tiddlertamer
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Well done Andrew.
All three fish are crackers.
Makes me want to give up on trotting the maggots, and get quivertipping with mashed bread...
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I fished two rivers last weekend - the Great Ouse and River Ivel.
The latter I had never fished on before.
I blanked on both.
That's my third blank in a row...
I'm going to give it a break this weekend and come back with a vengence in a week or so's time when the water levels have had a chance to drop.
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This might be a silly question but what is the difference between quivertip rods and specialist lure rods?
I'm new to lure fishing and i'm having fun with a few spinners and spoons on my local club waters
But as i don't want to spend lots of money on a new lure rod just yet i am using my avon quivertip rod, and it's working fine. I'm guessing for a lure rod it needs to be strong, sensitive and fairly long, which is what a quivertip also is, so unless you are fishing for 30lb pike or big sea fish why do you actually need a specialist lure rod? Is my quivertip suitable for the job or is it not suited to it? I'm sure there is a reason and i'm not knocking lure rods i just don't fully understand the difference between one and a tip rod?
Any information is always appreciated, thanks
davedave - I suspect you have about 20 minutes to head for the hills before the pike police arrive... Good luck!
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Give me credit for having
A) A sense of humour....and
A spellcheckerI knowed what I thunk ta.
Fair enough. Let's get back on topic.
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Sometimes I think we have telepathetic skills.
Erm - telepathetic? Surely telepathic?
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I'm not too sure about that! I lived there for several years and never fished the Wandle, simply because it felt so unsafe. I wouldn't fish there on my own, put it that way, and definitely not after dark.
It's a wonderful little chalk stream though, although being where it is, it is unfortunately blighted by fairly regular pollution incidents.
The river Wandle was hit badly by a pollution incident in September 2007.
A sewage treatment works at Beddington released chemicals which devastated a stretch of the river and many fish were killed.
The good news is that Thames Water coughed up £500,000 to go towards restocking of fish and the regeneration of the river.
Many volunteers in the Wandle Trust also regularly get together to clean up the river.
I found the following article through a google search and it sums up the latest news on the river.
http://www.theecologist.org/how_to_make_a_..._gem_river.html
I have fished the river regularly myself. I’ve snaffled nothing large but have caught lots of small fish. Other angling forums tell the tale of big fish such as carp, chub and barbel still coming out.
Not recovered to its pre pollution state but on its way.
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Thinking about it like that your right , our sense of adventure around food is very ignorant indeed and we tend to stick to what we know . Any talk of muddyness to coarse fish will put people off for sure. If it sounds wrong and looks wrong then it will taste wrong is the general opinion .
Panic over
Well I for one disagree. I just hope I don't get the vitriol being handed out to Teme Man for speaking out against the views held by some of this forum's veterans.
I like the tradition that has developed in British coarse angling of putting all the fish back.
I especially like this with regards to rivers which are often not stocked.
Twas not always the case that coarse anglers returned their catch alive.
In the classic ‘My Fishing Days and Fishing Ways’, by J W Martin, he writes about one of his first fishing sessions in which he caught a 100 roach and a brace of tench in a single session which he sold to a fishmonger...
The problem with fighting for your right to take a fish for the pot, is that logically you need to give that right to everybody else. Other Anglers Net members but also people who take fish for the pot week in week out.
I’ll admit to a bit of hypocrisy on this issue myself. A colleague once visited Finland and perch was on the menu and he ordered it. I’d have done the same though in my defence, the other choice was bear!
I know that hard working river keepers such as one I know on the river Avon would be appalled if they saw an angler knocking a perch on the head.
Stocks of fish go down and other fisherman are denied the right to catch it.
Let’s not forget this new age of fish welfare is one which replaced an age where pike were often left up the bank and even if they were lucky enough to go back, they’d be in pretty poor condition after being gaffed and the victim of a sprung gag. Attitudes do change.
And attitudes could also change for the worse in terms of more people regarding the eating of coarse fish as being entirely acceptable, normal and everyday.
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Many people who post on this forum support the idea of taking a coarse fish for the pot.
If readers listen to the views of a Guardian columnist, those who support this idea may well end up having a lot of competition, when it comes to filling up their dinner plates...
See the following link to an article on the Guardian website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wor...ater-fish-fight
Views please!
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Have you read any of his books? They're excellent.
I have read some of his books and they are excellent.
One I don't own however, is called 'My way with chub'.
There is something about the title that has me struggling to stifle a giggle or two...
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I knew I would get it wrong again! Seriously though mate I never realised it was the Pendulum! I'm even more impressed now!Was it Moncrief then who developed the Lay Back?
That's a shame about there being no record of that particular series left though.One of the few TV angling series I really liked.I also got the impression that due to the format and "fun" element (ie the carp in the back garden and the "UK record" Piranha) it also appealed to a lot of non anglers. Lots of my mates of the same age (ish) often say they would like to take part in a similar competition.
Matt Hayes and Mick Browns take on it with the "Great Rod Race" just didn't cut it the same for me.Two great anglers yes but "The Fishing Race" (that was the correct title wasn't it rather than "The Golden Maggot",which for those who didn't see it was the trophy they competed for, which its often referred to?) had the "whose who" of that eras anglers in it.
Here's an old thread from Anglers Net on the Fishing Race/Golden Maggot trophy.
What a shame that no tapes still exist of this series. Shown prior to video recording and in an era when the BBC wiped films!
It sounds intriguing. Maybe, just maybe someone out there has a copy of the series?
http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/forums/Golden-...ot-t495080.html
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Many happy returns Chris.
May you snaffle some lovely fish in your fiftieth year and enjoy the fabulous rivers on your doorstep.
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Since refurbishing the 2 split cane rods I bought Ive fished with nothing else & have to say Im pleasantly surprised by the both of them and am more than happy to continue fishing with them.
A close friend of mine swears by split cane.
I love the idea of playing a big fish on such a rod. He claims it hoops into a circle...
But after spending a day with him trotting a river, and trying out both his rod and mine, I much preferred the lightness of my carbon fibre Hardys Marksmen float rod.
In comparison, the split cane rod felt oh so heavy...
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My selection was my pick of nearly 200 books in my collection - think I've got just about everything Chris Yates has ever published, loads of anthologies - The Fisherman's Bedside Book by BB and the Magic Wheel by Profumo & Swift are both worth seeking out, a dozen+ John Bailey's and quite a bit of the Medlar catalogue!!! Almost none of my reading falls into the 'how to' category or the self indulgent 'how I caught the wacker' bracket!
C.
It's not really a carp book but Blood Knots by Luke Jennings is a great angling book. Well worth a read.
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Me too - and it was at a place where anyone can go and fish.
Golden oldies Den, well, Golden something or other
Hiya Vagabond
What tv programme did you appear on? Is it still available and what did you catch?
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my father saw a couple pf places he fished as a lad on a certain tv show..he went to the "celebrities" shop to request info on where it was because he couldnt remember and got a mouth full of abuse for his troubles! which goes to show that celebrity might not be the best way to go anyway!
we have a mill pool just up the road thats been on tv a couple of times (by the celeb above curiously enough)..the far side of the road is fishable with a nice lake etc but the mill pond side and stretch of river there is strictly no go!
having said that just down the road from my house is a superb mill and river section which the owner is more than happy to let you fish..if you only have the courage to go to his door and ask! sometimes thats all it takes! alot of these places get a "mystique" about them and rumours that nobody can ever fish them...but you never know for sure unless you ask for yourself!
Norfolk? Hmmmm. Must be the wonderful Wilson you refer to. I always heard he was a real sweetie.
Can't be easy being a celebrity and running a shop...
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When I was being filmed by the Beeb, I actually caught my own fish, on camera, on the day and at the time...so there
Some of us can do it
Den (one time famous angler)
Hi Den
What TV progamme did you appear on? Is it available on DVD or still shown on satellite TV?
Oh, and what fish did you catch?
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I use a seven turn tucked half blood knot for smaller eyed hooks.
It's not a popular knot on this board, from what I can remember from previous discussions here about knots.
As a result, I do now use palomar knots on bigger eyed hooks.
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Tip top stuff. What an adventure. Live life to the full!
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It's a strange thing about bread, I don't know why they like it so much. After a few early experiments it's all I use now. I've had one good fish on lobs, none at all on cheesepaste and all the rest on flake or crust. The fish Rich hooked today took a lump of flake almost instantly after he'd fished the same spot with lobs for a good 10 minutes without a touch. Weird!
I tried lobworms and cheesepaste on a local river this week. And blanked!
Maybe bread is the way forward.
Well done on a cracking chub.
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You are then! I thought so, I edit the bulletin.
Do you run features on record bleak captures?
Just kidding!
It looks like a cracking water, what with the weir and all.
With the right tactics, I'm sure big fish will entail.
Tight lines.
And happy writing and editing!
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I've fed pellets when stalking chub and barbel, and they are definitely strongly attracted to them.
Have you used pellets as hook bait? And trotted them?
Thanks for any input you can give. Conditions are tough enough at the moment. I need a bit of confidence!
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Hello TT nice to hear from you.
I’m pretty one dimensional too, I’ve no confidence in trotting anything that doesn’t wriggle. I have caught chub on trotted luncheon meat and grayling on corn but not in as many numbers as maggot.
Hiya Rusty
An interesting point you make about not trusting baits that don't wriggle. One I have sympathy with.
But whenever reading about fishing and the use of casters, I see that authors descibe them as catching a better stamp of fish than maggots.
Maybe pellets could do that too?
I suspect casters may better resemble the natural baits that fish normally eat though...
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I think you mean Datchet - if you also fish Windsor then you may even be a member of the same Angling Club as me.
I think you will have more chance of a flounder near Tower Bridge.
Oops - yup Datchet.
A friend got me access through the Civil Service Anglers Association.
Rumours of big barbel and perch abound.
The only record I got near to breaking was the bleak one...
Enough to make me read up on flounder fishing...
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I work in Central London and commute in by train and I agree about the travel. I don't want to live there, but I have been close a few times. I often look at the Thames in London with the same sort of question in my head - should I fish it? I've always decided - NO!
I have fished the Thames further upsteam and it's a slightly different beast.
Around the Windsor and Eton areas I had a frustrating day, with boat traffic fulled by the tourist boom there, making things difficult.
Near Datcham, the boat traffic is denied acess. Something that could not be said about the bleak population which was bigger than anything I had come across before and drove me crazy...
I listen with envy about the reports from other Anglers Net denizens around the Oxford area who are fishing the great river and its tributaries. Even the best have blanked there recently though.
Back to Central London and the Thames though - one day I'll tackle it though with little hope of success. Maybe an eel?
Fishing in a gale
in Coarse Fishing
Posted · Edited by tiddlertamer
Just got back from a fruitless day on the Upper Ouse.
On a stretch once graced by the late great Dick Walker. Sadly I didn’t live up to his high standards.
The temperature was mild and the rain stayed away but the wind howled.
The BBC Weather website predicted 20 mph winds for the area but methinks that was a huge understatement.
The wind howled through the river valley.
My fishing companion, an accomplished yachtsman, put the wind at over a constant 40mph. With gusts exceeding that...
Float fishing was a nightmare. Birds’ nests of line appearing on the reel, and line reaching out for every tree and snag going. Keeping contact with the float was tough. Real tough... Not to mention the wind playing the sneaky trick of wrapping the line round the back of the reel handle on the one occasion I dared actually following the float’s progress...
Ledgering had to be the answer. But quiver tipping seemed pointless. The tip bounced back and forth in the wind making bite detection almost impossible.
Touch ledgering seemed the only answer. I tried lobs, a maggot feeder, spam and pellets.
The result? A blank...
What is the most effective angling technique in gales?
Is it touch ledgering? If so, how is this best achieved?
By moving the bait subtly around the swim? By pointing the rod at 45 degrees from the bait or straight towards it?
Any advice gratefully received.
Tiddler ‘’I've blanked on my last four fishing trips’ Tamer