After reading Roy’s recent article on the fishingmagic site, (and a very good read it was too) my mind starting ticking over about observation. So I thought I would share my own views on the subject.
It goes without saying that if you spent ten minutes in a tree watching an area you might not see any signs at all. But if you were to stay in the same tree for two hours you would most likely see a lot more. It’s all fine and well finding a group of fish in one part of the lake but is there any point in fishing that area if they are not feeding there? If you spend more time watching them you may see them disappear of to a certain spot to have a little grub around. They may even move out of sight, if so where do they go? Why do they go there? In this case I often follow them in the direction they disappeared and observe that area for signs of what they are up to. I also find it a good idea to observe groups of other species. I have often witnessed groups of tench and breamfeeding fairly heavily on some spots and after some time witnessed groups of carp bully them out of the area.
With these dark nights and awful weather I thought it was time to have a smile. Any clean(ish) funny stories or happenings would be welcome. Below is my first contribution.
As some of you may be aware I am a mathematicsteacher. Years ago I was fishing a water that had both a syndicate and day ticket anglers. As it happened one of the pupils I taught and I were syndicate members. Now this lad was a really good kid, but not overly academic. Just to paint the picture he came round one morning really excited that he had caught a greencarp. Wow I thought, is this a carp from Mars? Or a new species? Or had he been on something? On going round to photograph it.. you guest it it was a tench.
Now one night the lads thought they would play a joke on him and placed a blow up against the back of his bivvy. Next morning, when the day ticket anglers arrived the comments were wonderful: (more…)
I just got home from a session abroad with some friends
When the trip was getting towards the end something happened too one of the other anglers that shocked me.
On his final morning a rat got in to his bivvy and was sitting on his face. When he woke up, and tried to scar the rat away it bit him in his ear leaving him devastated.
It was the first time I ever heard about something like this happening to an angler. But I am sure there are plenty more stories that are similar to this one.
I never encountered a thing as horrible as that, but do had some occurrences with wildlife in my fishingcareer birds cleaning my tackle cows watching me playing a fish. (more…)
Hi, My favourite story and capture goes back to 2004.I had fished a small gravel pit the previous year without any real big captures. The lake was approx 6 acres and I was the only anglerfishing it at that time. The majority of the fish that I had caught where small commons up to mid 20’s. It was early march when I wanted to try some of my new bought gear.
New rods .new pod, everything had to be tested and looked at on the bank. Because it was still very cold and early in the year I decided that I would give the particular gravelpit a go. I arrived in the early morning, just at 1st light. Everything looked dead..the reeds..the lake..all in their winter sleep.
After installing my gear I set up my new tackle I baited the rigs. 1st rod was cast to the left hand side…just in front of some dead reeds, a few freebies where scattered around it..that should do the trick. When I was preparing my 2nd rod..the 1st rod already signalled some bleeps..the hanger was moving slowly up and down.. (more…)
This is one of the things I seem to be most interested in when I talk about catches that other anglers have had. I would say 70% of the anglers on the waters I fish are doing overnighters.. This means arriving at 18.00 in the evening and fishing until 09.00 in the morning.
What I hear a lot is that they are not confident in fishing the days, because the fishfeed at night, and not during daytime. Well, in my view some of this is true, they tend to catch fish during the evening, night and morning. But I would never overlook the hours of daylight. I hardly fish overnighters anymore because I catch my fish with no problem during daytime. But a lot of anglers cant get there heads around fishing daytime only. Is it a confidence thing?(more…)
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