How did you get on?

[103841]

Lakhyaman, a fascinating and interesting post, please report back after your next trip.:thumbs:

 

[103841]

Bit of a late report, from 2 fridays ago.
I managed to pop out for a quick dusk session and got a quick lure caught treble as the light was failing. All fish came to a 2" white kopyoto lure

What size hook do you use for a lure of that size Neil?

 

[neil1970]

What size hook do you use for a lure of that size Neil?

Hi s63 size 2

 

[neil1970]

We left NW.London at 7.20am, looking forward to a day down Swanage Pier.
Due to the M3 being shut we decided to hit Poole Quay instead....arrived there at 2pm - nightmare!mg:

Anyway, we all had a good time and plenty of fish, with the lads catching their first (nano) Bass.
I managed 7 species, which I was happy with, although nothing new showed up.








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[108831]

Bits of rag/rubber Neil? Do you get any flatties there?

 

[barbelboi]

I fished the mouth of a backwater again where it meets the river on Friday and today for a few hours for dace and what a difference a weekend makes. On Friday it was it’s usual foot to eighteen inches with very little movement and the gravel bottom on view – today was the first time I’ve seen some colour in the water for over a year with the depth up around a foot and a cracking trotting flow. I’d almost forgotten what holding back was like.............For both visits I used the Titan2000 and Youngs BJ lightweight pin.

Funny enough the catch rate was pretty much the same both days with a dace, or a bump, virtually every trot. Fished from 10am – 2pm both days although it made a change not being able to see the gravel bottom today..

 

[mikench]

There is clearly considerable life left in the old dog !

Looks lovely!

 

[peter crabtree]

Old codgers match today GUC near Tring on a venue we haven't fished for about 6 years as the parking is very restricted. Years ago we'd park in the pub car park on the canal side but a new licencee banned us. Fortunately there's been a change of landlord and he is happy to have us back..
Once again it was rod, reel and float only so it was waggler for me as I drew on a turning bay and it was quite wide, deep down the track but about 3' deep across in the bay. 5BB balsa insert waggler was my choice for easy casting, bulk and dropper to a 18B611. Expecting skimmers I fed nothing to start with, just a worm tail and caster on the hook. Within seconds the float lifted and I was into skimmer no1. After a couple more it dried up a bit so I chucked 3 golf ball sized balls of groundbait laced with caster and chop and went for a walk up to see how Son of Meldrew was getting on. Not good,
Back to my peg and had about 7 more skimmers (none over a pound) and a roach, all on worm tail and caster.
At the scales I had 4lb8oz and enough for 3rd overall...
Winner had 7lb.
2nd (our 88 year old member) 5lb+ on punch...
Sorry no pics but my host is doing maintenance but here's my skimmers .

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[tigger]

I'd planned on doing some legering on the river weekend just gone but I didn't manage it.
Anyhow I had a drive over today but couldn't bring myself to take the leger gear that was sat there ready to go, instead I made up a supero avon rod and went trotting. When I got to the river it was up about a foot or so and quite coloured. A chap I know had arrived just before me and as I walked up river I collected his feeders, bottle of pop and packets of crisps, it turned out they'd been leaking from a hole in his bag lol. I knew who he was because of the feeders which he makes himself. When I got to the spot he was (where I wanted to fish) I re united him with his stuff.
I went up to the next swim and before i'd even started to walk across the river he had a barbel. I had a nice chub, lots of small dace and small'sh chub but the chap legering had another five barbel. I am going to have to take my leger rod next time....I think lol.

 

[sam vimes]

A change scenery for me today. Travelled a few miles further than my usual river haunts. Results were remarkably similar. Six grayling, six tiny dace, one parr and a dirty great brownie. Naturally, a veritable horde of minnows had to be waded through to get them.

 

[neil1970]

Bits of rag/rubber Neil? Do you get any flatties there?

Hi whitty, not sure about flatties mate. The bait was isome and berkley gulp

 

[seth49]

Had a change yesterday same lake but put my feeder rod out for bream,Roach etc, plus one carp rod beside me as a sleeper, very slow on the feeder , only a few bream and skimmers, did get a nice crucian on the feeder, out in the water, not in the margins were I usually catch them, as the nights are drawing in now we started earlier at eight thirty.

Still fished till seven, the last hour of daylight is usually good for a carp or two, just one for me today, a nice Mirror of eleven pounds eleven, mick had a new pb from here, a nice common of sixteen pound three, had a wander round at dinner time, nobody doing much at all.

Still it was a nice day to be out, bit bright and still though, could have done with more cloud and wind, back again tomorrow, see what that brings.?

 

[nottskev]

Unusually, I don't have a go-to place these days. All my favourites have been inconsistent through the summer and I'm dithering around trying to guess a good choice on the day. Monday I was back at the Deep Lake to test how the tendonitis is shaping up with a bit of pole-fishing.

Most pegs are steep-sided so 10m or so will get you into 9 or 10'. I like to find spots to left and right with the same depth, so I can feed two swims differently and swap between them without changing the rig. The bream come in different shoal sizes; you might catch fish of 1-2lb or 3-4lb. I'm sure some will wonder what the attraction is. Well, to catch well you need to get a lot of bites and actually see them, so you have to plumb up exactly, feed right for the day, get your tell-tale shot working and read the often tiny movements of the float, then get your fish out on small hooks and light line, typically an 18 on .10. Traditional stuff, even though half the anglers are after the lake's big carp.


Today the bream came to pellet and corn feed, but I could only get a bite on single or double red maggot. This meant putting up with a fair few tiny perch, although the odd better one came along

And the stamp of bream today were at the smaller end of the bigger fish, if that makes sense.

I caught very little for the first two hours, but with a bit of patience had a dozen bream and a few pounds of perch and roach in the second two.


No day out these days is complete without the 10 minute wrangle with a carp, and today's effort resulted in me landing this perfectly-scaled........scale.

 

[103841]

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of watching a grass snake zig zag acros the Millers Arms weir pool in Canterbury. Today I went one better and witnessed a python, an old one too, has a name, Terry Jones. Quite apt really as he has in the past been involved with the Millers Tale and the Canterbury Tales
Perhaps he was lured by the scent of my bait..spam, spam, spam, bread and spam..

Nothing caught from the pool with many pike still on point.

I'm still feeling giddy with success having received the hallowed Peter Crabtree Bad Angling award and with that in mind headed straight for the scene of the crime. This time though with a rod some 4ft longer than the stalking rod that caused much distress a few days back.

I felt confident and it wasn't long before another chub had succumbed to my cheesepaste and this time I was able to guide it along the bank to an acesss point where it was landed safely. No fluke either as another was hooked some moments later. This is a "hot" swim and I was tempted to hack away at the nettles and bramble to create a serviceable swim but that would give the game away so for the time being I shall continue to plunder this swim until it becomes common knowledge, having said that hardly anybody apart from myself and another angler fish this stretch regularly.

Had two more chub to 4lb along the free stretch which made for a good two hour session. Best of all was the fact someone has cleared all the litter/fly tipping from the water, clothes horse included.

And now for something completely different..............

 

[nottskev]

I wasn't intending to fish today, and the forecast was for a windy and wet afternoon. But then I read that second place in a local weekend match – Middle Trent Championship – went to a bloke who caught 17lb of dace on groundbait feeder from a peg 10 minutes from my front door. I was intrigued, and you can fish feeder in any weather, so I scraped together a bit of bait and went to give it a try.

The river was in lovely shape, with a bit of colour and a few inches on. And the wet and windy stuff is just starting now, as I write this, so I regretted leaving the float gear at home.

Dace on the feeder can have you tearing your hair out, so the rig needed a bit of thought. I started with a small 4-hole cage feeder in a short loop with a shortish tail, thinking that when balanced with a bow the dace would move the feeder and hook themselves and I'd just reel them in. No chance. By the time the bow pulled tight, and the stretch is quite pacey, the dace had been and gone and the bait was ragged. I found the only way I could hook them was to stop the line when the feeder hit the water and follow it down with the rod on a tight line. That gave you a chance of a hook-up on the rattling bites. I was wishing Mr 17lb was around. I had a few questions for him.


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When you did connect, the dace went to a decent size

And the highlight of the afternoon was this – the first grayling I've caught, or indeed seen, from the Trent. So unexpected, that when I saw its slim profile in the water, I thought it was a miniature barbel.

I managed to hook a few of the elusive dace, and had an absorbing couple of hours, and I'll be making inquiries about the way the experts set up for dace feeder-fishing. That's obviously the key, as I had far more bites than fish!

 

[maggot_dangler]

Had a brief trip to the club pool today .
Grand total of 1 fish mind it was a very nice perch of just over 2 lbs fished for about 1.5 hrs then home still not too good wish i could find out what the heck is going on it jiggering up me fishing .

PG ...

 

[peter crabtree]

Hoping my fishy pics will show tonight, here are the pics from the old codgers yesterday...

And finally the blue seatbox has the occupant present....

 

[flightliner]

T time again (tares) on the lower tidal Trent. Pity about the late turn of tide but even so I left early in order to have a look at things in order to get the most from what was likely to be a shortish session.
A look at the venue I did well on last week seemed fair but a little shallower than before but it was busy with barbel anglers and not wanting to be cramped with a running flote day decided to look elsewhere.
My next look in had promise so I legged my gear to a swim that had a nice pace and a bit more depth than my first venue .
Finally I was all set up with my thirteen foot spliced tip rod along with a six number four John Dean stick float shorted shirtbutton style along with a size 20 wide gape spade end hook to a 1•5 maxima hooklength. Float tip colour was important as with trees lining the opposite bank the float was in light and dark shade downstream so orange being better than red was my chosen tip colour.
The tide turned at around two pm and it was a wierd one, it rose but with hardly any pace, more a dragging its heels sort of thing and one that I have only seen a few times in decades.
Stranger still it began to ebb a little over an hour later, very strange as its normally about two hours plus for the turnaround?.
No matter as I had an hour more than expected to do my business.
Five minutes of putting hemp in the swim at ten second intervals seemed to do the trick as my second run down had me landing a lovely roach that had surely never seen daylight.
A hoped for start but my float top wasn't easy to see so I added my get out of jail card in the shape of a tiny piece of shrink tubing painted black and white top n bottom in order to see with less strain on my eyes-- a big improvement that definately put extra fish in my net.
The fish came steadily in ones and twos and what fish they were, mostly going nearly two to the pound, no tiny summertime roach or bleak that can go maybe sixteen to the pound if you use maggots.
The best roach was a bit of a Trent stunner that I put on the scales it going one pound seven ounce , I was chuffed with that one as its been a year or more since the stickfloat gave me one that size.
Five thirty and I had to get back home but not before I stopped a guy with three big dogs to see if he would take a pik of my catch.
Thanks whoever you are!!
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[Pete Shears]

Out on the river Wreake this morning for a change as the reservoir seems to have switched off since the cool northerlies set in during the first week of September,even the wind shifting to the south recently hasn't made things better.
Legering crust in a deep pool brought two chub of 2lb+ to the net and two dropped off,it made a change to catch something that pulled back after 2 consecutive blanks and only small roach & skimmers from the reservoir.
As usual the wildlife gets a mention - white egrets,buzzard,herons and kingfishers.

 

[rubio]

T time again (tares) on the lower tidal Trent. Pity about the late turn of tide but even so I left early in order to have a look at things in order to get the most from what was likely to be a shortish session.
A look at the venue I did well on last week seemed fair but a little shallower than before but it was busy with barbel anglers and not wanting to be cramped with a running flote day decided to look elsewhere.
My next look in had promise so I legged my gear to a swim that had a nice pace and a bit more depth than my first venue .
Finally I was all set up with my thirteen foot spliced tip rod along with a six number four John Dean stick float shorted shirtbutton style along with a size 20 wide gape spade end hook to a 1•5 maxima hooklength. Float tip colour was important as with trees lining the opposite bank the float was in light and dark shade downstream so orange being better than red was my chosen tip colour.
The tide turned at around two pm and it was a wierd one, it rose but with hardly any pace, more a dragging its heels sort of thing and one that I have only seen a few times in decades.
Stranger still it began to ebb a little over an hour later, very strange as its normally about two hours plus for the turnaround?.
No matter as I had an hour more than expected to do my business.
Five minutes of putting hemp in the swim at ten second intervals seemed to do the trick as my second run down had me landing a lovely roach that had surely never seen daylight.
A hoped for start but my float top wasn't easy to see so I added my get out of jail card in the shape of a tiny piece of shrink tubing painted black and white top n bottom in order to see with less strain on my eyes-- a big improvement that definately put extra fish in my net.
The fish came steadily in ones and twos and what fish they were, mostly going nearly two to the pound, no tiny summertime roach or bleak that can go maybe sixteen to the pound if you use maggots.
The best roach was a bit of a Trent stunner that I put on the scales it going one pound seven ounce , I was chuffed with that one as its been a year or more since the stickfloat gave me one that size.
Five thirty and I had to get back home but not before I stopped a guy with three big dogs to see if he would take a pik of my catch.
Thanks whoever you are!!
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That's a bag of beauties.
Neap tides currently and I believe quite flat out in the north sea with high pressure and sw winds. All of which might limit tidal impact.
Can I ask if you've ever tried pole feeder? Obviously just for those days when the wind is all wrong for the float.