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    Gobio Gobio

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted · Edited by Chris Plumb

    I don't know what the collective noun for gudgeon is (suggestions anyone?)- but there's a lot of them in this little vid from Poland...

     

     

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    Fine Angling for Coarse fish

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    23 hours ago, The Flying Tench said:

    Interesting that they had time to print books on angling in the middle of WW2! I guess it was a source of food in that difficult time, or maybe it was just a case of 'life goes on.'

    I thought the same - and it's not on particularly fine paper - unlike my copy of BB's Fisherman's Bedside Book - mines the 2nd Ed from Oct 1946 - and is on waver thin paper.

    RIP Rusty

    in Non-Fishing Chat

    Posted

    It is with a very heavy heart that I report the death of Chris Brasier (Rusty of this parish) yesterday at the age of 61. He'd been diagnosed with cancer earlier this year but most of us expected him to be around a bit longer especially as he was bombing around on his vintage motorbike just a few weeks ago.

    Its probably a few years since he last posted on here - but he kept and excellent blog for a year or so a while back which is well worth seeking out.

    RIP Chris one of life's true Gents

    Lift method

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    John - I use the lift method ALL the time when I'm fishing for Tench and Crucians - nearly always in the margins (and usually close to lillies!) I pinch a dust shot about 2 inches from the hook and then mold a piece of plasticine around it - just enough to sink my small quill or waggler float. Yes you get liners - which over time I think I've learnt to recognise - plus bites in the traditional way. However there's something to be said for seeing the float rise and go flat - though you need to be quick and strike as it rises. This set up can be too light on bigger lakes when the breeze has got up and there's a bit of undertow - though I just add more plasticine to keep the bait in the same place....

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    Crucians - float or ledger?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted · Edited by Chris Plumb

    Phenotypic plasticity - the ability of crucians to change shape in response to the presence of predators is well researched and documented - with fish being able to change shape in a matter of months in response to the introdiction of piscavorious predators (I believe they used perch in the experiments...) See: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1997.tb01972.x

    Below is a crucian I caught a decade ago showing extreme phenotypic plasticity!

     

    As for ID - these are my 'rules of thumb'... lateral line count almost always 33, 32 & 34 may be OK if everything else is right. Higher scale count probably means carp hybridisation, lower means it's probably a brown gold fish or a cross with one. Dorsal fin is convex  and caudal fin is paint brush like - gold fish have concave dorsals and prounounced V shaped caudals. And finally check the mouth there should be no barbules or even the hint of vistigial ones - if there are it points to carp hybridisation....

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    Crucians - float or ledger?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted · Edited by Chris Plumb

    John - same as Keith - float with a betalite in the tip - nothing quite beats it at night watching the tip lift and lay flat. (BTW - I've found getting red ones is easier on the eyesI) 've found on fisheries such as Marsh Farm that sees a lot of anglers during the day - they will come in VERY close at night - to mop up discarded bait no doubt. I sit well back and fish VERY tight to the margins often in not much more than 18inches of water.....

     

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    Crucians - float or ledger?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    A lot of big crus are caught on small method feeders - but I still MUCH prefer getting them on the float - will often lift method for them - I place a dust shot 2-3 inches from the hook then mold a small piece of plasticine - just enough to sink a small quill - and has Tigger has said its a very sensitive method!

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