salokcinnodrog Posted July 15, 2019 Report Share Posted July 15, 2019 Alton Water today, and my biggest fish from a catch of 40 odd roach. Dave in the next swim had a total of 3. All fish came to an open ended groundbait feeder, with red maggots on the hook. I played around and went to a 16 with double red maggot, where Dave stuck with a 14. I stil had a number of sucked maggots, lost fish and missed bites, even on the smaller hook. finchey and Donnygooner 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscsha Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 8 minutes ago, Dannygooner said: I bet once you get through the fry there is some specimens in there. Caught using a quiver tip? That's if the several hundred Cormorants haven't snapped them up . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted July 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2019 20 hours ago, Dannygooner said: I bet once you get through the fry there is some specimens in there. Caught using a quiver tip? Had a couple of 2lb roach a couple of years ago, but summer the average size goes down. Such a large water the fish can be difficult to find. Donnygooner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted July 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2019 Lemons Hill on Alton today, Big Dave managed to find a couple of large skimmer bream, I ended up with 7 small roach Donnygooner and finchey 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted July 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 Boot was on the other foot today at Lemon's Hill on Alton. Dave had 2 roach, I ended up with 12 roach, 1 skimmer and 1 ruffe which took double red maggot and a dendrobena finchey and Donnygooner 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted July 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2019 15 minutes ago, Dannygooner said: On a quiver tip? Yes Mate. Donnygooner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted July 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2019 Big Dave and I were at Alton Water today, he had the lions share of the skimmer bream while I was catching mostly roach. 30 fish between us 50/50 skimmers and roach. Best skimmer 2lb and some larger roach of about half pound. Most bream coming less than 10 feet out. Lots of good bites from the start but couldnt hook them. Changed tactics and left the bites to go until almost pull round and we were hooking skimmers, although the roach were still giving tip taps. 2 red maggots best bait fished over a vitalin mix groundbait. finchey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted July 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 26 minutes ago, Dannygooner said: What oz tip do you use for still water silver bashing mate? The lightest possible that I can still cast the distance. Normally 1/2-3/4 of an ounce, maybe an ounce if the undertow and waves are quite strong. Donnygooner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted July 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 On 25 July 2019 at 14:45, Dannygooner said: So is the plan to start doing some carping in Alton water? Does anyone carp fish it? Trying to find them in 375 acres... Put it this way, as much as I love everyone, it is one water I wouldn't name or say which area I'm fishing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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