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Hi, I was fishing a pond local to me the other night and caught a bream with a white fungus type thing on it, the best way of describing it would be to say that it looked and felt like someone had superglued rock salt ( the unground salt ) to it all over it's body. I'm pretty sure it's not rock salt for obvious reasons but I was wondering if anyone knew what it was? Errrm

You can book tickets to fish there here The Monument

To add a bit more information I think it was Matt Hayes who said in on the programme "Record Fish" filmed at The Monument fishery. I didn't understand it either.

Thanks, do you add anything into the mixture i.e. casters, sweetcorn etc... it seems like a good groundbait for tench not too mention it smells really nice aswell :-)

Hi, I haven't used groundbait for ages until last week when I was going fishing to a local pond which contains bream and tench to about 7-8lbs so not knowing what to get I spent ages looking through the groundbait section at the tackle shop before choosing Expo. It seemed to work ok, but since that weekend I've read that Expo is suited more to waters which are over 6ft deep, why is this? It seemed to work ok so would it be the case that a different groundbait would work better or is the 6ft+ a general rule? i was planning on using a mix of brown crumb and expo next time, would this have any effect on how the groundbait performs with regard to depth? Errrm

I've seen this on commercial carp waters, groups of maybe 20 carp swimming around on the surface. The groups were mainly the smaller carp, the bigger fish generally swam in either very small groups or by themselves. I had never seen this before though either until this year.

I had a similar problem at a commerical carp water using dog biscuits on a hair rig, the carp were taking all the baits apart from the one attached to the hook. In the end I decided to cast out without any loose offerings and I started catching.... the only reason for this that I can think of is that the carp can see the difference between the bait on the hook and the ones without the hook. Maybe get them used to the bait with some free offerings and when they have all been eaten cast your rig in and wait. Errrm

Without the bobbin you wouldn't be able to see a drop back bite i.e. when the fish picks up the bait and moves towards your rod. Does your carp rod have a screw in tip for a quiver tip to be added? If it does then this would also be cheap... a few pounds probably. Errrm

When live baiting .... this is probably a stupid question :-) but does the livebait ever swim into snags? Or does it stay away from snags because this a generally an ambush point for predetars? Again thanks for all the advice, there still seems to be no agreed time at which to strike, someone seemed to indicate for dead baiting when the float goes under and other people when there is siginificant movement on the float that couldn't be cause by line biites of a pike nudging the bait. But it seems that the general idea is that you should be able to wind up the slack and feel if something has actually grabbed the bait. Errrm

Ok thanks, I should be going fishing tomorrow night for a couple of hours after work so hopefully I'll have a chance to see how that works. Errrm

Thanks, for the advice. When you say 'delay the strike' when does it become delayed I guess is what I'm asking. At the moment I am not likely to be using anything too complicated there is a lot of weed currently in the pond I'm fishing expicially on the bottom so I am suspending a bait via a pike float at about half depth. From what I have read so far once the float has actually gone under anything after that would be considered a delayed strike, is this right? The other method I might fish with is a buzzer using a simple ledger with a popper up bait to once again lift the dead bait above the weed, when does the bite become a delayed strike in this situation? After the pike has made a definate movement with the bait? Thanks for the help everyone, even if I am a bit alow on the uptake

Ahhh ok thanks, that explains when to strike better.

Hi, I know this has been brought up before in this forum but I am slightly confused by something I saw recently. From what I have read you should 'strike' ( just wind into the fish? ) as soon as there is any indication of a bite, I generally float fish for pike is this first indication the float doing something weird i.e. moving when using a deadbait, or is it when it goes under? I assumed it meant before the float goes under when it has started moving off or has obviouly been pulled downwards by something, is this right? I then watched a Matt Hayes program on Discovery Real Time about a week ago inwhich he waits for the float to go under before striking.... have I understood it correctly, or should the first indication be the float going under? Thanks Errrm

I was going to buy a landing net but I was a bit worried that it wasn't strong enough for normal fishing, anyone used it for pike/carp fishing? Errrm

Hi, Any idea if the box of assorted 12 lures are any good? Errrm

I was only there for about 4-5 hours and hadn't really got the right tackle to catch, but I managed a few car up to about 2 pounds and a few crusician carp and skimmer bream. The people across the lake where fishing with method feeders and caught better with some fish that looked like they might get to 4-5lbs. I went for a second time last weekend and there were a couple of matches on ~70 people in all, I saw only about 3 fish caught all day It's a really nice venue though so I'll probably go again to see if I can do any better this weekend, also the cafe is open in the morning now.

Hi, The ridding at 2 miles from Junction 10 M42 has a brick building toilet there. This address should give you some more information about the fishery, I've been told the folley pool is the best, I have fished it once and it was good, I'm going again this sunday. http://www.fisheries.co.uk/riddings/index.htm Errrm

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has any tips for fishing with a method feeder at this time of the year. I was thinking about fishing a park lake ( Hermitage Lake ) which holds carp to about 30lb and tench and bream to about 10lb.... apparently. I wanted to fish some sort of feeder rig because it's 18ft deep outside of the council required margins because it was previously a gravel pit and I'm assuming all the fish will be there during the colder months. From what I've read the method feeder works best when carp are fighting over the ball of ground bait, is this correct? Would it work in a lake which perhaps doesn't have the same density of fish compared to more commercial lake. Any help would me much appreciated. Thanks Errrm

lol Yeah I've read that page, it's where I got the initial information from and it's only about 12 miles from where I live so it's not too bad. I think I'm going to try it this saturday unless I hear it's really bad. Errrm

Thanks for the advice so far. Another lake I'm thinking about trying out this weekend was The Riddings Fisheries near Atherstone, has anyone ever fished there? Is it any good? Errrm

Hi, I've trying to start fishing again after about 10 years and after moving to a new area I have no idea of the places to fish ( I have moved to Ashby De-La Zouch ). The places I have found on the internet so far appear to be day ticket carp waters which is fine but I'm worried that only modern carp tactics would catch ( ledger, bollies etc ). I want a place to fish that I can float fish with fairly basic baits maggots, lunchmeat, sweetcorn etc. Does anyone know if these tactics work on venues such as Springwood Fisheries, Willesley Lakes or Groby Lakes ( all near where I live ) or can you suggest a better location. Thanks Errrm