The Flying Tench
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If i may say so I think you did brilliantly to get 4 takes in half an hour in this cold weather. It's strange about the one you lost. I normally never lose fish spinning (and I'm not much of a lure angler), but the ones I have lost have all been when I saw the fish take the bait. They've mostly been jacks when I've been wobbling a smelt rather than using a lure. Normally I hardly even strike - I feel the fish on, and I suppose I must tighten up a bit, and that's it. I wonder if it is that when you see the fish you strike earlier than when you only know there's a bite from feeling the pull?
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Well done Rusty. Amazing, really, aiming for those few extra drams and getting exactly the amount. You'd think it was statistically unlikely, but i've experienced the same thing a few times.
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Congrats, and certainly deserved Chris. But I guess your target will now have to be a five! He he he!
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Amazing - I've never heard of 20 decent perch from one spot on a lure. Really great!
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Ditto - a great fish, particularly on a lure at such a cold time when the books say lures will be hard. And your other entries are very interesting too - I don't know how I missed them. Chris P always seems to know which water people are referring to! I don't, but I think I've worked out some of the lakes. As a Newbury-ite I'll certainly be keen to read your future posts.
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Bad luck, Rusty - sounds horrible, that wind. It's interesting the question of when perch will bite. I had a short walk along the Enborne canal on New Years Day to see if anyone was fishing, and to my surprise there was an NAA match. Bright, cold clear day, not weather you'd associate with good perch, but that was exactly what the anglers I saw were fishing for (pole and maggot I think), and in most cases catching. It was stumps drawn at 3pm, so not even the benefit of dusk. Still, it's no surprise the perch didn't like that cold wind!
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Amazing stuff, Rusty. Interesting to see the bright scarlet fins showing up so strongly in your photos. I think it was you or Steve noticed they were different from the more orangey ones in the Thames, and I'm fairly sure the local gravel pit ones are more orange as well. There has to be a reason .....
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That chub almost looks like a dace. The dorsal and anal fins are hardly convex, the head is relatively small, though admittedly the tail doesn't look as forked as a dace.
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Amazing stuff, and great to read. Wow! A double figure pike and a 1lb 7oz roach at the end of the garden!
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Yeah, your capacity to find the big perch, or let them find you, is uncanny. Not many of us would have had a couple of 2lb perch fishing maggot for the afternoon!
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I'm another who will avidly read your blogs, Paul!
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Thanks for that info, Rusty. With so many of the obvious perch bushes cut down it's hard to think where they've gone to. I suppose one possibility is the cut between the Arrowhead and C canal. I heard of someone catching a lot of big perch there a few years ago. I caught a couple on a lure a couple of years ago, but on a couple of occasions since caught nowt - but that was before the EA did their recent stuff.
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Congrats on that crucian, Chris - your face says it all!
When you say you didn't feed the swim, do you mean you didn't put in any groundbait or loose feed at all? In such circumstances I'm usually lost as to what to do. To put in nothing means that they have to find a small bait in the middle of a big area, a bit like the proverbial needle in a haystack. But then I realise that even a bit of loose feed can bring in the carp in many lakes.
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Wow - when the pike are active to the extent of attacking floats or feeders I sometimes check the air pressure to see if it fits the theory of high pressure being best. I think it was about 1025 hPa (whatever those are) - fairly high.
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Great stuff, Rusty. The magazine articles say that perch only shoal up in the winter, but they certainly seemed to have done so in your swim!
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Nice stuff, Maddog. The bream looks enormous!
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Out of interest, how clouded was the canal? My local Kennet and Avon is great for perch, but the trouble in the summer for lure fishing is that it is very clouded as a result of the boats. I haven't tried lure fishing very often in those conditions, but the few times I have it hasn't been successful.
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Great blog, ATS. Thanks!
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Ditto!
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Bad luck, Chris - you don't often blank, but when you do it's an encouragement to novices like me that everyone does it sometimes! Did you ask what happened to other anglers? They say that high water conditions are good for barbel, but I've never made it happen. I'm booked in for the Wye and Usk in a week's time, but not too optimistic about my chances battling with raging mulligatawney soup!
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Great stuff again, Rusty. Do you mind saying how big the dace went?
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Congrats on the barbel in particular, Rusty. Well deserved!
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Thanks, Rusty, a fascinating account - particularly about the barbel drifting in and out of the willows. I must say I admire your stamina trotting for so long. I don't think I've ever managed a proper size barbel trotting, despite reading CP's excellent article on the subject!
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First Rusty, now you guys, catching the carp that shouldn't be. It must mean there are quite a few carp in there. Presumably people have transferred them from Willows. What on earth is the point?
Big stripeys all round :).
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Amazing stuff, Tom, specially in the conditions. I went down to the town stretch of the canal today maggot fishing, but gave up after 30 mins because of the freezing cold wind. But I met a man and his (11 year old?) son who were lure fishing. They'd had small perch and a trout. Said they were carrying on to Hungerford!