cg74
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I got reading an old fishing diary I kept in my early days of angling:
11/9/1987 got home from school just before 4.00, on the bank and fishing by 4.15.
Stickfloat was the chosen tactic, 3.2lb Bayer Perlon mainline, I couldn't make out the details re hook length, I'm guessing it was either 2lb4oz or 2lb12oz Drennan Double Strength and a size 18 Drennan Carbon Chub hook.
My choice of float was a ****ie Carr 4 x no4 shot. Bait opted for was hemp, tares, casters and chopped worm.
Comments for the day were; dry bright with odd threatening cloud. The river running a little slow. Keepnet was repeatedly attacked by pike.
Catch return; a mixed bag of silvers, mainly roach to 1-08, plus dace to 8oz, gudgeon (30 to the lb), a couple of perch both 1lb and a chub of 3lb.
Total net weight in 4hrs of fishing; 42lb.
I looked at said swim earlier today and dispite the river being 8" above normal summer levels, it'd be a struggle to effectively fish a stick float - you certainly wouldn't want to hold it back, it'd leave you fishing a static bait!
Happy days (a distant memory now), I am doubtful it'd hold a dozen roach and dace combined, gudgeon are long gone, along with the pike, now though you could probably sneak a brace of chub weighing about 4 to 5lb, I suspect there may even be a couple of 1lb+ perch there.
Is it any wonder commercials are so popular, if I were in my early teens today, I know where I'd go and it sure wouldn't be the Cherwell!
11/9/1987 got home from school just before 4.00, on the bank and fishing by 4.15.
Stickfloat was the chosen tactic, 3.2lb Bayer Perlon mainline, I couldn't make out the details re hook length, I'm guessing it was either 2lb4oz or 2lb12oz Drennan Double Strength and a size 18 Drennan Carbon Chub hook.
My choice of float was a ****ie Carr 4 x no4 shot. Bait opted for was hemp, tares, casters and chopped worm.
Comments for the day were; dry bright with odd threatening cloud. The river running a little slow. Keepnet was repeatedly attacked by pike.
Catch return; a mixed bag of silvers, mainly roach to 1-08, plus dace to 8oz, gudgeon (30 to the lb), a couple of perch both 1lb and a chub of 3lb.
Total net weight in 4hrs of fishing; 42lb.
I looked at said swim earlier today and dispite the river being 8" above normal summer levels, it'd be a struggle to effectively fish a stick float - you certainly wouldn't want to hold it back, it'd leave you fishing a static bait!
Happy days (a distant memory now), I am doubtful it'd hold a dozen roach and dace combined, gudgeon are long gone, along with the pike, now though you could probably sneak a brace of chub weighing about 4 to 5lb, I suspect there may even be a couple of 1lb+ perch there.
Is it any wonder commercials are so popular, if I were in my early teens today, I know where I'd go and it sure wouldn't be the Cherwell!