Perfect for Perch 18-10-15

Today saw me get out for my first perch session .It wasn't goin to be an early start as I've a cold and thought I'd go a bit later as this water doesn't seem to have a feeding window for the perch.

Upon arrival I had a quick look at some pegs I'd fished before,but decided against it as the margins had green algae.I headed over to the other side of the lake to get out of the wind.Today would see me fish two rods,one on alarm,the other centre pin and match rod.

To my right I had a tree with low branches which looked a good area,so that's where I fished the pin,too my left I fished the other rod.Red maggots and chopped lobs would be my feed ,and a lob on both rods.As the morning progressed my float was sailing away and my alarm rod on several occasions,with no fish banked.I decided to change tactics,half a lob on each rod.

My first bite came to the alarm rod,a small perch .My float rod sailed away not long after,to what I thought was a small perch,it wasn't ,it was a Ruffe.

The weather today was warm considering a nice right to left breeze across the lake ,I was nice and sheltered by the trees.It wasn't long before my first decent perch,the bobbin rose steadily ,then dropped back,perch on.

1.2 fell to the alarm rod ,never saw the leaf .

I was getting more indications as the day went by,then a good sail away on the float and another decent sized perch .

I managed 4 more smaller perch and a nice Rudd on the pin which was fun.Then my alarm rod roared off,thought it was a bigger perch ,no such look.

A nice roach just over a pound .Hopefully next time I can get back on the other water.

Can't forget the tommy Ruffe .till the next time Bloggers .

Jumbles resovoir 12-10-15

Myself and Eddie decided to have one last feeder session at Jumbles.eddie winning the previous 3 Trips he was brimming with confidence texting me saying see you at 7-45 expect another drubbing.

The mix we would've using , ready to be riddled, Brown crumb and Bread crumb mixed 50/50.

As I was putting my fourth feeder out Eddie was into a roach and kept telling me it was 1-0 to him.As the morning 

Progressed it seemed we were only goin to catch roach .

The res was lower than our last session

One minute is was overcast, and like a mill pond , then some sun and a light breeze,and the roach kept coming, until

The bream came to my swim.

I managed 4 nice bream to eddies one.

During the course of the day I had pike trouble,I managed to get in two damaged roach, I was bitten off and lost a decent bream to a big pike.The highlight of the day was as I was bringing in a small Roach a pike launched itself out of the water and missed it.

As the afternoon wore on the boats were out and even the speedboat couldn't get the waves going to help them out, it was 

Too calm.

As the day was coming to a close it was a close call, but remember I was going to get a drubbing by Eddie, there was only a couple of fish in it , Eddie levelled the scores 17-17, would it be enough for a draw, unlucky mate it wasn't.

Browny  21 Brocky 17.

I finished the day with 16 Roach, 1 perch and 4 Bream.Eddie had 15 Roach, a perch and a bream.

An enjoyable day, nice to get out ,thanks Eddie .

Till the tip pulls round , Tight Lines bloggers .

Dinsmore Powerdrive banks stick review

As you can see In an earlier blog I mentioned about getting them out on the bank for testing .

I opted for the four foot ones which extend up to 6 foot , so whatever the situation your covered .There really strong and solid once screwed in to the bank.They come with a bar to help twist them in .

Here I have them twisted into a sandy stoney  bank, no problem.

As you can see this is mainly a sandy gravel bottom , and the stones behind the stick are not holding it in anyway .

My overall impression of them is they are going to do what I bought them for

Solid and reliable in any surface.

tight lines, till the next time .

3 Foot Twitches 25 September 2015

Well with my van sorted and my last river session ended in disaster with the river being out of soughts

With weed being the main problem I headed back up there Friday night knowing that the traffic on the way up there would see me not having long to set up and get the rods out before Darkness Falls.

I arrived at my swim ,I fished one rod on pellet and feeder,the other on a bomb,bag and a boillie.

It was round about 7-30 I had a vicious rap on my boillie rod.At 8 pm I re cast both rods and waited.

At around 8-30 I had a vicious 3 foot twitch,fish on ......

Just a splasher,a fish I've caught a few times,look at the tail,fell to Boillie.

I had too wait till about 9 pm for my next bite,another vicious pull round,fish on.

A lot bigger than my last one,fell to Pellet.

As I was re casting my rod due to catching,I re cast both rods to get some more bait out there.

It was round about 9-45 I had the most vicious take of them all,nearly pulled my rod in,after some fantastic runs,I netted her at the second attempt,I turned my torch on to look in the net and thought,it's a double or was it a usual 9 plus that I'd been catching.

10.4 and a new PB,well chuffed.

I packed up at 11-15 as the river was dropping and as I hadn't any more action I thought,can't get any better than my first Ribble  Double ,so I headed home,straight into roadworks that took an hour to get through,wasn't well pleased.

Tight lines bloggers,till the next time.........

Spooling up my Reels For Perch

I decided to re spool my reels for my perch fishing.Last season I was using Diawa Sensor in 6 Lb

Which don't get me wrong it's a great all round line , strong and very reliable , and as the old saying goes if it ain't broke don't fix it .

I was after a casting line, so being impressed with spider wire braid when I was lure fishing in America last year I decided to try the Spiderwire EZ Mono in 

Lo Vis Green, easy casting, strong and lo stretch.

Soaked for a couple of hours in water.

Spools backed, and tape wrapped round old line .

All spooled up, great line lay.

The box , 220 yards , with backing my spools equally I got 110 yards on each 

Which is plenty, why waste line, doesn't make sense putting 220 yards on each spool. 

Tight lines Bloggers 

Brocky Does The Treble.11-9-15

After the fortnight I've had with work , my van and a waste of space garage I got 

Out with Eddie today on jumbles again.

The last two sessions have seen Eddie 

Win both sessions.We decided to try a different area this time , but after 30 mins we moved to where we fished last weekend . 

The weather was a mixed bag today , sunny and cloudy at times with the chop on the water blowing the opposite way to our last session.The fishing was slow with me catching perch and Eddie catching roach.

Eddie chucking out on the spot.

The scores were pretty close all day with me leading way with just perch.

Eddie topped up his swim with a few more feeders, and this brought the bream to his swim .

Another bream for Eddie saw him take the lead as a few more came to the net.

I had a chance to level but I bumped off

A couple of roach . 

It looked liked Eddie was going to do the treble over me, a few roach and eddies lead was 2 in front and the score was 15 -13 for Eddie .

Really enjoyed these sessions and will

Be back .

Brocky 3 Browny 0

A great day out , till the next time.next session river bound , can't wait.

Quantity v Quality 6-9-15

IMyself and Eddie decided to return to jumbles Resovoir.The weather looked spot on with the sun showing every now and again .I took Eddie to a different part of the res, simply being not as snaggy and I've always thought the fishing was better in the past .

It wasn't long before Eddie had caught 5 roach, nothing for me , then boom

Mines bigger 

Then another roach for Eddie , I was lagging well behind , then a good wrap round produced this 

Sadly no scales 6-2 back in the game.

My swim started to produce and I was catching all the quality bream.

A nice bream to Eddie, happier now as he was catching a few better fish,we both had pike on aswell during the day

I got bit off and Eddie played one and kept his fish .i was getting the better stamp of bream throughout the day, I just couldn't make the numbers up, eddies lead was getting bigger.

Eddie managed a couple of nice perch aswell.

This one came at the end of the day.

So it worked out Brocky 38 Browny 20.

was a great day with Eddie the overall winner in numbers  and myself the quality weight wise. Can't wait to go again.

Till the next time bloggers .