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  1. by Paul Whitehouse and John Bailey. Has anyone read it? Is it any good? Looking head to Christmas!
  2. Chesters, I agree for coarse fish, but what about sea fish? That's what struck me as so surprising in Menorca, seeing other sea fish in addition to mullet going for the bread.
  3. Thanks everyone. It was amazing the way such a variety of fish went for the bread just floating on the surface. I wonder why they don't in UK? You'd think they'd want the protein.
  4. I was recently on hols in Menorca, and briefly fished the marina at Cala Galdana. If you threw in a few bits of bread there was a feeding frenzy - mullet (I think), sea bream, and other species. Every now and then 'woosh' something bigger came up from below, probably mullet. I didn't stay long for various reasons, not least that my bad back wasn't happy with me not having a chair. But thinking of the future, what would be the best way to stop the little ones getting to the bait first? Will mullet take a fairly solid blob of breadpaste? Or even a boilie?
  5. This is mainly to let you know I'm still around, though it's a while since I went fishing - mainly because of the state of the Thames, and then waiting for the lakes to warm up. Today I went to find a new lake at Standlake called Lincoln's Lake. Problem, I never found it! Doh! So I drove down to Grove Pond and had an enjoyable time float fishing maggot. Almost no bites from small roach, but a 2lb carp, 3.5lb tench, 11oz crucian. I'll let you know when I find LL!
  6. Has anyone worked out how to switch them from Kg to lbs and oz? John
  7. Neil, I agree about the perch nipping the end of the worm, but the problem with maggots, certainly in the Thames, is that you get endless nibbles from prey fish. I tried it today. I had a number 6 hook and lobworm, but the response was slow so I put on six maggots, but it came back each time with the ends of all the maggots nipped. Maybe I should have put on a smaller hook, but I tried that a couple of weeks ago and I caught lots of mini fish, though I did have one decent perch on admittedly who shed the small barbless hook. But I shouldn't dismiss maggots too quickly. When it gets colder the mini fish won't be so prolific. It would be interesting to know how you (or anyone else) go about fishing for perch with maggot. For example, would I be right in thinking barbless hooks are not a good idea with perch?
  8. Another 2 hour dusk raid on the Thames, and this time I took a lure rod along. I can't do normal roving lure fishing due to arthritis, but the plan was to fish the one swim alternatively with ledgered real worm and slightly shiny plastic worm on a jig head. I started with the lure rod and caught a couple of perch of about half a pound straight away, but then the bites from the lure rod dried up and the remaining 6 fish (all 4 to 12 oz) were all on real worm. I had hoped the lure (about 2.5 inches) would single out the better fish, but there was no obvious difference, so for this particular swim I think I'll leave the lure rod at home
  9. I've never used a weigh sling as I weigh fish in the net and then subtract the weight of the net. But I've noticed the weight of the net varies by up to 4 oz, possibly as a result of the wind. Has anyone else found this? Presumably the answer is to get a weigh sling?
  10. I tried all the above ideas today, though hard to deduce anything definite as there were a lot more bites, so inducing bites wasn't the main problem. There was a problem, though, with me missing what looked like good bites, I think because they felt resistance even from my shaved down quiver tip. Peter's suggestion of cutting the worm in half helped the most with this. Thanks Peter, indeed thank y'all!
  11. Thanks for useful ideas, will hopefully try them all. Chris, I know you usually use a float when after perch. Do you do anything to give motion and life to the bait? John
  12. I fished a swim on the Thames today with lobworm using ledger, as it was a high bank and I couldn't see a float while sitting which I need to do. I had one reasonable fish of 1.5lbs, but then it went very quiet even though I was pretty sure there were other perch there. So I tried inching the worm through the swim, but this got them nipping at the worm but not taking it. It occurs to me I was too close to the swim, so that could have scared them. But have you any tricks for persuading them to bite? Oh, I used lobworm flavoured groundbait which I think has worked in the past. But is making the bait move the best way, or would I do better to bring a lure rod in addition to the feeder rod? Or would that just scare them completely!
  13. Last year about this time I came across a small shoal of 2lb perch in a local stretch of River Thames, and caught 3 of them. Then I'm not sure if they moved elsewhere or were less happy to feed with the colder weather, but I didn't have any more. So today I went to see if they were back. Yes, just about! After a dead hour or so on lobworm I put on a couple of maggots to see where the prey fish had gone to, and on my first cast the tip bent round, and I'm sure it was a big perch. But it soon shed my barbless 18 hook. I continued with maggot for a bit, but always it was small fry, so I returned to lobworm. They were very finnicky, but I got one of 1.5lbs, a long, slender and lovely fish. So I'll be back in the hope of some 'twos'.
  14. I was fishing hemp and tares, and hoping for busy action, though it wasn't to be. In fact, after being directed by the tackle shop to a stretch of river which I think they ran, but which I found unfishable, I only had 2 hours on my preferred stretch. Just 4 roach, but the best was 14oz and my Thames pb so I was very pleased. This fish was on caster, the others on tares, 6 feet deep in about 9 feet of river. An angler near me fished maggot on ledger and had a very good bag of roach, maybe I should have been deeper? Interesting he didn't attact the bleak.
  15. Congratulations, Dave, you give hope for us all! What method did you use?
  16. Thanks. The place I'm going to is a commercial fishery in N Yorks. I agree with you both, I wish there weren't any Ide there!
  17. One day next week I hope to fish a commercial fishery that has ide, and may need to identify a fish as being roach or ide. The trouble with the stuff I find on the web is that it relies on the number of scales on the lateral line, and in the heat of battle I'm not sure I'd get that right! Does anyone here catch ide? How do you identify them vis a vis roach?
  18. Thanks, Chesters, I hadn't heard of Peltier fridges. I'll certainly think about that, though maybe won't be in time to get one for next week where I'll only be fishing for 3 days
  19. What do you do on hols etc to make the maggots last as long as poss without a fridge. Does covering with a wet cloth work. Or do casters last longer than maggots if they're kept air tight?
  20. Thanks Martin, the Ure sounds brilliant and Ripon is just about within an acceptable distance. There's a fishing shop that sells day tickets. I suppose there's no-one who has fished near there and can advise on swims? I'd like to target silvers, given the lack of rain.
  21. We're going to Rievaulx near Thirsk in North Yorks for a few days and I wondered if there was any coarse fishing in the area other than carp. I'm not aware that any of our regulars come from that area, but if anyone knows the area I'd be glad to hear.
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