danny2391

How about a lure caught pike with one of the trebles in its mouth and the other in its flank does happen with small pike and big lure!!! i still claim it i chose the day, time, location, lure so in my eyes it was caught fair and square.

Hi, it all depends on the size of the bait you are using if you are targeting roach for example try smaller hook like a 24 with let’s say a single maggot, and if you’re getting plagued with lots of small fish then change your hook size (18) and possibly 2 maggots for bigger roach. Again if you are targeting carp I’d defiantly step hook size up a lot Which carp hook size? Here is a quick breakdown of hook sizes to use with particular baits. This is for general information and just a rough guide as different manufactories have their own idea of what a certain size should be. This list though will be a good starting point. Hook size 12 Bread flake, paste, meat, sweetcorn, cocktails, chum mixer (floater fishing), meat, mini boilie, peanut, tigernut. Hook size 10 Paste, meat, bread crust, chum mixer, double sweetcorn, meat, maize, chum mixer, 10mm boilies, tiger nut Hook size 8 Lobworm, paste, bread crust, 21mm pellet, meat, triple sweetcorn, 11mm boilies, 14mm boilies, 2 x chum mixer, maize, tiger nut, 14mm pellet Hook size 6 Whole lobworm, paste, bread crust, meat, 16mm boilies - 19mm boilies, 21mm pellet. Hook size 4 Whole lobworm, paste, bread crust, Meat, 20mm+ pellets, 20mm+ boilies. In more recent times we have been spoilt by the likes of ESP who have released excellent hooks. They where also the 1st to release hooks in non traditional sizes. These being odd sizes such as 5 and 7's. Many carp anglers do not like using hooks above size 4, fearing that larger sizes can damage a carp's mouth and there may be some truth in this. For most general bottom bait fishing situations a size 5 ESP Raptor may be all you will ever need. A wider gape pattern would be a better option for pop-up fishing. It is important to take a realistic look at your presentation and try to imagine it on the lake bed or even better still just drop your rig in a clear margin to see if the presentation is subtle. Carp are not stupid and presenting them with a rig that looks un-balanced will effect your chances of a pick up. An example of an unbalanced rig could be for instance, using a size 4 hook with a grain of sweetcorn. I know this is a unrealistic example but I have used this analogy to emphasize the point. One last point, never try to save hooks and re-use them time after time. Of course re-using them is fine if they are in good condition and most importantly that the point is sharp. Today's chemically sharpened hooks will always be at their best straight out of the packet. You will never be able to sharpen the hook back to its mint condition. Always check the hook point after each and every cast.

My old boat i bought it 7 years ago of ebay for £350 and its still going strong had more than my moneys worth out of it

Barrett 50cal/ GPMG 7,62 with a belt of 200 would be my choice (my guns are bigger than your lol)

Yes i understand what your saying its the same for us in cumbria if you fish the river you know what your gonna get salmon,trout,eels thats it.

Yes i,ve tried windermere several times with some success your right about the amount of boats on there !! am thinking of trying it soon with the downriggers !

I,ve heard tell of a young lad doing ok on mokerkin have you heard about that ?

i have never caught pike in a river and would like to try it, the main reason for this is there are no pike in my local rivers but if anyone knows of any good rivers for up north i,d be glad of the help !

If you had one weekend to catch a 20 (pike) where would i be ??? (uk) Boat or shore !

I kept perch in a fish tank i had repaired in the garage. i caught them with a landing net while fishing and took them home to show my small children they lived there for a year until i had to release them due to there greedyness for all my worms lol. The tank wasnt heated at all but had a good supply of cover and light and they seemed to grow really quickly

Need i say more you better tell these guys there not doing it right because they dont look like a tree lol

Well read it! If people think they can be still fully aware of their surrounding after a snooze or light sleep I don’t care who you are your talking ****. Would you like to be the first one to prove me wrong (am sure you would) give me a shout next time you’re going night fishing and we’ll see how alert you are in your light sleep! It is a statement explaining to all thoughts who think they can sleep lightly while fishing may not be so fully aware of their surrounding as they might like to think

sometimes carp would be caught ! how many times is sometimes and you never brought in a dead one mmmmm

I totally agree, also coming from a military background I have heard all the excuses “I was just resting my eyes” “I just dozed off” and there all ****s sleeping while fishing has no place in fishing as it doesn’t in the military. I’ve seen soldiers on operations in the Middle East (that were not suffering from sleep deprivation), in live ambushes (that am sure thought they knew their own bodies) fall asleep so don’t come that nonsense, if your fishing you’re awake. I,d likes to set them so called light sleepers a challenge!! let them set put and fish as normal into the night at some point in the night Ill approach them and see how close I can get before they wake !! Am sure I’d see the same startled look on their face I’ve seen a hundred times before followed by I wasn’t asleep lol

You are one of the people Emma is talking about assuming all anglers are alike, I have not and never intend to fish a “club “water the mere saying of it makes me cringe I couldn’t think of anything worse. Don’t get me wrong if I was approached while fishing I would happly talk away about fishing the weather general chit chat but I keep myself to myself when fishing the less people I see the better. It would be a good idea to provide training if people asked for it, but it would be fighting a losing battle trying to make this mandatory.

Nice perch there Emma I think we both know this place don’t worry the secrets safe with me lol

You could be on to something there as the perch fishing on my local water has over the last couple of years seemed to have produced bigger fish, but again in the winter seem to disappear!!

The coarse fishing section covers a whole range of techniques for a whole range of species, that's fair enough. The fly section if just that, it doesnt cover 'game fishing' widely. The ferox (and other big trout) talk is out of place in the coarse section, so is any spinning or bait fishing for game fish. The 3 types Game sea and coarse, have worked well for decades in 100s of books papers and magazines.

am not sure i think so

i know someone that used a dead frog with air injected into it and used it as a surface lure !

None of us will ever know for sure what a fish can and can’t remember they live on instinct alone. I remember seeing shoal of perch feeding on hatching insects, but as I dangled a worm in front of them they chose to ignore it now that might be seen as stupid as that worm would have been the equivalent of eating thousands of the insects but their own instinct told them to eat while they are there. Also even though I have the luck of living in the lake district we don’t have the ability of being able to use any other baits than sea dead baits so if are pike get used to them then we are screwed !!

lol well said