paul.saunders

Fosters, home and away, neighbours now carp cor what other cast offs are they going to send us

tell you what Lyn i've fished against a few ladies on the match circuit and 9 times out of 10 they come up. I will probubly get slated for this next remark but if there was a men v ladies match i would put my money on the ladies

I'm a firm believer in charity. It begins at home.

Leathal

I've just fished a local lake which has got 20 swims on it. This water holds a good head of carp and silver fish. In winter matches you need over 100lb of fish to come in the top 5 and in summer over 170lb (match record 253lb)it's a water that you just can't fail to catch or so i thought. As i got to my chosen peg i noticed some white powder and thought nothing of it. Set up started fishing and waited and waited 4 hours and not a line bite fish were jumping and the bubbles coming up like a jacquzie. The baliff (money collecter) arrived and took my money and asked how i was doing. i told him c**p. He then told me that waits had been down lately and went on to blame all the tins of cat food and tins of sweetcorn that had gone into the water and turned the water acidy. SO to remedy this he had put a lot of lime into the lake to get it back to normal. i asked him how he new it was acidy. "i just new" he replyed. has anyone got any idea if this is the right thing to do as i have never heard anything like it before. I packed up and went home, cheesed off. as i was walking back i noticed a lot lime in every peg. Does this distress the fish? A point a would like to add is that in the summer there is a match on the water 7 DAYS A WEEK. and then suddenly stops. Is that the real reason for falling catches. or is the bait to blame sorry thread was so long [ 18. November 2004, 10:27 PM: Message edited by: paul.s ]

if it does flood you will be able to fish the back eddy in your bedroom. so take not of your earlier thread.

There is a place just outside Brentwood i found out recently. now a couple of chaps who have fished it never caught any though

cor think i might get a bivvy

hi tony i use Hummel fire orange for the tips on my feeders. I put a coat of Hummel base white on first then 2 coats of fire orange on top. i now some people like white but i have never had any reason to change you can get small tins from a model shop.

Elton can you get hold of any wagglers or stick floats of any kind as need to build up my gear thanks mate

volley

finished my cans up before half time snatcher but not to worry i found a bottle of brandy my wife got for the christmas cake. By the end of the match that had gone, and so's me head :mad:

Thanks for putting me right Newt (and on the spelling)as i said not up on zander but understand what you say thanks.

Nice one Ant certainly gets the old adrenaline going looking at the photos

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corr that was a name from the past Tom Boulton he used to fish with my dad in the roding valley match group years ago. Good i'm pleased it was a bass the last thing you need is zander in the system

Hi Peter there is some photos in the UKF part of A.T this week and they are lifting pike up by the gills and jaw. admittedly never gone out for pike as it's a very well looking at photos on how to unhook them and reading how to catch them but i would rather be shown how to handle a pike properly as i feel they need respect

Just read a letter in the A.T claiming that a holiday maker had cought a 4cm zander whilst wip fishing for roach about .75 miles up from the mouth of the river Ant on the Bure. The letter came about as a reply after a member of the Martham Anglers claimbed that zander are not populating and breading on the Norfolk broads. Could this holiday maker been mistaken as 4cm ( just under 2inches) is a bit small to identify may be or if mistaken what else could it have been. has anyone else caught one. Not up on zander but i now they breed like wild fire and desimate fish stocks. [ 16. November 2004, 10:21 PM: Message edited by: paul.s ]

As kong as you enjoyed yourself at the end of the day Rudd thats the main thing. i enjoy match fishing myself and if i come up then thats a bonus. Where was the venue suffolk water park

obviously built for comfort not speed

how did you get on with the winter leauge match on sunday. you haven't let us now yet. did you blow out? or are you still hung over celebrating your win.

love it

and there is me with a can of tesco lager. still i'll have a drink with you Les cheers

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That was a close call or was it a call of nature