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As road user's, do you think cyclists should take a test and pay insurance ?
Bob
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Turkey and Beef-- Big Meal when the Pub shuts !!
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Well done Lewis !!
Bob
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Steve
What a fishery, you should be very proud of your efforts.
Bob
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My favourite method for Perch is live baiting, lip hooked small baits.
I always look for some sort of feature, debris, fallen trees, undercut bank and most of the time I fish the margins in winter.
The two rigs I use are simple sunken paternoster and a float paternoster, the float paternoster being the best method for seeing tricky bites in winter.
The pictures above are of a frozen gravel pit with a small area if clear water, I knew the pit had a reputation for Big Perch, but I had not had anything above a couple of pounds.
There is a small stream coming of a canal that feeds this pit and I had managed to catch half a dozen baits about 2 inches long from the stream, which had taken hours to achieve.
As a starting point I set my baits at half depth, the pit in the margin is 20ft deep, so the baits were set at 10 ft, but it was so cold the baits weren't working, with light fading I decided to put on two small bait facing each other ( lip hooked ) on a size 8 single hook.
This had the effect of the two small fish creating some vibrations which in turn must have inspired the Perch to take an interest ?
It was a really odd bite, I was using a Drennan Chubber float and it kept getting pulled under the surface down about 2 inches, a friend of mine had turned up to see what sort of nut case was out in such atrocious weather and made me jump when he crept up behind me, I told him I had this odd bite and suspected Crayfish ?
Saying I would wind down if it happened again, seconds later the float pulled under two inches and held there, I clicked in the bale arm and wound down to the baits, I could feel a slight trembling of the line and struck into what turned out to be a cracking Perch.
The bite was almost not a bite and it shows how delicately a Perch will take a bait in cold weather conditions.
Bob
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Steve
That sounds brilliant.
Bob
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Best Perch
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Yes, my biggest ever Perch came in the coldest of conditions after a big freeze up and with only a small area of unfrozen water !!
Bob
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Thanks Lads,
I just find it more difficult to mend the line etc. sitting down, I fish rivers like the Test, Itchen and Lea mainly and use to get great pleasure from standing up and trotting the swim.
But as needs must these days I would rather sit down than not trot at all, getting old !!
Bob
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Have to say that Trotting is my favourite method of fishing, but with an increasingly bad back, I find I have to sit down now to trot a float, do you think this limits your trotting skills or is it just me ?
Bob
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Rusty,
They really are a Work of Art and beautiful, equally the Barder reels are very nice and if I had that sort of money, I would be on the list for a rod and reel !!
Bob
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I'm surprised there's been no outcry about the fish being photographed while lying on a concrete / tarmac floor.
Tigger,
I'm not surprised at all, far to much P.C. rubbish in Britain these days.
Bob
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This is the 8.14 Chub that Simon King Caught in 2013, it's the same chub that holds the River Record at 9.3,
Note it's length and then compare it to the picture in this weeks Anglers Mail on page 5.
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See loads of the green varmints making a racket when out and about onb the Thames to around Sonning but by the look of your pics Bob they have arrived at Reading ,how long before they follow the river to Wallingford,Abingdon etc?
They might be in Reading, in fact I know they are near Reading because they were in the Trees at a recent book launch at the Lands End Pub ?
But I live next to Epping Forest which is a distance from Reading !!
At the Carp Show last Saturday there were hundreds in the trees and that was Sandown !!
They are taking over.
Bob
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No, I really wouldn't be surprised if it was true though... with rumours like that I always think, even if the weighing was suspect and it's 2lb off, that's still an 8lber!
I think the secretary of the Chub Study group had it about right !!
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Emma,
I too have been around angling for well over 50yrs, and have seen many changes. Whenever I have a discussion about the 'old days', people always bring up how good it is that we no longer do the 'bad things', but rarely mention the 'good things' that have gone as well. I half expect a chorus of "Always look on the bright side of life", to sound in the background. I don't have any problem with 'improvements' in tackle, after all a rod is still a rod, whether it's made out of a willow branch, or £3,000 worth of space age material. The same with a reel, whether it's a wooden centre pin, or the latest, all singing all dancing gold plated piece of kit. They all do the same basic job, but new materials make them lighter, stiffer, faster etc. The problems I have, (and it's becoming more obvious to me, that it is my problem), is the approach to angling, and how it's changed.
You are lucky in where you live, or have chosen to live. You can achieve the degree of isolation that you're comfortable with, but I wonder if you would feel the same about your fishing if it was decided that to promote angling, they should stock with a few hundred thousand non native fish, and the resulting stampede of anglers spoiled your idyll. Well it's happened, (on a smaller scale) to the waters around me. Not for the benefit of the water, or the environment in general, but for the benefit of those who want to see angling as a commercial enterprise. I would imagine that you, who I see as a 'spiritual person', would appreciate that by over commercialising something as basic as angling, is to take away the very essence of it, leaving a, (I hesitate to say it) 'soulless' pursuit.
This has gone off topic as far as the camera thing goes, and my objection to that was purely personal, in that I felt it would be another thing that would detract from what I consider to be an important part of angling.
Having read through my post, I was tempted to delete, because I can imagine some thinking, "What the hell is he on about?". I decided to say 'sod it' and let it stay. As I've got older, I've become to realise that I'm more cynical, and more disillusioned with what I see around me, and with angling being the one constant throughout my life, I suppose I see it more in that, than anything else.
John.
Gozzer,
I'm always turning the clock back with my use of old fishing tackle, but I still keep up with the modern stuff.
At the moment I'm collecting bits to go Drop Shot fishing at the and I'm looking forward to a new method (for me).
I started out making cane fishing rods when I was at school, I progressed to Glass Fibre then to Carbon, but I have gone back to Cane ?
I like most of the Modern gear, but I'm not sure about the camera ?
It was a bit like the craze for those electronic depth finders that were all the rage a few years ago ?
The ethic's of angling may have changed a little over the year, but most of the anglers I know and fish with have not ?
Bob
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And one of my 2's from yesterday's trip to the Frome..
C.
Well done Chris,
Nice looking Grayling.
Bob
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Vagabond
I have a couple of Greenheart sea fishing boat rods I still use and at the moment I am doing up a Greenheart Allcocks 3 piece float rod a friend was throwing out.
Action wise, it's stiff, through action it is not
It's funny, my family did not understand fishing as well, they were out of the East End of London, but moved to Chingford when I was 7 and the boy next doors father started us on a lifetime of fishing.
He even showed us a weird way of casting of the spool of a centrepin, long before we had ever heard of the Wallis cast ?
Happy days.
Bob
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I remember seeing CY speaking enthusiastically about a Hardy Altex fixed spool and thought; what a good looking reel it was ?
When I actually got hold of the same type of reel, it was a disappointment and not a patch on the Ambidex or Mitchells I had used previously !!
Then I managed to purchase an Exalta, in my opinion a much nicer reel, but the line twist is horrendous and it's a bit of a mission to use it, I do but by way of a punishment for my own angling failings
Centrepins I have used since I started fishing aged 7 years old, I don't really think about them as old fashion, because they have always been part of my fishing kit, the oldest I have is from the 1940s, I did once have a Witcher, but could not get on with it, so it's something that had to go >?
Bob
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lyn
For me it tends to be over 30 years old.
Bob
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What is it about fishing with Old Fishing Tackle ?
I use quite a bit of old fishing tackle, I get pleasure from using it, I suppose I like making fishing difficult for myself by using Old tackle.
Is that strange or do others also enjoy using old fishing tackle.
Of course it was new when I made a lot of the rods in the 1950tys, but some of the reels I use are new to me, but old in the terms of age !!
Bob
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And on the feeders or bird table.
Bob
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Lovely pictures Tigger, well done.
Bob
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So if they are removing all signs of the bait without any indication how do you know they were eels.
Just wondered.
Barry,
There were only Big Eels and small Perch in the Pit.
The small Perch would pull at the air injected Worms, whereas the Eels just snipped off the worm and left a bare hook ?
Bob
Cyclists
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I came home from a London Hospital appointment by bus the other day, sitting upstairs the standard of cycling was abysmal, I honestly think they should have insurance and should take some sort of test.
Every other user of the road is required to do so, so why not ?
Many have camera's on their helmets, I don't think it will be long before cars have cameras fitted as a way of protecting car drivers from litigation from these un-licenced, un insured and non tested road users.
Bob