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I struggle to use many maggots, I'm not taking any this session, so no big perch (or eels) for me.

Bream fishing Andrew?

Stephen

 

Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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I'm now taking bookings for the Wingham Fish-In on Saturday 18th May to Monday 20th May.   Wingham is a syndicate water that, apart from the annual AN Fish-In, is open to members only.   However,

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Excellent news   Fingers crossed we get some decent weather.

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I struggle to use many maggots, I'm not taking any this session, so no big perch (or eels) for me.

Bream fishing Andrew?

Stephen

 

Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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what I learn't last year lots of red maggots maybe a few pints of caster and lots of lobs would be the answer.

Right on the money there, John

 

Last year, late May, I float-fished (sliding float, bottom ring only) a bunch of lobs, a couple of feet off the bottom (to avoid eels), and sprayed red maggots little and often to an area of about 10 ft by 10 ft. Used a small float and a big bait so that the undertow would take my bait along the same route as the loose-fed maggots.

Let the float trot through the loose-feed area and beyond. The fish were where the undertow seemed to peter out (my float didn't travel any further)

 

In 48 hours (fishing daylight only - ie an evening, an all-day, and a morning) got plenty of perch during each session, up to 3lb 2 oz and two more over 1lb 12 oz (perch at Wingham are one of the few fish I weigh) a couple of jack pike and a single tench of about 7.

 

If that helps anyone, fine - but I must add that last month I did exactly the same things in the same swim and blanked !

 

Why ? It WAS very cold, and I was really there for the ambience and so that Norma could get a good look at the early migrant warblers before too many leaves were out. That bit of the plan worked.

 

Good luck to y'all, and I look forward to the reports.

 

 

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Right on the money there, John

 

Last year, late May, I float-fished (sliding float, bottom ring only) a bunch of lobs, a couple of feet off the bottom (to avoid eels), and sprayed red maggots little and often to an area of about 10 ft by 10 ft. Used a small float and a big bait so that the undertow would take my bait along the same route as the loose-fed maggots.

Let the float trot through the loose-feed area and beyond. The fish were where the undertow seemed to peter out (my float didn't travel any further)

 

In 48 hours (fishing daylight only - ie an evening, an all-day, and a morning) got plenty of perch during each session, up to 3lb 2 oz and two more over 1lb 12 oz (perch at Wingham are one of the few fish I weigh) a couple of jack pike and a single tench of about 7.

 

If that helps anyone, fine - but I must add that last month I did exactly the same things in the same swim and blanked !

 

Why ? It WAS very cold, and I was really there for the ambience and so that Norma could get a good look at the early migrant warblers before too many leaves were out. That bit of the plan worked.

 

Good luck to y'all, and I look forward to the reports.

I remember that day you had the perch it's a swim i have kept in the back of my mind for float fishing for a while now. Interesting to hear you blanked recently as its a good time for good sized perch. :)


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Mark Cunnington is currently doing his first tench fishing anywhere for many years. His first 2 fish from Wingham were both PBs at 8-07 and 8-14.

 

The first came at night, the second early afternoon. Both were chunky compared with the thin fish caught a few weeks ago, so they are feeding hard.

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Bream fishing Andrew?

 

I think with the way the lake is fishing right now it's got to be worth a shot, and if it doesn't work maybe some tench will be interested. We'll see. It will depend on which swim I'm in to some extent, but I'm going with bream in mind really, so I'll just be fishing plastics over groundbait.

 

Ah. Just saw Steve's latest post. Maybe I'll fish for the tench ;)

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New weed growth is just beginning to emerge and is covering most of the bottom to a depth of a few inches. Tench of course love weed.

 

The tops of the bars are largely clear and, as bream don't like weed (even if it's been cleared), I suggest you have at least 1 bait on a bar at night when the bream are most likely to feed..

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I remember that day you had the perch it's a swim i have kept in the back of my mind for float fishing for a while now. Interesting to hear you blanked recently as its a good time for good sized perch. :)

Yes, normally April is a good month for perch, but there were a lot of anglers getting blanks, at Wingham and elsewhere, during April this year ! ....and a number of threads on the subject....

 

The continued cold snap from the east was in my mind, the principal reason for an atypical April (I think the Russians have got some sort of wind machine.... :) )

We had left the middle of April free for a Wingham trip, so it was a matter of going anyway, despite the weather. But the birds were splendid - its not too often one can watch a nightingale sing

 

Even now, I wonder if the main lake has warmed up enough for perch - we'll know in a day or two.

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World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

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...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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In theory it should be good weather for the perch, dull and overcast with a ripple and bits of rain.

 

It might just be because I haven't fished for so long (apart from one massively unsuccessful day's fly fishing - which I promised never to mention again...sorry Steve W ;) - I haven't fished since the last day of the season) but I just have this funny feeling that despite the awkward weather it could well be the weekend when it all kicks off.

 

To be honest I'm looking forward to the BBQs and catching up with everyone as much as the fishing.

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Well only 1 more sleep!!!! Can't wait to jump in the car at 3:30am and make my way over to pick my brother up and head down on the 5hr+ drive. Itching to get cracking and if the weather isn't favouring the tench I will still be aiming for the big eels in the evening so I am sure no matter what happens it will be a great trip as usual. I carried on my good run of catching big eels by netting another 4lb+ yesterday. Really whetted my appetite. I wont add fuel to the fire by saying that it came on live maggots fished over more live maggots ;)

 

So see you guys sat morning. Cant wait :bigemo_harabe_net-193::bigemo_harabe_net-193::bigemo_harabe_net-193::bigemo_harabe_net-193::bigemo_harabe_net-193:

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