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Ps errm, if you're looking to do some fenland lure fishing, get a KLAA book and try the Wissey. It's a lovely little river with plenty of pike and perch.
Thanks, I've looked at it and might get a ticket especially with your recommendation :-)
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Errrm
Enjoy the fens, but be warned you will end up tearing your hair out & screaming at the water. It is a notoriously hard water. Been in different parts several times & believe me it all looks the same, long straight channels, but fishes different every 100 yds. So be prepared for long blanking sessions. I have spoken to anglers who have fished it for over 10yrs & they all say the wait is woth it, as when it does all work the catches are huge. Can't say anything about the Cam, seen it on tv plenty & driven along it many times, always wanted to give it a go. So please report back.
I am hoping to start on the river Bure, with a lock-in on a private area, yes it gets fished in the daytime. But usually they clear it all & lock it up at night. So the plan is :- to arrive the Friday about 4pm & make camp. then bait up around 8pm, first rod,(by Big Ben,on radio) at midnight. Staying there til, hopefully, about 4pm the Sunday & making a session of it. Would be nice to start season with 'wet nets'! ! !
Mark
Thanks for the tips :-).
I haven't even fished it once so if you could make any suggestions about the types of lures to use and how weedy it gets it would be a great help. The Cam looks a lot easier, I've been out running along it a few times recently and spotting prey fish has been really easy.... although there might be too many prey fish and so many places the pike could be feeding but it doesn't look anywhere near as difficult as the Fens.
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I think I will hopefully lure fishing either on the river cam or somewhere in the fens. I've never fished either so I expect to blank, it will probably take me a few trips to get my head around the new venues :-)
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My 2-10 Perch.
I don't think I've ever worked so hard for one 2-10 fish! I was really happy to catch it though :-)
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Neil, I know you worked the swim hard. Sometimes you can do all the right things and you don't get lucky.
Congratulations on your PB perch! Was it carrying spawn, normal or empty?
It was just normal from what I remember. I can't figure out how to post a picture from my iPad but I have one I'll get up as soon as I get to my laptop.
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Firstly a big thank you to everyone at Wingham for the great weekend. Also thanks to Dales for lending me some banksticks for the weekend.
Right, a little bit about the fishing. It was hard, despie this I felt I let down Steve a bit after he gave me the best Tench swim in the lake and the I didn't even manage one bit from a tench all weekend! I tried all the humps and bars in the swim and also the slt in front of me but I just couldn't find them or get them feeding. Halfway through the weekend I switched Tom targetting perch and eels and managed a new PB perch of 2-10 and a pike so despite how bad it went I ended up quite happy especially as it seems no other perch were caught which was quite surprising.
Anyway, congratulations to everyone that caught and hopefully those that didn't will try again next year. When the fishing is good it's an amazing place to be so hopefully see you all next year if I'm lucky.
Looking forward now to reading everyone else's reports from the weekend :-)
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Saved myself from a blank..... And got me a new PB! 2lb 10oz Perch on lobs fished over one of the most disgusting spod mixes I've ever put out!!! Errrggghhhhh
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Nice one John
Neil, must do better. You are in one of the best Tench swims. No pressure
I know!! It seems not much has been caught from what I gather.
Dales, have you caught any ugly slimy things yet? :-)
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Very quiet here in Meatballs..... :-(
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Took the day off work to sort everything bait and stuff out, been to a couple of fish shops and got more than enough for the weekend...... Suppose I might as well go lure fishing for a few hours as it's such a nice day. Hope everything preparations are going well :-).
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So I am going to be buying some boilies on Saturday. I can either get frozen ones or shelf lifes.
If I could keep them frozen (which I can't) I would get the frozen ones. So should I air dry frozen ones or just get the shelf lifes? The reasons I ask is I expect the drying process to alter the bait, e.g. flavour being lost, proteins being denatured etc etc
So what is worse, the shelf life preserving or drying?
Rich
I think the debate regarding frozen being better for the fish than shelf life depends on what is in the shelf life to preserve them isn't it? Any idea what they are using to preserve them?
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Come and see me - if I got any left and i am sure there will be plenty to go round
Thanks :-)
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You can buy all kinds of weights of feeders. Groundbait feeders are no lighter than maggot feeders. You can buy any of them with a certain amount of weight on. I have some very small maggots feeders which unloaded weigh 2oz but I also have some groundbait feeders which weigh 3.5oz unladen. Something to consider though is that in general you want the feeder a bit lighter because you may be adding 2oz of weight just in damp groundbait. Imagine having a 3oz feeder packed with 2oz of groundbait. Quite a challenge to cast for the average feeder rod.
Actually you are right, I have some groundbait feeders just over 2oz but looking at that I wouldn't want to fish with anything less than 2oz I don't think.
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I only saw the first bite because I quickly had a look at lunch time but it seemed that the feeder moved as the bream moved away with the bait, if this is correct then surely a heavy feeder would give better bite indication and possibly less resistence to the fish. Why are groundbait feeders so light?
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I have 2 pairs of long banksticks that Dales is lending to me but ideally I would have a third pair so I can fish all three rods on long drops. I'm not sure if Steve has them sorted (I mentioned it on the questionaire).
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I've decided to retire the beachcasters from spod/marker duties and have bought the TFGear Banshee spod and marker rods and a pair of Mitchel Avospod reels. I've also bought a 300m spool of 30lb Berkley Whiplash braid.
Currently trying to decide what to fill the reels with - braid for the marker rod is a no-brainer, braid transmits vibration so much better. The spod rod, though - not sure I really see a massive benefit to braid with that versus cheap 15lb mono and a shock leader (which I would use anyway).
Realistically, I won't be fishing at 150 yards, ever, so I could split the braid between the two reels. Or I could use some 20lb Power Pro that I have for spinning, though I'm reluctant to waste that stuff.
It is worth the faff of splitting the braid between the two reels, or would you just fill the spod reel with mono and be done with it?
When spodding the mono will sink making it so much harder to reel the spod back in, if you use a floating braid then it comes in many times easier and will make spodding much less tiring.
Also as John says, I always find mono in higher breaking strains horrible to use.... this might just be personal preference or crap line though but I would always use braid for spodding.
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I think you must have had a defective Tench
I have had the odd one that has not done much but most thunder off and are proper reel churners.
lol yes it might have been defective :-). All the other ones have completely stormed off even more than carp do normally.
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If I thought Bream where in the area at night then the best thing is to sit on your hands and try to avoid striking. I would not be in any hurry to hit a few beeps, during the day yes I may well hit them as Anderoo has pointed out they could be Perch and as you found out they can some times be Pike. I would not blow the chance of one of those big Bream for a chance of a little Pike at night.
And again as Anderoo has said the Tench don't hang around so you tend to know when you have a bite
My Tench PB from Wingham didn't steam off at all, the bobbin jitting around a bit, then eventually reached the top and just stop and occasionally took a bit of line and sometimes dropping the bobbin down again. It then came it like a bream! For a moment I thought I had hooked a bream during the day! Really confused me :-).
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My only experience catching eels was when half targeting them on a carp syndicate. I found on this lake fishing a standard semi bolt rig with a 3-4in hook length with a large halibut pellet did catch them. I never went all out to catch the eels though depsite wanting to I just never got around to it.
Dales mentioning leaving worms out into the night and catching nice eels and tench does sound fun.... maybe I'll see if I can catch some eels on the coarse lake. Damn you Dales..... my car is going to stink if I catch any ;-).
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Some of my biggest Wingham tench have come to a simple running maggot feeder - feeder running on the line, bead, swivel, 8lb mono hooklength, maggots straight on the hook. Others have come to fake corn/maggots/caster on a hair and short hooklength and semi-fixed lead. I really don't think it matters, I would follow Dales' advice and do whatever you're most comfortable with. If it's in the right spot you'll catch, I'd spend your efforts trying to find nice little spots to fish accurately to and use whatever rigs you like.
I've played around with fake corn rigs for a couple of seasons now and have something I'm happy with; if I get a chance I'll stick a photo up. But I would still stress that it's not the rig that catches the fish at Wingham. Location and baiting is everything.
I think the problem for me is that I'm more in the situation that I'm not confident in anything...... really trying to get out both days this weekend to sort something out :-)
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I will be setting off early and hope to arrive around 7 to 8 Saturday morning.
I'm aiming for a similar time as well, I'll probably see you somewhere near the clubhouse I'm guessing
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If I don't see you on the morning, I will bundle them up and stick a tag on them with your name and leave them in the takle/bait room.
That's great, do you know what time you are planning on arriving?
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One of the best things about Wingham is that because the fish aren't pressured they're not as rig shy as most other waters. Members use all sorts of different rigs and nothing yet stands out.
Far more important is feeding and, most of all, fishing the exact right spot in the swim.
I think it's caused by a conversation with Glynn last year, he said the tench seem to prefer smaller baits and watching the Korda underwater films seem to show the tench much prefering smaller/semi-bouyant baits. So far I'm having problems getting a artificial corn rig I'm confident with.
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Really looking forward to this, thanks for letting me fish it again Steve.
So far on each of my previous trips I've managed to catch fish so I'm preparing for an amazing blank this time, my heads confused with rigs that I used to use and now don't like and rigs that I want to use but are tested and haven't really caught any fish yet...... looks like I'm all ready to blank in style ;-)
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Thanks for the offer, I might take you up on it when the season opens. I think most of the information I need is things like location and depths and amount of weed but obviously I wouldn't expect someone to give away good pike areas.