those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer

[silverbirch]

lookin out the window right now makes me feel like taking up snooker or something...surely it can't rain for the next three days solid. Not put the bivvy up dry in the last three weeks.

Any way thats life...anyone on Redes over the next days fishing for anything but carp?

Trying a different approach this week...possibley ...maggot feeder and further scaled down tackle on one rod....just fish for bites and see what comes along, maples in molasses on the other rod. But as ever flexibility is the essential ingredient.. always a bad idea to commit to a method in advance.....Funny how your drawn to cast a way out on big waters, when i consider an under arm flick into the margins....I just doesn't feel confident about it.

But how many fish are we casting past though?

...and I don't know if the carp guys know just how many carp are working the surface in the early hours at the moment, whilst they are sat behind (or sleeping behind) their rod pods. Just focus your bins on the large number of swans that congregate off the meadow pegs at first light. There were at least six different carp cruising amongst them last Tuesday morning......they seem drawn to the scum of preened feathers that cover the waters surface.

Will report back over next couple of days. Might even set up a surface rig.

[ChrisKnapper]

Good luck mate... nice to see someone trying different approaches other than the normal 4oz leads... big beds of bait etc....

Chris

[silverbirch]

4oz!!!??.....jesus.. don't they use them for mooring boats

[Julian Grattidge]

Originally Posted by silverbirch

4oz!!!??.....jesus.. don't they use them for mooring boats

PMSL

Stick around kidda... you ain't seen nothing yet!

Out of interest, will you be having a whack at the pike later in the year?

[silverbirch]

Not so keen on the predators....Jules....big stripeys I fancy a go at later in the year.
Had a few upper doubles out of Rudyard the other year ..but find the multiple treble thing a bit unsubtle.

[whogotmelighter]

it sounds as tho your havin fun on there, read your other posts and seen your results we netted some monster bream on the work partys on reads this year, have said i'm gonna have a dabble for them at some point!
keep it up mate, nice to read about decent catches of other specimins!

[Nige]

Aye, bring on the Autumn!!!

Big Fish time methinks.....though I'll probably blank, as ever LOL.

Will deffo be having a go for some Pike this year, and maybe the odd stripey - see how it goes I guess, but surely you don't all stick at the carping right the way through???

...Get them logs on that fire...winter's coming..............

[whogotmelighter]

i didn't last winter as the missis was well on with the bump, so i dug out the old float and tip rod on top pool, and did a bit of lure fishing for pike and perch, will probibly do the same this winter, might even give some rivers a go for chub.

[Stig]

Gonna give Top pool a go for the pike along with main lake and astbury just the odd day here and there cant be doing with getting cold for long periods of time

[Annwn]

Originally Posted by Stig

Gonna give Top pool a go for the pike along with main lake and astbury just the odd day here and there cant be doing with getting cold for long periods of time

Not like the old days, waking up to find your pike baits under 4" of Ice (Springwood). We must have been mad. With just a bottle of homemade Elderberry wine and a can of Royal game soup to keep 3 of us warm all night ..

Barking mad

[Stig]

Originally Posted by Annwn

Not like the old days, waking up to find your pike baits under 4" of Ice (Springwood). We must have been mad. With just a bottle of homemade Elderberry wine and a can of Royal game soup to keep 3 of us warm all night ..

Barking mad

Remember smashing the ice with a length of rope and a scissor jack out of the car i dont think its a case of we must have been mad we were mad...lol

your all nesh..................wots wrong with a little chilly air and a bit of frozen water? its good for the soul....................

ahhhhh winter carping..............now theres a real challenge

[silverbirch]

Phil ...sounds like your a bit hard core..mate....S n M's got it's place ........in the bedroom!!!!!!! I prefer to think what happens on the bank has a cerebral quality....the human condition........ but who knows what percent!
TP demands a special aproach which is not the average.
In the cheap seats where murder breeds some one is out of breath...cars collide , colours clash, disaster movie stuff....the rats have all got rickets they spit through broken teeth....the dirt blows out ...the dust blows in ...you can't keep it neat...eyes dull as vicious fish look around for laughs....it's a fully furnished dustbin....16 beasley street...it's O.K.I'm not mad mate. Just applied for an audition with STV and Real Time TV as a presenter...wish me luck.

[TheDoctor46]

Originally Posted by silverbirch

Phil ...sounds like your a bit hard core..mate....S n M's got it's place ........in the bedroom!!!!!!! I prefer to think what happens on the bank has a cerebral quality....the human condition........ but who knows what percent!
TP demands a special aproach which is not the average.
In the cheap seats where murder breeds some one is out of breath...cars collide , colours clash, disaster movie stuff....the rats have all got rickets they spit through broken teeth....the dirt blows out ...the dust blows in ...you can't keep it neat...eyes dull as vicious fish look around for laughs....it's a fully furnished dustbin....16 beasley street...it's O.K.I'm not mad mate. Just applied for an audition with STV and Real Time TV as a presenter...wish me luck.

Quality sounds like something off Dirty Harry LOL