced with red maggots…
After a few initial casts the bites started to materialise along with the desired silvers, mainly chublets with a few perch of which a couple were nettters and a decent stamp of roach which surprised me a little considering the bright conditions and clear water…
Cracking!
I think I enjoyed a good two or three hours of fish-a-chuck and then things went very quiet very quickly which usually means one of two things, either a pike has moved in or the whiskers have arrived and fearing the latter on the gear I was using I slackened off the drag and sat patiently.
I didn’t have to wait too long and after about ten minutes the three foot twitch materialised and it was then a case of easssy does it and hang on in there as a barbel tore off from the bottom of the nearside shelf where I’d been underarming the tiny feeder all afternoon and straight out into mid-river and the battle was on.
Without going into things chapter and verse I eventually managed to get the net under her after she had displayed some exceptional manners and swam upstream in the closing seconds which made the job of drawing the fish over the net with the flow in my favour much easier and I think I’d just managed my second double of the season on a 3.6lb hooklink!
Now… Does anyone remember the pic I posted last week of a barbel of around 4lbs with the deformity of a kink in its body?
Well have a look at this…
This is from pretty much the same stretch of river albeit around half a mile away from where I caught the previous one and there were no signs of surface damage to either fish so I reckon there’s something genetic that’s gone through the breeding and become hereditary.
In both cases the fish were otherwise in tip top condition, I tried to get a better view of the kink from above whilst I was resting her…
Anyway, as the barbel had arrived I quickly whipped on a size 10 spade end which would be crammed with as many maggots as I could get on it along with a heavier 5lb hooklink (the maximum the rod is rated to) which assisted me in landing another barbel of around 5lbs and this time a straight one (!) along with a few bits and an eel of around a pound last off which sent me packing around 8pm and half an hour or so earlier than planned due to the fact I’d bent the hook removing it.
I think that’s more than enough for one day, next out Saturday and I think the float rod might just be ready in time… :w
You sure that is a snake ? looks more otter like to me difficult to tell with such degraded images as required by the site but i am sure i can see an ear ..
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binka
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Yeah it was 100% snake PG, you can't see it in the pic due to the glare but I could clearly see the rest of its body slithering through the water