Fishing in a winter wonderland!

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Should have stayed indoors in front of the fire playing Black-Ops. However, I still had a few pints of maggots left over from the Grayling fishing last week so would be criminal to waste them.....

Started ledgering under a willow tree and had perch after perch, followed by a scrapper chub of just under 3lb's. I caught a nice roach of around half a pound and bombed of to get my pike gear sitting in the van. First run down, caught a lovely 17lb4oz pike!!!!

I would never fancy my chances catching in a snowstorm and never really considered it viable. I think this is a lesson learnt -steady cold weather doesn't put the fish off..

The Chav is still Jamming them out!!:j
 

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Here, Im getting the hand of this downloading rhubarb!!

Good luck with the Grayling fishing Sean. If it's the Itchen you are fishing - it is stunning!! I would favour the lower part of the beat. there are some long, deep steady glides that seemed to hold a lot of the better fish. Good luck mate!
 

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Bit far for me Christian! I'm off to the Calder which is a bit closer and nearly as good as the Itchen. It's a spate river so the fishing is more interesting too! ;)
 
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chav professor said:
Here, Im getting the hand of this downloading rhubarb!!

Good luck with the Grayling fishing Sean. If it's the Itchen you are fishing - it is stunning!! I would favour the lower part of the beat. there are some long, deep steady glides that seemed to hold a lot of the better fish. Good luck mate!
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That's a cracking photo - pike in the snow. Is it Angling Times this week? :D
 
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Nice fish Christian!

I still had a good pint of maggots left over from the Itchen, but Tuesday the garage fridge caused the house circuits to pop off. I've had to disconnect it, frozen the maggots and my worms (couldn't take them to the Itchen) now reside in the greenhouse. Damn this cold weather.
 
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Those poor maggots have frozen and thawed a number of times in the back of the van. Tough little buggers.

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Neil Maidment said:
That's a cracking photo - pike in the snow. Is it Angling Times this week? :D
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Now come on Neil, you know i like to hide my light under a bushell.
:j

Yes, how do you upload bigger pics?
 
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Not sure what's going on then. Perhaps the techie can resolve it?

This is what I get when I copy the "Image Location" and post it via the "Insert Link" button. It should show the full size pic in a separate window when you click it:

http://www.fishingmagic.com/forums/...ishing-winter-wonderland-snowy-pike-forum.jpg

And again via the "Insert Image" button. This way the pic is displayed directly:

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It seems to be an attachment. How was it first uploaded Christian?
 
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It could be because of your settings in your User Control Panel.


  • Go to User CP (top left of forum headers)
  • Third box down Settings and Options
  • Fourth Option Edit Options
  • Third Box Thread Display Options
  • First Box Visible Post Elements
  • Make sure the third box Show Images is checked
Maybe............. :confused:

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This one is directly linked from Photobucket:

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Ah!! but you probably can't see it!!!! :wh
 
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Photobucket works for me too. As Neil says, it automatically resizes the pic.

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[/COLOR]http://i1131.photobucket.com/albums/m543/chavprofessor/pike2-12-10024.jpg

AAArrhh My ICT skills suck

but here is the link to an image.

An error message comes up when i cut and paste the image into the link box for uploading pics. it states the lie size is too larger. I must have missed something eg-automatic resizing.
 
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Well that was a toughie! The Calder was at Summer level, gin clear and a balmy 1.5C. Air temp was -3.5C wen I started, rising to a positively tropical -0.5C by 4.00pm when I packed in. A lazy downstream breeze made presentation challenging to say the least so it was lots of short trots to explore a swim. I stopped off in ASDA on the way and bought some glycerine which kept the rod rings ice free for about half an hour at a time.

I finished up with 2 trout of around 1lb. Pulled out of 3 grayling (tiny, tiny dips of the float) and lost 2 very big trout that would have spooled me if I hadn't hadn't clamped down on the spool and held hard.

An enjoyable day!
 
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