Alan Whitty
Well-known member
I've had some great fish, but never a pound d dace, or a 4lb perch, or 10lb tench, I think my chances of those and a few more 2lb plus roach seem to be harder and harder to achieve...
What are your fishing amitions?
- Thread starter peterjg
- Start date
Alan Whitty
Well-known member
I have had a 15oz one and several 14.5oz ones, last season I weighed one dace in amongst a lot of big ones, no keepnet, just picked one out of the blue out of interest, 11ozs, I had lots that looked similar, so I could have had one 12ozish, a specimen,but a pounder, I've seen them, Rob(the artist) had them several years ago from the venue to 1lb 2ozs(might have been 3ozs), I've seen the pictures, bloody big....
I have fished a deep lake this year where in recent years roach of 2lbs 13ozs have been caught, but I haven't had one even remotely close to that, in fact the roach fishing has been positively disappointing...
I have fished a deep lake this year where in recent years roach of 2lbs 13ozs have been caught, but I haven't had one even remotely close to that, in fact the roach fishing has been positively disappointing...
As a (moderaterly successful) match angler, my ambitions are threefold
1. to keep enjoying going fishing (tricky in the current weather
)
2. To qualify for the riverfest Final this year (first year in ages that not had a holiday planned for the date!)
3. To win the Wye Championships (I did manage the charity match with 128 pounds of big chub
)
along The way I’ve been fortunate enough to catch some fine specimens, which are always a joy even if they don’t compare to national records, but I would love to catch some more double figure bream.
1. to keep enjoying going fishing (tricky in the current weather
)2. To qualify for the riverfest Final this year (first year in ages that not had a holiday planned for the date!)
3. To win the Wye Championships (I did manage the charity match with 128 pounds of big chub
) along The way I’ve been fortunate enough to catch some fine specimens, which are always a joy even if they don’t compare to national records, but I would love to catch some more double figure bream.
Alan Whitty
Well-known member
You are amongst a band of match anglers who fished during my time and continued their keeness to competitive angling, and though whilst catching I fish like I was competing, I enjoy catching quality fish, catching 2-3oz roach is OK now and again, but I normally would be trying not to hook those...and I understand the Wye fish are generally better than that, apart from the bleak, yuk...
yes, although there has been an explosion of smaller chub in the last few years, which you see on the winter matches at Belmont).
A lot of them are now in the 1-2 pound category, but when I had the big catch in the charity shield (2020) they averaged at nearly five pounds (Good fun on the waggler and caster).
i have to say that I’d rather be busy than sitting out for one or two fish.
Alan Whitty
Well-known member
I'd rather not catch a bleak, and back in the day I was proficient at catching weight of em on the whip(not to Wye standards however), but they are as boring as a drill, give me gudgeon every day of the week, so one or two lumps is more interesting than 600 bleak, and from what I hear those Wye bleak stop you catching the chub, roach and dace on maggot and caster....yuk.
I have to say I agree with you on bleak … I get bored after 90mins or so.
I’ve had mixed experiences of fishing through them. On one occasion I had 28 pounds of dace and roach out of a 14ft deep peg (would have caught more if I’d had floats that took more than 5g!). On another occasion I really struggled to catch roach and ended up resorting to bleak for the last hour.