Its Been Too Long 23-9-17

Well it seems like ages since I last fished the river,I've been very busy at work and other stuff has got in the way of me getting on the bank.I finally arrived at the river at 6pm giving me plenty of time to get a peg and set up for the evening .The river was looking good and a nice level,no crap coming down so I decided to bang a float stop on each rod to catch any debris just in case the river started rising.5 Oz leads and pva bags would be my chosen tactic tonite.As usual pellet on one rod and boilie on the other rod were the bait choice,with 4 mm pellets in the Pva bags.It was a lovely evening,plenty of cloud cover and very warm.The peg I chose was about 60 yards down from where I last fished,one rod mid river the other slightly upstream.As I settled down for a coffee a few twitches started so a nice early indication fish were in the swim.It would be just before darkness and my first pull was a good one,Barbel on and a good fight in the flow as it tried to head for a snag ,thankfully I guided him away and over the net.

A nice barbel,fell to a Pellet,Game on.....................

As darkness fell it seemed to get warmer ,the bats were out in force tonite one flew into my rod.An hour went by and a double twitch I struck and fish no 2 was a lovely chub which came to the net.

A Lovely chub,Another pellet casualty.

As the night went by with no further knocks or twitches I decided to re position my rods to search out the barbel.More coffee,more cigarettes and nothing to show .Then a twitch and I'm in again,nothing big but a first on a pellet.

Fish no 3 ,A Dace to a 14 mm pellet..................

I packed up at 11pm it was dead and nothing happening.Nice to get out and chuffed with the catches

All the damage done by pellet.................

Till I'm out next Bloggers ,Tight Lines.

Gingham Fishery 2-9-17

So today was the annual fishing match with Breaking Surface Forum,of which I may add there now on Facebook as Breaking Surface Uk.14 would be fishing the match.Upon arrival at the fishery I was looking forward to see how much it had changed since last June when we fished the last match as the owner had been installing new steps down to the pegs last year and some new pegs.Well nothing had changed,the banks were overgrown,the path around the fishery needed strmming and would be difficult if you had a trolley .The peg I had and others were just soil and there was hardly any room to set up.The steps are steep and there is no longer handrails to get down to the pegs.so in a total of nearly 15 months nothing has happened work wise .Ive fished matches on here before and pleasure fished ,but after today I don't think I will be going back.The overgrown banks just attract midges and unless you have repellent you will get bit to death,anyway let's get on with the match.......................

All in was 10 and I drew peg 3,Eddie had drew peg 14. It was a lovely warm day,not even a ripple on the water .My method would be method feeder and slow sinking feeder.For the first hour apart from a couple of liners and a lost fish I had nothing to show .Fish were cruising in front of me,so a change to slow sinking feeder saw me catch 3 carp within the next 45 minutes.The idea was to cast the slow sinking feeder out,3 pellets over the top and leave it for 40 seconds on the bottom as you can get a bite if they follow the feeder down.Fishing round the lake was real slow,not many carp coming out,the lads to my left were catching small stuff on the pole which seemed a good method to fish as the carp could turn up at any time.As time flew by it was getting frustrating as I threw everything at them but with no bites.For the last 30 minutes I fished the method as I thought with the pellets I'd pinged out maybe they would be feeding,How wrong was I ,time ticked down and it was all out and time to weigh.

My Bait tray.

Over grown vegetation.

You can see on far side pallet pegs,not solid at all.

1 22lb

2 21lb

3 17 lb

Me 10-13 lb 

I couldn't remember the exact ounces of 1-2-3 but not great weights for fishing here.

Tight lines,Match gear packed away,Time to get back to the river.