neil r
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Funny you mention that , ive been thinking of trying that for a while now , ive had chub , dace and minnows on the river on dries and pike on the canal on flies but never got round to having a go for roach . Ive got a little 7ft 3wt and a load of 20&22 dries to give it a go . If its not raining tomorrow night ill have a look on and see if i can get some .
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I used to be obsessed with big pike and used to travel all over chasing them but it got to the stage that i was just going through the motions and if they didnt look over 20 i wouldnt even bother weighing or photographing them , now i prefer ultra lighting on the canal for anything that takes the lure . Last year i had countless perch to about 2lb and at least 300 pike from the canal and none of them came broke double figures but like you said , when you get one on the ul gear its good sport
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Believe it or not that wasnt even the smallest one , the smallest was about the size of my little finger .
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Had an hour on the canal early on trying to bag a roach on a lure . Had 3 of them annoyingly drop off under the rod top but I did manage about a dozen tiny perch and a couple of surprise little jacks on a 0.8 inch crazy fish whitebait with a size 12 big eye hook and a little fly tying bead . I normally use 12lb knot 2 kinky for ultra light traces but because I was Texas rigging such a small lure for roach and perch I went with 4lb flouro . There was a knack to getting the lure to work right but once I cracked it the perch were fairly easy and if I'd have taken my solid tip rod I would have had
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Does my head in when people try to stitch you up on the bank . You can sort of understand why they do it but there's no real need for it . It might be worth prebaiting a couple of swims for a day or 2 if that's what they are doing and there's not a big head of barbel . The reason hardly any bait works for me on the ribble is because it's full of barbel and chub so your never far from them . Nash baits should be ok , I've done well on a few of his baits in the past and halibut flavour is as good as anything and elips pellets are used by loads of people on nearly every river so there won't be a
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Have you tried fishing at the back end of fast water where it starts to drop off in to deeper water . Ive always done better in well oxygenated faster water in summer rather than the slower moving deeper pegs . Dont know if you have any pegs like that on your stretch but if you have its well worth fishing them and ingnoring where most of the other anglers fish The Dove is a funny river. Most of the big Barbel are in one stretch, most of the fishing gets done in this stretch. There are some faster swims with streamer weed in them. They don't seem to be fished very often. One or two d
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Have you tried fishing at the back end of fast water where it starts to drop off in to deeper water . Ive always done better in well oxygenated faster water in summer rather than the slower moving deeper pegs . Dont know if you have any pegs like that on your stretch but if you have its well worth fishing them and ingnoring where most of the other anglers fish
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Went through haslingden earlier and its 120.9 , 3p dearer than petrol
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Of course it isnt , but theres more than the old news paper story about him and dog fighting online , including from mclellan jr and people who knew him although his sister does say its not true . Like i said though , i remember it from an interview on tv from way back but for the life of me i cant remember where . Might be he was just trying to make himself sound like a badboy to hype the fight but then again maybe he was just like that .
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Gob shyte and nasty b*****d for sure...but i wouldnt wish anyone blind and crippled...based on the stories sold to willing journalists...by distant relatives from the ghetto looking for a few dollars.. I've seen a bit of film where he himself admited to tieing up labs for his pit bulls so no hyped up stories did my eyes see and i have no sympathy for a totaly cruel fecker like him who also took plessure in hurting people badly or trying to kill them in the ring (his own trainer says that on that film link).I haven't wished him ill but be a cnut and cnut things happen to you end of really th
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We call it "bullying the fish in" it's common practice with catch and release in still water trout. Thick gauge hooks help as well, minimising mouth damage.Lots of fishermen (especially coarse fishermen) underestimate the energy that fish put into their fight and "carefully" playing such hard fighting fish such as Barbel, Trout, etc can be killing them with kindness. I've said the same thing myself to people on the bank about not messing about getting them in quick . You see them panic as a barbel puts a bend in the rod so they lower the tip and slacken the clutch and end up playing them fo
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One of mine does it all the time but only when it's the Mrs and not me who's there . He had some steaks off yesterday that the she had done and even though she knows what he's like he still manages to outwit her , as mad it sounds it's like he even creates distractions if he can't get straight to it like grabbing a tea towel or a shoe and running off to the next room knowing that she will go and take it off him and as soon as she does he runs back past her and grabs what he wants .
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Like the look of the inline trout , the inline pike look good aswell . Ive had some on the 20 cm 3d rattle trout including one that picked it up static like a deadbait in 30ft of water . I dont think my rod would take 300g although i have lobbed the occasional mag dawg and fox deviant which are around the 7-8oz mark i wouldnt like to do it all day . If you want a big lure have a look at the musky innovations pounder and 2pounder dawgs , they also do rods with massive ratings to match them . A river 20 would be nice but theres not many rivers round here that will do it
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Solid traces are the only way to go with the big stuff . Which abu do you use , Ive had 5501c3 and 6601c4 but prefer shimanos and okumas but ive noticed a lot of people relly rate the new abus with the drop down gears 6501c4 is the big reel, I also have a shimano for lighter work and that can cast a loooong way! I prefer the shimanos to abus , I had the silver c3 and the blue and gold c4 but they feel a bit agricultural and not the same feel as the 401 corvalus and Cardiffs I've had . If your ever in the market for a new low profile multi have a look at the okuma Helios air , I've been a pro
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Have a look at the the okuma Komodo or Citrix at taskers , they were selling the older models off not long back or even look for a second hand Abu or shimano . The round profile reels might feel a bit akward at first but you get used to it . They are not hard to cast if you don't try and force the cast . There's a casting brake that you can set so that when the reels in freespool the spool will stop spinning as soon as the lure hits the water , to test it all you do is hold your rod out with the lure on press the bail and let it hit the ground and adjust till it doesn't overun . Once you get u
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Solid traces are the only way to go with the big stuff . Which abu do you use , Ive had 5501c3 and 6601c4 but prefer shimanos and okumas but ive noticed a lot of people relly rate the new abus with the drop down gears
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Are you going to be using a multiplier set up for the big stuff . Its not easy to use the real big stuff on fixed spool reels , it can be done but multis are best for the job . Your lucky your close to taskers i wish it was close to me , its a good shop and will do deals if your spending money , last time i went down i got an okuma helios air multiplier for a lot less than they are advertised at , aswell as a load of sg lures and pliers for a lot less than they should have been . I know what you mean about the scouse angler , his early vids looked like he had tripped up in the savage gear fac
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His videos are pretty good . River piker has a lot of good ul and jerk bait videos as well there's also a lad called the Scouse angler who does vids round your way . The harness is not too hard to do , if you have some of the round nose pliers to form the eyes for the hook hangers . I don't use the welding rods phill uses , I use the 340lb AFW stainless single strand wire from rok max . I also use the same in 174lb for jerkbait traces . If your going with jig heads for them , something like 7/0 - 8/0 would probably be enough . If you've not used big stuff before don't make the mistake of fish
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Agm do some big 10 inch pike grubs for next to nothing . You need to rig them yourself with either a jig head or like i do with an homemade harness so they can be fished in the shallowest water without snagging on weed/rocks. Theres a vid on youtube of phill blakely showing how to make the harness for real eels , its the same process for the agm ones . If you see the savage gear alien eels for sale pass on them , they are not a patch on dawgs they are too stiff of a plastic and need to be worked fast to get the tail action working properly. The freestylers can be worked as a surface lure if yo
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Dont know why companys do this , surely after people have clicked they are not the same and stop buying them then the manufacturing savings they made will start going the other way and they are no longer players in the lure market . Ive not got any pikies , i tend to use dawgs and eel type baits and jerkbaits if im using big stuff . The only biggish cranks ive got are the 19cm sg lowriders and lip lures . My mate has a few big pikies that hes had a few on and i think the record was took on a pikie
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One of the first decent pike I caught on a lure was on a big s on Kearns in accy . I stupidly gave all my original big s away years ago and the newer ones are not the same . I do have bomber shallow A and square A and rapala dt4 though , which are pretty much the same type of lures and catch plenty of pike when I do get round to using them
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If you have any big s type lures or the crank n shads will probably do it , you can use them as surface/wake bait lures by keeping the rod tip pointing upwards and either reeling in slowly or flicking your tip upwards . You will get a fair number of missed hits but it's good when they bow wave behind your lure or just fly out the water when you least expect it . I've seen them surface crawlers , they look good , I bet they'd do well down the edges of the canal and near cover
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Might aswell get your name down for them , its well worth joining for the amount of waters they have , something like 270-280 and growing . The only downside is having to go to macclesfield to get your ticket and listen to a talk for an hour or 2 . Stick some pics up and ill see if i can tell you what they are , cant promise because a lot of plastics and crankbaits are copies of each other , ill do my best though
