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Dixons Mere 0000 - 1200 Warm night, Showers 3 Carp (best a mere 4lb 13oz) 1 Tench (3lb 3oz). 3 doz. bits (Rudd, Roach, Perch) Slow start to the season though Paul faired much better in the next swim - he had half a dozen tench and a similar no. of carp...
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Newbury AA Lake Thatcham 0430 - 0930 Hazy sunshine, 10ºC - 14ºC 6 Carp ( 14lb 11oz, 7lb 7oz, 6lb 12oz, 3X5lbers), 4 Tench (1½lb-3lb), 1 Roach (14oz), 2 Rudd, 1 Perch. Pleasant session. Fish on a variety of baits and methods. Meat, s-pellet & floating c...
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NAA Stillwater - Widmead 0415 - 1015 High cloud - warm. 15º -> 20ºC 4 Carp; 10lb 1oz, 9lb 6oz, 9lb 0oz, 7lb 11oz. 1 Crucian; 3lb 2oz. 2 roach, 1 rudd (all 3 of which needed the net to land.) Despite the splendid crucian and the hard fighting commons -...
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NAA Stillwater - Widmead 0445 - 1045 Warm and overcast with sun breaking through after 0900. 15ºC->24ºC 1 Crucian; 3lb 13oz - new PB! 2 Commons; 11lb 3oz & 8lb 5oz. 2 Perch - 1 just on 1lb and a nice Rudd of 10oz. Yippee got what I came for - had hea...
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Newbury AA stillwater - Widmead 0500 - 1000 Warm, overcast and sultry. 16ºC->21ºC 3 Tench; 3lb 10oz, 3lb 7oz, 1lb 11oz. 2 Carp; 9lb 14oz & 8lb 5oz. 7 Rudd. Dawn raid in the hope of another monster crucian - and whilst I had a big fish roll shortly afte...
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Newbury AA Stillwater - Widmead 0530 - 1100. Bright and sunny after a cool, misty start. 10º -> 20ºC 1 Crucian; 2lb 2oz. 8 Carp; best 2 - 12lb 6oz & 11lb 9oz, smallest 6¾lb. 3 rudd & a perch. A morning's float fishing (lift method as per usual!!). Cruc...
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Newbury AA Stillwater - Widmead 1930 - 0000 Warm overcast and muggy night - lovely shirt-sleeves evening though needed plenty of DEET - mozzies were in almost plague like swarms! Temp still 16ºC at midnight. 1 Crucian; 3lb 3oz. 1 Tench; 4lb 9oz. 2 carp 6lb 3oz & 6...
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NAA still water - Widmead 0430 - 0900 Overcast and cool (ish) Doz+ rudd, 1 perch. A morning that didn't get off to the best of starts as I couldn't even get into the venue I wanted to fish - the latch on the gate was jammed - looks like someone had vandalised it! So this was very muc...
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NAA Stillwater - Widmead 0430 - 1030 Overcast clearing to bright sunshine - quite breezy. 1 Carp 5lb 15oz, 1roach, 1perch, dozen+ rudd. Fruitless morning after crucians. At least I wasn't plagued by nuisance carp - the only one I caught was deliberate - off the top on bread. Rudd wer...
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NAA Stillwater - Widmead 0600 - 1000 Mainly overcast with some sun breaking through and the odd bit of light drizzle. 15/16ºC 2 Carp; 9lb 2oz, 6lb 6oz, 1 rudd, 2 perch. Another blank for my target species (crucians and or tench). Smaller carp on crucian tackle - so took an age to lan...
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NAA Stillwater - Widmead 0430 - 0830 Murky low cloud with sun breaking through. 11-14ºC 2 carp; 7lb 3oz, 5lb 13oz. 10 rudd. Fruitless morning chasing crucians and/or tench. If the rudd didn't nail the bait the commons did - both took an age to land on my float tackle.
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NAA Stillwater - Widmead. 0400 - 0800 Soggy!! Not actually raining for most of the trip (though tipped it down at the end of it) - but sat under the trees it was drip, drip, drip all morning!! 2 Carp; 7lb 12oz, 5lb15oz. ½doz or so rudd, 1 roach. Frustrating morning after crucians. Ha...
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NAA Stillwater - Widmead 0600 - 1030 Bright and sunny - chilly (8ºC) start. 1 carp 5¼lb, 1 roach, 3 doz+ rudd & perch - mainly rudd. Slow morning - only 1 bite on the lead - resulting in the carp - all others margin fishing maggots - though had to switch to meat after 15 mins - the p...
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NAA Stillwater - Widmead 0430 - 0930 Bright and breezy, 15ºC 1 Tench - 2¾lb, 1 roach, 6 perch. Caught float fishing maggot in the margin - not a single bleep on the lead!
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Newbury AA Lake - Widmead 1500 - 0800 Bright and breezy, calm and clear overnight, rain at dawn. 12 Carp - all between 5-8lb, best 8¼lb, 1 Tench, 3lb 1oz, 3small perch. This was meant to be a tenching session - and all seemed to be going to plan with a tinca first cast. Alas it was m...
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Newbury AA Stillwater - Widmead 0500 - 0900 Bright and breezy - water levels well up after yesterday's rain - and lake looked rather lifeless. 1 carp (4lb 13oz), 2 tench (2-3lb), 7 Perch (one of 1lb 6oz), 2 Roach (13oz & 1lb) (!), 3 Rudd. Fished VERY,VERY tight to margins - hoping -...
