Fishing Season 2021
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Athos
Well-Known Member
That's a good day's fishing!
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Thats the thing, my fast flowing deep river skills are rubbish. i have barbel rods that i use for tench and carp fishing. no quiver required, just watch the tip? alarms? 10lb straight through? waht oz bomb? hair rig? or just worm/meat straight on? when ever i have tried fishing the thames i always get it wrong. total river amateur really
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
wonderful, had heard of it before. and it's really nto far from me in sunny south london
Athos
Well-Known Member
I use heavy tips (rods high in the air). Braid main line with a 10lb mono hook link. Smallest bomb you can get critically balanced - probably around 4oz flats. Two drilled 14mm pellets hair rigged (tied to a pva bag of smaller pellets).
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
The Terry hearn stuff on YouTube is great too. He's a great story teller.
If only Mr.Bishie. We had a good day. I had a dozen fish, three bream all around one and a half pound, the rest a mixture of common and mirror carp to just over ten pound. In the morning we were only getting bites on sweet corn, in the afternoon we only caught on 8mm pellets on a banded hook.
My first day for nearly a year and so enjoyable.
Hopefully get a few more in before the weather declines.
Cheers.
My first day for nearly a year and so enjoyable.
Hopefully get a few more in before the weather declines.
Cheers.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Does anyone know a good way to prepare carp? We used to catch them, but hated eating them because of the tiny bones. We ended up canning them in a pickle brine to dissolve the bones. As a kid I always knew dinner was going to be bad when I smelled that pickle brine in the kitchen.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Love the single mindedness of some of these blokes. Hearn you can just tell lives and breathes fishing. There is very few ways better than spending most of your leisure time on the bank. My perfect life would always have a day or two a week fishing. Its almost a spiritual religious thing for me.
I heard that carp tastes like old newspapers covered in mentholated chest rub.
I have no idea how it would be cooked, here in the UK it is strictly a catch and release fish.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I think you've correctly described the taste, but you have to add the feeling of chewing on tacks.
not-bono-ever
meh
the Eastern Europe, they keep the carp alive for a week or so in a bath of clean water, constantly refreshed. this cleans out the mud taste mostly. its a grim eat and you will find it repeating on you for days.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
If we ate it fresh, we'd dress it out and soak it in salt brine for a day before cooking it. That helped some.
Mumbles274
running from law and the press and the parents
Had a couple of hours on light lures for one small perch today. I'm hoping to get out again over the weekend with deadbaits as well as lures.Fuckin weather’s scuppered my weekend plans to travel up to the Midlands & fish the SevernTorrential rain in Powys means an inevitable rising river. It’s been low & clear for months, & now the complete opposite. Anyone braving the elements this weekend?
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Fuck me, at least you’ve not cancelled a weekend trip to fish a filthy rising River Severn & visit parents, you’ve got the fuckin’ Med on your doorstep!
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
Not any more. We moved to Galicia. Instead we have the Cantabrian Sea. It's much wetter, and colder. Very beautiful though. I'm told that salmon and sea trout come into the estuary in season. That'll be fun because I have a licence for them, as long as I'm not fishing in the river.Fuck me, at least you’ve not cancelled a weekend trip to fish a filthy rising River Severn & visit parents, you’ve got the fuckin’ Med on your doorstep!
