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Believe me. June 16th we are gonna be hauling marina carp. Im feeding every day
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Theyve closed the fishing for closed season here. Why u think im looking for alternatives
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Actually just had a thought. Manor farm in biggleswade
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Ok cheers. Gonna go somewhere so will report back sunday
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Prob still a bit cold for cats but is there still carp in pitsford?
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Is rackley hills still fishable? That was the original cat water from the 80s 90s
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Really. So its not that prolific then. Which one in leighton buzzard?
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Thanks CM. I was thinking halibut pellets perhaps have a chance at carp or cats. Never caught a cat. 25 quid a night though so hope to get a run. Im a river carper so not had much action over the years lol so this trip is a confidence booster my me and my mate
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I see on their map its 20 ft deep in the main hole and 10 foot around the rest with a few gravek bars. Where would you target at this time of year bearing in mind the current weather and temp etc
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Planning on doing a night there this weekend.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I love these bookz, you really fall in love with the charachters, I need another edition, also check out bivvy tramps
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very, good on yer Jan.
ivenot fished it but saw it online, looks good and good value, is it a hard water?
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you are correct about Pitsford buddy, Jan has bought it for a quarter of a million quid and saved the day, love you Jan, ill be back.
Good news!
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oh crikey yeah, the Nene at that end is full of carp, drop back to Cotterstock or Ashton and you might get something very special, the specy grapevine tells me of many forties from that stretch, take it with a pinch of salt but I have seen the pictures, good hunting you lucky sod, have you ever been to the marina at blackwater lake Ringstead, it looks the business for a biggie.
was down there last week, manager said there was some lumps in therr, he reckons theres some big koi too. Marinas are where the bigguns are as you know
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fishing for info from someone who maybe sleeping on my carp, had quite a few visitors since then, looking at them not sure they knew what they were doing though.
I will give the marina a go in june, we are on boat at oundle, plenty places round here too.
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it does seem to have died down lately, too late for Brackmills or Swan Valley, what can you do, these scumbags have been netting to order in the dark, vigilante groups like at MK, probably the only way of dealing with it.
Yeah bloddy otters
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I think there have been carp in the Nene since roman times, but these were the small wildies I used to catch on cracker barrel when I was a kid, most of the big stuff has escaped through flooding, and if you think over the years how much we have polluted the river systems, its a wonder they have recovered so quickly, I wonder what they held a thousand years ago when they had been clean for eons.
basically if you throw chemicals in the river you get fined, if youre a catfish or a sturgeon you get banged on the head!
I would be cross though if the EA use my licence fee to cull these fish, the EA is underfunded (on the frontline) the fat cats cream the money and theres nothing left for where its needed, they know who is pinching fish but have no power to stop it but if you catch a cat they want to kill it.
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yep agreed, the natural balance eventually restores itself, ironically the original Zander were imported from Poland.
tell you what though, them cats do grow big lol, not letting my dog swim in there.
ive got river monsters book and man has actually prevented 'invasive species' entering our rivers through locks and dams etc not to mention stopping eels and salmon etc from breeding, so one could argue that man is the invasive species, in some of the world bull sharks have been found 250 miles inland up rivers changing from salt to freshwater, one could argue that man is preventing these sort of acts of nature happening. Afterall I dont think carp are native to the nene or any other river but are escapees from flooding, from pits stocked by man and flooded due to building on flood plains.
can we really fight a war against our own actions or just let nature get on with it? Sorry for droning on
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The canal basin is full of Zander, they tried to eradicate them from the fens years ago, waste of time, maybe they should set the poles on them, they eat anything that swims.
yeah I dont get that, ive had zander in germany and its really nice as fish goes but the poles dont actively fish for them, same with canada geese, they are partial to swan but not geese, going back to the fens, evidence would suggest that zander have done no harm and are now part of the eco system
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I don't know of any cats legally stocked in any river in the UK, Barbel were stocked in the 60s, from the Dorset Stour, and the Nene had a stocking 30 years ago, mostly disappeared from the Nene, Ringstead being the only place I know with big ones, grass carp are not allowed either.
also northampton angling club have a letter from the CaRT saying zander must be killed, we know crayfish are to be killed but no one is complaining about the monster fish in the ouse that are feeding on them, basically I think nature finds a balance, theres no need to be culling stuff
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who knows the truth? We are masters of chinese rumours and heresay
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it wasn't the EA that reintroduced otters as far as I know, we have a few, but the Ouse Barbel stretches have been decimated up at Adams mill and Ravenstone, mad people, do gooders who haven't a clue mate.
but cats were stocked in the ouse for one example in the the 60s at huntingdon and are caught regular in the trent, supposed to be some bigguns round the upper tidal areas in lincs
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If I had a fishery and an otter came in can I thensue the EA?
Pitsford. Northants. Any tips?
in UK Venues and Where to Fish
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