The Autumn Perch Thread

[Rusty]

I am on the island Chris if you fancy meeting up and we could walk the canal from here up to calcot and have a go in the lake as well ,give me a call if you have not made other plans

 

Thanks for the invite Steve but I thought I might try the canal downstream of Thatcham Station first, I haven't fished it for ages.

 

I'll call later.

[viney]

 

Thanks for the invite Steve but I thought I might try the canal downstream of Thatcham Station first, I haven't fished it for ages.

 

I'll call later.

Saw a few good perch in the reeds bit just before the point where the backstream joins again the other week

[Steve Walker]

Looking at the club rules, it has a refreshing lack of nose-poking - perhaps because it's primarily a river club?

[JV44]

Can I claim mine from a couple of weeks back /? only coz I want to be leading rusty early doors in the comp....wonder if he caught any today..... driftwood blows through a desserted town cue spaghetti western music......

[Steve Walker]

I'm afraid that one falls under rule 22b

[Paulg]

Thanks for the invite Steve but I thought I might try the canal downstream of Thatcham Station first, I haven't fished it for ages.

 

I'll call later.

 

How did you get on Rusty ?? - thinking about giving it a go soon.

 

P.

[Rusty]

How did you get on Rusty ?? - thinking about giving it a go soon.

 

P.

Not very well Paul, the canal was heaving with fry so I think my jig head was facing stiff competition. There aren't many features along that stretch so it was a case of walking and casting every few yards, I covered all of it but with no joy. CP told me that the willows had been trimmed back but I didn't expect it to be that severe.

[JV44]

I bribed the CART workers to hammer it thus removing your banker spot lol ,only joking I did seem a tad severe but guess with there budgets trimmed they may be thinking hit them hard and not so often only a guess though .

So in this seasons JV vs Rusty match up I stll have the bragging rites lalala

Chris Plumb is banned form competing in this due to the good old rule 22b

Edited September 4, 2014 by JV44

[Steve Walker]

I got a few hours in on the river this evening. I fished the swim where I had the good fish dropshotting. I can report that the river clearly has a good head of perch and that they were having it this evening, but I had none over half a pound. I used up my little pot of lobs in no time and had to resort to livebaits. Luckily the river is currently stuffed with bits, but I had only taken one rod. I ended up tying a length of light line with a hook and a single maggot to my perch hook every time I needed a new bait. Lost one decent fish, on a livebait. Didn't see it, but it felt a good size.

Edited September 6, 2014 by Steve Walker

[BobH]

Autumn and Winter are my favourite time for Perch fish, but not being very mobile these days I tend to fish small section of the Lea Navigation, using baits such as worms, prawns and live baits.

 

Recently I have noticed huge numbers of Perch fry in an adjoining gravel pit and wondered if I should be trying this pit for larger Perch, I have fished the pit a lot over the years, but I don't remember it having a history of Big Perch ?