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spanner in works time i dont trust clutches or back winding. If i'm using light lines i'm virtually always using a close face reel and as the clutch on my early 506's was basically rubbish and had no backwind if a fish ran i just hit the button and held the line between my fingers. On heavier line i tend to be using my shimano bait runner if the fish runs and when getting close to the net i just switch the baitrunner on to let them go and control the spool with my finger.

I've fished the canal for years around my area. Its full of carp and not tiny ones either Milton keynes Carp record is 34lb last i heard a fish caught from the canal.I've had them out personally to 22lb but that was the only year i targetted them. To many waters in my opinion are being stocked with carp . waters that were ideal bream/tench waters have been decimated. To the extent i stopped my membership of 2 different clubs because of there stocking policy. I now dream of finding a small pond with crucians and tench with rudd rippling the surface. Dont have to be big fish but the idea to me is idyllic. I think the carp stocking policy nationwide needs looking at if a water contains no or few carp then none should be introduced and that should be EA legislation.

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What do you want to know?? Originally from luton so know most of the waters in the area. General fishing with chances of everything i would pick from 3 clubs Vauxhall AC Luton AC Milton Keynes (technically bucks but most of the waters are round that way anyway) Vauxhall main waters are the sharnbrook lakes complex with river aswell Lakes hold Carp to 35 Bream To 14 tench to 9 River holds barbel 16 (possibly a record to be found on these strecthes ) Chub 7 all waters contain pike,perch,roach etc. Luton AC beckerings resevoir ,tingrith large carp ,bream tench also a lot of canal with large carp in it river sections they have i never really rated. Milton Keynes Loads of lakes reasonable amount of River Lakes are mainly carp to around 35lb there are a few big bream but hard to locate. river adams mill is now back on the club ticket but its not the water it was, reasonable chub and chance of a barbel . if you want further details i'll do what i can.

My biggest barbel was landed on 3lb line and a size 18 hook. So can appreciate how much skill is required to land a dbl figure one on this method. Mine wasnt quite dbl figure. As for cruelty to the fish your using blanced tackle and have to tire the fish out rather than bully it. Aslong as you recover it properly which i'm certain would have been done the fish suffers a lot less damage than using heavy lines and huge hooks.

scary moment time i could pass the second pic off as myself with the catfish does this mean i'll end up looking like budgie?

Minor point you may want to add on a clip to attactch reciever to bedchair bank stick etc rather than a 3/8 bsf thread

There was a guy on fairly recently who had made a motorised rod rest. You could adjust its height with a touch of a button. They were out unfortunately

Most importantly we cant see you at all.

A thought occured to the other day. Are we anglers resposible of making the size of shoal of the larger fish. The scenario in my mind was A shoal of say 6 large bream. 1 gets caught at 50yds range the rest of the shoal scatter. How would the fish you;ve caught locate the shoal. Its now 50yds away from where it was feeding and the remaining shoal has scattered in 20 acres of water. Is this fish now a loner?

Small point , How can you have a favourite flavour if you dont ever eat the things and would prefer to eat the dirt on the bank, probably more nutricious anyway.

Its going back a bit but i use to target Perch with the pole possibly on the venue your thinking about?. I was using a number 10 elastic 4/5 lb line straight through.

I would have told granny it was Chodtastic and to chod what others thought they could just chod off. Quick queery though is it in Chodoflage?

Just thought i'd Add my Congratulations We know how hard you try. (gutted i was hoping fot biggest AN bream this year lol )

After time you will have lots of rigs for different situations. But the shortest rig i'm likely to ever have is 4ft. There is a balancing act between the shortest line between tip and float. and the length of rig requifred overall to swing the hook to your hand for baiting etc.

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Sadly most large gudgeon turn out to be small barbel. A gudgeon of 3oz is a specimen fish lol.

How long is the pole? Anything over 6meters is probable put together under this it could be telescopic. You mention eleastics by colour which really doesnt help much as different manufacturers use different colours and i know of some where a yellow elastic could be 4 or 16 from the same manufacturer. My advice ould be to pop down to your tackle shop with the pole they'll be able to help a lot more as they can see the pole.

i can understand the slowing metabolism in winter but that doesnt explain why in the height of summer a lot of waters appear to be devoid of fish yet we know they are there.

It Occured to me that the species we target tend to have windows in the year where we target them. Tench being a classic example we get them late spring early summer but come august they seem to decline/ dissapear. If it was the weather i could understand but that doesnt really make sense as its still warm so i assume they must still be feeding so where do they go. The tench is just an example i know some lakes i fish seem to have no roach/rudd until july august then its a fish a chuck. Bream i've always tended to target sept / oct so why are they harder to catch at other times of year(excluding winter) Ideas?

Out of interest what lake/ lakes are you intending to fish? A lot depends on the weather. Bright sunny day would normally see me kipping around 11ish until 4 ish then start again. Overcast and windy will see me targetting the bream all day but a lot of this is down to venue.

It wouldnt be the line i was concerned with which will probably be fine. The major issue is to thoroughly rinse and dry your reel after using it on the coast its amazing how fast salt water will corrode fishing reels. If not maintained properly.

The dialling code for Luton is 01582. I dont think they are there now as i use to live nearby and went for a wander around that estate once looking for them ( seeing what bits i could aquire from there scrap bin) never did find them.

Its just my view but, i believe spade end hooks are essential in the small sizes. Attatching an eye to these hooks would mean the eye would be large compared to the rest of the the hook or to small to be practicle.I'm really talking about from size 20 and smaller. In large hooks size 10 or bigger then its an eyed hook everytime. The range 10-20 i think is personal choice and really depends what i'm fishing for. If i require a fine wire hook i use spade end for strength i use eyed.

Billing Aquadrome Cosgrove Park Emberton Park Theres 3 on your doorstep lol. Out of interest are you taking family or just planning to fish all weekend? Slightly wider affield Theres sites on the Avon At stratford The nene at Yarwell and loads of others.