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Darren T

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    Croydon - London
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    New to fishing and i like my football and my pooter. Also like photography even if i am no good!

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  1. I tried it out on Monday and it seemed to work very well. Sadly nothing on the lake was biting for anyone cet for some roach but never mind. i had one float attached at 3ft the usual way, and then a couple of drennan clip on floats at 4 and 5ft and each with different coloured tips. i found i could cast out a decent distance without any tangles and could easily tell how deep the water was at that point. I could then just reel in a few feet, allow the floats to settle again and see exactly where the undulations on the bed were, the shallows and the holes. It does look a little odd at first but i'll definatly be doing it next time out. As it stands i have just got a house to decorate and the kids are all off school so i probably wont be back till september anyway!
  2. wow it seems like ages since i posted here. Works been manic over the last 8 months or so (averaging 300 hours a month!) so i just havn't had a chance to go fishing which is a shame. Anyway, last week i ventured out on one of the nicest days of the year and caught a sole Tench (a nice 12-14" though) and i'm heading out again with a mate on Monday. now my question is really just about a theory i have. Is there anything stopping me from attaching more than one float to my line to plumb the depth of my swim? IE, instead of attaching one as usual at say 4ft and then fiddling around to try and get a feel for the swim around me, could i not attach one at 4ft, one at 5ft and one at 6ft (as an example) with different tips to differentiate the corresponding depths. I just thought that if the 5ft one is flat and i cant see the 4ft one then i know its about 4.5ft etc etc. that way i could plumb the whole area around me fairly quickly. My only real concern is about tangles but i wont be casting probably more than 10-15ft out anyway. thoughts?
  3. i just foun this on the bbcs site which is as i suspected i tihnk if it flicks out though that it is for obvious reasons.
  4. thanks for all the tips peeps. i also considered that maybe it was the particular swim i was on? i had large trees overhanging the bank to my immediate left and right and lily beds in the water in front of those. It was almost completly cut off from the wind that was coming down the lake and very secluded. There were 3 carp within 3ft of the bank directly in front of me stirring up the silt. even if i had had the gear top cope with them i dont quite know how you could fish for them that close to you.with heavy cover left and right and them feeding directly under the rod tip i would imagine it unlikly they would be nice and just rocket out into the open lake and more likly that they would just fly into the tree roots and wrap around some of them. i was going tom head back to the lake tomorrow but with a new bed arriving on friday morning thats been called off as i need to find my bedroom. Hopefully i can get back next week. Maybe i'll look for a slightly more open swim.
  5. i do like a bit of cod. but in our place the most common takeaway is chinese so i might only have 6 peices of cod a year.
  6. After another day out today i have spent most of the day removing hooks from the mouths of fish less than 3 inches long. Despite the fact that the bait was as large as their little heads it didn't seem to stop them stuffing themselves. I tried putting a dropper shot on to get the maggots down a little faster but that had next to no effect so i don't quite know what else i can do to help me get past these fish to the ones just a couple of inches larger that i know are there. any tips?
  7. ahh Subaru as i recall all Subaru's are 4wd as well as all having lateral engines. Instead of the pistons going up and down they go left to right. Lowers COG don't cha no. certainly looks like it'll be a fine fishing chariot Elton. and even if it gives up the ghost after a couple of years its still been a good buy.
  8. Well its coming up for 19:30 on Monday 2nd June and I am getting ready for a trip out tomorrow. It'll be my first one as a member of the Crawley Angling Society and so i am going to head over to New Pond which is at the end of the M23. At around 4 acres with 30 swims I am hoping for a nice quiet day. With Roach, Rudd, Tench, Perch, Mirror/Common/Crucian Carp, Bream and Gudgeon swimming around i am also hoping to have plenty to talk about when i come home! I'll be heading for Jack Frost Tackle first to see if i can pick up any tips as well as some maggots and lord knows what else. I'll already be armed with a load of corn and probably some bread so hopefully i can mix it up enough to keep them interested. One problem i have to overcome is the rulebook stating "umbrellas only whilst night fishing" which at first glance i took to mean you cant use an umbrella during the day but on second thought it could well be that you can only use an umbrella in the evenings instead of bivvies and the like. I am hoping to get through to the secretary tonight to clarify that slightly odd point. Well after a quick call to the mobile number given i got through to the Secretary's wife who was very nice and helpful in explaining exactly what the umbrella issue is all about. As i suspected you can use an umbrella during the day and in the evenings you can ONLY use an umbrella. apparently they had people night fishing there and staying for 4+ nights fully tented up who would then leave days worth of rubbish there. With that cleared up I have the TomTom set to take me to Jack Frost and then onto the lake and I'll be going equipped with 6 cans of corn (4 pints) some bread and I'll also pick up 2 pints of maggots at the tackle store. ..... Well i am home after another long day at the bankside. I left home at around 8:30, picked up my maggots and got to the water for about 10:00. after a few minutes utter confusion about how to unlock the gate i managed to get in and i was away. I parked up and then went to have a look around the lake to try and pick out a swim. What i wasn't expecting was such well maintained surroundings. There is a bark path around the lake which then leads to each peg which are also all bark and nice and large. The sizes vary but the peg i chose for the day was peg 24. The peg is probably 8ft square and directly to the left and right are overhanging trees. in front of them are lilly beds on the left and right with the section of water directly in front of the peg open water. I picked the peg because i thought lily pads were bound to be home to some piscatorial life an i wasn't wrong. after plumbing up i set about getting some bait in, a mix of red maggot and corn. Unfortunately because of the overhanging trees an overhead cast was almost impossible, though i didn't reckon that until the second hook was buried 15ft up in a branch. once i worked out how best to get my bait out to the lily pads (about 20ft from the peg) i put a few casts in and decided that my chosen float was way too heavy for the job. The 4.5g loaded Puddle Chucker was i think hitting the bottom when it landed which i noted eventually and swapped to a much lighter and more sensitive 2AA+ drennan crystal insert. Unfortunately the day turned out to teach me more lessons rather than give me some nice fish. If it was eating maggots it was 3 inches long and if it was eating corn it was 3ft long! Directly in front of my peg as well as off to the left were three large carp stirring up the silt. With a match rod, 6lb main line and 3lb8oz hooklength there was no chance that one of these would be landed, more so with the trees roots as perfect cover. Needless to say over the coarse of the day (about 7 hours) i think i hooked into a fish of that size on at least 3 occasions, all ending in a break off. The rest of the days catch were all small roach and perch for the most part aside from two nicer sized Perch that both took a couple of red maggots each within the space of 2 casts and about 3 minutes! The Corn for the most part was being completly ignored and aside from the two nice Perch the maggots would only tempt absolute tiddlers. Frankly it was getting annoying as i was putting 4 maggots on a size 14 hook and the silly buggers were still trying to wrap their mouths around them. In a bid to get past the smaller fish i put a small shot near the hook to help it sink but apparently the small fish lived on the bottom as well as the top. Hopefully my next trip will be a bit more eventful! Picture was taken on my phone
  9. As a newcomer to the hobby I'll be hanging back on the Rivers for a bit. However my new club have access to three stretches of the River Mole which is reputed to be good for Barbel and Chub. I have to confess I cant wait to hook into a Barbel.
  10. nice blog :) expecting updates!

  11. ah yeah thanks for that Anderoo. Didn't cross my mind! Dan thanks for that list, i have hopefully added them all in roughly the right places! i just hope i can find an excuse to head out to Apollo Angling as it looks like a good few hours dribbling at toys! For the moment the angling map only contains commercial fisheries who have a map plastered all over the website anyway. Its a shame that we even need to be cautious in thins kind of thing because a good map of loads of waters would benefit everyone who fishes including the owners of the waters. With poaching and trespassing as bad as it is though i can completely understand.
  12. you may have noticed in my sig two maps that i have started on Google Maps. I have been pinpointing some locations of tackle shops and fisheries in my area to make my life a little easier when planning my day out or when trying to suggest the location of a good shop or water. If anyone would care to help me in my quest (how nice would it be to have a full map!) please feel free to hand over any good tackle shops, waters etc that you are aware of. If you can provide a link to a website or a phone number it'll be even better. Naturally its a work in progress so any comments are welcome.
  13. thanks for that anderoo. i will confess that the idea was as you said, to just put out a rod not really expecting anything but targeting some of the bigger carp with a self hooking rig and some larger baits like boilies etc. knowing that certain fish will at times just wolf a bait down i would certainly never leave a rig like that out targeting those species.
  14. Well its just gone 09:00 on Wednesday 28th and i have returned home from my last shift at work for nearly 4 weeks. I have been awake since 17:00 yesterday so I'm just pottering about now trying to stay awake to get through the tough part of the morning. I have decided that tomorrow I'll head out to Beaver Farm Fisheries for the day while i wait for my Crawley Angling Society membership to go through. With a mixed set of lakes I'm bound to hook into something! The current forecast is for Sunny Intervals with temps hitting 17 degrees with a little wind to boot. how thats going to affect the fishing i don't know but i have my jacket and my boots and the brolly so hopefully come rain or shine I'll at least by dry-ish. ----------------- Its now 18:40 on Wednesday and I've had a wee nap. The forecast for tomorrow has slipped to Light Showers but with temperatures hitting 22 degrees. I have also phoned the Fishery for any further information about the place. After looking at the site i thought that its Eden Pond would be a nice lake to try. Mainly stocked with tench, (some to over 11lb) it also holds Carp to 15lb Rudd Crucian and Roach. The guy I spoke to also mentioned that bream were being pulled out today. Good news is that the pond reacts well to Corn and Maggot which is as i had hoped! ----------------- Well its 16:00 on Thursday 29th and i have returned from my day out. I was wide awake at 05:30 this morning so i got to Beaver Farm for around 07:10. Eden pond is only a small little lake but with no designated swims anywhere you just dump your gear wherever you like. I chose the far bank as you approach the lake. This bank had the sun on it early in the morning so my thinking was that sun = warm water = feeding fish. I had a reed island directly in front of me with some lilies to the left to fish to. Because the tackle shop on site doesn't open until about 10:00 i had only the sweetcorn that i de-tinned earlier as bait. An annoyance certainly but i managed to make the most of it last about 5 hours which wasn't bad for just 2 pints! For the most part i was only fishing about 4 or 5 ft from the end of my rod tip so i picked a nice small insert waggler and set about plumbing up. All the while with midges all over me! Eventually i started and the fishing stayed pretty constant for most of the morning with the majority of fish being Roach and Skimmer Bream. I did also have a really nice little Carp of maybe a pound. Already he had a belly on him! By 8:30 the midges had all gone away and i was greeted to a host of Dragonflies cruising around the pond. Add that to a pair of Geese and their Goslings and the constant trickle of water and i was about as relaxed as you can get. The site says the lake is mostly stocked with Tench but sadly none were hungry today as i would have loved one to come out. Needless to say it was not to be and by 1:30 i was completely out of Corn, having made the last grain last the better part of 40 mins with no loose feed. Still got 2 fish though! Another fine day out with some more lessons learnt. I am now much more comfortable with my landing net than last time out. Before i must have looked like the biggest klutz on the lake! Also i am getting better with my plumbing up. I thought i had it right until i decided to check after about an hour and found i was about 14 inches over depth instead of the 3 i had been planning on! Also my Crawley Angling Society book just arrived so i have a host of pre paid water to fish over my holiday. I'll certainly be sorting out more bait though as just fishing with Corn for 6 hours does take its toll even if it did stop the REALLY small stuff. Until next time
  15. well thanks for the advice! i think i'll knock that idea on the head! the original plan behind the idea was that i dont want to sit there with three rods out for hours on end bored stupid. My current rod says it should be used with lines upto 6lb so maybe i'll pick something up later that will be able to handle some heavier lines and bigger fish for when i am fishing the River or looking for some larger fish. Ta
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