The Flying Tench
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Thanks, Paul!
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The trouble is, Chris, I'm a Luddite and don't have a digital camera, so any photos I did take would be hard to load up. I do have an old disposable camera in my bag, but I've never thought to use it. An examble was when I got a 2lb rudd a few years ago, I was so excited and also keen to get it back in the water that I never thought of taking a photo.
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Amazing to hear you can catch trout on pellets like that, Viney!
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Ah, there was little sign of fish at the car park end, but you're saying that if I'd walked round the lake I'd probably have found them. I'll try that next time.
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My spinning trips have to be short because of a dicey back, but I did get a 2lb 5 oz perch from the canal at Thatcham a week ago - see my blog. Actually the water there was clearer than last year, and it's the same in the free stretch. I don't know if some of the dredging they have done may have reduced the silt being churned up in those areas.
I meant to say, Tom, thanks for the way you wrote up your 'catch up ' blogs. I've never done an overnight carp session, but when I do I'll re-read your blog cos it gives pretty well everything I'd need to know - particularly re casting round to find a suitable area. It probably helps that I know the lake, but I've read lengthy magazine articles in the past that haven't left me so clear about what I'd actually need to do as your blog!
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Ditto, I don't think I've heard of tench that big coming from NAA waters. That's not to say they don't, but a superb result!
Will you be trying any spinning in the summer months?
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Rusty, did you go up or downstream from the bridge? There were 3 people in the first 3 swims upstream of the bridge, all wading. One was probably your good self, and I didn't recognise you through the foliage!
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Well I would call that success, getting presumably a barbel on when others are finding the fishing hard. As to what you could have done different there's just the obvious question of hook size, but you're aware of that already!
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Congratulations, Viney! If that were me it would have been a pb at just under 20lb. And an interesting way of fishing. I'll probably try to follow in your footsteps fairly soon. I once read about a technique of floater fishing - I think they called it a 'swiss roll' - where you get a slice of bread and wrap it round like a swiss roll with the line going down the middle. Good in theory for casting and visibility. I tried it once on Bell Wood but with no success. But your method sounds preferable with the competition factor. Thanks for the blog.
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I assume you were after barbel, Chris. I'm encouraged in a way cos I had a crack for Mrs Whiskers at the Rainsford weir pool last night, and also had nothing. Mind you the weir pool has changed with the river having found a way through close to the peg, so the patch of water immediately in front of the peg which used to be almost still but eddying back slowly upstream to the right (and full of fish)now flows through to the left. I found no sign of fish at all apart from minnows, though admittedly there was a time when they were leaping out of the water more dramatically than I have ever seen! This was just 3 ft from the bank. Obvious perch activity, but I guess with minnows, the perch needn't have been any size.
On the way home I was wondering about whether I should limit barbel fishing to when there has been a fair bit of rain, and I thought 'Hmm, I wonder if CP goes barbel fishing on a night like this?'. You have partly answered the question cos I don't think Sunday night was so different to Monday. I think I'll start a thread on when to go barbel fishing, cos I can't remember it being discussed.
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Good stuff, Viney. That's a good idea putting some feed in and fishing somewhere else! I'm also not good at putting it in and just waiting.
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Congratulations both of you - a great session!
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Well done getting 10 dace needing a net! Quite understand if you don't want to, but any general indications of where they were coming from - eg backstream or main river - would be appreciated.
John
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In the case of Greenham Church they really are Victorian, as the church wasn't built till 1876.
It was interesting to read your comment about sturgeon. I was listening to some programme on Radio 4 this evening and the guy said that up to and including the mediaeval period all the UK rivers had massive runs of migratory fish including salmon, sea trout, eels, lampreys and sturgeon up to 16 feet! He claimed migratory fish were a significant food source for the population as a whole.
Wow! I wonder how they caught the sturgeon?
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I'm interested to hear this, particularly about the paintings being preserved by the lime. My church has some fairly amazing wall paintings, though these are Victorian. I was talking about these to someone last night at a children's concert, and she told me of a small church where she grew up which was very damp - I think it was on a marsh. I can't remember all the details, but as a result of some more extreme manifestation of the damp problem the whitewash/lime came off the walls revealing the mediaeval wall paintings beneath which no-one had realised were there. But this marsh was not the place for people to come and see the paintings, so they numbered all the bricks and took the church down and rebuilt it in a model mediaeval village in south Wales. Phew, a lot of work! I'm afraid I don't know if there were any pics of fish or anglers!
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Thanks, Tom, that's helpful - including the comment about fishing slowly being dull, cos there's a risk I go too fast for that reason.
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Congrats yet again, Tom! Have you got any tips on catching them in this cold weather? Do you retrieve much more slowly than in summer, for example?
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Really sorry to hear it worked out like this. I'm lucky to be able to go on a Monday. The hammering of bank sticks is a nightmare as you say, but well done getting them on feeder on the far bank!
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As far as I know Bishops Green hasn't got much in it that I'd want to target specifically, though I take the point that there is probably a good density of fish. Court Farm is supposed to have a reasonable number of 2lb roach. Directions are:
http://www.courtfarmfishinglakes.co.uk/map.htm
I fish lake 2.
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Thanks, Viney. It's hard to know where to go when the water temp is low in close season. As an OAP Court Farm only costs me £5, but I suspect it's £8 or 9 for most people.
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Congrats on another pb, Tom!
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Well a 'balmy' WT, and, as you imply, 2 'barmy'... Brrr. All I can say is you guys deserve your fish!
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Your big mistake was compiling PB blog narrative in your head. Fatal in my experience!
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Sorry. missed that comment Chris. Yes it's as you say
23 September
in Chris Plumb's Blog
A blog by Chris Plumb in General
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Congratulations, Chris!
I'm interested that you speak positively about the clear evening. (Where I was the fog only came later.) I've always assumed (and I think found) a clear evening is bad news, even when dusk comes. Logically I'd have thought the reverse, cos if they haven't fed during the day because of high light levels you'd think they might be up for it at dusk, but that's not what I found on Monday trying for a few roach on Dobsons, nor on other occasions I can remember.
But it certainly worked for you! I'd be interested in any comments on clear evenings and whether certain fish are the ones to go for then.
Thanks
J