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    Final installment for now as I know mintstick999 is getting hungry with all this crayfish eating. Well went and picked up the traps a couple more times and this time decided to try deep frying in beer batter and serve with soy sauce dip (and ketch-up for the kids - sacrebleu!). Needless to say they were very tasty:
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    That 'Top Ten' is a good read and is one of my favourites that is kept near the 'big boys room' ready for a quiet read. Others I would recommend are 'Red Letter Days' a collection of tales from well known anglers, 'The Deepening Pool' by Chris Yates as well as his 'How To Fish' (He knows how to balance life and work). Also a couple from John Bailey being ' From Water to Net' and also ' Reflections from the Waters Edge' (tell me you can't read The Final Present chapter p.154 without a lump in your throat). Also just read 'Catching the Impossible' by Bowler and Miles, I didn't think I'd be so ke
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    Nice chub and a great way of fishing and searching out a water. Have had a few so far this season on freelined black slugs (can bounce them under the willows and the worst that happens is you lose a hook in the snags). Going down on a lower stretch this Friday to fish corn and flake under the willows into darkness. This year I'm going to try live minnow as I've seen some good chub smashing into minnow shoals during the close season. Keep up the fishing on the small rivers beats a commercial any day of the week. Chris.
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    Well the first day of the season out of the way. In my first ever proper match on the river the good news I didn't blank and I made it to tenth position, the bad news there were ten of us fishing! It was a very wet five hour match and the wind downstream was not favourable for my centrepin and stick approach, I think I may have to go to the 'dark side' and get a short pole or whip like the winning guys were using. Weights throughout were low even though the river is full of good fish and maybe due to a combination of the weather and/or the fish are still pre-occupied with all the natural food
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    Hi Kev, Its on the upper part of the river Parrett in Somerset. I just this minute uploaded a map onto the club website (www.stoke-sub-hamdonaa.co.uk) although I haven't yet put on the actual banks covered although we do have rights to most of them from the co-operation of eleven or more landowners. Last year the club had a total membership of just over fifty and is open to anyone. The annual fees are £15 which I think is good value as the local carp pools round here charge £7 per day!! We are a not for profit club and all the money gets put back into the club either in improvements, stock
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    If time allows this season I would love to catch some of the elusive river carp although they are as rare as hens teeth.
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    Normally fish for good quality chub and roach on the opening day with roving tactics, however, as I'm now on the committee for our club I've had my arm twisted to fish the match on the river tomorrow morning (draw at 07:30). We've already been out clearing the bankside and putting in the pegs. I'll be up against the match guys with their poles and whips whereas I'll be on the centrepin and stick and may switch between an avon quiver. Possible tactic maybe to fish bigger baits for some decent chub. See what the weather is doing tomorrow and get ready for the river season, whooppee!!! Tight
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    Great going, looks like a great day had by both of you, well done. Chris
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    Hi folks, Like last Saturday I decided to have another go at those brownies on the upper river and try two pools I had seen but hadn't tried. Again I used freelined lobworm and felt for bites as I trickled the worm in the swims. First pool I settled in and I lost the first fish of the session, so re-cast and caught one of just over twelve inches and so a taker. Tried a couple more snaggy swims as I worked my way up to the second pool. On this one the banks were steep ten footers surrounded by fresh waist high nettles. With overhanging trees it was a struggle getting a cast in but when I fi
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    Hawki, they're all now wild brown trout I think stocking only took place twenty years ago and both fish today had roe in them so obviously they're breeding well. The top part of the river is so narrow that you can jump across it in places. We also have a number of otters on the river but it doesn't seem to effect the fish stocks much, in fact the otters may be a godsend as they are hitting into the signal crayfish. I was using a size 6 hook mainly as I was using large lobworms. The biggest recorded wild brownie from this river was just over 6 lb and was returned, saw a nice one over 4 lb caugh
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    Hi Hawki, 4 lb mainline with a 3 lb flourocarbon link tied on with a four turn blood knot, pinched a single AA onto the free tag end to get the worm down quickly before trundling it along the bottom and feeling the line for bites. Both trout were over 12 inches as we always return those that are under 10 inches. This club water of ours is on a season ticket of just £15 a year for around 10 miles of river fishing and holds some cracking roach and chub as well as other surprise species. Chris
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    Had a couple hours free this morning so thought I'd pop up the road to freeline lobworms for any brown trout on the upper stretches of our club water. Tried a spot I had never been before. Lots of nettles and other undergrowth in this neglected part of the river, casting into pools amongst the fallen trees from banks that are eight foot above the river. Within twenty minutes and three casts into three separate pools I had these two beauties, that was my limit so back home within the hour. Cooked them up tonight stuffed with garlic, bacon and cherry tomatoes and they were absolutely go
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    Cheers for the day and the write-up Rik. Looking forward to next season and we'll try out those new permissions. When the river season starts in June we'll have a go at catching those roach and chub and net a few of those crayfish for tea. Chris
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    And as an added bonus Rik found my sickle that we must of dropped in the wood back in October. That rabbit bolting out the bury into the purse net before I entered the ferret was something I don't think we'll experience again anytime soon. See you hopefully next Sunday for one final outing as long as get all that DIY completed otherwise my missus will be cooking those ferrets. Chris
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    For all the information you need go to www.anglersafloat.com and join up. They have lots of meets all over the country as well as running safety days inconjunction with the RNLI. Also give details of your nearest intended coast and you may well get someone local to give come out (also best to go in pairs at least for safety although with your whitewater experience you will now the limits). Chris
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    Not very deep round here, but the worst dig was four and half foot of clay in land that had never been cultivated, hard as rock and needed a proper post digger to make an impact.
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    Getting to the end of the season but still fancied a bit so went up the road to a place opposite my parents on a run down farm that is well overgrown. Joined today by Luke and his dog Tess. Decided that with all the old piles of sticks and things lying around that we would use the longnets as much as possible. First buries were in the fruit orchard and surrounded them with two 50 yarders and a 10 foot stopnet. Luke put a few purse nets down to catch any hole jumpers. Both ferrets in and soon we had three rabbits, one back netted in a purse net, one caught by Tess and the third in the longnet.
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    Proper fishing with the use of watercraft rather than all the latest gizmos. I'm a great follower of the methods employed by John Bailey and have a lot of his earlier books. I now use one of his methods of fishing the bobbin with flake as bait on the rivers for roach and have seen some great success. Looking forward to the other programs in the series.
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    Brilliant (and as you said honest) read, really enjoyed that. Its great to see big bag write-ups when everything sounds like its going by the textbook but we all have eventful times like this which make the days more interesting if a little frustrating at times. On our patch we rarely get a bag over 12 in a day and thats after working all day crawling through hedgerows and the like. Happy hunting, Chris
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    This was the information on her business card I picked up from her at last years midland gamefair: Tel: 07971 357973 sarah@rabbitnetsandaccessories.com wwww.rabbitnetsandaccessories.com Chris
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    Hi Malcy Also checkout www.anglersafloat.com as another informative site. I've been a member of this one for a while and picked up some good advice. They have regular meets as well as training days with the RNLI. I bought an eleven foot fishing kayak and probably should of gone for something a bit bigger, however I fish within its limits and prefer to fish in fairly calm conditions anyway. Have launched from places like Chesil beach and Charmouth in the West country. Also being a slightly smaller kayak its easier to handle on my own and I can also fish the rivers comfortably with my five y
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    Cheers Steve, I saw they were advertising it on Quest but they didn't give a date but the link you gave gives the 24th so I've now set the freeview box to record the series. It was when I picked up a first edition of this book at my grandads when I was eight that got me into fishing. Now thirty odd years later I'm part of our local river fishing committee where we try to put something back into the sport. www.stoke-sub-hamdonaa.co.uk Many thanks Chris
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    Having used various materials and types of pegs I'm with Sam007 and Country Joe as regards the heavy duty plastic tent pegs off ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15-EXTRA-HEAVY-DUTY-CAMPING-6-15CM-PLASTIC-TENT-PEGS-/290564059518?pt=UK_SportsLeisure_HikingCamping_Tents_JN&hash=item43a6f7b17e They may not be traditional but they are brilliant and as Sam says fold the net into four wrap the drawstring round and round the middle and then the hook at the top clips nicely in, great when throwing a net over a hedge (or even through a hedge) to a colleague. Chris
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    Cheers for all the replies folks, I'll put some of these into action during the match in two weekends time and I'll let you know how I get on. Chris
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