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Nigel Connor(ACA ,SAA)
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Thanks for that Steve.
As ever it was a great day out with the Clattercote fish keeping us guessing throughout.
Well done to Graham who along with Steve Wilson had good nets of fish on the method at range when eveyone else struggled.
The fish under ther boards were something else.I persisted in fishing badly and inaccurately at distance(apologies to Gareth next door for some fairly wayward casting) for too long and only concentrated close in in the last hour or so when I hooked and landed two fish.It brought back memories of snag fishing for barbel on the Swale in my Yorkshire days.The adrenalin was certainly going strong and my apologies to the elderly couple and everyone else who witnessed some fairly industrial language as i tried to "coax" a fish out from literally under their feet.
I konw where I will be fishing from the off next year when of course the fish will be 80yards out in the middle.Thats why I love fishing though!
One point I would like to raise though is that old barbless v barbed debate.The two fish I caught had a lot of mouth damage where the size 10 hook had cut through.A barbed hook is much better in hit and hold situations surely as it stays put. One for another thread perhaps.
Discuss on this thread.
As ever it was a great day out with the Clattercote fish keeping us guessing throughout.
Well done to Graham who along with Steve Wilson had good nets of fish on the method at range when eveyone else struggled.
The fish under ther boards were something else.I persisted in fishing badly and inaccurately at distance(apologies to Gareth next door for some fairly wayward casting) for too long and only concentrated close in in the last hour or so when I hooked and landed two fish.It brought back memories of snag fishing for barbel on the Swale in my Yorkshire days.The adrenalin was certainly going strong and my apologies to the elderly couple and everyone else who witnessed some fairly industrial language as i tried to "coax" a fish out from literally under their feet.
I konw where I will be fishing from the off next year when of course the fish will be 80yards out in the middle.Thats why I love fishing though!
One point I would like to raise though is that old barbless v barbed debate.The two fish I caught had a lot of mouth damage where the size 10 hook had cut through.A barbed hook is much better in hit and hold situations surely as it stays put. One for another thread perhaps.
Discuss on this thread.