Fishing this Saturday

matt68 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-02-2010, 06:37

Off fishing this Saturday,

Gonna fish the match water at one of my local fisheries, fished the same water last Saturday, had a couple of F1's and missed a couple of bites, it was very slow as most pegs were unfishable coz of the ice!..

Last weekend i took no maggot with me, just corn so i would'nt be tempted fishin for silvers,... fished the pole out at 10 or 11mtr on just the skin of corn on a 20 hook with next to no feed, just the odd chopped piece of corn!

Think it's the first time i've ever been winter fishing and taken no maggot, but corn works well at this venue in the winter with some the match anglers baggin as many as twenty odd F1's, as happened just two weeks ago in the cold conditions!...

peter crabtree · #2 (**permalink**) 05-02-2010, 07:36

Hi Matt, why not have 2 lines going? One for corn say at your left at 10m,and a maggot line on your right. If it's a match then silvers could make a lot of difference at the weigh in. And don't forget your margins, left and right, 4 lines is better than one
good luck...

matt68 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-02-2010, 11:42

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Originally Posted by peter crabtree

Hi Matt, why not have 2 lines going? One for corn say at your left at 10m,and a maggot line on your right. If it's a match then silvers could make a lot of difference at the weigh in. And don't forget your margins, left and right, 4 lines is better than one
good luck...

Hi Peter, not fishing a match, just pleasure fishing, still tend to only fish one line at a time, may give the feeder rod a go though as the island on this water is about 17mts and me poles only 12.5mts!...

Cheers
Matt...

slime monster · #4 (**permalink**) 05-02-2010, 16:59

I am sure Peters advice is to feed 4 lines and inquire in each...standard match practice, my tip is feed corn for a late purple hour on one line .

matt68 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-02-2010, 17:26

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Originally Posted by slime monster

I am sure Peters advice is to feed 4 lines and inquire in each...standard match practice, my tip is feed corn for a late purple hour on one line .

Ah sorry, is that a match fishing term? miss understood the lingo sorry!...

Just wondering if you think this is worth a try.....When you squeeze the kernal out of a piece of corn, how about injecting some liquid scopex into the corn skin, using the nosel type bottle?

Sure to add a lot of scent into your swim without the need to feed mutch, may have been tried before, or am i just complicating things?....

peter crabtree · #6 (**permalink**) 05-02-2010, 19:50

you don't need injections . just soak your corn in flavour over night ,or freeze it for later.

matt68 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-02-2010, 17:45

Hi folks,

Just back from a great afternoons fishing, got to Manor house farm fishery at about 12:00pm to find the pond i wanted to fish, the match pond frozen with one angler practicing for a match the following Sunday there, who had to break the ice on his peg!

So had a peep over the hedge at pond one, plenty of pegs fishable without breaking any ice so set up, soon started to catch skimmers with the odd good Roach, after about two hours fishing landed my first bronze bream of about 2lb, then a steady run of better sized skimmers up to 1lb!

Then when it got to about 3pm had a good run of bronze bream, and a roach that had to be getting on for a pound in weight, packed up at 5pmwith a total of 26 fish mostly bream, oh forgot to mention hooked a carp it took off taking a lot of number 12 latex out but spat the hook!

All in all a nice days February fishing, may even go tomorrow before the big freeze comes in thats forcast for next week!..........