Early and late are always the best times because of light levels. Bright sunshine kills fishing.I usually just go with maggots...so early or late are best times to fish?
Think i need to get down again and plumb it...try and get a good idea of the shape/depth of whats in front of me :-)
As a kid i just used to fish with a simple float/waggler set up.....any suggestions for ideal rig? Im lead to believe theres a lot of bream and roach / hybrids in there
Indeed mate, if you don't learn every time you go, what's the point. I think you are right about over baiting.If this was happening with maggots something was wrong with your presentation by the sound of it. A little bunch on a hair might have solved the problem. Or a smaller hook/lighter line. You may even have been overbaiting. You could have added the odd pinch of sweetcorn or pellet or other bigger bait to the feed and fish with that on the hook.
I suppose the eternal problem-solving is why we love it so much.
For coarse fishing it should be good mate.@snorky What's the.state of the river Wye at the moment ? Booked in from next Wednesday
So even with a float, try and fish off the bottom?Early and late are always the best times because of light levels. Bright sunshine kills fishing.
A simple waggler is all you need for bream but feeder fishing is easier in lots of ways and gets you some bait down on the deck if you keep recasting accurately. Keep us informaed on here as you go and we will try to help.
So even with a float, try and fish off the bottom?
i got a couple of those polaris floats, and theyre easy to use....just havent had any luck
I never mastered those. I once fished the annual club match and got drawn in the deepest swim so decided a Polaris was in order.
Unusually, I hooked a carp and played it to the net. However, because the line was taut, the float was locked at depth deeper than the rod and I couldn't get the carp over the net and eventually lost it.
I'd go with a waggler up to about 8 ft and feeder/ledger anything deeper.
Getting my mind prepared for a week fishing Yellowstone Lake. Gonna be camping in Griz country 22 miles from the nearest boat ramp. The lake’s at 7800 feet asl so have to be ready for any and all weather and the water can get sea like very quickly. Huge Cutthroat and Lake Trout to be had though, so well worth the effort
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No. Fish on the bottom if you've prebaited . Those Polaris floats work with a feeder but you can use a quiver tip just as easily.So even with a float, try and fish off the bottom?
i got a couple of those polaris floats, and theyre easy to use....just havent had any luck
good luck mate. Let us know how you get on.For coarse fishing it should be good mate.
Its about a foot above summer level dropping and carrying colour. The chub have spawned and the barbel are still spawning.
I saw a huge shoal on the gravel beds on my beat.
Hope we will get some rain before you arrive.
For salmon fishing I might as well piss in the wind!
Still, I am on the Annan sea trouting next week,
So I ain't complaining!
Will do.good luck mate. Let us know how you get on.
my Poor mum had a stroke at the weekend. She was already pretty poorly with vascular dementia but she has now lost all speech. Bloody hellish sad. She is in the best of hands and the care home staff are bloody wonderful but it sure takes it out of you mentally. Fishing is good therapy.
Yeah, its so tough. She has been in a care home now for some years and gradually deteriorated. She is bloody tough though and has survived what was a fairly large stroke. Very little quality of life left. Doctor says its a 'waiting game' as to whether she recovers anything. Funny old life. Put in the hard yards and spend the last decades suffering as she has.Too true. Fishing saved me during the years my dad was suffering from Altzheimers. Fortunately he died of a heart attack a few days before I had to put him into a home so he was spared that.
You'll be accommodating me soon mate, make sure your ghillie mate sorts me out a good peg, ta: )For coarse fishing it should be good mate.
Its about a foot above summer level dropping and carrying colour. The chub have spawned and the barbel are still spawning.
I saw a huge shoal on the gravel beds on my beat.
Hope we will get some rain before you arrive.
For salmon fishing I might as well piss in the wind!
Still, I am on the Annan sea trouting next week,
So I ain't complaining!
Sorry to hear rhat mate. My mum is in hospital at mo so you have my empathy. Hopefully I'll do some fishing this summer but i haven't been on the bank for what must be over 2 months.my Poor mum had a stroke at the weekend. She was already pretty poorly with vascular dementia but she has now lost all speech. Bloody hellish sad. She is in the best of hands and the care home staff are bloody wonderful but it sure takes it out of you mentally. Fishing is good therapy.
Hope you can get back soon mate.Sorry to hear rhat mate. My mum is in hospital at mo so you have my empathy. Hopefully I'll do some fishing this summer but i haven't been on the bank for what must be over 2 months.
Best wishes to your mum mate.Coldingham yesterday. forecast said 14mph medium breeze, try a bloody hooly with gusts over 30mph. Really spoilt the fishing as too strong to drift and t was difficult to get an anchor to hold. Even the super weight one I had taken out. As a result no control of fly and line. I was lucky to take 6 one on a dry, two on black diawl and three on a sunburst/biscuit fab. Descent size, a couple of them And pulled seriously hard. One took advantage of the wind and took me down to backing Which seldom happens. Menteith on Saturday. Forecast similar but a good bit more shelter on Menteith.
my Poor mum had a stroke at the weekend. She was already pretty poorly with vascular dementia but she has now lost all speech. Bloody hellish sad. She is in the best of hands and the care home staff are bloody wonderful but it sure takes it out of you mentally. Fishing is good therapy.
Hope she's ok palSorry to hear rhat mate. My mum is in hospital at mo so you have my empathy. Hopefully I'll do some fishing this summer but i haven't been on the bank for what must be over 2 months.
Thanks Dave.Best wishes to your mum mate.