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Nice to hear from you unclepesta. ? I'm getting into the same situation; left knee starting to go possibly aggravated by many miles and kilometres pushing a clutch down, so started just kneeling on the right knee and naturally that has started playing up too. I'm going to have to ease up a bit to eake it out till I get my UK pension.
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What? Along with all the other 'guaranteed' remedies like moth balls, garlic, dog shit, barbed wire / brambles / rose clippings, oil / diesel / petrol, smoke bombs, etc, etc............ I'm with Torquemada
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The bailiffs out here in France carry pistols not body cameras.
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Sciatica like Drunker had. He is often as Sciatic as a newt ?
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Let's see your river catches 2019
Nicepix replied to Daniel cain's topic in Fresh & Salt Water Fishing
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You should have called him Frank after Private Pike on Dad's Army. But then you wouldn't be able to tell us his name. ?
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I was seated next to a guy on the plane coming over here a few months back. I was reading Rod Hutchinson's 'The Carp Strikes Back' and the guy next to me kept looking at a photo on his phone. Eventually we got talking and he showed by a photo of a 62lb carp he had caught in a lake on the area I cover mole trapping. He had paid €1,000 for exclusive use of a small 4 acre lake with a bivvy already set up and collection from the airport. This was his fifth or sixth visit in a year and all his tackle is stored at the lake. I had a look online and it seems that there are the same four or five fish b
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Split cane rod, centrepin reel and tobacco tin for a tackle box. That's proper fishin' ?
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Cracking barbel! Well done.
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Flounder. They come into estuaries with the tide and sometimes can be caught well inside the fresh water area. They don't fight much, but they taste lovely fried in butter.
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I write a monthly article for a magazine out here and I covered fly-fishing for coarse fish a couple of months ago. Here are the relevant parts: The whole article is here on page 36: https://en.calameo.com/read/00014687587c953be2598
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Not from there. That river runs into the much larger River Vienne and just downstream of the confluence is an island about 2km long. One side of the island is deep and wide where some of those carp and barbel in the photos are from and the other side of the island is like a trout stream, all rocky, shallow and fast flowing. I've got a couple of #4 weight fly rods that I use there for trout and barbel. There is another very small river about 20 minutes away in the other direction that has trout and barbel in too. Before I moved to France I used to fish for coarse fish with fly tackle. Bes
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There is a very small river about 15 minutes from where we live. I fish it a lot in summer with a 6 foot quiver rod made especially for this type of water, a 1000 size reel and a pocket full of tackle. It is a fascinating location despite it being no more than 30 inches deep and 15 feet across at its widest part. In one stretch there will be up to a hundred small barbel of around 6" all feeding on a shallow area of gravel. They take small fly-fishing nymphs fished under s tiny float. Just to one side of these is a deeper run of about 2 foot holding a few perch. Fifty yards downstream is
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Catching a near 4lb chub from a small river is every bit as hard as catching one double the size from a larger venue. ? Arthur Ransome wrote an article entitled 'Fishing in Lilliput' and he described how catching the largest fish in the stream even if it was a small trout of 7 or 8 inches is equal to someone catching a 3lb trout in a chalk stream. Bother are at the top of the pyramid and catching them deserves equal recognition. I love fishing small rivers, but for some reason am not bothered about fishing small ponds.
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I'll give you a little tip. Don't bother with boilies and pellets and all that expensive stuff. Buy a bag of Frolicks dog biscuits and fish them like this: Or use two 10mm bait bands on a hair and break a little segment out of the Frolick so they resemble a "C" shape so they can slip onto the band. Fish these with 6 or 7 broken biscuit in a PVA bag and if there are fish in the swim you'll soon know about it. These Frolicks and simple maize grain baits account for over three-quarters of my carp and barbel.
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To be honest catfish and carp can be a pain if you are targeting the more noble barbel. Twice in a month last year I got a 6 foot twitch, once with the old Speedia on a light rod - actually burnt my thumb the reel was spinning so fast. ? The best way to catch catfish for me is using a bass rod and multiplier and spinning for them. They tend to take the spinner just as it splashes into the water. 90% of the time if you don't get a take on the splash you don't get one on the retrieve. A lot of the places I fish for carp and barbel are full of brambles and fallen tree branches with a 3 foot
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Jealous of what? ? Within 30 mutes drive I've got over 100 miles of river fishing from trout to zander to 45lb carp and 150lb catfish, two 100 hectare lakes stocked with carp, roach, bream, perch, pike and zander, numerous smaller lakes. It is all free and normally I never see another angler or signs that the swim has been fished. The fish I catch have never seen a hook and once I've caught them I'll go elsewhere and fish for others. I don't have them queuing up waiting to be fed like cattle in a milking parlour.
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No. It's down to some anti-social twunt piling in bait so he can catch tame fish. You can't catch a fish that isn't feeding no matter what skill you have.
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By regularly piling in bait in two or three swims you are making it hard for other anglers who have just as much right to fish the stretch as you do. They could turn up and fish for several hours without a bite because the fish are stuffed full with the bait you had put in just before they arrived. Or they could choose a swim that is devoid of fish because they are all feeding in the baited swims. You are not fishing for wild fish. The fish have become domesticated and dependent on your baiting program so effectively you might as well be fishing in your own bath. As Bob Roberts once said;
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We don't get those black slugs out here. They are all orange and don't work as well as black ones. I use large snails, cockchafer grubs or whelks for chub.
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I've just been to a swim I haven't fished for a couple of years. While I was there I heard a car pull up and then at least twenty loads of bait hit the water about 50 metres downstream. The guy came up and asked how I was doing. It seems that he puts in loads of shovel fulls of maize every day or so to ensure that he catches when he night fishes in an area where no night fishing is allowed. He then went on and baited up anther two or three swims upstream with the same quantities. Unsurprisingly I hadn't had a bite. I don't understand the mentality of those who pre-bait to that extent. Its like
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No close season over here, but the up and down weather has caused lot of issues regards spawning times for some species. Some carp have and others haven't. Tench haven't and it seems neither have the barbel. I'm leaving the tench until next month.
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It fits the behaviour of that animal and I know that there is a population to the east of you, but I wasn't sure whether they were more widespread. A customer of mine wanted rid of gliss gliss but didn't want them killing. I set him up with a live catch cage trap and so far he's had 53 all taken at least 10km away before releasing. All from one small mill house. The are a PITA for me because virtually all the calls I get are as a result of them screaming at night which is a sign of young present. I won't poison or trap them if they have young to avoid causing a stink when the vulnerable y
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If the nest was 6 feet up as you found it I would venture a guess at dormouse, possibly the edible dormouse gliss gliss.
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The G&Y looks quite large that's why I thought it was the Jetta which was made for sea fishing and pike fishing. Before I came out here my collection included cast alloy reel that was quite narrow but had a diameter of 8" and ran like a Rolls Royce. It was too heavy though. I also had a Bakelite reel that was from a Bradford company. That had a drag of sorts in that you could screw down the tension on the drum and had a very free running brass bearing. I used it for river fishing on the River Dearne. As a kid I always dreamed of owning a Match Aerial. I finally bought a very nice one
