Russell Fitzpatrick

forget self cockers mate,they are fantastic for use on gravel pits when fishing close in and tehy are set up properly but for lives they are not very good. i use clear sliding through the middle floats for all of my livebaiting,much better and no tangles!

bang on,a friend of mine has witnessed zeds have a go at a fair size bream,as if working togather and i too have seen it with perch and small silvers. love those predators!

hello welcome aboard siara i too am a londoner that loves the fens! fished the 16ft a few times,nice perch pics too

i have backleaded for barbel, the main reason is to avoid "liners" from barbel as they feed,hovering over the rig,you dont want to strike at a liner and spook em or posssibly and a lot worse-foulhook one! i use normal style leger wieghts trapped with two float stops either side about 3feet back from my main lead,if teh flow is really heavy a 1oz in-line lead is a better option. when i cast out,i very slowly tighten up to teh backlead NOT the main lead,you have to feel it tighten then slacken off slightly leaving a slight bow in the line,line doesnt need to be tight,as teh lead will do its job pricking the barbel or quite simply you will get a six foot twitch

PM recieved, one back at ya

thats the one mate,not a bad little stretch that

i use the fox crimping pliers too,cant find a fault with em at all,i love em,never had a crimped trace part on me...at all.

cheers budgie! bus garages? u mean the old cooks ferry? i have some pukka lures for combating the weed! steve is gonna let us know soon in meantime get ya posts up so ya can PM

i'm joking mate theres a few that ill confirm i'm sound if you want. anyway speak to you about it soon mate.

lol me too mate dont you worry about that men just dont do it for me.....gothic chicks or lily allen does however... oh yes,hopefully we will get some hits(from pike!) tho,three of us, thats covering some water! once you and uni have ya PMs up and running we wil arrange it. btw-i have met up with a few forum regulars here and elsewhere(pike and predators forum) and have made some good mates along the way so you know i am a little mad,but not totally crazy!

maybe we can all meet up! me u and unimexsol,i am in the process of arranging to meet up with uni to throw some lures,waiting on him being able to PM. u up for it

hello welocme to AN

hey poacher welcome to AN, i'm a predator fan too,looking forward to winter already! but up in scotland you guys fish for them all year?-nothing wrong with that its a lot cooler than down south aye!

i havent given it a go around that way yet,tho another new memeber on the forum(ultimex?bugger cant spell or remeber his alias!) has said they are present,mainly jacks i gather, but they are the bread and butter fish and good sport,i would'nt hope for big numbers of them but i could be wrong,if you cant walk to far, i wouldnt really recommend static fishing along the tottenham lenght,too much aggro but enfield aint to bad.i my self grew up around them areas,i would fish it, but i would leapfrog along it with the minimum of tackle,when its nice and cold out and no oen else is about! do you fish lures at all?

second that,head out towards broxbourne for the better quality fish. click on my name to see my profile the pike i'm holding is a lea valley pit fish

no worries mate,ok get ya posts up asap! be up for that then soon couple of weeks maybe less?

oh yes i make all my own traces, i use and love to bits-fox carboflex(coated wire)- amazing stuff i cant fault it super reliable and strong plus it lasts longer than your average seven strand trace,doesnt get kinked very easily.i can make my traces to my exact sepcifcations and to go with whatever method i am using-live traces,paternoster traces etc i do twist seven strand traces,and crimp carboflex traces,and in defence of shop bought traces,my 20+ pb was caught on a fox shop trace

thats good to hear they are there,i honestly thought they were pretty much non-existent! i live not far from lea bridge road,teh carp are catchable below t-ham lock done fish to 40+ last year, but its not teh nicest place to fish,tell ya what tho could meet up chuck some lures about if ya like,may be able to put you onto some bettter venues not that far away. up to you mate PM us if ya like PS do you know the tidal lea?

hi unimexol. i am a lea angler too,i havent fished much round the navi in london for years, altho lately i have been thinking about it,theres some monster carp to had in there,never really piked it,you caught pike from the navi around tottenham?

woah! that looked crazy,nasty wound on his hand too!

i would get sneaky,sunken paternoster rigs, hes obviously a knob,thats pretty much all theere is too it. i would have picked up my lure rod selected a nice big jerkbait and slung it straight at him! (joking)

cracking chevin,what a jump in PB 's, c'mon show us a the pic!

nice one