one month to go

[Clax_Clax]

i did know, but thanks anyway. Thanks for the website. I am 19 but have only been fishing for about 2years so i lack when i comes to experience. Any other tips which may help me?

[j_s]

I'm only relatively new myself mate, did some fishing on and off since I was a teenager but very rarely then, only been more serious in the last 2 years or so myself.

[Clax_Clax]

oh rite, i have been on and off i suppose, it just seems like i get all hyped up before a fishing trip and then, keep getting snagged up and then end up saying to myself "i am never putting myself through this again" But i do, only cauz i really want to catch something over 5lb, you may think that 5lb isn't that big, but for the fisheres that i fish i have never seen that many people catch fish over 5lb. I am planning to go at the weekend, i hope to put some of thiese tips into good use!!

[PhilZenith]

Im going to try my hand at stick float fishing on the river ouse at st.neots.

 

Theres a lovely named place just before the town bridge called "Treasure Island" that looks a great place to fish.

 

Just hope its not too busy!!

[Clax_Clax]

i now where st neots is....i play footbal there alot

[j_s]

Clax, you will find no one here snears at the size of fish you catch. I enjoy catching fish whether it's a minnow or a catfish (not that i've caught a catfish yet).

 

We all have bad days where you can't do anything right, I seem to have them everytime I fish my club's waters, yet if I go to a commercial I do really well.

 

[ 18. May 2005, 04:37 PM: Message edited by: j_s ]

[Clax_Clax]

i like river fishing best, preferably a nice open swim, with no trees overhead to get caught up in, a nice flat piece of ground/grass where ai can put my box down, then i'm away, anything to get snagge on, i'm snagged on it!!!

[Peter M]

ricey:

Peter M, where abouts on the Essex Blackwater are you thinking of going to? I was thinking of trying a few areas at Kelvedon.

I am going to fish a streach of Chelmsford Angling Association water near Braxted. where i really want to fish is on the upper blackwater where it becomes the pant but billericay angling seem to run all the fishing up there. unless you know any different.

[PhilZenith]

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a nice flat piece of ground/grass where ai can put my box down, then i'm away, anything to get snagged on, i'm snagged on it!!!

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heh.. now that sounds familiar mate!

 

Im hoping my snags will "disappear" in time!

 

I went fishing the other day for 11 hours, i must have actually "fished" for about 6 of them, the rest of the time, sorting out problems with all my equipment!!

[tommo666]

The purpose of injecting worms is not to make them wriggle more, it makes them pop off the bottom and then can be seen. Can be deadly for Perch. As j_s said always inject on a firm surface, not in the palm of your hand.