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Trout on the Kennet

5/8/13   I decided the rain we had yesterday should have put a bit of flow and colour into the river (very little as it happened) so I set off for a few hours on the Kennet. Using typical gear for trout catching on the Kennet (quivertip, pellet hookbait and a small pva of small pellet) it wasn't long until the first showed up at around 1.5lb, it did a very good job of behaving like a barbel hugging the bottom for a few seconds then became airborne and started the acrobatics, a second was unfo
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Oh so close

Kennet near Newbury 17:30-21:30   Spent a few hours trotting what is one of my favorite stretches of the Kennet but rather than moving around a lot I concentrated on one swim and tried to get my feeding regular and accurate as I am hopeless at it!   The bites came steadily, I rested the swim for a minute or 2 after each fish (bar the 3 trout I left it 10 minutes while still feeding) a pretty even mix of dace, gudgeon, chublets and roach all mainly small with the odd bigger fish and a surpris
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A few off the top

Had a couple of short sessions surface fishing for carp over the weekend, the fishing was slow with many fish just cruising around, not interested in feeding and generally avoiding areas with lots of freebies. After watching their behavior I changed tactics to a BIG lump of bread flake(around half a slice) as a single bait and cast out allowing the wind to push it around, as the fish were patrolling in small groups the big bait worked well, one would take a chunk off it causing the rest to hamme
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Finally a little success

Visited the same venue my 3lb chub came from last week, we had a look at the main river first of all but only a few swims are reachable due to thick stinging nettle and brambles so we opted to fish the backstream again.   I knew before I arrived which swim I was going to fish, for some reason it had been in my head since my last visit, it just had to produce a fish or two! Now, I am no good at the whole 'put some bait in and sit there for an hour then cast in' so I took a risk and baited it th
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19th June part 1

Speen moors 05:00-10:00   Spent the morning trotting, never had much luck here but had a chunky dace first trot and continued to catch at least one dace from every swim I fished with a few roach here and there. The dace were mainly small but around 10 warranted a net, the only one I weighed out of curiosity came in at 10oz .   Really nice morning although very muggy, about to have a quick shower then see where the next part of my day takes me....
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big roach?

After hearing of a local day ticket water that holds some big roach and perch I decided to have a shot at targetting them.   The plan was to catch them on the float, I missed a couple of bites early on then some noisy t**** set up the other side of the tree I was fishing to and starting hammering banksticks and shouting so I moved to quivertipping a maggot feeder to the far side. This produced 3 roach to 12oz.   Another group of loud irritating types showed up down the other end of the lak
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Its been a while (again)

Sunday 17th feb   Finally made it out for my second short session of the year (first was on the k&a and produced a few decent sized brownies).   I had a few hours before work and with the reports of big perch from the canal a couple of hours with the spinning rod would surely bag me a few fish! I arrived at northcroft in high hopes, then realised I couldn't get to the canal from there so the weirpool and little stretch of river it was. After trying a few different lures, spinners, shads
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25th september

River Kennet hambridge 13.00-15.30 Another short session after Barbel which yielded just one baby Barbel of around 1lb which was unhooked in the net and promptly returned to grow into a monster! I'm fairly certain the swim I'm targeting at the moment is the same swim from rustys blog!
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22nd september

4pm-7.30pm river Kennet hambridge   A short unplanned trip for Barbel after work, I set up in a swim just downstream of a tree that crosses the water where it is fairly shallow with fast choppy water along the far bank with a slightly deeper slower flowing glide just downstream about 4 rod lengths out. Had a chub of around 1.5lb within ten minutes of casting out then had a proper wrap around on the tip at around 6pm but the hook pulled. With the weather looking good for tomorrow I shall be
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it pays to listen to your gut instinct!

River Kennet nr thatcham 9am-6pm   Not quite the early start I had planned but the lay in was much needed! I arrived and set up, cast just short of the trees on the far bank a few times to build up some bait then sat back watching the tip. It wasn't long before I felt unsettled and kept getting drawn to a riffle that kept appearing on the surface of the water a rod length out and 3 lengths downstream of me. I don't know why but something was telling me to recast to there, minutes later my
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the blog has been a bit slack...

Havn't updated my blog in a while so this will include two different sessions, unfortunately no pictures as my phone wont upload them to anything other than facebook! First session was one night on a local stillwater which proved to be a great success, my carping efforts last year saw me land numerous fish of 14lb8oz but none bigger, the first fish that evening changed this. Not the usual carp 'run' my hanger lifted and dropped for a few minutes before i decided it must be a small bream and pi
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28/11/10

I arrived at the naa stretch of hambridge at around 7am, my phone was telling me it was -6, loverly and warm then! I fished the stretch spending 10 to 15 minutes in each swim ledgering paste. As i was about to call it a day around 9am back in the first swim i fished the tip whipped round as i picked up the rod i made contact with the fish as it bolted into the tree crossing the river never to see the net. Cursing i packed up and headed home to warm up!
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more of an update than an entry!

Due to being utterly useless and lazy (and getting a ps3 for my birthday) i havnt done a blog after any recent trips! A day on the csas stretch of the kennet saw around 40 fish landed including a monster gudgeon of just short of a pound (im convinced it was a barbel but an older 'wiser' angler has informed me there arent barbel that small in there so it was DEFINATELY a gudgeon ) the rest of the fish were a pretty even mix of roach dace grayling gudgeon and perch. A day on the wierpool at c
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again the kennet wins overall

river kennet brimpton, 0700-2300 Two chub 4lb and 2lb 4oz and a handful of gudgeon and minnows After spending the last week reading up on fishing for barbel i was very optomistic, as per usual my high hopes were not fulfilled. My plan of attack was to fish a few swims spending no longer than an hour in each, using a whittled down source boilie with a bag of hemp, crushed boilie and pellet or a lump of polony with a bag of hemp.   After twenty minutes in the first swim a rattle on my tip
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me vs kennet

And again i lost! After getting completely preoccupied with carp over the past few months it suddenly occurred to me i'd lost the joy of fishing sat in my bivvy waiting for that one fish to trip up. With that in mind my next trip planned was an evening on the kennet near thatcham. the kennet obviously upset with my neglect had brought the twins along to play. I fished 5 or 6 swims and caught at least five crays from each :@ So not a great return to the river but def a step in the right
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naa still water - dobsons

back to the first ever lake i fished for a second crack at it! Having walked the lake a few times in the last couple of months i knew roughly where i wanted to fish, on arrival there were fish crashing exactly where i thought they would be. I quickly got both rods out and settled down with my book, ten minutes later i had a small common in the net, blank out of the way and there were some high hopes! Although it wasnt to be, only one other small common graced the net and another found an unfor
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god damn camera phones!

04.00 - 10.30 am NAA stillwater widmead   The weather seemed perfect warm with light rain showers, but the fishing started off slow until around 6am. I opened up with a small tench that managed to run into the tree to my right but i eventually got it out! I wasnt going to make the same mistake as i received my second run and applied pressure straight away but soon realised this fish was a bit different it just kited around with no real power, seconds later i had my first ever crucian in the
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would have been drier in the lake!

only a short blog as the laptops broken so im doing this from my phone! Decided to brave the heavy rain sunday morning and have a crack at my first carp. Arrived at 6am in torrential rain and set up. At around 7.30 line my rod started bouncing around, reeled in a very greedy small roach that took 3 hair rigged bits of corn and a size 10! Around 20 mins later the line started screaming off my reel, my first carp! After around ten minutes i had her on the bank unfortunately my scales only go u
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another blank....what a suprise

kennet- Brimpton 12-16:30   Arrived to find a very up and very fast kennet, found a few nice swims but couldnt hold bottom even with a 70g feeder in the slacks as the line in the fast current dragged it out of the slack trotted lob and red maggot all afternoon and not a single bite, moving from one swim i did hook into a dead fox tho...nice!   kennet side stream- colthrop 16:45- 18:30   Arrived only to realise id left my pint of maggots at brimpton so i quivered lobworms and spa
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thank god for the ladies!

Fished two waters today:   River kennet- Thatcham   07:30-10:30   Trotted lobs and maggots past and under every tree and bush possible to no avail, wasnt too fussed as i got to grips with casting properly with the 'pin Switched to magic bread at around 10am and trotted up to an over hanging tree on the far bank, had a bite but the hook pulled, had another half hour on that swim then gave up.     Lambourn- Shaw   10:45- 13:00   Trotted single red maggot on a size 16 hook, 1
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first time fishing a lake

Well I thought I would start a blog as i tend to fish at least once a week! Not going to be anywhere near up to scratch as other blogs on here but oh well!   Managed to get a short session in after work (3:15pm to 5:30) for some reason decided to fish a lake rather than the canal as it was closer to my car (in the thatcham lakes.   Having never fished a lake before I used the same tactics i was planning for the canal (open ended feeder with a plug of dynamite black groundbait at either end
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finally some luck (very little though)

Started off fishing a free stretch of the canal with a mate of mine who hasnt fished since he was 9! Got off to a good start with my first ever bream in the first hour on a single red maggot with a cage feeder and groundbait shortly followed by this slab: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1131...mp;id=837105642   What a strong fighting fish! the day was looking good.... then came the F#####G canoers!   Most were fine and kept to the far side a few however thought it a good idea to
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last bit of river fishing for the season

Due to work, shopping and mothers day over the weekend, after work today was my last chance to get some river fishing in, after a few failed attempts lately i decided to go for the sure bet, the lambourn at shaw.   I arrived after a thouroughly S##T day at work including a covering of brake fluid, in a fairly bad mood which was not improved by hitting a tree first cast and losing my hooklength After contemplating going home i decided to have another shot, it was worth it, first trot and t
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Frobury farm

After hearing good and bad things about this fishery me and a friend decided to give it a go. we were set up and cast out by around quater to six and settled into our chairs chatting away. The first fish of the day fell to his rod in open water, after a good scrap a nice 8 1/2Lb mirror was in the net, his first ever carp and it wasnt even 7Am yet! I followed this with a 7 1/2Lb common, 3 1/2Lb tench and a 3Lb common. My rods then fell silent until 3·30 while he added Another 5 to his list inclu
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Hmmm where are my scales?

Firstly dont you hate realising youve lost something right when you need it?! Anyway.... River kennet @ brimpton 0430-0930 A very early and chilly start due a hangover induced afternoon bedtime yesterday! I had no real optimism of catching until daybreak so i settled down and ledgered pellets until dawn was beginning to show. I decided the conditions werent great to try solely for barbel, chub and perch seemed more likely quarry! After a couple of hours dipping my worm in and under every
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