Pond Advice.

[adamf]

.........12lb tench.

[david t]

you need a way of putting a floating rope on the surface, so you can push the duckweed away, then put the rope down around your swim, like a shark net on a beach, to stop the duck weed drifting back in place. you would either need to put it out with a dinghy or wade out. trouble is your pond is likely to be silty so you may sink. either way there wont be an easy way round it. and dont worry about stirring up the bottom, tench like a disturbed lake bed.

dave.

[Newt]

Too late in the year now with all that lovely duckweed dying or dead but next year when it gets thick, you might want to consider some lure fishing. There is a range of lures made for the really horrid, thick stuff and since they ride on top, the sight and sound of a fish crashing through the weed to smash your lure is positively heart stopping.

 

These are all similar in that the hooks are protected by the body but the body is designed to collapse away from the hooks when you get a take and to spring back into position when you unhook the fish.

 

Frog

 

Another Frog

 

Long Frog (for walking the frog

 

Scum Frog Popper

[fantasticfisherman]

So is that really true what fantastic fisherman is saying about duckweed dying in winter?

 

yes it is

[DavyR]

Too late in the year now with all that lovely duckweed dying or dead but next year when it gets thick, you might want to consider some lure fishing. There is a range of lures made for the really horrid, thick stuff and since they ride on top, the sight and sound of a fish crashing through the weed to smash your lure is positively heart stopping.

 

Not sure if Adam's got any predators living in there - he really wants tench I think (but this cold weather should have put them well off anyway).