too much pressure

[jeepster]

you'd be surprised how little you have to pay, some friends of mine recently paid less than £200 for a couple of quite productive miles of the trent

[zedhead]

is that for a year long lease? what a bargain, i spend much more than that on club permits each year.

[jeepster]

thats what i said when he told me, well after i asked him why he hadn't called me to chip in!

 

it's a year lease, done through the EA

 

i went for the first time the other day, and only had a jack, but i spent most of the night after barbel. i'm going again on thursday and will be after old mr esox this time

[zedhead]

prime, its who you know that counts! bit early for me on the pike front, i only lure fish until october. The trent will do a big pike in the future, but its not been that prolific for me....yet

[Peter Sharpe]

In the Peterborough area in the winter, it can be impossible to find even the remotest bridge over the smallest of drains where there isn't a pike angler in site. What really galls though, is when you have made a long hike up a small drain, only to find two people drifting by in a boat, trolling livebaits through your swim only feet away from your face and forcing you to reel in. A small cannon may be required this year.

[jeepster]

you can improvise a flame thrower quite easily peter, will even melt their braid!

 

i only lure fish these days zed, sitting behind deadbaits has lost it's charm. the trent hasn't yet given me the fish i know it can. i was on (a highly secret spot ) the trent the other week and saw one of the biggest pike i've seen for a while, at least mid twenties, just sat in the margins, in about 18 inches of water, i threw a few surface lures near it, then noticed it's tail was damaged quite badly (talking to the baliff later i found out that that stretch had been dredged recently, a coincidence? i doubt it!) so i left it alone, but it confirmed to me that theres some big old girls in there

[zedhead]

peter that is exactly my point, even drains are extensively fished and how remote an area is no insurance on the amount of attention it will recieve. Ive moved off most of the peterborough waters now to ease the situation for the pikes sake, and the same goes for boston, its like theres a pike match held on every drain every weekend in the boston network.

[zedhead]

Plus, i vital point that hadnt mentioned is that a major part of the appeal for such waters is that theyre secluded and peaceful, not commercial carp puddles with anglers lining the banks.

[zedhead]

Yes jeeps theres some decent fish in there but historically the trent has never produced fish of the same caliber as say the hamps avon. maybe it will in the future. very good of you to resist catching that fish, takes a real fisherman to do that.

[jeepster]

well that's the closest either has come to a compliment! let's consider all hostilities ended

 

i'm moving shortly to very near the avon, and will be very happy to show you all the pictures of the massive fish i'll have caught