Bluemoon Angling Thread

[Didsbury Dave]

Circumstances at work this week(worked my balls off) have allowed me to go fishing tomorrow, gonna prepare some corn and luncheon meat now and head off to a day ticket water at about 7am. I bought a 12ft korum barbel rod from daves of middlewich, but I,m gonna be using it to try and catch carp in the margins by freelining bait with it. If that fails I will get on the waggler as that was successful last time.Just hope the weather isnt too bad, was gonna fish my river swim, but it will need to settle down again after all the rain. Hopefully will have something to report tomorrow night.

Barbel feed the best when the river is swollen or in flood, so you might have missed a trick here. Hope you caught anyway. A barbel rod is perfect for small carp, by the way.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Barbel feed the best when the river is swollen or in flood, so you might have missed a trick here. Hope you caught anyway. A barbel rod is perfect for small carp, by the way.

Just picked up a greys specimen barbel rod - 2lb tc with 2,4,6 oz tips. Hoping to brush up my barbel / chub river skills and use it for feeder fishing on lakes too. Depressingly it will probably also double up as my waggler rod due to the daft amount of double figure carp stuffed into one pond I go to.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Just picked up a greys specimen barbel rod - 2lb tc with 2,4,6 oz tips. Hoping to brush up my barbel / chub river skills and use it for feeder fishing on lakes too. Depressingly it will probably also double up as my waggler rod due to the daft amount of double figure carp stuffed into one pond I go to.

It’s probably as versatile a rod as you can get, and Greys rod are good.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

It’s probably as versatile a rod as you can get, and Greys rod are good.

Looks beautiful but now I need a 6ft holdall. Looking for something not too spendy that I can get 3-4 rod tubes plus 2 poles and top kits in, so probably a 6-10 tube holdall. Any recommendations?

 

[Saddleworth2]

Fucking hell mate ! Mind you, I flounced out of the pub in a fucking rage so I don't blame you. Hope you can get mobile again soon.

Flounced? I love a good flounce ;-)

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Looks beautiful but now I need a 6ft holdall. Looking for something not too spendy that I can get 3-4 rod tubes plus 2 poles and top kits in, so probably a 6-10 tube holdall. Any recommendations?

Not really, sorry mate. I have my carp rods in a big Diawa one which holds six rods made up. My barbel rods I have in individual rod bags which keep them made up and then in a quiver.

 

[idahoblues]

Flounced? I love a good flounce ;-)

Flouncing is the new Black

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Not really, sorry mate. I have my carp rods in a big Diawa one which holds six rods made up. My barbel rods I have in individual rod bags which keep them made up and then in a quiver.

Maver do some decent 6-10 tube ones for about 60-70 quid. I might go for the ten on the basis that if it's too big that's less of an issue than too small. Got my current one from Taskers in Liverpool in about 1983 so fair to say I've had my moneys worth out of it.

 

[snorky]

Barbel feed the best when the river is swollen or in flood, so you might have missed a trick here. Hope you caught anyway. A barbel rod is perfect for small carp, by the way.

Get on the Wye mate. It's horrible!

 

[Newman Noggs]

Just picked up a greys specimen barbel rod - 2lb tc with 2,4,6 oz tips. Hoping to brush up my barbel / chub river skills and use it for feeder fishing on lakes too. Depressingly it will probably also double up as my waggler rod due to the daft amount of double figure carp stuffed into one pond I go to.

Good rod. Mine's an old Prodigy which I retired to Portugal and I use it for everything whilst I'm over there. The Barragem's (Dams) are a bit like gargantuan commercials in terms of the carp in there. Quite small, around 3lbs on average, but scream off with the bait and fight like mad.