How did you get on?

[mikench]

Ik zal u op uw woord geloven

 

[wetthrough]

Very small mouth for an Ide

 

[Mark Wintle]

Very small mouth for an Ide

Check the lateral line scale count; it's around 58 to 60 which is way too high for a roach but corresponds correctly for an ide.

 

[Alan Whitty]

Scales(roach's scales are larger and more distinct), no red eye and colouration of the scales and fins are wrong for a roach....lovely fish to catch mind.

 

[mikench]

I hadn’t considered an ide as we were not aware of their presence in this lake. It was a nice fish and fought well.

 

[Alan Whitty]

Yes, they are beautiful fish and grow to quite a size, they can make things difficult for anglers netting a fish and returning it quickly identification wise, when I first encountered them I wondered what they were, the owner stocked loads of them, plus roach, rudd and chub, I asked him if he was trying to confuse us yokels...

 

[jon atkinson]

If that's a roach I'm a Dutchman; it's an ide.

That was my first thought

 

[seth49]

Back on our syndicate water yesterday, as it fished well on Tuesday and it’s easier to drive to due to the horrendous roadworks on the main road we use to get to the fisheries, wasnt to bad yesterday as a lot of drivers seem to be avoiding this road, just the heard this morning that it’s been extended for another month as well.

anyway another good day yesterday, with 17 tench, 5 F1s, 1 carp, and my first crucian from here this year, which was nice to see, all caught on the pole on corn again, seems to be the best bait at the moment, with a lot using it.

it was best in the morning, and then it tailed of in the afternoon, but we left earlier to avoid the traffic, which worked well for once.

 

[no-one in particular]

Maybe I will try the corn on the park lake Seth, haven't tried it yet just bread and a bit of occasional luncheon meat, never thought to try the corn but have a tin in my bag. I knew a bloke once that used to fish a big shallow weedy lake near Canterbury I used to go to. He would set up and throw nearly all of a big tin of sweetcorn in before he started , then he just just used to fish over it all day and he used to catch a lot of tench and occasional other species, fish came and went but by the end of the day he had a lot of fish and it was a hard lake. Don't think I will do that, for one I am only fishing for a few hours but, I often think it is not a bad idea if your going to fish all day.

 

[Alan Whitty]

Try feeding just pellet(in small amounts) and fish, meat, corn or bread on the hook, do not feed those baits at all, it's surprising...

 

[riverman]

nice session today.29 fish in the net including 2 doubles.13lb 9oz and 15lb 8oz.was at the needless pond or (hillcrest farm) in morley and boy did they hang on.17 f1's 9 tench and a cracking bream around the 5lb mark.5 of the f1's were taken on legered bread crust all the others on waggler fished mussels with loose fed hemp over the top.2nd visit to this pond this year and 3 doubles out already cant complain.

 

[Ray Roberts]

I had a strange day’s fishing. I went to a club venue which has two lakes. One is a tench and crucian only water and after having a walk around both I opted to fish that one. It has natural banks which I like. No early start for me today, I didn’t get set up until about 11o/clock. I chucked a couple of handfuls of 6mm pellets when I arrived and by the time I had my first cast it was fizzing away merrily. I started catching immediately but the stamp of the tench was rather small. I tried a variety of baits and settled on 9mm hard pellets I ended up with 76 tench up to 4.5lb and one solitary crucian. I think the crucian’s were bullied out. Two things happened that were strange, the first came when I netted a tench and scooped up two small crucians. The second was a grass snake that managed to get itself entangled in my landing net. It must have been patrolling the margin when it managed to snag itself up in the mesh. What a mess, it took me at least half an hour to free it. As snakes go it was very well behaved and very docile. When it was freed I put it on my unhooking mat, so it had the option of going back into the water or along the bank. It went back into the water and seemed none the worse for its adventure. It was a very good day’s float fishing and the tench put up a great fight on my Acolyte plus and three pound line. I would estimate that at least half of today’s fish were over three pounds, which made for an enjoyable day. Only one other angler was on the lake and he didn’t show up until late in the afternoon, which was also a bonus.

I bought a reel a few years back, it’s a Shimano twin power with a triple drag system. I’ve hammered that reel, not abused it, but it’s had a lot of use including lure fishing and if I could never buy another fixed spool reel I would be happy to fish with that one forever. A testament to how good quality tackle is these days. It still looks and works like new new.