Chris Plumb
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Um - looking at that 'crucian' again I'd say it had rather mixed parentage - looks like there's some fan-tailed goldfish somewhere in the family!
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Yes, Viney TAA water. And Chris if you don't like rats last night was not the night to be out - think it must have been a mother and a litter of about 8-10 - no wonder the Barn Owl lives there!
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Nice one Chris - good to know the chub are still in residence - was begining to think the perch had pushed them out or that Mr Otter had eaten them!
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I await your report !!!
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8oz Barbel - lovely!
I used to call that stretch "The Nursery" due to the preponderance to such sized barbel! -
I get more barbel ledgering on halibut pellet athan anything else - though it is just about all I use these days. Long since gave up on doing much baiting up - save your pennies - location and timing is way more important. I only ever bother ledgering at dusk now - first couple of hours of darkness usually most productive. Or do what Rusty says an trot for them - in the fast shallows though the best time for this is rapidly fading they tend to slip back into deeper water come the autumn. There's an article on AN I wrote on trotting for barbel - but the real essence is keeping the maggot trickling in - the exact opposite to my ledgering approach where I tend to fish with 14mm halibuts which I give an added flavour of monster crab.
HTH
Chris
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Thanks Chris - got my head right for this venue ay last! Used to go wanting to get crucians everytime I went - and usually being disappointed - didn't catch one of the finicky little blighters all last season! This year I've been telling myself that I'm going tench fishing - so of course I've had a few crucians turn up amongst the tincas!
6 tench over 6lb with a couple of 7s - all float caught has made for a very satisfactory summer!-
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Twas the stretch you were thinking of!
Crayfish bites usually means there's no fish about! - I usually find that if you're getting crayfish activity and it suddenly stops it means the fish have moved in! -
And at least I've learnt where they're not!
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Often find Mr Pike in residence in that hole - used to be a bit of a banker with a dead bait until the Signals arrived on the scene...
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Ah - now that IS rare - I last had a lady from there in 2005.....
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Grayling on the Kennet at Newbury - mmmm - think I know where you were! Probably the same place I was this morning!!!
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A long walk - but worthwhile eh Chris? Incidently that was the 1st ever swim I fished at that venue - 26/6/82 (!!) caught 7 dace and 4 grayling that day - one of which was just on a pound. Grayling used to prevelent throughout the stretch in dem days - long since disappeared alas....
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I was actually quite shocked to catch anything at all, let alone bass - which secretly was what I was hoping for. Highlight of my holiday!!!
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Yeah - a nice brace - and my life was made a whole lot easier by both fish deciding to power upstream of me - enabling me to bring them down with the current to the waiting net!
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Hope you do - would really love to see a picture of it. NAA waters do throw up the occasional huge crucian - my biggest is 3lb 10oz from 11 years ago. However that water also throws up quite a few hi-breds - one, most notoriously, about a decade ago when someone tried to claim a British Record crucian from there with a 5lb+ fish - got all the way to submitting pictures to AT when someone pointed out that the fish had barbules - something crucians never have!
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Actually Rusty - the fight is more dogged and little more than what a good bream would put up. Tench and carp of the same size put up much more of a scrap. However tis always a bit 'heart-stopping' as I know pretty much instantly that I've got a good crucian on - and am fearful of losing it!! The challenge, for me, of crucian fishing - is not the landing once hooked - its getting them to take a bait in the first place!
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Thanks John - last 2 summers have been pretty lousy on the crucian front - this campaign is making up for it!
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Ouch!
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Yup - and you were doing rather better than us at the time!
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Welcome Nicholas - nice to see another 'entrant' to this quiet little backwater of Anglersnet!
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Gary - twas a NAA venue
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Yup definitely a) !!
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Aye - it was a bit of a fluke - wasn't even hooked in the scissors - really fortunate that it didn't bite through the line - and thankfully I had Paul on hand to help land it. Paul had his perch minutes later....
23 October
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Cheers John - was a rather special session!