Peter M

A nice write up as usual mate. great fish and told well, keep it up

I was just being a nosey bugger Nice to see him the the mags still, he really is a hero of mine in fishing. he is just so other worldly in his writing. Mags like IYCF are often just mouthpieces for the industry and like so many things in the modern world its all about money (you name it football cricket, care of the elderly etc.) CY seems to embody an enigmatic world where he ponders Mysteries that far outwiegh such worldly activities as making money.

Simple answer is yes i don't usually buy it but saw it on the shelf with chris on the cover and bought it. i read the article while carp fishing and enjoyed it very much. the rest of the mag is the usual fare but ok and there is a nice article about barbel fishing which i liked very much.

Some evocative descriptions here and ones that I surely would be foolish to try to emulate. However, I love the turn of speed that a tench has when hooked on float tackle. When hooked “accidently” on a carp rod I find they nod the rod a lot and it’s a shame to catch them like this as I prefer to catch them on the float. I also am musing at the moment about how some carp fight hard and others don’t; even in the same session last week I found that the first carp put up a hell of a scrap and later one came meekly to the net almost as if it thought ‘ok lets get it all over and done with’. Not a coarse fish I know but I was lucky enough to catch a smooth hound when boat fishing recently, I pumped it up from sixty feet of water and it took one look at the boat and did a crash dive taking yards and yards of line and I had to start over again. It had great agility and speed that I felt was reminiscent of a barble. I was also lucky to have caught roach to one and a half pounds on a couple of occasions and it was while catching lots of its small bretheren to a few ounces and I think it is the shock value of suddenly catching something so much bigger that may make the fight seem larger in my mind; on both occasions I thought I had hooked a carp at first. Ounce for ounce gudgeon fight well and if mackerel grew to 10 pounds we would be a nation of mackerel anglers, all thoughts of carp banished for ever.

welcome to the site.

welcome to Anglers Net BTW

The article featuring Chris Yates crucian carp fishing in IYCF this month was a really great read. One thing though In the article he supposedly arrived at the lake “after doing the school run”. I remember he mentioned getting the kids to school in his book ‘How to fish’. It occurred to me that we had seen his children in the last episode of passion for angling and considering that was made in 1989 his kids must be well into their 20’s by now. Did he have more kids or are they his grand kids. Just being nosy you understand.

well sept is still carp fishing for me and if its a very mild october then i may continue on, or may switch to barbel on the river lea. when the frosts come i will target pike on the river stort.

oh yes i have been carp fishing using semi fixed bolt rigs with two ounce lead and using bolies and had small tench from half a pound to three pounds take the bait. they were not real screammers rather the bobbin bouncing and the buzzer bleeping. the lake i was fishing has some very large carp and huge numbers of small tench

i am in essex but not near clacton or colchester thats why i didn't post before. if you have a specific question like where to fish in essex then feel free.

another way of saying "don't click on them if you are on a work computer"

thanks for all the repies can't wait to gt my autum barbel adventure up and running, still having my summer carp/chub adventure at the moment and later in the season will have my winter chub, perch and pike adventures. thanks again.

Thanks for that i was going to use a feeder full of crushed hempand seed, and will take some sweet bolies along to see how it goes. thanks

Hi all i have been barbel fishing before and even had a couple from the river Lea but not for a couple of years. i want to have a go this autum again and would try halibut pellets on a longer hook length in an area i know that does produce. what i was thinking about is whether it is worth trying sweet bolies like tutti fruity. i never read anything about using sweet bolies when barbel fishing so the answer is probably no its no good, but would like your views. thanks

i used to fish a pond on harlow common that is free to fish but the litter and terrible kids forced me off. the worst is that some of these kids actually used to fish it and give grief to others. Always casting heavy leads right across the pond. i did find, as others have, that after september it was often quiet durig the week and in the mornings.

hi mate and welcome

hi mate welcome i can't answer your question but can you turn your caps lock off its awfully bad form to use capitals on a forum don't you know. its tantamount to shouting. hope somone can give you some help on your query. tight lines.

To be honest i have just come off essex fishing forum and they have no sense of humour at all they have thread called Benson RIP one guy came on and wound them up saying for god sake its only a fish and was accused of not being a proper angler. i have pointed out that although carp fishing is fun it does not amount to proper angling and wild fish from wild venues is in my opinion porper fishing btw have a look at this http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrind...-season-stories

Hi i am a bit of a novice myself but have been on a couple of sea trips in the last couple of years with a fishing club firstly if there is a peir or breakwater i would head there. get some feathers and 5 ounce leads and do a bit of Mackerel fishing. or surface working lures off the beach is good. hopefully some others will post soon. good luck.

The reason i like the boilie stop is that it makes me think i know what i am doing

Forget all this love business and remember that fishing is better than sex because your regular fishing partner doesn't mind if you go fishing with other people and you can put up a fishing calendar at work and invite your fellow workers to go fishing with you without being sued for harassment. Ps I like red boilie stops cause if I drop it I can find it again which is harder with white or clear ones.

its worth an email just to point out the hypocrasy when they are renting kit that if taken by a pike could kill it. You were very restrained by the sound of it. i would have been making more of an issue of it (probably too forcefully).

well i was going to watch the programme until i heard what Grff had said so decided not to watch it and i hope other anlgers do the same and decide not to. bloody BBC

for chub in summer i like to stalk with a light quiver tip and my fav is to use sweet corn and just an SSG shot pinched on the line to give casting weight and look for snaggy overgrown swims where i have to push through head high stinging nettles being as quiet a possible and keeping off the sky line. small side streams off main rivers often hold really big chub and i like them best. tight lines

Welcome to the site mate