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20th november

I returned to the widmead stretch of the canal today with a pack of roach deadbaits and a pike float purchased at the last minute on my way there. I tried 'trotting' the deadbaits at different depths and speeds past every likely looking bush and reedbed but not a single wiggle or knock on the float will be making a trip to the fishmongers in thatcham to get some sea deadbaits this week to try again next weekend. Current score is me 0-2 pike, any tips or hints would be very gratefully received
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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