
Alan Stubbs
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Thanks! I'd not heard of float legering, but your description really sums up what I was doing perfectly. I was with Steve and Budgie at Budgie's 50th last year, when Steve commented that I've always been a thinking angler, but I've only got 10 years' experience of fishing, and when I first met Steve about 8 years ago, he said I was very deferential, to the point of not asking questions for fear of confirming my stupidity! There's a satisfaction on thinking through a solution by resorting to the less popular. The most satisfying parts for me were the baiting and the use of the swivel to resolve two issues. I'd have been happy getting bites, but actually catching was an unexpected bonus.
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I dislike legering my local lake for various reasons, and float fishing was unsatisfactory for a number of other reasons, 1 of which was the three scouse Waldorf and Statlers who weren't fishing but busy telling you what you should be doing. I wanted to confuse them. I wanted to try something they may have seen on rivers, but adapt it for legering the lake. The lake is lined by a path so I couldn't use marker board and swingtip, which in any case would have attracted attention, but I'm quite proud of having the courage to think it through and try a variation on a theme of a method I'd only read about. The other bonus was that I pared my tackle to a minimum, which encouraged safe experimentation. I think Budgie, Leon Roskilly and Steve Burke will be smiling if they read this!
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I tried stret-pegging today. Loved it. More sensitive than normal float fishing, and more satisfying than tip fishing. I know I was looking for roach but only caught skimmers, but frankly, I was fishing and loved it. Bread paste wrapped around a pea-sized cork ball on a hair rig over a couple of balls of dampened brown and white bread crumb with a little hemp and corn did the trick. I hadn't got any quill, so I melted some bright yellow drinking straw at each end to give a 3" ultra light float held by bands top and bottom. I was using a size 12 barbless Drennan hook, 3lb fluoro to a small swivel about 4" above it and a 1/4oz bullet free running between that and a no. 10 about 1ft below the float on 4lb Sensor mainline. It's my twist on the textbook method, but it worked and using the 1/2oz quiver tip, gave me the benefit of sensitivity of tip and float. I used the swivel as opposed to a shot to give a hinge, as well as a breaking point to prevent the bullet becoming tethered. It's an out of fashion method which I tried for a bit of fun. And fun it was.
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Hi Andrew, I usually scald micro-pellets for a couple of minutes - 2 at most - to soften the outside of them and make them sticky. I also tend to use boiled hemp water and include some hemp seed with it. It seems to work quite well for bream - surprising as angling lore says that hemp is a no-no for bream.
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I reead the obituary column this morning and my name wasn't there... the downside to this was that it meant I had to get up for work.
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Wendy Perry is plugging them hard at the moment...she's just got some sponsorship from them.
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That is one beautiful looking fish and as a mate of mine says of your actually banking it...Good Skills! As for size, you can only try to catch what's there. In my case 'try to catch' is becoming increasing accurate a a description!
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Stabbed dog's body recovered from Bedfordshire river
Alan Stubbs replied to Elton's topic in Non-Fishing Chat
Sorry mate.... anyway, we've since spoken. I also spoke to 'those who know', and they all say the Torch is the best featured BlackBerry phone so far. In terms of operating system, thugh they also say it isn't a patch on Apple's OS4.3.2 BTW, Bernadette managed to sit on her S/E, so after we spoke, I phoned her and have also bought her a BlackBerry. Bloody astrophysicists and their toys After 2 years I took the plunge and 'jailbroke' my iphone. You won't believe the rubbish I've put on it now..... -
Stabbed dog's body recovered from Bedfordshire river
Alan Stubbs replied to Elton's topic in Non-Fishing Chat
Remind me not to browse AN posts whilst eating lunch.... If I said I'm livid, this is a serious uinderstatement. -
Glad to hear it.. I was going to get my small Shimano Aero's out to show you yesterday (ooh, errr Missus!) Hope your missus is on the mend....
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Stewart Bloor's angling diary - literate, witty, passionate about wildlife in general and educational. A thoroughly recommended read.
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1) To hear Emma Two and Phone are on the mend. 2) Getting out to the local lake yesterday and walking the half mile carrying my gear without having to stop for a breather. 3) A 4lb tench after 3 hours of being battered by fingerling perch which were even taking sweetcorn!
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I borrowed my dad's kit when I was a nipper in Singapore - 9' split cane rod and non-descript Chinese fixed spool reel...although he did once set me up with his Mitchell (204, I think). Fast forward 40 years, I was told by the consultant surgeon 'Need to get your fingers working. Take up fishing.' I thought it would be a 6 month fad, something I have to do, rather than something I now WANT to have to do. I went to The Anglers' Den in Franklin Road, Gillingham picked up all the stuff the book I'd taken from the library told me I needed and went to the checkkout. The owner saw the state of my hand and asked 'why are you going fishing, when your hand's such a mess?' He then put everything I'd picked up back and set me up with a Shakespeare 10ft match rod, D.A.M Quick 40 reel spooled with Daiwa Sensor 4lb, a landing net and unhooking mat, Size 18 hooks to nylon (I couldn't tie a hook because of my hand at the time) and a tube of floats, box of Anchor assorted weights and an adaptor for quick-change of float. This stuck in my mind, as what I had picked out was going to cost me over £300. What I actually paid was £42, and into the bargain, a guy in the shop said he was going to fish the venue I was off to the following day and that he'd show me the ropes... he used to post on AN..... I was so made up with the 1 oz perch I caught after 15 minutes and the 3oz roach I caught later, I took the photograph to show the consultant... 'Oh. I meant fly fishing...'
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Anyone got any fishing plans for the weekend?
Alan Stubbs replied to Dales's topic in Coarse Fishing
I've arranged to meet up with a new poster on here, Adam247, and will take him to one of the park lakes in Liverpool as he wants to learn some basics re float fishing - he's a carp angler by instinct by the sounds of things. I hope it goes well, if so, I'll let you know! (Only report the positive side of life!) -
I'm guilty of drifting off topic, but I agree that fishing eports as a blog are great...they tend towards a personal record and therefore more useful.
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Early morning is usually the best time for silvers on canals, IMO. Low light conditions encourage adventure amongst smaller fish.
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Look at the Okuma range... they're competitively price - although exchange rates have moved them upwards, antd they're reliable.
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So the lying bastard never did jump over the moon......
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John, a great report and it's really whetted my appetite to get out this weekend. I hope to meet up with Adam247 a new poster on here. The water will be challenging for different reasons, and the stamp of bream certainly not up to yours. I'll have to go to the Bridgewater Canal for my decent bream fishing.
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Love it!!!!! It's a bit ike Runcorn and Widnes except they don't worry about livestock!
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Good shout! I used a piece of plastic cut from a cd case. It wasn't perfect, but it was better than nothing.
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I, for one, find his reasoned comments enlightening and thoughtful. I'd like to see him back posting sooner rather than later. I've met him twice at Wingham...and a thoughly likeable bloke he is.
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Sorry to hear about it Chris. I hate hearing of people being ripped off.
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The best joke you have played on someone while fishing
Alan Stubbs replied to smalltincup's topic in Session Carp Fishing
Budgie and I were texting Andrew for about 2 hours telling him that someone fishing the swim Andrew was in the previous year and had lost a huge carp at the net, had used 2 carp rods I had given Budgie to pass to Andrew, duly fished 'Andrew's Swim' and had taken the same fish weighing inordinately more than when Andrew had lost it. Over 2 hours of text between us which felt like the Spanish Inquisition with Budgie and I laughing like schoolkids. I had a one word text from Andrew...'Bastard!' BTW, we're still really good friends. I do like the Burgess brothers.... -
Chris, most ccpa's (a CDA in other words) only have a 12 month validity or the expiry date of the card, whichever comes first. Continuous Card Payment Authorisations are less safe than direct debit as they aren't covered by guarantee as a d/d.