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A weeks fishing with Les on our club waters. Thanks again Les, i did enjoy my stay as usual.
Friday
River Trent, pegs one and two.
We arrived at around 7.30 and got on the wier pags, i had peg two Les had peg one. We had a lot of groundbait, whith included, munched up tiger nuts, old caters, sweetcorn, brown crumb and some continental mix. Baits were, halibut pellet, bolies, strawberry pellets and sweetcorn.
The river was very low, it also started to loose water,the tow in our chosen swims was not to fast.
We got tackle up and started to feed our swims. We must have put about 2 kilo of bait in within two hours or so. We did not have a single bite on the halibut pellet, not the strawberry pellet, nor any of the boilies. We changed to sweetcorn, i had a size 8 barbless hook with 5 kernels of corn for bait
But who cares we were in very pleasant surrounds out in a field with a beautiful scene in front of us, the wier looked tremendous in all its splendour. Gliders flying overhead and the sheep coming down to drink. I was just about to say to Les, " DO YOU FANCY GOING THO THE TOP MEADOW FOR A GO FOR THE BREAM ", then all of a sudden my rod doubled over, A good fighr ensued and i landed this nice barbel, Here in the lovely fish.
Happy as can be and very excited i continued to feed my swim. All of a sudden Les jumped up to get his rod, he too had a tremendous bite, bloody hell he exclaimed, line snap, of course i got the blame for giving him a duff rig. He was soon re-rigged and out.
I looked out of the corner of my eye to see my rod bouncing, i picked my rod up, no need to strike, the fish had hooked itself, another barbel., Nice aint he/she
And the rest of the fish.
Here's the fish Les caught
Our pegs
The wier
I wont go on and describe all of my catch, I went on to catch another 4 barbel and three chubb, altho Les did get one of them in on my line when i was not looking and the fish took my bait. We called it a day at about 6.45pm
Les also got four barbel, that was after being asnapped a few time, he also got three chubb, one of the was i very good weigth. I caught a bream which was about 5lb ish, when it was put back into the water it was off like a steam train, i nor Les had seen a bream move so fast, no picture of it, Les was to slow with the camera, the fish jumped out of my hands and went off at top speed.
Saturday.
Thornton Abbey
Les dropped me off at the venue, Les had some business to sort out.
I managed to get a peg on the point, not another angler was there, about an hour and a half later a father and his two sones turned up.
I fished the feeder rod today with the groundbait from yesterdays session.
I was catching from the word go. Skimmer after skimmer fell to me hookbait od red maggot and white maggot. I also tried sweetcorn, i did manage a couple of decent skimmers. Not one RUDD showed throughout the session. The place is well known for them, where had they gone ? who knows.? in all i had around 50 skimmers.Les returned at about 2o'clock, he did manage to land two skimmers on my tackle, LoL. We decided to callit a day and return home. We were both a bit tired after the early start and late finish from the Friday session. LoL
Two at a time
Sunday, off to blyton.
A decent day at Blyton. We met Bob there, he was setting up when we arrived. Greetings and hand shakes later i tackled up. Float fishing today. I was getting fish before long, small roach and skimmers. Les was soon catching fish. Then he went onto his favourite method at the venue, floating bread for the crap , carp. I cannot remember how many he landed.
I decided to have a bit of a stalking session after hearing the crap , carp sucking the freebie bread off the surface. I set my feeder rod up and away i went. I was hiding behind the tall reeds. I managed to land two carp, the first one was the better off the two fish, it gave a good account of its self on 6 pound line, the second one was smaller, but great fun.
We had a couple of beers in the Pied Piper, then a supper of pizza, plus one free for spending mor that 10 pounds, LoL
Les's [s]crap[/s] carp
Monday, back to lady pit.
We had decided to have an early morning, up for 4am ish and then out, LoL, come 7,30am ish i think Les woke me up. Best laid plans never work out do they, LoL
We arrived at the river at about 9.30am. We went to the top meadow, drove up looking at the pegs, we chose 22 and 23. very comfy pegs. Feeder fishing yet again. The fishing was very quiet. But as ever who cares, in pleasant surrounding on a fantastic stretch of river.
I did manage to land four fish, One roach, two perch and one bream, all sweet corn.
Here's the bream
The bite off this bream was almost invisible, the slightest of movement, i picked my rod up and gave it a little tug, oh bugger i thought, i'm snagged, then the bream gave a kick.
Les managed to land some roach.
Tuesday, back to Lady Pitt.
We arrived at 6.45am, pegs one and two were not taken, great stuff. I again had peg two, Les had peg two.
The fishing was very slow again. The weather looked very bleak, overhead rainclouds and a slight wind. We did have a few spots of rain, but nothing to worry about. We sat it out for 5 or 6 hours, BINGOA, the first fish came to my rod, a nice chubb.
Again i had sweetcorn on as hookbait.
Then anther two chubb fell to my rod, then Les landed a super chubb,
I said to Les, bugger it mate, this is my last cast of the day, its looking very dull and threatening in those clouds,
About 10 to 15 minutes later my rod bounced, i grabbed it and the fish was on, I landed another fine barbel.
And here's the chubb caught by Les
We soon packed up after that, just as well the heavens opened.
We went onto a carvery for our breakfast/dinner/tea.
Wednesday
Trent Haven Pond
A windy day today, we chose the back pegs so that the wind was on our backs. I fished the feeder, Les set up the feeder and float rod. I dis manage a few fish, nothing flash just 5 roach and a couple pf perch. Les stuck iyt out after being snapped twice in the lilly pads. H eshouted for my long handled landing net, to late when i hobbled down to his oeg, he had landed the fish, this cracking common carp.
We packed up and went away happy chappies.
This has to be my most memorable trip to fish with Les. The three days on the Trent catching the barbel and chubb, and the very nice bream made the visit well worth it. With luck i shall be back down in a few weeks, this time with another fishing chum, LoL
A weeks fishing with Les on our club waters. Thanks again Les, i did enjoy my stay as usual.
Friday
River Trent, pegs one and two.
We arrived at around 7.30 and got on the wier pags, i had peg two Les had peg one. We had a lot of groundbait, whith included, munched up tiger nuts, old caters, sweetcorn, brown crumb and some continental mix. Baits were, halibut pellet, bolies, strawberry pellets and sweetcorn.
The river was very low, it also started to loose water,the tow in our chosen swims was not to fast.
We got tackle up and started to feed our swims. We must have put about 2 kilo of bait in within two hours or so. We did not have a single bite on the halibut pellet, not the strawberry pellet, nor any of the boilies. We changed to sweetcorn, i had a size 8 barbless hook with 5 kernels of corn for bait
But who cares we were in very pleasant surrounds out in a field with a beautiful scene in front of us, the wier looked tremendous in all its splendour. Gliders flying overhead and the sheep coming down to drink. I was just about to say to Les, " DO YOU FANCY GOING THO THE TOP MEADOW FOR A GO FOR THE BREAM ", then all of a sudden my rod doubled over, A good fighr ensued and i landed this nice barbel, Here in the lovely fish.
Happy as can be and very excited i continued to feed my swim. All of a sudden Les jumped up to get his rod, he too had a tremendous bite, bloody hell he exclaimed, line snap, of course i got the blame for giving him a duff rig. He was soon re-rigged and out.
I looked out of the corner of my eye to see my rod bouncing, i picked my rod up, no need to strike, the fish had hooked itself, another barbel., Nice aint he/she
And the rest of the fish.
Here's the fish Les caught
Our pegs
The wier
I wont go on and describe all of my catch, I went on to catch another 4 barbel and three chubb, altho Les did get one of them in on my line when i was not looking and the fish took my bait. We called it a day at about 6.45pm
Les also got four barbel, that was after being asnapped a few time, he also got three chubb, one of the was i very good weigth. I caught a bream which was about 5lb ish, when it was put back into the water it was off like a steam train, i nor Les had seen a bream move so fast, no picture of it, Les was to slow with the camera, the fish jumped out of my hands and went off at top speed.
Saturday.
Thornton Abbey
Les dropped me off at the venue, Les had some business to sort out.
I managed to get a peg on the point, not another angler was there, about an hour and a half later a father and his two sones turned up.
I fished the feeder rod today with the groundbait from yesterdays session.
I was catching from the word go. Skimmer after skimmer fell to me hookbait od red maggot and white maggot. I also tried sweetcorn, i did manage a couple of decent skimmers. Not one RUDD showed throughout the session. The place is well known for them, where had they gone ? who knows.? in all i had around 50 skimmers.Les returned at about 2o'clock, he did manage to land two skimmers on my tackle, LoL. We decided to callit a day and return home. We were both a bit tired after the early start and late finish from the Friday session. LoL
Two at a time
Sunday, off to blyton.
A decent day at Blyton. We met Bob there, he was setting up when we arrived. Greetings and hand shakes later i tackled up. Float fishing today. I was getting fish before long, small roach and skimmers. Les was soon catching fish. Then he went onto his favourite method at the venue, floating bread for the crap , carp. I cannot remember how many he landed.
I decided to have a bit of a stalking session after hearing the crap , carp sucking the freebie bread off the surface. I set my feeder rod up and away i went. I was hiding behind the tall reeds. I managed to land two carp, the first one was the better off the two fish, it gave a good account of its self on 6 pound line, the second one was smaller, but great fun.
We had a couple of beers in the Pied Piper, then a supper of pizza, plus one free for spending mor that 10 pounds, LoL
Les's [s]crap[/s] carp
Monday, back to lady pit.
We had decided to have an early morning, up for 4am ish and then out, LoL, come 7,30am ish i think Les woke me up. Best laid plans never work out do they, LoL
We arrived at the river at about 9.30am. We went to the top meadow, drove up looking at the pegs, we chose 22 and 23. very comfy pegs. Feeder fishing yet again. The fishing was very quiet. But as ever who cares, in pleasant surrounding on a fantastic stretch of river.
I did manage to land four fish, One roach, two perch and one bream, all sweet corn.
Here's the bream
The bite off this bream was almost invisible, the slightest of movement, i picked my rod up and gave it a little tug, oh bugger i thought, i'm snagged, then the bream gave a kick.
Les managed to land some roach.
Tuesday, back to Lady Pitt.
We arrived at 6.45am, pegs one and two were not taken, great stuff. I again had peg two, Les had peg two.
The fishing was very slow again. The weather looked very bleak, overhead rainclouds and a slight wind. We did have a few spots of rain, but nothing to worry about. We sat it out for 5 or 6 hours, BINGOA, the first fish came to my rod, a nice chubb.
Again i had sweetcorn on as hookbait.
Then anther two chubb fell to my rod, then Les landed a super chubb,
I said to Les, bugger it mate, this is my last cast of the day, its looking very dull and threatening in those clouds,
About 10 to 15 minutes later my rod bounced, i grabbed it and the fish was on, I landed another fine barbel.
And here's the chubb caught by Les
We soon packed up after that, just as well the heavens opened.
We went onto a carvery for our breakfast/dinner/tea.
Wednesday
Trent Haven Pond
A windy day today, we chose the back pegs so that the wind was on our backs. I fished the feeder, Les set up the feeder and float rod. I dis manage a few fish, nothing flash just 5 roach and a couple pf perch. Les stuck iyt out after being snapped twice in the lilly pads. H eshouted for my long handled landing net, to late when i hobbled down to his oeg, he had landed the fish, this cracking common carp.
We packed up and went away happy chappies.
This has to be my most memorable trip to fish with Les. The three days on the Trent catching the barbel and chubb, and the very nice bream made the visit well worth it. With luck i shall be back down in a few weeks, this time with another fishing chum, LoL
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