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Started out with pellet method feeder and wafter on one rod and groundbait feeder with corn and maggot on the other but ended up with both on the groundbait feeder with maggot
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Tried for bream today , didn’t get any but had a few one toners that turned out to be roach
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Just had a quick go on the canal with the xul gear but it was coloured for some reason and had loads of pieces of weed floating about so I only had a few casts with a 0.45gm size 14 jighead and a flouro orange 20mm whitebait . Had a small jack but the weed was annoying me so I went on the little pond again for half an hour and had 2 perch and a big roach about 1-1/2lb on a 0.2gm size 14 jighead and a 27mm junebug nano minnow
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Just had a couple of hours on the canal and the little pond I’ve been fishing . Struggled on the canal because the wind was holding the 0.3gm jighead up so I went on the pond and unusually never had a perch and only had one fish which was this 2lbish hybrid on a 20mm crazy fish whitebait
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Not been here long and I’ve had a chub and just had this double take . My mate at the side has had a chub , a 9.1 and a 12.9 pb as he was putting the 9 back
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Had a quick go with the xul gear on this little pond this afternoon . Ended up with 9 perch and 1 roach in just under an hour on a 0.3gm size 14 jighead and purple 1.1inch nano minnow . Missed a fair few delicate takes because I had no feeling at all in my fingers and couldn’t react quick enough so I came home
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Quick hour on this tiny pond today
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Just on a farm pond with the xul gear , it’s tough going but had this decent one on a 1.1inch nano minnow on a size 14 0.4gm jig head
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Pike , I’ve had loads of roach , dace and chublets for bait though . Had a pike hit my float twice and then take a roach but drop it and another dropped run . literally just had this 12.12 on a decent chublet as I was posting .
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Just had 45 minutes on a little pond with one of my new xul outfits . Had these 5 on a 1.1 inch nano minnow and 0.3gm size 14 homemade jig head . Even though they were only small , biggest being about 8-10oz they all put a good bend in the 0.2-0.8gm rod . If it wasn’t as windy I’d have dropped to a 0.15gm size 18 to try and get some roach
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We definitely get a bit too complacent around water . Ive waded in places I shouldn’t have and fished off steep slippy banks and after you’ve done you think i shouldn’t have done that but then you go and do it again . This place in the pictures is down near whistling sands and it’s a lot steeper and higher than it looks . We climbed down the sharp rock edge of the bit on the right carrying all the gear to fish off the very point because it was the only way down . If we’d have slipped to the left it was straight off and to the right it was down the cliff bouncing off the sharp rocks
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The ribble is a snag pit and the Calder’s not much better in places . I like the Calder and I think it’s better for grayling than the ribble , there’s some good ones in there aswell .
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Normally the ribble has shallow margins but this particular stretch on this side is deep and coupled with the steep sides and mud it’s pretty bad . It was about 10-12ft off the rod top and couple of years ago about 100 yards downstream another member wasn’t so lucky and he went in and drowned .
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It was and I slipped on the mud when stepping over a log , luckily I managed not to break my rods when I landed . It’s the ribble . It was half a metre up and coloured too .
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Struggled with catching lives big enough to use and only had dace . Never had a touch on the ones that were usable but caught one roach and put that in and it went straight away but I pulled out of it . Cast it back out and it went again but managed to pull the barbless hooks on an at least mid double at the net . Went back out with the maggot feeder and the rod ripped round and snapped me off before I could pick the rod up . It was the only maggot feeder I had on me aswell
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He’s still going , I got a collar and lead off him for my terrier in September . I ordered it off his website but he’s got a facebook page aswell
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Been watching YouTube vids of people fishing for silvers and fancied a go at it so got all the hooks , beads , uv resin and uv torch off aliexpress only takes minutes to make a few . From what I’ve seen it needs pretty good conditions to cast such light weights and if it’s windy it’s not happening . I’ve got a new 0.2-1.5gm extra ultralight set up to cast it aswell because my normal 1-5gm bfs setup wouldn’t be up for much below 0.8gm . Gone for the thinnest braid I could find at 0.04 and I’m thinking of trying an ester line on another reel to see how it compares . Not managed to get out yet be
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A lot of the fish you see on the ribble facebook groups are off the free stretch and 1 of the 4’s that was caught while I was fishing was on there . I was at the top of the sandbank on the bend and the bloke was just upstream to my left at the end of the straight . The others were off the stretch above the m6 bridge . I was on the club side but you can get day tickets from the tickled trout garage for the other side and either fish from there or drive a few hundred yards back towards Blackburn and fish gregsons farm
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See them all the time on the Ribble and Calder , usually on their own but sometimes in pairs and even with a couple of young . Even had them swim within touching distance while wading on a few occasions . Also see them on the straight mile section of the Leeds Liverpool canal in Burnley . Not the best quality but this is a screenshot of one I filmed eating a decent size fish in ribchester
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Just been making some tiny jigheads with 0.1 - 0.15 - 0.2 - 0.25 & 0.3 gm tungsten beads on 18-14 hooks to use with little soft plastics like these . I’m going to try on the canal for roach and bream and the rivers for dace , gudgeon and even minnows with them
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It’s brilliant for everything , probably the most underrated river in the country by people outside the area . 2lb + perch are not uncommon with 3’s caught regularly and I know of several 4’s that have been caught on lures and livebaits by nearby anglers while I’ve been fishing and I’ve seen others reported on Facebook groups
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Looks a decent one . I’ve never had one on soft plastics but I catch them on little hardbaits when I’m after trout . The duo ryuki spearhead 50 and jackal tricoroll ryushin 38 seem to catch more chub than the others for me . I do get grayling on little soft plastics though
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This winters been rubbish . I’ve blanked 5 out of 9 times now on lures and livebaits , don’t think I’ve had that many blanks in the last 5 years combined .
