dogstick
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Hi all, i have recently moved from preston, lancashire to wallsend, tyne and wear and havent a clue where to go to catch some big carp. Is there anywhere to go that isnt too expensive to fish for the day? I like to fish for big carp and tench. Any help is much appreciated.
Sorry to dissapoint you but you`ve moved to the wrong part of the country !! The fish still haven`t started to feed up here,once they do they`ll spawn and go to sleep again for the winter.!
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Well done Elton,congratulations,great site and great people.
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I can`t see many people returning for maggots if there over a week old never mind 6-8 weeks,they`ll shrink and toughen up.
I add maize flour riddle them off and repeat as neccessary.
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~Some of the snow has melted up here~
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magnetic box for me,a hook doesn`t need a label,I just pick the right one out for the job .Saves havin all those packets cluttering your box/bag up.
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I`d be worried if I was an Eastern European with a penchant for fish barbie`s !!..................................And even more worried if i was his night fishin buddy!!!
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Is there a live webcam anywhere on the river? There's one on the Tyne at Hexam Bridge (currently not working!) which can give a good idea of levels in my neck of the woods. I couple it with rivercall and it really is quite useful...
River levels for the Tyne Toady.
http://www.fishpal.com/England/Tyne/RiverLevels.asp?dom=Tyne
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Cheers. I can wait until Wednesday, took me ages to find somewhere at lunchtime that had them on the shelf and that weren't so busy I'd have wasted my lunch hour waiting to ask if they had them yet! May well take up the subscription then.
free Okuma reel offer inside this weeks if you take up a subscription
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Well me Nimbus pants are looking a bit tattered but I see Sundridge don`t make that set anymore.Anyone know which of the new range is the equivilent as its top gear in my opinion... unless someone can persuade me there`s better?
Cheers Dogstick
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Hi,i read last year someone had a 5lb+ Perch outta there !!
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Yes, It can be very worrying, and they can go wrong even after a decent upbringing. The case of my own son is an example of this. He was introduced to fishing at an early age, I have a picture of him at about 8 years old with his first lure caught Pike, he had taken sea trout on his own before leaving primary school. Learned to cast a fly, and how to fill a livebait bucket using a whip. Now in his 20s and has his own place and a perfectly good 13' boat. You can imagine my horror when I recently discovered a stash of substances in his garage, bags and bags of different coloured round balls, and plastic bags of strange looking powdered stuff, some bags has 'boilies' written on them and the powder bags things like 'ultra bait',' top mix' and one even said 'hash'!...it would appear that somone is actually commercially producing this rubbish! I found an army bergen packed with paraphanalia to go with the stuff, a bivvy, electronic bite alarms, 'rig tubing (ugh), baiting needles, hair rig hooks and fancy digital scales. I looked at his e bay to find that he has been selling off some of his pike lures to buy more of this stuff! It got worse, you may imagine how my head reeled and stomach churned to find a picture of him clutching a great big fat ugly carp at what was clearly some seedy commercial fishery where blank eyed cammo wearing dead beats pass money from their shaking hands to the 'fat cats' who set up this sordid practice.
I belive that there is a place for these dirty little puddles stocked with reared fish, there is one fairly close to is, it has easy access so that physically disabled and those suffering from mental illness or learning disibility can catch rainbow trout, (they can even see the rearing pens a few feet away) and perhaps imagine in their own way that they have atually been 'fishing'.
I can only hope that through love, patience and perhaps medical professional help if need be, that my son will come back to the decent side of society and realise that one wild Jack pike is worth more than a life time of those grotesque things which have been pulled in and out of the water so many times as to be recognisable by name.
Terrible,I know other parents who have suffered the same,good families too!! I hope your son can turn back before he`s dragged down the slippery slope of "carpin in france" !!
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A nice one from Victoria, Australia, weighing in at 5.5lbs
Has someone cut the fins and tail down to make it look bigger !!
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I have heard many many times that a 2lb roach is a "fish of a lifetime" and "one most anglers will never even see".
However what i would like to know is, is this a weight based largely on southern waters, and would me catching a 2lb roach up here in the relative north, be much more of an achievement... or not?
let me know your opinions, thanks
Up where in the relative north? Or do you mean down there in the relative south ?
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Pointless topic I know, but if you had to pick one tackle manufacturer, which one would it be? Just to make it a little more interesting you can pick one for rods reels etc and one for terminal tackle.
Mine would be: Daiwa for rods, reels etc and Drennan for all terminal tackle.
Rich
normark-rods
shimano-reels
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I`ve bumped a 12 page thread back up,stacks of bream fishing tips there.
Have fun
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BTTT
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has anyone got any tips on feeder fishing for bream
what kind of feeder works best?
what pound line ?
what size hook?
what hook bait?
thanks
it all depends on the waters your fishing and what you expect to catch,lots of little bream,one great big bream ?
PS there are a couple of huge threads on hear all about bream fishing.
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I bet the sinking stuff is superb for roach fishing - no more constant rebaiting. I imagine the floating stuff is good hair rigged for tench, if enough real hemp is used in groundbait.
I`ve caught Dace,Chub all day on maggot/caster without seeing a Roach,stick one of these on and the Roach appear from no where,pretty amazing really and shows the fish are there but you need the right bait.
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drennan super specialist,I always buy barbed and just crush it with forceps if barbless are required.Save`s carrying two packs and bait stops on better.If your getting straightened "all the time" is your tackle balanced,are you playing the fish or battling with it.?
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Not as cheap as "calf nuts" from farm suppliers at about 5 quid for 25 kg!!
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Jon, You've caught my wifes sentiments exactly although it sounds more like:
"GUMP, How can you watch that stupid $h!t?!"
Mark, I look forward to these new shows regardless of how they are presented. i.e. IP or televised.
I look forward to them too,believe it or not some people don`t have sky!!At the moment I have youtube.
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Don't forget Bugie I think it's still legal in Ireland...I think.
It is still available in Ireland .I saw SSG,AAA and BB on the shelves just this month and alot cheaper than the stuff over here(UK)
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OI OI,
Dog stick are you a member of any fishing clubs up here & if so what, Which commercials do you fish?
Oi oi Bill
I`m in RADAC (stargate) NAF for the Tyne,The TAA,Fish the free sections of the Wear at Durham in winter,would like to try the Tees (yarm?,barrage??)sometime.I fished Woodlands,Aldin grange and Sessay (all once just not my scene man),I`ve read half the rules for AON and give up there n then.
where you based Bill
wallis casting
in Coarse Fishing
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I don`t find casting the joy(I can`t lol),its the ease in which you control your float and bait once its in the water that makes a pin so special.It just goes with the flow.
I only use it when the mood takes me,fun for tench too.