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18/19 June

Harris Lake - Marsh Farm, Godalming   1430 - 0930   Warm and with sunny spells. Quite breezy at times (as it ALWAYS is here - must be the windiest place in Surrey!)   16 Tench; 5 over 4lb, biggest 5lb 2oz, all the rest between 2½ - 3½lb, 11 Roach, 4 over 1lb - biggest 1lb 8oz! , 1 Perch, 1lb 9oz (on float fished meat at midnight), 6 Rudd.   A cunning plan that was hatched a year ago. The day started with me popping over to the tackle shop for GAS exchang
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AddictedToScopex's Blog

18th June 2012 - A successful return

Well after the weekend turned out to be a bit of a washout I found myself finally getting on the small river last night for a few hours in the hope that it had dropped back to a normal level. When I arrived I saw that it was a nice level but quite a dark colour with sediment in the water. Not perfect but still fishable. I set up on a 2.5g woodys float and decided to give the trent a spin.   I made my way to a swim and started trickling maggots in. First few trots with the trent left me feelin
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Rusty's Blog

This was more like it

River Kennet, Speen Moors, Monday 18th June 2012   Well after the abject failure of the barbel hunt on Saturday it was nice to get back to a bit of general coarse fishing at a venue which has provided just that in the past. It was also nice to view the alarm clock somewhat later than 03:41 as I awoke and realised that I didn’t have to go to work on a Monday morning, what a great feeling that is.   So off to Didcot to buy bait…not quite. The traffic was unusually heavy and I soon discovered
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AddictedToScopex's Blog

17th June 2012 - Spinning around

Well the start to the new season has been a total washout. Both river options flooded and packed out with expectant anglers so I decided not to bother and to pick up the spinning outfit instead and head to the canal.   I arrived after dinner and started walking the banks and casting around. It was a nice day and I only needed to wear a t-shirt which has been rare of late. I fished a few likely looking spots with little joy. I was enjoying myself regardless though as for me just to be out with
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Rusty's Blog

Blog entry by pictures

River Kennet, Saturday 16th June   As with many other opening days this one turned out to be a disappointment for me in terms of fish caught with only three brown trout taking the bait, the anticipation was still there though and the river was looking in fine fettle. I’ve not been a member of NAA or TAA for long enough to remember it looking this good, it did have a tad too much colour but that’ll drop out over the coming days with little rain being forecast.   So the story of the day in p
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Chris Plumb's Blog

16 June 2012

River Kennet, Newbury & Thatcham   0400 - 1230   Cool, overcast and very blustery. River quite coloured and very full for the time of year - highest it's been in the summer for many a year.... (well since 2007 now I come to think about it!!)   2 Chub; 2lb & 1¼lb. 1 Barbel 3lb. 57 Dace, 7 Roach, 3 Grayling, 1 Perch, 1 Gudgeon, 1 Bleak & a 1¾lb spottie.   Pleasant start to the season with plenty of fish to put a bend in the rod - we had planned a
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Rusty's Blog

Wingham 2012

Wingham Fish-in, 19th, 20th & 21st May 2012   Well here I am again, having speculatively put my name down for a place on this year’s event you could’ve blown me down with a feather when Steve replied in the affirmative.   My 2011 experience at Wingham was invaluable in deciding what to take this year, I was able to pare down the gear to the bare minimum and plan cooking activities a little better. My tactics would remain as last year with corn on the hook and a mixture of liquidised b
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1st June (!)

NAA stillwater Widmead and Thatcham   0400 - 1200.   Overcast, still and mild - temps around 17/18ºC   1 carp, 11lb 5oz.   1st EVER close season session - oooo I feel a little bit dirty! Don't intend to make a habit of it but I had some time owed to me which if I didn't take by next week (and as ½ the office we already off, next week was out) I would lose. So I thought I'd join Paul on one of his 'free Fridays'. 1st part of the morning was purely reconnai
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The Flying Tench's Blog

Carp on the top 28.5.12

8.30-10pm. What on earth to do on the evening of a hot bright day? I couldn't better Rusty's recent idea of trying for Carp on the top, though not being quite as perverse as him I went to the 2 lakes nearby that are supposed to have carp in them! I first looked at the bigger lake, but there was no sign of activity, so I tried the smaller easier one.   I then realised I had left some of my tackle behind, so had to go back home and didn't start till 8.30pm. It was amazing - the carp were very a
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AddictedToScopex's Blog

19-21st May: Wingham 2012

Well it was that time again. Wingham 2012. The dream of a monster tench had returned.   The first day of the fish in saw me waking up at 6am full of enthusiasm. I loaded the car, said goodbye to the wife, new born daughter and cat and began my 300 mile journey. The hours flew by and I was soon pulling in through the fabled gates. It was almost 1pm by the time I landed. I was as keen as mustard and minutes after I arrived Terry and Sam were at my car with the trailer after a nice welcome and
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The Flying Tench's Blog

Perch - unsuccessful follow-up 21.5.12

Two brief trips to follow up the surprising abundance of bites on jigged worm last week, even though the fish were only small.   On Friday I had a crack jigging plastic lures. Only one small perch.   Today it was back to jigged lobworm, but once again just one small perch.   I think I must put last week down to a one-off, but will remember to try a bit of jigging or twitching the bait when float fishing or ledgering when things are slow.
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Perch - 2 firsts 14.5.12

6.30-9.30pm. Went to the pit again, and the first 2.5 hours were a blank. I was the only angler there, and you'd have thought there weren't any fish either. I tried spinning and float fished maggot and worm - not a bite. Then I tried jigged lobworm, and the response was immediate. Actually it was half a lob cos when I had a whole one on they just nipped off the tail.   I had five fish in the last half hour. All very small, but I was getting plucks and nibbles all the time. I'll have to find a
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Gravel pit perch 30.4.12

I decided to try a local gravel pit where I know the perch run to over 4lb. I fished it at this time of year a couple of years ago and had one of 2lb 6oz, but when I tried it a month ago I blanked. Possibly the fish were spawning then, but after blanking I always need a bit of assurance from the fish that they are still around.   WT 12degC - no change in a month. 7.10 - 8.45pm   Float fished maggot for the first hour - just one small perch. Switched to lobworm and had one reasonable perch
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tomhaggett's Blog

A quick overnighter

21st - 22nd April - Berkshire Stillwater   I finally started a new job this week after 4 months of unemployment. I'm ecstatic to have finally found something but it will mean that my time on the bank is very limited. In 7/8 years of holding this particular ticket I've fished one night at a weekend, and hated it so much I vowed never to do it again. Unfortunately I now don't have a choice, so I ventured down straight from work on Friday. I was buying some alarms off someone that was fishin
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Where have all these people come from..

3rd - 5th April - Berkshire Stillwater.   Back out again for two nights with a mate. Knew it'd be busy later in the week due to easter bank holiday, so we arranged to meet down there on the Tuesday. Little did we know that a load of people had taken the full week off so they could fish a long session. Due to the pressure I slotted into a corner swim that controlled its own little bay in the hope that the fish would seek refuge in the quieter areas. The swim used to be full of fallen tree
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First session on the other target water

27th March - 28th March - Berkshire Stillwater   Decided on a slight change of scenery so visited the other big fish water that the ticket offers. Got down around 10am and had a walk around and a chat with the fellas that had done the night before. It had been fairly quiet and nothing was showing, but I donned my polaroids and set off to find something to go on. I'd done a full lap of the lake, when I arrived back at the car park end and saw a fish ghost past around 2ft under the surface.
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The Flying Tench's Blog

Court Farm 10.4.12

5pm to 8pm at local commercial fishery WT 10.5degC. Aim - to catch some reasonable roach   When I came to this fishery 3 years ago (also at this time of year) it was easy fishing with plenty of bites, and I had roach up to 13oz. It started well this time, too. Within seconds of my first cast I had a nice roach of about 9oz, and I was expecting bite-a-chuck, but it turned out to be much slower.   My initial strategy was to fish caster, and loose-feed caster, but not to use ground-bait so as
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tomhaggett's Blog

A manic 48 hours

20th - 22nd March - Berkshire Stillwater   Firstly some good news... After attending the interviews last week I've finally been offered a job . 3 months of unemployment, relentless job searching and hardly an acknowledgement of my 20+ applications had worn me down a bit but finally things are starting to look up. On the flip side it has allowed me to get on the bank a lot more than usual over the winter period .   I heard from the job on Monday and within an hour I was sorting my kit i
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Chris Plumb's Blog

Season's Bests 2011/12

And another season comes to a close. And a rather good one it was too - with 3 PB's, an equalling PB and a couple of near misses. A rather indifferent summer, despite a PB Bream and a PB Crucian in the same week - was compensated by some great post September angling. The autumn perch campaign got off to a real flyer. A session which produced 18 fish for nearly 40lb including 5X3lbers and a PB equalling 3lb 14oz fish was a real red letter day (see 13 October entry). This winter I was eagerly look
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14 March

Middle Kennet Estate   0730 - 1800   Cool and overcast all morning, bright sunshine in the afternoon feeling quite warm despite the thermo only reading 10ºC. River VERY low.   4 Chub; 3lb 4oz, 3lb 0oz, 2lb 11oz and a chublet. 5 Perch; a couple of 'pounders' best of which was just under 2lb - the rest around 12oz. 25 roach - most fairly small though had one 'goodun' of 14oz. 9 Dace. 1 Bream 2¼lb. 10 gudgeon, 4 bleak & 6 brownies to 3¼lb.   Usual mixed b
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Rusty's Blog

Until next Winter

River Kennet, Newbury, Sunday 11th March 2012   Well this was it, our last chance to fish this estate water for some months. On previous visits we’d spent a lot of time roaming about exploring and (it has to be said) not doing an awful lot of fishing, this time we decided to pitch up in one spot and chill out for the day. Steve’s barrow proved invaluable as we loaded up enough gear to cover most options, the chairs, cooking facilities and food were all piled on before we then made our short w
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9 March

Middle Kennet Estate - Newbury   0700 - 1800   Mild and overcast, breezy at times, temps around 10ºC all day. River still low - though up a tad (maybe a cm or so) on recently.   17 Chub, 6 over 1lb biggest 3lb 0oz. 24 Roach - biggest 1lb 4oz - though quite a few more needed the net. 15 Dace - best 2, 13oz & 12oz. 3 Gudgeon and 4 brownies.   A knackering day as we walked the entire length of the fishery TWICE in order to find the fish. My plan was to st
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My new posh waders

River Kennet, Newbury, Thursday 8th March 2012   A day on the CSAS exchange section of the Kennet, the first time I’ve fished it since tree clearance works and an ideal venue to try out a new pair of waders.   I’ve pushed the boat out and bought a pair of Simms breathable stockingfoot waders and boots. Up until now I’ve been a neoprene chestie fan, they’re cheap and warm in winter so I’ve forgiven their usual limitations of universal sizing and crap wellies being fitted. Neither of the two
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