Tackle needed?

[Steve Walker]

I've had chub, dace and bleak on the fly while fishing for coarse fish, and roach and perch on buzzers/nymphs while fishing for trout.

[Captain Pelvis]

A whip is fine

 

You need to get on those streams as soon as the weather allows, 'cos the close season starts in just over a fortnight. Both species should feed, even in cold weather.

 

Let us know how you get on (I will not be able to reply until mid/late March, as I will be in Kenya fishing for tiddlers like Marlin and Giant Trevally by next week )

 

If you don't catch soon, you will have to wait until June 16th.

 

I was hoping to have a walk down to the stream today after school but the snow is falling pretty heavily so that wont be happening. I have this Sunday off work as the Saturday is my 18th and i thought i might be a bit hungover so decided to have it off. If im feeling fine then i might go and give the sticklebacks a go. If that fails i can think of a small pool in some fields not too far from home which could house something small.

 

Good luck on your trip to Kenya, one day i want to visit the Amazon to catch my dream fish, a Piraiba! Wanted to cach one for years!

[Vagabond]

one day i want to visit the Amazon to catch my dream fish, a Piraiba! Wanted to cach one for years!

 

There ya go!

 

http://www.acuteangling.com/Catfish/catfish-piraiba.html

[Captain Pelvis]

There ya go!

 

http://www.acuteangling.com/Catfish/catfish-piraiba.html

 

Now just to save 4500 dollars, i wonder how many weeks of EMA and working a shift a week as a potwasher will that take me

 

conditions are alot better today and if i can i might get down to the stream to take a look, hopefully it wont be too high from the recent rain and snow.

[Captain Pelvis]

Whilst in Chemistry yesterday i was using the very fine detail scales and thought about these smaller species, doesnt Dennis Flack use very sensitive chemistry scales for his mini species? The majority are really expensive but a quick search on ebay brought these up for less than a tenner from hong kong, granted not as sensitive as most but for that price not bad:

Chemistry Scales

 

These could serve well for this style of fishing surely?

[Captain Pelvis]

So yesterday i finally had a chance to fish for some bullheads, rain had stayed away for a week so my local ford should of return to normal flow. I left home at around 4 in the afternoon as i was only planning to fish for a maximum of 2 hours. This was my chosen swim and pleasingly it looked normal which was good:

 

Tackle was as simple as it goes, small section of whip with 1.1lb line straight through to a size 20 hook (currently dont have anything smaller) with a bb to keep steady in the flow a couple of centimetres from the hook. For bait i brought along brandling worms and red wool. I snipped off a tiny section of worm and began placing it by likely looking rocks to no avail. I decided to get into the water and carefully lift rocks up to have a look for my fish, after awhile i found a lovely big bullhead under a breeze block, just as i was to lower my bait a motor biker needed me to move my bag which i stupidly left obstructing the bridge.

Returning back to the water i found the fish gone but after a short while i came across another smaller specimen, i lowered the bait in right next to its mouth and got an instant take, FISH ON! the fight was pathetic (no disrespect to the fish) merely because of its size and the fact all i had to do was lift it clear and it was landed. On the bank it didnt look huge but none the less it was a new rod and line caught species for me! On the scales (my mums kitchen scales) it went 6g, a lovely little fish indeed.

 

He was swiftly returned to the water and back under his same rock making sure to put it back into its correct position, shortly after i lost a smaller fish when lifting it clear of the water and it didnt help the fish being more interested in the shot than the bait.

With home time drawing near i opted to try the breeze block again where i had spotted the leviathan earlier on. Under inspection a smaller fish lay in residence and after snaffling the worm a pb equalling 6g millers thumb was released to fight another day.

 

All in all a thouroghly enjoyable session of just over an hour, next week may see me after 3 spined sticklebacks or maybe a stone loach which eluded me yesterday, hope you enjoyed reading the catch report! thanks.

[Worms]

A good report and nice pics as well. Well done on your PB

 

It's great when a plan comes together!

[Anderoo]

Excellent! I really enjoyed that

[Dales]

A great idea with the Chemistry scales, I had never thought of weighing my mini species before, it kind of adds to the fun of catching them.

 

Also very nice pics.

[WickerDave]

Well done. You could try them as livebait for the perch, pike and chub upstream .