pete2

have you tryed church settle farm in wadhurst its a nice place with some super carp tench and monster pike i find that float taticks claim the better fish here well worth a go as its little fished and can throw up some smashing fish

haaaaa must of been one of those flying fish sorry bout that couldnt elp me self nice one bill regards pete

i was fishing the walk way on the south side of richmond bridge i havent fished there for years .

on a trip to the thames in my youth i was float fishing for roach and such with a freind of mine we had a few little ones and i was having a preety good day.As a kid im sure most would agree the thought of bigger fish must be futher out came to mind so i procceded to over head cast and to my amazement it was a super cast and flew like a rocket toward the middle and on.then i noticed a pidgeon flying just ahead of my float and it all made sense pidgeon, float ,supercast hmmmm ahhhh float attached to pigeon by line!!!.So now to retreive my float etc and with a click of my reel the pidgeon stopped dead in mid flight and spiraled out of control and fell like a brick toward a tourist boat packed full of chinese school kids.On the unlucky pidgeons landing on the boat a sound of crying and screaming came from the tourist boat and i started to reel in the hapless bird plopped into the water and was being carried down river with flapping wings so rapidly i reeled in with the hope of freeing the poor thing but alas it was not to be the weidest thing happend all the ducks in the area made a bee line for old flappy and procceded to peck and maul him try as i might to get him in the flow and ducks were too much for my light line to cope with and my line snapped.The last thing i saw of old flappy was one wing flapping under the bridge and heading toward richmond R I P flappy gone but not forgotton. any one else had unfortunate happenings please add your tales of woe and weird regards all pete

had the same prob even on the meadow side had a good start to the week up till thursday and it all went dead.the levels had dropped a fair bit and the water was like a bath.Still cant complain as i had some good fish out in the heat of day so not bad. I think you might be right septh on the spawning we had it last year on the medway the river didnt fish till late november.Nice to meet you paul and hope conditions improve to suit your fishin regards all pete

id tend to open a tin of corn add two teaspoons of suger and a little hemp oil and leave it in the fridge over night it will turn the corn juice into a kind of sweet jelly slime that tench seem to go wild for.then fish a very small insert and fed only small amounts of the corn too much and the carp will be on to it.also try for shady deep holes hope you have some tench regards pete