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Enjoy your retirement Steve (and Peggy).... more fishing time... yay! On a more selfish note, we have very much enjoyed our trips to the fish-in over the years (thanks to you both), so please encourage Matt and India to continue them!!

Went to the River Ouse near Bedford, it was VERY windy coming right at me. Didn't catch much but did manage to catch the target which was a decent Perch, also lost one unfortunately. A maggot feeder with a hook bait of Lob worm tipped with a red maggot was the method.

looking forward to it as always, whenever it happens! Good luck with the new roof Steve

Here you go Phone...

Hi John, I match fish mainly and use expanders alot, for skimmers/bream and for carp. They can be used on the waggler for skimmers, usually feeding a few of the same by catapult. As you guessed, can also us a little cage feeder to feed wetted 2mm pellets with an expander on the hook as long as it is just a short chuck.

Yes, that's what I thought which is why it was removed from the water hastily!

I spotted something lurking by our platform... https://youtu.be/PbEGsns8odM

OOOOPS!! Wishful thinking

Thank you Steve for the invite, always look forward to the Wingham fish-in. Many thanks to the baliffs for all their hard work and of course Peggy for a great BBQ. As others have reported not a great weekend for the Tench feeding but I managed a couple and a few Perch and at least it didn't rain! Catches: Tench 5-0 male 5-12 male Perch: 2-11 2-12 2-14

Hi Steve, We will really miss coming to the fish-in this year as we will be in Spain for the week, unfortunately we were restricted by a couple of factors as to when we could book it. Hope everyone catches lots. Colin & Jo

Thanks for all your comments, I think I will be in the AT week after next with the PB. Keith, this was from a venue we can fish on the VAC ticket in Herts, see VAC forum for details

I don't get out much other than club matches but I finally managed to get out for a lure session after perch. Only had two fish all day but I didn't care!! First was this one at 3lb 3oz And a while later this new PB of 4lb 6oz

I would guess the issue is compounded by the various lines etc we have access to. I use Prologics XLNT 8lb which is an ultra fine mono; 0,22 in fact. so in a lot of cases my 8lb line is virtually as fine as some standard 6lb mono etc Kiri, I don't call that "ultra fine" I have an 0.18 line on a couple of my spools which is rated at over 9lb bs! It's called Teklon Gold

Hi Paul, As Mat has written you could try longer/heavier float and perhaps placing a shot on the bottom to try to steady the rig as lift method but not sure the crucians would tolerate this. Did you hear about the Crucians caught from Johnsons last Saturday. 2x 4lb 9oz and a 4lb 10oz! (apparently scales have been sent off for checking)

Hi Steve, Yes that's the ones, thanks. email on the way.

Hi Steve, male tench of 5-8 and 6-7, I'm pretty sure that is a PB male 1 female of 7-7 1 eel approx 1-8 Did you get a chance to post our chargers?

Hi Steve, I am missing from your list.

Thanks to Steve and the bailiffs for making the fish-in possible and Peggy for the BBQ. I managed a male tench of 5-8 at around 6pm on Saturday and a 7-7 female a couple hours later. 6am Sunday a screaming run resulted in a male of 6-7. No luck with the Perch, float fishing lobs but did have an eel of around 1-8 at dusk on Sunday.

Steve, after much hunting I have not been successful in locating my 3rd working bite alarm so I am in need of one for the weekend please.

We will have iphone chargers with us, I will leave one in the kitchen.

Steve, I'll take you up on that offer please for 2 pints of reds. Thanks

"Can't wait to polish off the tench gear again. Wingham is the highlight of my fishing year. Just hope I get a spot again this year" Same for me Anthony. Ooh, nice birthday present for Jo (24th) - get the gear ready love, we're off to Wingham this weekend!

Many thanks to Steve, Peggy and the baliffs for making the fish-in happen. Jo and I always look forward to the annual pilgrimage to Wonderful Wingham. I didn't manage a Tench this time but I had great fun catching a few perch (and a pike) in the margin using my Trudex 'pin Steve has the photos of my new pb Perch of 3-5. Here are a few others. 3 - 0 3 - 02 Here is one of Steve's very nice photos (thanks Steve) of my new PB Perch 3 - 05

Same as Mat really, hopefully up my tench pb for the 3rd time at Wingham, still haven't managed to catch a perch there yet. Andrew, can you elaborate on what you do to deliberately "try for a bream too" please?

Hi Evaldas, It is several years since I fished there, I think your method and baits are fine. It is just a matter of finding the bream or them finding you. Once when I fished Lower Maynard, I had a great day with over 20 bream to a best of 9lb 1oz, 1 tench of 7lb 2oz and a perch of 3lb 2oz which were 3 PBs for me at the time. I caught this lot fishing how you did with a running groundbait feeder at around 25 metres after catapulting about 15-20 balls of groundbait at the start, I caught all my fish in that day session on a red-worm and maggot cocktail. As I mentioned, this was a long time ago. Tight lines Colin