John Weddup
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Steve once wrongly accused me of quoting from his book on a perch thread a couple of years ago although I have never read his book.
I took this as a compliment as we must have been thinking alike about the methods and habits of perch.
I too agree that steve is a goldmine of info and regularly look to see what he posts as its always a well thought out and informative answer from someone who has posted here for a long time and is willing to help others with some cracking information he has learn,t over the years.
Getting advice is easy, getting good advice now thats another thing.
best regards
john
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Short river session sunday afternoon on local suffolk river. New section to me.
18 roach for 11lbs.
I was pleased
john
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there are 2 small ponds that I fish sometimes in winter that when they are really coloured due to a stream beside them flooding in fish really well.
The colour is so bad you would not beleive any fish would feed. On those ocasions the skimmers feed when its less coloured you cannot catch them until later in the spring.
There are lots of small pike in them and I guess the silvers get attacked so much when clearer they avoid feed and sticking together.
john
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As peter has said above most problems come from lack of understanding.
I fish the broads a lot in summer and have found over the years that it is lack of seeing anglers that causes the problems. I tend to put my umbrella up although in the folded position so that it shows easily. If I see a boat coming close to my bank I either stand up or then hold rod/pole up and most see you and move over.
It is certainly the privately owned gin palaces that cock their nose and ignore you and the speed limits aswell. For those I do hold a quick and easy working class language eduacation free of charge.
I also have a boat and know that with river full of boats add a sailing craft and a few novices and the recipe for disaster is there so recognise it and remove your tackle and lay it on the bank. I always waive and say thanks to those that slow down or move over and very often when I pull tackle out from a difficult situation and waive a yacht through they recognise what I have done and do the same.
I do sometimes feel that either boaters or bird watchers or nature lovers look at us as anglers. Ther are many of us that are all 4.
john
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chub barbel or trout
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Today was more difficult. I started really well, pot fead casters and an initial ball of groundbait. After an 1/2 hour roach started well,The quality increased until I was hit by 2 carp.
The swim went dead. Decided as the fish were feeding well to put in large ball of groundbait through pole cup and casters and eat sandwiches while feed setttles.
Swim stayed dead. The groundbait killed it. Pot fead a few casters to 2nd swim to left and after an hour was catching roach one a chuck. Just goes to show how even when you think you have got them really feeding you can still overdue it.
Little and often is definately the best approach I have ruined a swim once too often this time of year by thinking lots of bites and fish mean I can up feed rate a lot.
The other thing of course is if you don,t keep feeding you will loose them any way so keep it small and regular.
The main problem I find with this is with the pole is if you do nt get a bite you move it and don.t ship in so when you are not getting bites you are not bringing in and getting your pole pot filled. This is the crucial time to keep dropping bait in small and regular.
john
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Hi
I have not heard of the two clubs/syndicates you have mentioned so you may be the opposite end of Suffolk to me but if you are near Sudbury reply again and I will give help.
John
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Hi there
As always with a really good topic you have had lots of very good advice.
3lb mainline is fine but look at hooklengths in width. A 0.6 or 0.8 hooklength is generally best. The high tech lines appear so thin compared with general mainlines.
The other important thing is with hook sizes. Yes 16 18 or 20 are correct depending on how fish are feeding and you sometimes have to do go down to a 24 but its more important on the wire size. It needs to be a fine wire hook. Kamasan b511, tubertini series 2 or similar. The reason for this is the weight of the hook compared with bait attached. If the hook is so heavy the bait will appear unnatural and be rejected.
The other advice as to regular feeding etc are correct but I would ad that the feed needs to be generally very tight. The best method is to pole cup or pole toss pot it in every put in. This is obviously where a pole is better in winter.
If you add a few maggots/casters in every put in exactly the same spot the fish will arrive.
I did this today for 1.5 hours with hardly any bites but then the fish started. I was feeding caster but fishing red maggot until fish became confident and then used caster on the hook.I then had roach one after the other until carp moved in and then caught several carp aswell. Incidentally the carp anglers present had no fish at all.
Patience, corect approach, and the right balanced tackle are whats needed.
john
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These are a brilliant depth finder as long as its over 1 metre, below this they go mad.
For fish finding they are poor unless you have large fish. They will not show roach or skimmers but larger bream are fine.
What they are really good as is pike lures. I have lost count of the times the finder has been hit by a pike. Should really get round to fitting a treble hook to tail end.
The ability to cast it out and draw it back watching the contours of lake or river bed is what it is great at. In this mode it saves you so much time with plummet. I have cast it too middle of lakes around me to see how deep it was only to find its shalower than the edge.
john
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I have recently bought the td-r 3012 and 2502 reels and they are superb.
What is the next size up with similar build quality as I went back to stalking for chubb today and my larger old reel felt so bad compared with my recent purchases.
John
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Thats exactly what I mean't tim.
A boilie belly. Its not nice to see all those specimen fish that we know are artificial but its nice to see all those quality roach in carp waters.
john
Thats exactly what I mean't tim.
A boilie belly. Its not nice to see all those specimen fish that we know are artificial but its nice to see all those quality roach in carp waters.
john
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If people were fishing in a stillwater and fead lots of high protein baits then yes.
Thats why large roach bream chub and tench are being caught in carp waters.
john
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I presume we are talking stillwaters.
Pole or whip are best. Try and get fish in close. They will come to feed and it makes it easier to put a big bag together.
Light lines and espescially fine wire hooks. I love my tubertini series 2 but kamasan b511's are as good and maybe easier to buy.
In a well stocked carp water that will be full of good roach you shouldn't have to go smaller than a 18 hook and its easier to bait up and take out of fish when things are going well.
Things are obviously a bit hard at moment but when the frosts are gone the most important thing to remember is feeding. You must keep putting small amounts of hook bait in. 6 casters or maggots every few minutes.
You can feed like this for an hour sometimes and then they are there and as long as you keep feeding the shoal will stay there. I hear so many people say they get them feeding and then they are gone. The reason for this is when you start catching you forget to feed. The fish then move on.
I do use small walnut sized grounbait balls and regularly feed them. I use a roach canal type bait. Canal type generally means very fine low feed. Look for a fine ground roach mix. Both sensas and van deneyde do them.
Hook baits for me are generally maggots, better still casters or sometimes bread punch.Some waters need a 24 hook and pinkies but generally well stocked stillwaters are ok with the above methods.
Its a subject that I could write a book about but the above is the basis of at least one bag up session every week this time of year for me. I love fishing for roach in the winter and some of these carp type lakes are full of roach and empty of carp anglesr this time of year. The only daft thing is some ban keepnets and you cannot fish for a bag of roach without one as its the bag and not the fish you are going for.
Balanced tackle is very important and when got right with the fine wire hooks if you happen to get a carp come along the hook will straighten and he will be gone rather than break you up leaving him with your hook in his mouth. In the early winter weeks I catch many carp when carp anglers are struggling.
good luck
john
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Funny I have just spent loads of money on equipment for my business along with lots of fishing tackle as usual and told my wife there's nothing else I need for awhile.
Then mr Waller you have found exactly what I need.
They look just the job. If only I or you had started this thread a week or so earlier I could have emailed father xmas.
They do look very good. I have the large avons that have been very good and these look a similar design and size.
thanks for sharing your find
john
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Good post Peter I have for some time thought about accurate scales for roach dace etc.
I have been told the digital are great if the fish keep still but try telling that to any dace.
The idea of avons being availeable in 5lbs full scale is great. I will have to hunt some down.
john
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Dant
I have just read your long post again and like most interesting things when you re read /veiw them again you gain more.
You have made some very accurate and interesting points.
Anyone interested in winter fishing and succeding would be well advised to take your advice on board.
Accurate feeding, little and often, fish location, watercraft, patience.
If you have those and a little help from friends you can catch fish all year round. Whats more those caught on a cold winters day can be so much more enjoyable as it s a case of doing battle with the elements aswell.
Of course you could go to an overstocked commercial where the fish are starving and the water temp is high due to so many fish being in there.
I catch lots of big fish of many species and big bags of bream carp etc but to put a bag of roach together on a winters day is to me the best. It only needs to be 5 to 10 lbs depending on size of fish but I love it.
john
p.s. thanks dant for your post
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Glad your reply got there as it is very interesting.
I love my winter roach fishing along with the chub and other fish aswell.
The suffolk stour has some lovely streamy sections that are full of roach at times and empty at others. It has weirs and mill gates that seperate sections so generally there are only a few miles of navigable river for them.
The cormarant problem has certainly made them use different haunts but I have witnessed huge shoals of roach with chub amongst them in september only to struggle to find them later on.
One particular section has landed me several large roach in autumn and then can hardly find a fish after xmas. I have tried deep area's shallow area's long glides deep corners and had success at different venue's one day and nothing the next.
Sometimes no doubt its because they are not feeding but the river can look devoid of fish. They seem to move in mass.I am convinced the shallows below a mill pool are good after dark as the area contains lots of food not eaten during the day due to the threat of overhead predation so the fish move into these area's under the cover of darkness.
Its mysterys like this that keep me and obviously yourselves interested.
If you can master roach and chub fishing you have learn't everything you need to know to become a very good carp angler. Or should I use that old fashioned term an allrounder.
best regards
john
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are these flavourings still availeble and where from?
thanks
john
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there are many barbel in the Stour including recent stockings by EA. They seem to come out at several hotspots and are difficult to target but several double figure fish have been caught with pics and by well known local anglers.
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I have recently bought a platt-forms box.
it is made in the uk to a very high standard and if you look at pics in various angling publications many of the top anglers are sitting on them. That is unless they are doing a promo job like they mostly do.
john
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I am very interested in what has been said but am confused exactly as to what is mean't. Mention of a running feeder but bolt rig .
I regularly fish tiny feeders with very light tip rods and enjoy the method immensely. Hitting bites from roach and skimmers is always an art but the very light tip rods help as less resistance allows the bite too develop.
I have started to use very short hooklengths, is this the main part of what is desribed.
thanks
john
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navigation is only to sudbury there is a lot of river and fishing above sudbury.
There are several weirs below sudbury that they will never be able to afford putting loch gates in. They only just managed to raise enough money for one at gt cornard.
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the stretch of river i refered to was initially in sudbury but the stretch below sudbury to henny is also very low.
All the manual gates from wixoe through to cattawade will be fixed either shut or open depending on opinion of EA guy as to wether flooding will be a risk.
I guess they are prepared to let large area,s flood that are arable land or meadows.
The situation varys along the river depending on open or shut policy. Its complicated slightly as most millgates have bypass streams that used to be used to allow water past when it was not needed by mill. These have all but filled in now due to main gates doing all work. If they continue with this policy lots of work will be required on those if the gates are closed.
There have been several reports on local radio press etc. with many people fearing flooding when it rains and wildlife destruction when its dry.
The only way to get over this would be fixed weirs being built to hold water level in sections at a reasonable level.
But as I suspect that this is more of a cost saving measure using health and safety as a convenient excuse i cannot see any money for weirs to be availeble.
This area is carefully monitored by english nature as many sssi,s are along this section. It seems good timing as english nature have just had huge cuts and been incorporated into other agencies . Maybe they are not out there walking the countryside like they were.
I wish to make this clear this is not a local issue this covers the whole country
john
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today river stour but also others such as brett and gipping are affected.
john
winter pond fishing and how to avoid carp
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As in the recent topic winter pond fishing we discussed the methods to get the roach feeding and how to improve catch rates.
The main consensus of opinion (and quite correct) is regular accurate feeding of small amounts and fishing light. This is great for the roach but I have one lake I visit occasionally that has a very good head of quality roach and lots of carp.
For some reason the carp seem to feed in the coldest of conditions. You can fish for roach for about 2 hours and have great fun then the carp move in and they seem to be lining up to take your bait.
I am running out of idea's to avoid them.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
john