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  1. viney
    Due to work, shopping and mothers day over the weekend, after work today was my last chance to get some river fishing in, after a few failed attempts lately i decided to go for the sure bet, the lambourn at shaw.
     
    I arrived after a thouroughly S##T day at work including a covering of brake fluid, in a fairly bad mood which was not improved by hitting a tree first cast and losing my hooklength
    After contemplating going home i decided to have another shot, it was worth it, first trot and the float buried and i struck into this beauty of a fish:
     

     
    Didnt have scales on me, anyone any idea of the weight? my 'pin is 6" diameter so the she's roughly a foot long?
     
    This one was followed by 3 more of roughly the same size, 5 smaller and 12 extremely small trout (possibly recently spawned?)
     
    Very happy with my last day on the river, with a PB grayling and 3 others of a good size
     
    Good luck to everyone else over this weekend!
  2. viney

    lots of commons

    By viney,

    After spending two nights trying this 'specimin carp fishing' mullarky (sitting in my bivvy smoking like a train waiting for a bite alarm to scream into action while every knob and his dog walking round the lake tell u what the 'in' spots to fish are. YAWN!) i was getting bored... But without a hefty walk said lake was the most convenient!
    Roll on a change of luck which brought with it a car and meant i could travel further afield again!
     
    Knotts 24th(night) 25th(night) and 26th(day) april
     
    I spent alot of time fishing this lake last year and the last couple of nights and today have made me remember why!
    In total 15 fish graced my landing net;
    11 common carp (biggest four 18lb9, 16lb2, 15lb4 and 14lb14 of the rest only one was under 10lb!)
    4 tench (5lb9, 3lb15, 2lb8 and 2lb3)
     
    The warm weather has definately turned the fish on big time although the lake being a 'tench' fishery i am suprised with the small number of tench caught and none were caught within two hours of each other. Definately a very fun couple of nights as the carp are very hard fighting slow growing carp not fish farm fat sluggish fish (as you can see in rustys blog).
    Not one to miss out on the action my friend came down for the afternoon and promptly landed a gorgeous 23lb4 common within two hours of arriving! ba####d!!
    Will upload pictures as soon as i have access to a laptop or computer!
  3. viney

    me vs kennet

    By viney,

    And again i lost!
    After getting completely preoccupied with carp over the past few months it suddenly occurred to me i'd lost the joy of fishing sat in my bivvy waiting for that one fish to trip up.
    With that in mind my next trip planned was an evening on the kennet near thatcham.
    the kennet obviously upset with my neglect had brought the twins along to play. I fished 5 or 6 swims and caught at least five crays from each :@
    So not a great return to the river but def a step in the right direction!
  4. viney

    mmmmm bacon roll

    By viney,

    Spent the morning chubbing with steve and chris this morning, even after getting slightly lost and stuck on ice i arrived first and walked the stretch dropping my horrible smelling cheese garlic and crab paste into every likely looking hole. Steve and robby arrived as i was getting my kit out of the car, after a quick chat we set about the business of trying to catch some chub! rusty arrived shortly after and we worked our way up the stretch to no avail. Swans where a major problem for me for a while every time i got my bait in the water they were on it! around 10.30 i met up with rusty as he missed a bite while on his phone (maybe it was the 'pin gods punishment for using a fixed spool?) after this we headed back to the cars for some well deserved food and a chat, if you ever get the chance rusty makes a mean bacon roll! Unfortunately i had family life to get back to so i wished them luck and set off on my way.
    A great morning guys
  5. viney
    Due to being utterly useless and lazy (and getting a ps3 for my birthday) i havnt done a blog after any recent trips!
    A day on the csas stretch of the kennet saw around 40 fish landed including a monster gudgeon of just short of a pound (im convinced it was a barbel but an older 'wiser' angler has informed me there arent barbel that small in there so it was DEFINATELY a gudgeon ) the rest of the fish were a pretty even mix of roach dace grayling gudgeon and perch.
    A day on the wierpool at colthrop saw a handful of small bits and bobs but no big gudgeon or carp
    A morning on the kennet above hambridge yielded another big gudgeon of 1lb 3oz (had digi scales by then for accurate weighing!) and around 20 other tiddlers. I waded across to fish the far side of the island which provided a grayling of 1lb 1oz and a chub of 3lb 6oz.
    An afternoon on willows lake saw 9 carp to 11lb 8oz grace the net in a little over 5 hours!
    Barton court lake was next on the list, interesting day being showered with spray from shotguns! only fish out were 5 small skimmers, pretty sure the shooting turned the carp off!
    And lastly i went with a mate to frobury farm, spent a few hours on the top lake with no signs of any fish so we moved to one of the match lakes for the last hour and switched to waggler and maggot set up and caught around 15 rudd.
    Nothing amazing (apart from the monster gudgeon but a few enjoyable trips!
     
  6. viney
    Kennet stream 16:30-23:00
     
    My first trip back on flowing water and as is the norm I blanked...
    I chose a stream I had never fished before but had wondered round in the winter, on arrival there was one other person fishing there, after a quick chat and some helpful advice I was headed to a swim I had passed and sussed out on arrival.
    The swim in question involved an underarm cast to a tree in the water then passing the rod over bankside vegetation to where my rod rest was to give a better hit and hold angle. I set up the quiver rod with a simple running lead and a 10 inch fluro hooklength to a size 8 korda kurv. A hair rigged 14mm halibut pellet and a bag of assorted pellets completed the rig.
    I dropped my baited rig just short of the tree and about half a foot short of the crease which signaled the faster flowing water of the outside of the bend. With my rod on the rest and a slight bend put in the tip I settled back and began to daydream of catching one of the streams larger residents (from what the guy I was talking to was saying barbel to 16lb came out last year and theres quite a few carp to 30lb)
    Unfortunately it was not to be, the only bite came at around 10pm and was a very distinct chubby rattle on the tip, it was at this point I kicked myself for opting for a longer hair to specifically Target barbel and carp!
    Although I blanked I left full of high hopes and plans to Target the fish in this stretch and leave the lakes alone for a bit!
    Heading back this afternoon for round two, fingers crossed!
  7. viney
    back to the first ever lake i fished for a second crack at it! Having walked the lake a few times in the last couple of months i knew roughly where i wanted to fish, on arrival there were fish crashing exactly where i thought they would be.
    I quickly got both rods out and settled down with my book, ten minutes later i had a small common in the net, blank out of the way and there were some high hopes! Although it wasnt to be, only one other small common graced the net and another found an unforseen snag just off the point of the island, heavy rain ended play at around 10.15.
    Will definately be visiting this swim again in the near future as im sure it holds great potential!
  8. viney

    Oh so close

    By viney,

    Kennet near Newbury 17:30-21:30
     
    Spent a few hours trotting what is one of my favorite stretches of the Kennet but rather than moving around a lot I concentrated on one swim and tried to get my feeding regular and accurate as I am hopeless at it!
     
    The bites came steadily, I rested the swim for a minute or 2 after each fish (bar the 3 trout I left it 10 minutes while still feeding) a pretty even mix of dace, gudgeon, chublets and roach all mainly small with the odd bigger fish and a surprise grayling of around 1/2lb.
     
    Then as the light started to fade the float went under and I was convinced I'd snagged the bottom, then the bottom began to move off slowly but purposefully downstream, I managed to turn the fish and and gain some line. Just as it neared the edge of the main flow my float flew out of the water trailing behind it a straightened hook. The surface of the water boiled as the fish turned and powered off.
     
    So off home for dinner and a quick sleep before a 2am start at work all the while wondering what I could have done differently.
     
     
  9. viney

    parts 2&3

    By viney,

    Part two of my day was a small back stream, worked my way down trotting every swim for 10 minutes or so, had a handfull of dace, a few roach, plenty of minnows and a 3lb2 chub which did an amazing impression of a barbel just hugging the bottom and using the flow.
     
    Part 3 a stretch of the kennet past Thatcham, used the last of my maggots catching minnows and trout then blanked feeder fishing for the last 6 hours
  10. viney

    quick session

    By viney,

    19.30-21.30 willows lake
     
    Just a quick 2 hour session to try out a rig I've been playing around with for the last couple of weeks.
     
    Fished a single double strength pop up to the island with no free offerings, had 3 fish;
    2 mirrors (12b4 and 12lb6)
    1 common (11lb9)
     
    The rig worked very well all thee fish were nailed in the bottom lip with very secure hookholds.
     
    The thing that struck me this evening is that last year is that most of the fish you would have from this lake would be around 6-7lb with the odd double thrown in and hardly fought whereas tonight the three I caught were very hard fighting! Can the dynamics of a lake change this much over a year or was it just luck on my part (maybe good angling with the right bait and rig) to hook three of the larger fish out of the stock in the lake?
  11. viney
    Seven Lakes Angling 07:00-18:00
     
    The day started off nice enough with some sunshine so I settled down with a quivertipped cage feeder while I had breakfast, switched over to the float rod after a few hours of nothing, balled in some groundbait and a few freebies and sat it out....nothing still.
    Decided to move to one of the smaller ponds containing small fish and despite steady feeding nothing resulted after a further few hours (apart from pretty constant rain) so I moved again on 'the lake to be on' decided to stick one rod out on a bolt rig and alarm to fish itself and fished the float rod between the bank and a tree in the water leading into a little bay. After enduring a pretty savage hail storm my float finally buried and a small common graced the bank after a decent scrap on a 13' match rod with a 'pin and 4lb line.

     
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    A short while later I had a second common of a similar size then all went quiet, moved again a couple of times but had no further luck.
     
    Roll on June and renewing my Newbury ticket this year!!
  12. viney

    thank god for the ladies!

    By viney,

    Fished two waters today:
     
    River kennet- Thatcham
     
    07:30-10:30
     
    Trotted lobs and maggots past and under every tree and bush possible to no avail, wasnt too fussed as i got to grips with casting properly with the 'pin
    Switched to magic bread at around 10am and trotted up to an over hanging tree on the far bank, had a bite but the hook pulled, had another half hour on that swim then gave up.
     
     
    Lambourn- Shaw
     
    10:45- 13:00
     
    Trotted single red maggot on a size 16 hook, 17 grayling WOOHOO!! first decent session ive had this year the fish were practicaly jumping onto my line! The largest (just shy of a pound) was hooked around 3 foot infront of me while i was putting my bait box back on the bank!
     
    So in all a good half days fishing, the pin was much easier to use with the fireline on it, i actually caught fish and only caught one tree!!
  13. viney
    Havn't updated my blog in a while so this will include two different sessions, unfortunately no pictures as my phone wont upload them to anything other than facebook!
    First session was one night on a local stillwater which proved to be a great success, my carping efforts last year saw me land numerous fish of 14lb8oz but none bigger, the first fish that evening changed this. Not the usual carp 'run' my hanger lifted and dropped for a few minutes before i decided it must be a small bream and picked the rod up, this provoked the fish to take line at a rate of knots catching me completely off guard! soon though i had a 20lb7oz common in the net! this was followed by a 14lb9oz at around 3am and then about an hour before packing up and having had no further action i changed tactics to a bag of 4mm pellets with a hair rigged piece of fake corn and cast to a topping fish at range, within minutes line started peeling off that reel! the culprit, a 21lb3oz mirror and another p.b!
     
    This weekend started on thursday evening with a few hours surface fishing on a local still water, this resulted in a few fish to 9lb something and a lost fish of a much bigger size! As i had friday booked off the plan was a fairly early start, unfortunately this was thwarted by a drinking session on thursday night so it was around 1.30pm by the time i arrived! the afternoon was spent wondering round surface fishing with no success other than casting into trees every time i got them feeding confidently! I settled into a corner swim for the night casting up the margin on one rod and to open water on t'other, around 10.30 i was recieving line bites on both rods so i re-assessed the situation and opted for an underarm cast to the left and right of my swim with a scattering of bait over each rod. This produced 4 fish to 11lb6 until around 2am when it went quiet, 4.50 saw a very angry 13lb1 common trip up. This fish was by far THE hardest fighting fish i have ever caught, it took me just shy of 40 minutes to land him! I decided on a change of swims as my mate was coming down for bit of a social for saturday afternoon/night. After a quick chat with steve (jv44) i decided it was time for some surface fishing and landed two fish to 11lb one after the other by letting my dog biscuit drift right into a snaggy corner. The second night yielded another four fish to 15lb9oz all from the margins rather that the gravel bar that ran to the corner i fished on the first night.
    All in all my two favourite stillwater sessions this year so far!
  14. viney

    Trout on the Kennet

    By viney,

    5/8/13
     
    I decided the rain we had yesterday should have put a bit of flow and colour into the river (very little as it happened) so I set off for a few hours on the Kennet.
    Using typical gear for trout catching on the Kennet (quivertip, pellet hookbait and a small pva of small pellet) it wasn't long until the first showed up at around 1.5lb, it did a very good job of behaving like a barbel hugging the bottom for a few seconds then became airborne and started the acrobatics, a second was unfortunately lost at the net of around the same weight.
     
    Despite sitting it out until it got dark no more showed up, neither did those pesky barbel
  15. viney
    only a short blog as the laptops broken so im doing this from my phone!
    Decided to brave the heavy rain sunday morning and have a crack at my first carp. Arrived at 6am in torrential rain and set up. At around 7.30 line my rod started bouncing around, reeled in a very greedy small roach that took 3 hair rigged bits of corn and a size 10! Around 20 mins later the line started screaming off my reel, my first carp! After around ten minutes i had her on the bank unfortunately my scales only go up to ten pounds! And this and the second an hour later went straight to the bottom packed up after this as i was soaked through, next things to buy will be a new set of scales and some form of shelter!
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