Anyone fishing at the moment?

[Carpmaster]

  On 19/02/2021 at 12:28, salokcinnodrog said:

Been there, done that, went back to it, tried to make the relationship work, and failed. 

Liz actually used to enjoy fishing together, us and the children. Come to that I know my son was conceived in a bivvy... 

 

She just couldn't understand fishing was important for me to unwind. 

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I understand completely what your saying about the unwind there’s just something relaxing about being by that water trying to outwit an animal that is king of its domain at one with nature

[ouchthathurt]

I don’t know what i would have done without fishing, especially after the ptsd diagnosis. I’m itching to get out on the bank again, 

just seen the weather forecast for next week, it’s going to be mild with temps around 12 degrees... gonna get out Monday! 

[Carpmaster]

  On 20/02/2021 at 08:55, ouchthathurt said:

I don’t know what i would have done without fishing, especially after the ptsd diagnosis. I’m itching to get out on the bank again, 

just seen the weather forecast for next week, it’s going to be mild with temps around 12 degrees... gonna get out Monday! 

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Best of luck ouch hope the carp gods look down on you 

[ouchthathurt]

Many thanks mate, I’m just praying to the weather gods now! 

[Carpmaster]

  On 20/02/2021 at 16:40, ouchthathurt said:

Many thanks mate, I’m just praying to the weather gods now! 

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You should be ok mucka it’s going to get mild then supposed to have another beast on it’s way

[ouchthathurt]

Well looking on metcheck, I can expect sunshine and clouds with 11c temps, I’m feeling optimistic about my chances. 

[Carpmaster]

  On 20/02/2021 at 18:23, ouchthathurt said:

Well looking on metcheck, I can expect sunshine and clouds with 11c temps, I’m feeling optimistic about my chances. 

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Should manage a carp or two butty

[ouchthathurt]

I’m on the bank, rods out, gentle warm breeze drifting into this bay, had a few liners... fingers crossed! 

[ouchthathurt]

First blood! 7-9lb (ish) common, unhooked in the net. 

[ouchthathurt]

Carp no2 ripped off as I placed the bobbin, 6-7lbish. Unhooked in the net. 

[Carpmaster]

  On 22/02/2021 at 10:02, ouchthathurt said:

I’m on the bank, rods out, gentle warm breeze drifting into this bay, had a few liners... fingers crossed! 

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Looks a tidy little bay that ouch best of luck mucka 

[Carpmaster]

  On 22/02/2021 at 10:40, ouchthathurt said:

Carp no2 ripped off as I placed the bobbin, 6-7lbish. Unhooked in the net. 

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Well in mucka this time of yr good result 

[ouchthathurt]

Carp no3 7-9lb (ish) unhooked in the net. 3rd fish from 4 runs so far, bumped one fish off and found the hook point turned over. Was using trig-hammers, now switched to fox wide gapes as I’m having to hit and hold, fishing to reeds on the other side. 

[Carpmaster]

  On 22/02/2021 at 11:43, ouchthathurt said:

Carp no3 7-9lb (ish) unhooked in the net. 3rd fish from 4 runs so far, bumped one fish off and found the hook point turned over. Was using trig-hammers, now switched to fox wide gapes as I’m having to hit and hold, fishing to reeds on the other side. 

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Nice little red letter day and this time of yr well in mucka 

[ouchthathurt]

Carp no4, I’m popping the barbless hook out in the net and letting them go, rather than bank them as it’s pretty mucky and slippery in this swim. This one probably scraped double figures. I’m looking at having to pack up soon, I’ve done all my bait bar a handful, that’s about 2/3 of a Kg since 10am. It’s raining, (I haven’t got a brolly!) I’m soaked through but still! 

[elmoputney]

  On 22/02/2021 at 12:54, ouchthathurt said:

Carp no4, I’m popping the barbless hook out in the net and letting them go, rather than bank them as it’s pretty mucky and slippery in this swim. This one probably scraped double figures. I’m looking at having to pack up soon, I’ve done all my bait bar a handful, that’s about 2/3 of a Kg since 10am. It’s raining, (I haven’t got a brolly!) I’m soaked through but still! 

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Happy days mate, well done 

[Carpmaster]

  On 22/02/2021 at 12:54, ouchthathurt said:

Carp no4, I’m popping the barbless hook out in the net and letting them go, rather than bank them as it’s pretty mucky and slippery in this swim. This one probably scraped double figures. I’m looking at having to pack up soon, I’ve done all my bait bar a handful, that’s about 2/3 of a Kg since 10am. It’s raining, (I haven’t got a brolly!) I’m soaked through but still! 

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Worth getting wet tho mucka 

[ouchthathurt]

Carp no5 of 6 runs, that’s it I’m out of bait! Fished from 10-1, so well happy with that, no monsters but it’s broken the 2021 duck. 
 

this one beat me right up, had to chase it down the bank with a landing net and unhooking mat over my shoulder! 

[ouchthathurt]

Shame that the fly tippers are out... just chucked over the fence by the lake entrance, left something with their address though... oops! That’s with the bailiff now... for me it home time! 

[Carpmaster]

  On 22/02/2021 at 13:25, ouchthathurt said:

Carp no5 of 6 runs, that’s it I’m out of bait! Fished from 10-1, so well happy with that, no monsters but it’s broken the 2021 duck. 
 

this one beat me right up, had to chase it down the bank with a landing net and unhooking mat over my shoulder! 

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Mint condition mucka 

[framey]

Well done 

[ouchthathurt]

Many thanks all, 

just to recap the quick session, I got to the lake about 0920, had a quick mooch about, just had a really good feeling about the swim I chose, the wind was trickling into it and it was quite mild, there was some bubbling in the silt about 6-8ft off the reeds and you could see the reed stems knocking fairly regularly. The swim I chose gave me the best angle onto a snag tree buffered by large reed-beds. I used helicopter rigs made up of Nash heli kits to tungsten tubing. 3 oz leads with trig-hammers size 6 to 8” 20lb Esp striptease two tone in brown, fished as a blowback rig. First fish came fairly quickly, and fought quite hard for a little one, it partially straightened the hook, second take was missed, the hook point had turned over on the strike, so tied up new hooklinks swapping the trig-hammers for wide gape barbless in size 4. All hook holds were solid in the bottom lip, all about 1/2” back. After every bite, I put a handful of bait out over each rod, plus pinged out half a dozen every 8-10mins one by one - this produced a bite within seconds of them hitting the surface. Ran out of bait after doing 2/3rd of a kilo, I didn’t bring the whole kg as I thought I would end up with some left over which I don’t like re-freezing once defrosted. I was fishing up against the snag tree with the L rod and up against the reeds with the R rod. 4 bites came to the R rod. Fished in 3-4ft of water on silt. Packed up just after 1pm and headed home. 

[Carpmaster]

  On 22/02/2021 at 15:42, ouchthathurt said:

Many thanks all, 

just to recap the quick session, I got to the lake about 0920, had a quick mooch about, just had a really good feeling about the swim I chose, the wind was trickling into it and it was quite mild, there was some bubbling in the silt about 6-8ft off the reeds and you could see the reed stems knocking fairly regularly. The swim I chose gave me the best angle onto a snag tree buffered by large reed-beds. I used helicopter rigs made up of Nash heli kits to tungsten tubing. 3 oz leads with trig-hammers size 6 to 8” 20lb Esp striptease two tone in brown, fished as a blowback rig. First fish came fairly quickly, and fought quite hard for a little one, it partially straightened the hook, second take was missed, the hook point had turned over on the strike, so tied up new hooklinks swapping the trig-hammers for wide gape barbless in size 4. All hook holds were solid in the bottom lip, all about 1/2” back. After every bite, I put a handful of bait out over each rod, plus pinged out half a dozen every 8-10mins one by one - this produced a bite within seconds of them hitting the surface. Ran out of bait after doing 2/3rd of a kilo, I didn’t bring the whole kg as I thought I would end up with some left over which I don’t like re-freezing once defrosted. I was fishing up against the snag tree with the L rod and up against the reeds with the R rod. 4 bites came to the R rod. Fished in 3-4ft of water on silt. Packed up just after 1pm and headed home. 

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Good session ouch

[Carpmaster]

Just out doing a bit of filming up the little pond by me

[ouchthathurt]

Any joy?