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I've always done loads of short after dark winter sessions, sometimes as short as two hours. I don't do midweek overnighters anymore though.
I've caught lots of fish in the first two to three hours of darkness in the colder months.
This year I've been fishing very little, but I'm still doing my best to get to the lake at least once a week after dark to put a bit of feed in.
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On 24/11/2018 at 21:27, Tree123 said:
Theese are couple I had last year both had the curtains intact. Not huge but more then likey uncaught and went wild when hooked
Purely from an information point of view, having their curtains intact doesn't mean that they're uncaught. I've caught fish that I know for a fact have been caught plenty of times before that still have an intact curtain.
Lovely fish all the same and definitely not trying to detract from their capture.
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6 hours ago, TaylorR said:
Hi,
I am new to carp fishing and fish a small venue. Whilst looking for new tackle to upgrade to I found both the Daiwa powermesh, 12ft 2.75lb, and the Shimano tx2's also 12ft and 2.75 tc. I favoured the Daiwa powermesh until I read that it had 50mm Butt guides. Bearing in mind the furthest I would need to cast is roughly 50yards, the bigger guides would be of no use.
I was wondering -because of the 50mm Butt Guides- if i would have to pair the rod with a big pit reel or a "mini" big pit? Or could i use a normal freespool reel?
Or should I just get the Shimano tx2's and pair it with a 6000 or 10000 reel for the close in fishing and be worry free?
Personally I hate 50mm ringsets. Bare in mind that it then follows that the rings going up the blank are also larger than with a 40mm ringset. This can have quite an effect on the action of a blank, particularly lighter ones.
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15 hours ago, Tree123 said:
Thanks for advise in the end in juat gonna stick with the 2 next year and see how I go and see if I think it makes much difference to catch rate I dont think it will and most of the time I'll be on water where i think two is enough anyway
Rather than just trying to work out how it has affected your catch rate have a think about if it has affected your enjoyment of being there.
I have fished with four rods many, many times, but enjoy it just as much if only using one.
To me fishing isn't a competition, it's all about enjoyment.
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On 25/10/2018 at 11:46, salokcinnodrog said:
I'm sat here by the lake with a thought or 2 running through my head.
Shelf lifes are more instantly attractive than freezer baits, but freezer baits on day three seem to offer more natural attraction as the enzymes kick in or out.
Years ago Brian Skoyles wrote an article about it, and Gary Bayes has mentioned the instant attraction of shelf lifes vs freezer.
To me shelf lifes are better in small quantities, even food baits, a tiny percentage of the freebies mixed with freezer baits, or as a stringer of baits around the hookbait. The hookbait itself can be a shelfie, but you do not want massive amounts of shelf life freebies.
I feed shelflife baits almost exclusively as feed into my lake at times. Sometimes I can put 5kg on a spot and it'll go within hours. Other times it'll just sit there for three or four days, fish nearby, but just not 'in the mood' to eat it. Next day it'll all be gone. They must still be putting out the 'right' signals, even after days in the water. I only use Gary's bait so have absolutely no idea how the fish might react to other shelfies.
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8 minutes ago, The Compleat Angler said:
When I first started carp fishing, we used landing nets, the big knotted mesh type, which makes me shudder now when I look back but, I don't remember our fish having injury inflicted as a consequence?
Nowadays we have the luxury, albeit paid for luxury of safe tackle and kit. How far should we be taking the safety aspect though? It’s alright advocating that fish, especially big fish shouldn’t be lifted from the water in a landing net, yet holding that same fish up for the photos, with wet but often warm hands is fine?
I’ve never heard so much utter nonsense in all my angling life, which is a long time. If any of us cared that much about the welfare of a carp, we wouldn’t fish for them, it really is as simple as that. Sure, treat the fish with care and respect, that goes without saying but, let’s not take the Florence Nightingale element too far.
I hear so many people say they have the fish’s welfare in mind, first and foremost, is that so the fish will live longer, and grow bigger, so that we can all put them through all the stress and trauma all over again, when we catch them again at a later date?
The reality is, the fish are there, because people fish for them, just as cows, sheep and pigs are there because humans eat them. You don’t get farmers keeping livestock for pets, the same goes for water owners and fish.
Treat the fish you catch with care and as much respect as possible, taking into consideration that you’ve orchestrated putting a hook into it’s lip, and proceeded to pull it towards where you’re pitched up, or positioned in a boat, all ready to subject it to further stress and trauma.
Sometimes the truth hurts, often much more than a soft meshed, wet landing net. 😉
Spot on.
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1 hour ago, greekskii said:
Yeah, it was just you asking if deano knew exactly what went in to them.
I only wondered how he was in a position to slag them off I he didn't know what was in them or how they're preserved?
I've known Gary for quite some time now, have spoken to him about bait at length and trust him implicitly that he won't sell me anything that is either poor as a bait or in any way harmful to my fish.
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3 minutes ago, Dean O'Baggio said:
I wouldn't feed Nash shelflife to anything, let alone my own fish
YUK
Do you know exactly what goes into them?
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8 minutes ago, Dannygooner said:
Urrrrghh. Otters. What a scourge. They are running riot through Essex currently apparently. I've seen evidence of this first hand
I saw my first one on a water near the Chelmer in 2003. By 2010 on another water, not so far away, I was seeing them on a daily basis.
IMHO any unfenced lake in Essex is doomed. Actually make that anywhere!
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15 minutes ago, Dannygooner said:
Someone told me it holds barbel in parts too? I don't know the chelmer but I'm not far from it and I'm going to check it out next spring. Any truth in that? Thanks
I've heard the same for many years but was told that they were only found in the private upper reaches in any sort of meaningful numbers. And of course they'd also be easy targets for the otters.
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On 17/09/2018 at 11:22, finchey said:
I've been using the nash instant action candy nut crush and coconut cream shelf life and they seem to be quite a hard bait is this normal for shelf life boilies? and is there anything I can do to soften them up?
If I can't soften these boilie's up a bit can anyone recommend a softer shelf life.
It's just that these seem quite hard as a hook bait and I feel when you get a pick up they must feel hard to the carp. Surely a softer bait is more attractive to a carp and softer boilie's must be easier to digest.
Sorry if this is a stupid question 😀
I use the Nash Instant Action Tangerine Dream quite a bit, in fact it's the only bait that has stopped me buying Richworth Tuttis for my cold water angling.
Yes these baits are pretty hard out of the bag, but that's because they are dried for 48 hours after cooling. They soon soften up once in water, if they didn't I doubt they'd be such a good bait.
At times I've had access to quite large quantities of Nash shelflife baits very cheaply (misshapes) (friend of Bayesy) and have fed my lake with them when there has been little bait going in by anglers and the fish have thrived on it, so it can't be that bad.
All my other bait has been shelflife for the last five years and my catch rate certainly hasn't suffered. I really should empty and get rid of the two bait freezers in the garage.
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36 minutes ago, Dannygooner said:
I'd heard it had been decimated by the Polaks too
Oh I'm sure it has but there are still decent fish in there and no too difficult to find.
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3 hours ago, Dannygooner said:
Have you caught out the chelmer mate?
A long time ago mate, but they're still in there. Hurry before our cute fury friends have them all though.
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One person's 'silly rule' is another person's 'answer to a problem'. We may not like or agree with that answer, but it will usually have been implemented after some thought and/or discussion.
I think most seasoned anglers would be shocked at how many seemingly safe rigs haven't worked how it is perceived they would in the event of a line breakage (for whatever reason). Having bailiffed waters for many years, and having removed hundreds of rigs from various types of snags and rescued tethered fish I do know the truth.
Interviewing potential members can help avoid the need for lots of rules but you might just be amazed by the amount of really nice, decent people, that talk the talk but don't quite live up to your expectations.
Please trust me that everyone's opinion on the need for rules changes when the fish/fishery belongs to them.
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On 24/08/2018 at 06:21, smufter said:
I use the ones from Carp Craze. They are a little bit smaller so I tend to use two in different colours. That way, you know they've both come off....😉
I bought a box of cheaper ones, they are okay but not quite as "dense" so tend to come off a bit too quickly sometimes, doesn't matter how hard I squeeze them together. I've even had them fly off at impact before, which kind of defeats the object!!
I'll stick with my Carp Craze jobbies. The bright blue ones are best
I won't use the blue ones after being told that blue colouring is repulsive to carp.
I know there's not much logical about that, but I just can't put one on my hook.
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12 hours ago, kevtaylor said:
Support your local tackle shop - hardly breaking the bank at £2.99 👍
That's no different to saying that we should all be buying our bait at full price from local tackle shops.
Noooo thank you!
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20 hours ago, yonny said:
I understand they're all Terry's own recipes and although Geoff B used to roll them for him that finished some time ago.
I found it interesting that despite the mark-up (gross profit was sizeable) the net was poor. Just shows that people might not be getting ripped off as much we sometimes suspect. Business is business at the end of the day.
Net profit will be after Tels salary has been taken out.
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On 25/08/2018 at 03:51, smufter said:
Prior to the Starlites coming out, we used to take the front lights off of our bikes and with the aid of small stones position them so that they lit up our floats in the dark. A yellow quill was the best float for this. It used to make us jump when the float just disappeared from sight!! Tench on lol!! Batteries never seemed to last all night though.....
Crikey weren't those lamps useless. I can remember getting the new plastic revision for Christmas one year from my parents. They took much better batteries.
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18 hours ago, salokcinnodrog said:
I was posh, I had a battery powered float for tench and bream. Only problem was staring at it in the dark and your eyes would cause the float to 'wander'. It wasn't the float moving but your eyes as you stared at one spot.
I must admit ledgering on the river was almost always done with white tape round the rod tip up into the ambient light, and/or touch ledgering.
Brings to mind an amusing story with the battery float. I put the batteries in for the start of the season, and went to check the shotting with a bare hook in daylight, a size 10 Drennan Sweetcorn hook. Chucked it in, float went under, "oh puffle, too much weight", reeled in and discovered myself playing a 4oz roach. That night I think I had 4 tench on the float up to 6lb, all males.
Was this one of the big bulky floats that took watch batteries and had a little red bulb (led?)? If so my old man and I had those. The little rudd would constantly attack the red light.
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On 22/08/2018 at 17:49, smufter said:
I think my "passion" for isotopes comes from when I used to go night fishing years ago, without alarms.
In those days, star lites had just come out, (the ones you snap and shake to get to light up), and they were a natural progression from lumps of breadflake on your line, and then fairy washing up liquid tops. A star lite was a luxury! Didn't have alarms, you just waited in the dark (or the light from a candle in a jam jar) to see your home made bobbin rise up. A star lite made it so much easier and it has naturally progressed to isotopes.
When I started night fishing most of the guys on our waters were using small paraffin Hurricane lamps. We used to wrap the foil from a steak and kidney pie around half of the globe to keep the light off of the water. Bobbins then were whatever paste we were using as bait at the time. Custard powder flavoured bread paste being a favourite.
What rig best to use in winter for silkweed
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If allowed use barbless hooks over silkweed.