Catch reports

[Nicepix]

A couple from the local waters. The chub was taken from my local stretch of the River Vienne and the carp from a lake that feeds the River Charente.  

Edited January 29, 2023 by Nicepix

[BoldBear]

Last night my son and I had a couple of hours at one of the clubs match pools which the club had converted to a fishery from cress beds back in the early 1930s.
We both fished the waggler and took maggots and sweetcorn with some small feed pellets.

We were hoping for some Tench and Crucians plus some smallish Carp (up to the high singles) however it turned out to be Bream, Bream and even more Bream; mostly from around a pound up to a couple of pounds in weight with a few of around 12oz; and by the time we packed up; (when we couldn’t see our floats); we were absolutely caked in horrible snotty slime.

Im not a great lover of snotties however I did have one Carp plus one Tench so it wasn’t a complete failure re my targets.

One thing that happened while I was setting up; I got my line wrapped around and under my reel spool so I removed the spool and started to untangle my line when I felt my line start to straighten and my rod start to bend where I’d accidentally hooked a smallish Carp or a Tench on my ‘bare hook’ at half depth (I’d not even plumbed up yet); and I had to frantically try to untangle my line; reassemble my reel and then try to start playing it in, however by the time I had tightened up after untangling and reassembling my reel it had weeded itself solid so I had to eventually pull for a break.

Keith

Edited September 17, 2023 by BoldBear

[chesters1]

Strange how fish seem to know the opportune moment to take the bait ,rolling a fag ,pouring tea or some mechanical hitch and away they go .

Ofcourse the worse time is when you have been sitting biteles for hours and you get a fish on and suddenly the other rod gets a bite and you need three arms and then an hour to pick up all the split shot you were sorting on your lap when it all happened

I remember one time my reel was off the rod after one of those terrible sliding screw reel seats of old came loose and ofcourse I got a bite ,how the heck do you reel in with a rod in one hand and the reel in the other ,it felt like nice fish before it snapped the line and buggered off

Edited September 16, 2023 by chesters1

[BoldBear]

Had a few hours on Sunday evening on our clubs Estate Lake after Carp; but it was unusually quiet as there are usually a few anglers there on a Sunday evening but there were no other anglers there.

Perhaps there hasn’t been many Carp coming out recently I thought; although my son had a mirror of just over 27lb only last week plus we both had Carp between 11lb and 17b last week so it can’t be all that bad.

Anyway I set up my two rods in the swim below.

Unfortunately I was right and it didn’t seem to be fishing well, however just before I started to pack up as the light started to fade after resigning myself to having a blank (which is fairly rare for this lake) one of my alarms finally sprang into life and a Carp in the very low teens was the result.

I will be back on my favourite stream after Barbel next week and onwards so I will be giving the estate lake a miss for a while 

Keith

 

 

Edited October 11, 2023 by BoldBear