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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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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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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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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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Stillwater float fishing

Seven Lakes Angling 07:00-18:00   The day started off nice enough with some sunshine so I settled down with a quivertipped cage feeder while I had breakfast, switched over to the float rod after a few hours of nothing, balled in some groundbait and a few freebies and sat it out....nothing still. Decided to move to one of the smaller ponds containing small fish and despite steady feeding nothing resulted after a further few hours (apart from pretty constant rain) so I moved again on 'the lake
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quick session

19.30-21.30 willows lake   Just a quick 2 hour session to try out a rig I've been playing around with for the last couple of weeks.   Fished a single double strength pop up to the island with no free offerings, had 3 fish; 2 mirrors (12b4 and 12lb6) 1 common (11lb9)   The rig worked very well all thee fish were nailed in the bottom lip with very secure hookholds.   The thing that struck me this evening is that last year is that most of the fish you would have from this lake woul
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parts 2&3

Part two of my day was a small back stream, worked my way down trotting every swim for 10 minutes or so, had a handfull of dace, a few roach, plenty of minnows and a 3lb2 chub which did an amazing impression of a barbel just hugging the bottom and using the flow.   Part 3 a stretch of the kennet past Thatcham, used the last of my maggots catching minnows and trout then blanked feeder fishing for the last 6 hours
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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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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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my return to flowing water

Kennet stream 16:30-23:00   My first trip back on flowing water and as is the norm I blanked... I chose a stream I had never fished before but had wondered round in the winter, on arrival there was one other person fishing there, after a quick chat and some helpful advice I was headed to a swim I had passed and sussed out on arrival. The swim in question involved an underarm cast to a tree in the water then passing the rod over bankside vegetation to where my rod rest was to give a better
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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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mmmmm bacon roll

Spent the morning chubbing with steve and chris this morning, even after getting slightly lost and stuck on ice i arrived first and walked the stretch dropping my horrible smelling cheese garlic and crab paste into every likely looking hole. Steve and robby arrived as i was getting my kit out of the car, after a quick chat we set about the business of trying to catch some chub! rusty arrived shortly after and we worked our way up the stretch to no avail. Swans where a major problem for me for a
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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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lots of commons

After spending two nights trying this 'specimin carp fishing' mullarky (sitting in my bivvy smoking like a train waiting for a bite alarm to scream into action while every knob and his dog walking round the lake tell u what the 'in' spots to fish are. YAWN!) i was getting bored... But without a hefty walk said lake was the most convenient! Roll on a change of luck which brought with it a car and meant i could travel further afield again!   Knotts 24th(night) 25th(night) and 26th(day) april
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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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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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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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I'm giving up.....

On barbel until the end of August or until we have had a decent amount of rain!   Another fruitless evening after barbel on the Kennet, fished from half 7 until 11pm and the only time my tip moved was when bats flew into it. Starting to get a bit frustrated with it now so I will see out the rest of summer after carp and tench. I have never caught a tench float fishing so that will be my aim fishing close in with a 'pin, may also have a crack at the crucians and of course surface fishing in the
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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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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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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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first time spinning/lure fishing

Canal between hambridge and widmead: The morning started at 6.45am cold and foggy. We started off on bellwood and workes our way to the canal via pallets spending ten minutes in every peg on the way to no avail. First hit of the day felt like a big fish but the wire holding the minnow and trebles on my spinner straightened (will be contacting the ebay seller regarding this as i am not impressed at the risk posed to fish!). The second and last for me was a 2lb 1oz perch which followed my
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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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First fish of the year

Spent the day fishing for carp with a mate, the original plan was to sit and wait for the whole day but after four hours without a touch i went for a wonder and saw some movement on an adjacent lake so we upped and moved, this paid off as within twenty minutes i had a fish on, first fish of the year was a 9lb 10oz common. Both my baits were withing 20 feet of each other tight to an island, one with a lobworm and pva mesh of maggot and the other a white rum soaked redfish boilie tipped with fake
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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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