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Tony U

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  1. Wordbender:

    Wordbender:

    If Leon wants to get worked up about surface poppers the Red Snappers in Cuba go nuts for them; they average around 19-20 lbs and are brillliant on Pike Baitcasting/spinning gear.

    A 20lb. surface popper you say? That'll take some casting but I'm willing to give it a go - on Leon's rods, anyway.
    Yep those big Yo Zuri Poppers fight harder than the fish
  2. Re River Rother

    It was cold very cold about 3°C all day, I tried everything soft bodies, spinnerbaits, plugs spoons small jerkbaits I could not buy a pike; I did get a Bream on a Fox Micro Demon Mini jerkbait. :confused: :confused: :confused:

    My partner Sue went even better catching a solitary thumb sized Ruffe on a spinnerbait three times its size.

    The only Pike caught were taken by a guy deadbaiting with Sardine who caught three, at last knockings.

     

    [ 20. February 2005, 10:13 PM: Message edited by: Tony U ]

  3. Plenty Kingfishers on the Medway, the warmer winters have increased their numbers.

    However,predation by Cormorants, of the silver fish will have a long term effect, then perhaps the RSPB will listen.

  4. If you fancy lure fishing the Warren Folkestone we have already been discussing (sort of) its potential in the seafishing reports, the fossiling is pretty good as well:

    http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/ubb/ultimatebb...ic;f=9;t=000342

    If Leon wants to get worked up about surface poppers the Red Snappers in Cuba go nuts for them; they average around 19-20 lbs and are brillliant on Pike Baitcasting/spinning gear.

    We are of again in April for more of the same.

  5. Newt:

    Love to hear how you get on with them. I like tubes but had no idea chub might go for them. Interesting.

     

    What sort of rod/reel/line do you use? I stay mostly with baitcasters on 6.5 to 7 ft rods and spooled with 30lb PowerPro but I gather that may not be what most UK lure anglers like.

    Newt

    Basically the same I use a Quantum 6' QXLC Medium heavy action, 30 lb Berkeley Wiplash and a 4400 Shakespeare/Pflueger Medalist for this sort of work.

    I have relatives in Canada and have been using baitcasting gear for longer than I care to remember; at least since I got my first Bobby Orr outfit brought back from Canada by my Gran round about 1967.

    It was brilliant for Perch in Killingworth and Bolam Lakes in Northumberland when I was a kid.

     

    [ 20. February 2005, 12:50 AM: Message edited by: Tony U ]

  6. My hook tyer (matchman type), has finally given up the ghost after twenty odd years the plastic cracked by the second post.

    I have had to pay out the princely sum of £2.99 to replace it.

    Invaluable piece of kit if you use small spade end hooks and have fingers like bananas

  7. Newt I got the following:

    Storm Wildeye Rippin Minnow -Size: 8inch - Chartreuse Silver

    Storm Wildeye Rattle Split Tail Minnow - Colour/Size: 4inch Rainbow Trout

    Storm Wildeye Rattle Shrimp 4 Inch: Colour: Nature

    Storm Wildeye Jerkin Minnow - Colour: Limetreuse - Saltwater

    Storm Wildeye Curltail Minnow - Size: 4inch Rainbow Trout

    Storm Wildeye Buzz'n Tail Shad - Colour: Watermelon Storm Wildeye Jigging Shad:

    Colour: Mullet - 6 inch - 42g

    Storm Wildeye Jiggin Soft Minnow: - Colour: Fathead Minnow

    Storm Naturistic Shrimp - Colour/Size: 4inch Tiger Shrimp Storm Naturistic Shrimp - Colour/Size: 2inch Smoke Firetail

     

    The shrimp are for fishing the flats in Cayo Gullermo and Pena Paradon Grande in Cuba in April Hopefully the bones might be interested.

     

    The rest are for pike and perch

     

    [ 19. February 2005, 05:38 PM: Message edited by: Tony U ]

  8. SteveH:

    Tony, I have never ben fly fishing but maybe we could meet up one day and you can show me the ropes a little, I used to live in Hemsworth so know the area even though I now live in Doncaster.

    Steve

    No problem I live in Kent but go up to Wakefiled regularly to visit my sister, she lives in Walton near the trout lake.

    I am aiming to be up there for Easter weekend

  9. SteveH:

    Yes the pub you mention is still there and so is the fishing, the pub is actually called the Rustic Arms and is a bit of a swine to find if you dont know the way, its down a lane straight opposite a large Quaker Bording School in a village called Ackworth. Sorry pangolin but all 5 venues mentioned here are around 8 to 10 miles from Wakefield.

     

    SteveH

    Thanks for that I might give it a go next time I visit. I usually find myself Fly Fishing at Walton Hall Trout Lake its only a few hundred yards from my sisters place and is excellent :D:D .

    Still that is for another nessage board

     

    [ 17. February 2005, 12:16 PM: Message edited by: Tony U ]

  10. There is a day ticket venue in the garden of a pub near Fitzwilliam, called the Sportsmans Arms or such like.

    I caught a really big orange Koi there on breadflake a good few summers back.

    I will check to see if its still going, they used to bring your drinks out to your swim whilst you were fishing

  11. Leon Roskilly:

    But, did you remember to take the maggots out of the boot when you got home?

     

    er, that reminds me ..........

     

     

    TL - leon

    Leon

    I still have about four pints of reds in the fridge, left over from the weekend. I guess I will have to try Horsham Lake or similar tomorrow.

    Reputedly there are some big roach in there.

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