Hopefully mate.For those who are interested, my brother and another mate are fishing the Llangollen canal today after roach. Biggest 14 ozs today but they've previously had a good number well over the pound. Boats disrupting things as usual at this time of year so I think I'll wait til October before venturing over there.
Anyway, you catch that big one !
Its fishin well for coarse fish...........I'm on the Wye tomorrow and Saturday with my good buddy @snorky . He tells me it's fishing well. Will report back.
I'm already bringing BBQ meat, buy yer own tin of salmon; )Its fishin well for coarse fish...........
It's fuckin atrocious for us salmon anglers.
To cut a long story short, I got fishing on the Wye at 12-45. Not been in the bank anywhere for a year due to being busy working decorating and sorting my garden out. Thought I'd have a bit of a mare due to rust but when I got set up, I methodically set out my stall and baited my swim with12 feeferfulls of hemp pellets and fishmeal groundbait. Had a cup of tea and attached my hooklengh.
First cast bang! Tip arched round, baitrunner peeling line off. Picked the rod up to set the hook and a barbel tried to take me on a giddy run towards the sanctuary of a far bank sunken tree. 2 minutes of for wrenching barbel of about 7 lb was in the net.
For hours later I packed up. 25 barbel between 3 and 8lb average 6lb. 9 chub between 2 to 4 .5 lb, average just shy of 3lb. Easily 150lb of pristine condition river Wye fish.
One of my best ever sessions, and what fishing dreams are made of. Biggest bonus was I had my eye in(fishing term) which means hardly anything went wrong, apart from spilling 2/3 of a bottle of krill oil( (pellet/ bookie dip), and only other slight dampener was a hookpull on a decent barbel at the net, and a big fish chafe my hooklink on a rock losing me me a potential big fish.
Cracking day, and a good chinwag with snorky and his gf with a few beers and a nice curry will round pretty much a perfect day off.
He says he caught a few barbel,,,, but I didn't see him catch any; )Nice one, did Snorky catch anything (snigger) ? What ! a cold ! No I mean did he catch any fish, you know, the worlds greatest angler did he catch anything /
Just askin'
I'd rather snap my rods over my knee and piss on my tackle than fish a commercial.I nipped up my local commercial lake, not normally my thing as I lure fish for bass of fly fish for trout !
However tried to catch a carp off the top ! Succeeded with a 14lb mirror! Snapped my ultra lite roach rod landing it....
The mouth on the carp was so deformed it was a hollow catch !
That’s one of the reasons I stopped going to commercials about 10 years ago !!