In reply to Post #310
by this time mike had bought a bigger boat and after a discusion we made up our mind to fish some of the bigger wates trolling hoping to pick some of the bigger pike that inahabited the said waters. one water in south shrophire so we had been told had thrown up some good pike to thirty pounds so asking permision we were away arriving one cold frosty morning boat launched we were on the said lake. we managed to get hold of some of these new jelly lures that had just come onto the market. they were brillant and we caught from the start we would go arround that lake using the out board fishing mostly near the bottom but also catching at all depths the rod tip would fly arround and we nearly lost our rods on a couple of ocasions by leaving them to look after them selves while having a cupa we soon learned to hold them all the time and wind in when eating and drinking. we caught some great specimens and were averaging ten fish per session the only trouble with the jellys was after caching two or three on them they usualy fell apart and on some ocasionns you would get a take and they would have there tail bitten off it was proving to costly to use all the while. the first season we fished this method the biggest we caught was arround fifteen pounds but still very exeptable. the season soon came to an end as most lakes in my area are ssi and have an enforced close season , a freind had a small lake he said mike and i could fish for the carp but did not fancy our chances in the cold weather the fish were not that big probably the biggest going twenty but it was decided to give it a go fishing in the day. more of that to follow
by this time mike had bought a bigger boat and after a discusion we made up our mind to fish some of the bigger wates trolling hoping to pick some of the bigger pike that inahabited the said waters. one water in south shrophire so we had been told had thrown up some good pike to thirty pounds so asking permision we were away arriving one cold frosty morning boat launched we were on the said lake. we managed to get hold of some of these new jelly lures that had just come onto the market. they were brillant and we caught from the start we would go arround that lake using the out board fishing mostly near the bottom but also catching at all depths the rod tip would fly arround and we nearly lost our rods on a couple of ocasions by leaving them to look after them selves while having a cupa we soon learned to hold them all the time and wind in when eating and drinking. we caught some great specimens and were averaging ten fish per session the only trouble with the jellys was after caching two or three on them they usualy fell apart and on some ocasionns you would get a take and they would have there tail bitten off it was proving to costly to use all the while. the first season we fished this method the biggest we caught was arround fifteen pounds but still very exeptable. the season soon came to an end as most lakes in my area are ssi and have an enforced close season , a freind had a small lake he said mike and i could fish for the carp but did not fancy our chances in the cold weather the fish were not that big probably the biggest going twenty but it was decided to give it a go fishing in the day. more of that to follow
In reply to Post #311
well i told you we had permisoin to fish this pool for the carp i was not that confident the weather had turned very cold and the pool had seen quite a lot of pressure in the summer but we decided to have a go electing to fish with feeder rods coupled with eight pound line the day arrived on setting up the baliff arrived and said he would see us later fishing with maggot and bread flake the first hour saw nothing not even a twitch on the rod top i was saying to mike it was no more than i expected in this sort of weather when out of the blue my rod nearly got dragged from the rests playing the fish wich was soon in the net it turned the scales at just over ten pounds it was mikes turn next landing a simaler fish it went asolutly crazy mike then myself at the end of the day we had caught forty five fish realy good considering the tempreture at the time the baliff could not realy believe it on his return as they had a match on there two days before and most blanked we returned the following week doing very much the very same thing in two outings we had caught eighty five carp giving us some good sport on light tackle. . i think why we caught was that many of the other anglers who fished the place used mostly bollies or pellets but with us using just flake and maggot we had rung the change and it was somthing different. and do you know we have not fished that pool since. we have been asked you never know perhaps one day. more to come later
well i told you we had permisoin to fish this pool for the carp i was not that confident the weather had turned very cold and the pool had seen quite a lot of pressure in the summer but we decided to have a go electing to fish with feeder rods coupled with eight pound line the day arrived on setting up the baliff arrived and said he would see us later fishing with maggot and bread flake the first hour saw nothing not even a twitch on the rod top i was saying to mike it was no more than i expected in this sort of weather when out of the blue my rod nearly got dragged from the rests playing the fish wich was soon in the net it turned the scales at just over ten pounds it was mikes turn next landing a simaler fish it went asolutly crazy mike then myself at the end of the day we had caught forty five fish realy good considering the tempreture at the time the baliff could not realy believe it on his return as they had a match on there two days before and most blanked we returned the following week doing very much the very same thing in two outings we had caught eighty five carp giving us some good sport on light tackle. . i think why we caught was that many of the other anglers who fished the place used mostly bollies or pellets but with us using just flake and maggot we had rung the change and it was somthing different. and do you know we have not fished that pool since. we have been asked you never know perhaps one day. more to come later
In reply to Post #312
Is that the longest post's in succession ever?
Got to be some sort of record!
Good reading Pete.
Is that the longest post's in succession ever?
Got to be some sort of record!
Good reading Pete.
In reply to Post #313
Brilliant reading Pete - am looking forward to more!
Brilliant reading Pete - am looking forward to more!
In reply to Post #314
Its all good Pete
Its all good Pete
In reply to Post #312
we carried on pike fishing down the river and on the south shropshire mere as i said before the jelly lures were not to good after catching a few on them they would fall to pieces, we caught some good fish on the big plugs but never caught over the seventeen pounds mark they were lovely fish with deep bellys .we moved back on the town waters fishing dead bait the season was nearly at an end and being in shropshire there was not many waters that open and abide by the old close season and most still waters are ssi as i have said before . this story should have come a bit earlyer on im getting a bit lost. never the less we ended the season on a hight catching in all about fifty pike since we started so i waswell pleased. the new season came and saw mike and myself set up on our syndicate water in souh shropshire looking arround we saw quite a few fish showing i decided to fish to some lillies the other side adjacent to the dam wall' also putting the extra rod out for the eels mike was just above myself fishing to the end of the island. we started to catch the eels not long after dark mike hooked into a large fish on lob worm it put a good bend in the rod and would not give ground no/ matter what pressure he put it under i could see this was a huge eel and did not fancy his chances of getting it to the net, i was right minutes latwer he parted company mike was gutted to say the least. talking later on i said i would not be suprised if some of the eels the lake contained were over the british record it was stuffed with them. the next one out was just over five pounds i think that night we had about eight between us and not one under three pounds. i tried to sleep for an hour or two and had just dozed when i was awoken with a screamer on the middle rod i had been using a small pinapple pop up on the busness end after landing it i was a little bit disapointed as it only weighted in at twelve pounds. but still on this hard water it was a result. well we ended the session with some real good ells and four carp between us the biggest sixteen pounds. i was quite happy although would have liked to have caught one of the older rezidents that inhabited the lake but still i suppose theres always again well thats all for now more to come later
we carried on pike fishing down the river and on the south shropshire mere as i said before the jelly lures were not to good after catching a few on them they would fall to pieces, we caught some good fish on the big plugs but never caught over the seventeen pounds mark they were lovely fish with deep bellys .we moved back on the town waters fishing dead bait the season was nearly at an end and being in shropshire there was not many waters that open and abide by the old close season and most still waters are ssi as i have said before . this story should have come a bit earlyer on im getting a bit lost. never the less we ended the season on a hight catching in all about fifty pike since we started so i waswell pleased. the new season came and saw mike and myself set up on our syndicate water in souh shropshire looking arround we saw quite a few fish showing i decided to fish to some lillies the other side adjacent to the dam wall' also putting the extra rod out for the eels mike was just above myself fishing to the end of the island. we started to catch the eels not long after dark mike hooked into a large fish on lob worm it put a good bend in the rod and would not give ground no/ matter what pressure he put it under i could see this was a huge eel and did not fancy his chances of getting it to the net, i was right minutes latwer he parted company mike was gutted to say the least. talking later on i said i would not be suprised if some of the eels the lake contained were over the british record it was stuffed with them. the next one out was just over five pounds i think that night we had about eight between us and not one under three pounds. i tried to sleep for an hour or two and had just dozed when i was awoken with a screamer on the middle rod i had been using a small pinapple pop up on the busness end after landing it i was a little bit disapointed as it only weighted in at twelve pounds. but still on this hard water it was a result. well we ended the session with some real good ells and four carp between us the biggest sixteen pounds. i was quite happy although would have liked to have caught one of the older rezidents that inhabited the lake but still i suppose theres always again well thats all for now more to come later
In reply to Post #316
the next week saw us off to fish for the barbel on one of our short sessions mike took his daughter along she wanted to see what went on it was a warm sulatry night and i decided to fish with some small pellets i had got hold of. we caught a couple arround eight pounds when we were disturbed by some one shouting it turned ouy the cattle had got into the car park making a mess of some cars parked in there some chump had leftthe gate open. i left my rods still out and in charge of mikes daughter wich really was a mistake and should have took them out. we got to the car park what a bloody mess mikes mirrors all broken off my car was badly scratched due to them rubbing agsainst it and two other cars quite severly damaged we were not to happy to say the least. on arriving back we could not see mikes daughter any where by the bank on shining our torches there she was up to her knees in water practicly in the midle of the river with my rod in her hand saying she had a huge fish on and it had jumped out of the water and was going up stream mike rushedn to herm side giving me the rod on tightning up i could feel it was a good fish and saying to mike this is a carp or a big samon. it was unstopable on the tackle i was using ang snagged me further up stream i had no waders with me so mike waded in with the net. hopping to get some wear near it but it was just to deep, saying to mike not to take any risks i pulled for a break the fish did move ony slightly then the line parted company. on asking her what exactly happend she said the rod was nearl dragged from the rests and she made a grab for it and saw this big fish break surfice in the moon light well we did manage a couple more but not big fish realy it was a bit of a disaster and packed in at twelve thirty. the cars were in quite a mess and i was not in the best of moods on getting home next day saw me trying to remove the scratches with t cut, well more storys to follow later
the next week saw us off to fish for the barbel on one of our short sessions mike took his daughter along she wanted to see what went on it was a warm sulatry night and i decided to fish with some small pellets i had got hold of. we caught a couple arround eight pounds when we were disturbed by some one shouting it turned ouy the cattle had got into the car park making a mess of some cars parked in there some chump had leftthe gate open. i left my rods still out and in charge of mikes daughter wich really was a mistake and should have took them out. we got to the car park what a bloody mess mikes mirrors all broken off my car was badly scratched due to them rubbing agsainst it and two other cars quite severly damaged we were not to happy to say the least. on arriving back we could not see mikes daughter any where by the bank on shining our torches there she was up to her knees in water practicly in the midle of the river with my rod in her hand saying she had a huge fish on and it had jumped out of the water and was going up stream mike rushedn to herm side giving me the rod on tightning up i could feel it was a good fish and saying to mike this is a carp or a big samon. it was unstopable on the tackle i was using ang snagged me further up stream i had no waders with me so mike waded in with the net. hopping to get some wear near it but it was just to deep, saying to mike not to take any risks i pulled for a break the fish did move ony slightly then the line parted company. on asking her what exactly happend she said the rod was nearl dragged from the rests and she made a grab for it and saw this big fish break surfice in the moon light well we did manage a couple more but not big fish realy it was a bit of a disaster and packed in at twelve thirty. the cars were in quite a mess and i was not in the best of moods on getting home next day saw me trying to remove the scratches with t cut, well more storys to follow later
In reply to Post #317
the next week saw us once again at ellesmere i fished once again from the grassey bank putting one rod into the very coner of the lake under an old willow bush i was using monster crab pop ups fifteen ml the other two rods sraight out in front mike was doing a bit of floater fishing hoping to stalk a few arround the lake. i did not have to wait long the rod in the corner absolutly shot off i eventualy landed this lovely big tench on weighing it was eight and three quter pounds the warden came arround later and on telling him he said there was no tench in the lake as they had all been taken out i showed him the photo on my didge camera and he was most impressed they now have an a four framed copy on the office wall. well placing the pop to the same place under the willow it was away again this time a fifteen pound commen. mike had also caught off the top three fish the biggest a seventeen pound ghosty the smallest was a forteen pound mirror. we were on a bit of an hight the rod under the bush was off once again resulting in a nice mirror of eighteen pounds. god this was turning into some session six fish and it was not even dinner time yet well one off the other rods flew off i new straight away this was a bigger fish and on landing it was a lovely big commen turning the scales to twenty plus. mike was still also catching and kept bringing fish back to be weighted and have photos taken i was just having a cupa and the rod under the bush was away again the tea went all over me in a rush to get to the rod after a short scrap another mirror was retururned after some photos this was becoming crazy you just could not go wrong at the end of the day the total count was fifteen carp and one tench between us what a day and we had not touched the bigges that inhabited the place and believe me it did not stop there we had some great catches from that pool more of that later
the next week saw us once again at ellesmere i fished once again from the grassey bank putting one rod into the very coner of the lake under an old willow bush i was using monster crab pop ups fifteen ml the other two rods sraight out in front mike was doing a bit of floater fishing hoping to stalk a few arround the lake. i did not have to wait long the rod in the corner absolutly shot off i eventualy landed this lovely big tench on weighing it was eight and three quter pounds the warden came arround later and on telling him he said there was no tench in the lake as they had all been taken out i showed him the photo on my didge camera and he was most impressed they now have an a four framed copy on the office wall. well placing the pop to the same place under the willow it was away again this time a fifteen pound commen. mike had also caught off the top three fish the biggest a seventeen pound ghosty the smallest was a forteen pound mirror. we were on a bit of an hight the rod under the bush was off once again resulting in a nice mirror of eighteen pounds. god this was turning into some session six fish and it was not even dinner time yet well one off the other rods flew off i new straight away this was a bigger fish and on landing it was a lovely big commen turning the scales to twenty plus. mike was still also catching and kept bringing fish back to be weighted and have photos taken i was just having a cupa and the rod under the bush was away again the tea went all over me in a rush to get to the rod after a short scrap another mirror was retururned after some photos this was becoming crazy you just could not go wrong at the end of the day the total count was fifteen carp and one tench between us what a day and we had not touched the bigges that inhabited the place and believe me it did not stop there we had some great catches from that pool more of that later
In reply to Post #317
Dont mean to disrepect you Pete,,was interesting reading in the early stages about D Walker etc,the stories many of us could relate to!!
In my opinon these stories have run there course in forum form,,better put down in book form,,,hope this makes sense,,bye for now,
Dont mean to disrepect you Pete,,was interesting reading in the early stages about D Walker etc,the stories many of us could relate to!!
In my opinon these stories have run there course in forum form,,better put down in book form,,,hope this makes sense,,bye for now,
In reply to Post #319
They would make a brilliant book - but until that happens Pete, I'm enjoying reading of your exploits via this forum, so keep 'em coming mate!
They would make a brilliant book - but until that happens Pete, I'm enjoying reading of your exploits via this forum, so keep 'em coming mate!
In reply to Post #319
thanks for your pm and your kind remarks point taken but i have been asked to carry on ive had so many pms it unreal asking me to carry on the series all the best pete
thanks for your pm and your kind remarks point taken but i have been asked to carry on ive had so many pms it unreal asking me to carry on the series all the best pete
In reply to Post #319
when i was first asked to write about dick and some of the greats i had fished with i really did not know were to start, i had never been a writer, and still dont profese to be but i have really enjoyed putting these articels together, there was only so much i could say about dick jack and some of the other greats, i never ever professed to have fished with the great man as when i knew him he was mainly into trout fishing, although he was a big freind for many years and was a big insperation to my fishing wich has remained with me throuthout these years. yes i did fish with jack hilton bill quinlon , pete collins , pete taylor, and many more in the early years to many to rember, at the time dick asked me to write for angling times about our big bream exploits, but did not have the time or the know how i was to busy working to support a young family, all i have written is a true account of myself and a few good freinds struggeling to catch through the years, i have never caught a forty but have caught many many carp of alall sizes up into the thirtys, and many specemins of other speices. and probably if it was not for dick i would not be fishing today because he was a mager influnce in my life, when i finished the article on dick i i was asked to carry on my stories wich i have done to the best of nymy ability,, and they are kindly being eddited by bill and gregrot from wrexham who is a lot more educated than myself as you know bill is fishing redmere this next week and has other comitments the week after, so is now having a helping hand in the form of greg. hoppfuly they will appear in the forum story section in due course, i have recieved many pms asking me to carry on with my stories wich hopefully intend to do some members have mentiond a book. but that is for the future we will have to see, up to now there is twenty eight thousand words actualy in print and will take some time to edit when it appears in its alterd state i would like to dedicate it to my freinnd dick walker and the many greats i knew, i hope this makes sence to some. more to follow
when i was first asked to write about dick and some of the greats i had fished with i really did not know were to start, i had never been a writer, and still dont profese to be but i have really enjoyed putting these articels together, there was only so much i could say about dick jack and some of the other greats, i never ever professed to have fished with the great man as when i knew him he was mainly into trout fishing, although he was a big freind for many years and was a big insperation to my fishing wich has remained with me throuthout these years. yes i did fish with jack hilton bill quinlon , pete collins , pete taylor, and many more in the early years to many to rember, at the time dick asked me to write for angling times about our big bream exploits, but did not have the time or the know how i was to busy working to support a young family, all i have written is a true account of myself and a few good freinds struggeling to catch through the years, i have never caught a forty but have caught many many carp of alall sizes up into the thirtys, and many specemins of other speices. and probably if it was not for dick i would not be fishing today because he was a mager influnce in my life, when i finished the article on dick i i was asked to carry on my stories wich i have done to the best of nymy ability,, and they are kindly being eddited by bill and gregrot from wrexham who is a lot more educated than myself as you know bill is fishing redmere this next week and has other comitments the week after, so is now having a helping hand in the form of greg. hoppfuly they will appear in the forum story section in due course, i have recieved many pms asking me to carry on with my stories wich hopefully intend to do some members have mentiond a book. but that is for the future we will have to see, up to now there is twenty eight thousand words actualy in print and will take some time to edit when it appears in its alterd state i would like to dedicate it to my freinnd dick walker and the many greats i knew, i hope this makes sence to some. more to follow
In reply to Post #324
the next week saw myself and mike back on betton the weather was still hot but on arriving i had seen some nice fish showing , in the swim we were about to fish, i had managed to put some bait out a few times in the week mainly bolies fish meal based. after setting up and a meal and being rather tired it was into the bag , we had planned a two nighter and i was quite confident, well the night passed without even a blip on the alarms. and i was begining to wander if we were about to blank. the day passed by i went out in the boat with mike and saw some real good carp at the top end of the lake in the lillies. a couple were asolutly huge, mike recond maybe top thirtys or even a forty on arriving back on the bank, mike was away again to try and catch a few pike by spinning from the boat, he managed two or three but nothing big but at least they were fish bloody hell was it hot to hot to lie in your bivie my confidence was slowly dwindeling, night came but nothing i was up first light but saw no sighn of any carp showing the ony thing was loads of roach dimpling the surfice, well back in the bag, i was awoken at eight am to a screamer on the middle rod, mike came running to do the honers and we eventualy netted this big dark mirror wieghing in at twenty eight and three quater pounds photos took it was returned, mike went for a walk with his stalking rod an arrived back whithin half an hour carrying tanother good carp in his net caught on red worm from between the lillies weighing in at twenty two pounds, well as i said to mike quite a sucseess although it had taken some time at least we had not blanked , more to follow
the next week saw myself and mike back on betton the weather was still hot but on arriving i had seen some nice fish showing , in the swim we were about to fish, i had managed to put some bait out a few times in the week mainly bolies fish meal based. after setting up and a meal and being rather tired it was into the bag , we had planned a two nighter and i was quite confident, well the night passed without even a blip on the alarms. and i was begining to wander if we were about to blank. the day passed by i went out in the boat with mike and saw some real good carp at the top end of the lake in the lillies. a couple were asolutly huge, mike recond maybe top thirtys or even a forty on arriving back on the bank, mike was away again to try and catch a few pike by spinning from the boat, he managed two or three but nothing big but at least they were fish bloody hell was it hot to hot to lie in your bivie my confidence was slowly dwindeling, night came but nothing i was up first light but saw no sighn of any carp showing the ony thing was loads of roach dimpling the surfice, well back in the bag, i was awoken at eight am to a screamer on the middle rod, mike came running to do the honers and we eventualy netted this big dark mirror wieghing in at twenty eight and three quater pounds photos took it was returned, mike went for a walk with his stalking rod an arrived back whithin half an hour carrying tanother good carp in his net caught on red worm from between the lillies weighing in at twenty two pounds, well as i said to mike quite a sucseess although it had taken some time at least we had not blanked , more to follow
In reply to Post #325
well it was back to our barbel fishing the weather had broken and we had severe rain for most of the next two weeks, the river had come up quite dramaticaly, so we headed down just below the weir at shrewsbury. fishing from a concrete walk way, the water was moving quite fast and about two foot from the top of the concrete, we managed to get our rod rests in by pushing them in a large crack in the concrete., we both decided to use hallibet pellet , the problem was holding bottom in the current i did not fancy our chances, but how wrong i was, from the very first cast i was in a nice fish of nine pounds, it was then mikes turn catching a simalar fish of arround nine pounds . it was then i hooked somthing really special i could do nothing with this fish it swam up stream against the current it was a most powfful fish i could do absolutly nothing with it, and it snapped me like a carrot. the next bite was so savage it actualy pulled the rod from the rests i made a crab for it and found myself on my back on the concrete path with this big fish still on mike came running and also some spectators who had been watching us and helped to get me on my feet as i could not get up myself owing to my affliction, well i played this fish for some time and on landing could see it was a good one it turned the scales to twelve and a qauter pounds, i was over the moon id got my double and a good fish for the severn,, bloody hell mike we just cant go wrong it was fish atter fish, i boke my peronal best three times that morning also catching an eleven pounder plus one at ten and three qauter pounds . i was defnetly on a hight we had a number of spectaters by now and it was becoming a bit crowded, mike also had many fish to nine and tree qauter pounds. we ended the morning by catching thirty two fish between us and went home very happy chappys word soon got arround and we could not fish that spot again for many weeks. more to follow
well it was back to our barbel fishing the weather had broken and we had severe rain for most of the next two weeks, the river had come up quite dramaticaly, so we headed down just below the weir at shrewsbury. fishing from a concrete walk way, the water was moving quite fast and about two foot from the top of the concrete, we managed to get our rod rests in by pushing them in a large crack in the concrete., we both decided to use hallibet pellet , the problem was holding bottom in the current i did not fancy our chances, but how wrong i was, from the very first cast i was in a nice fish of nine pounds, it was then mikes turn catching a simalar fish of arround nine pounds . it was then i hooked somthing really special i could do nothing with this fish it swam up stream against the current it was a most powfful fish i could do absolutly nothing with it, and it snapped me like a carrot. the next bite was so savage it actualy pulled the rod from the rests i made a crab for it and found myself on my back on the concrete path with this big fish still on mike came running and also some spectators who had been watching us and helped to get me on my feet as i could not get up myself owing to my affliction, well i played this fish for some time and on landing could see it was a good one it turned the scales to twelve and a qauter pounds, i was over the moon id got my double and a good fish for the severn,, bloody hell mike we just cant go wrong it was fish atter fish, i boke my peronal best three times that morning also catching an eleven pounder plus one at ten and three qauter pounds . i was defnetly on a hight we had a number of spectaters by now and it was becoming a bit crowded, mike also had many fish to nine and tree qauter pounds. we ended the morning by catching thirty two fish between us and went home very happy chappys word soon got arround and we could not fish that spot again for many weeks. more to follow
In reply to Post #326
we started to fish below shrewsbury once again mike fanced fishing some slower water and we went on one of our short sessions once again the only trouble was getting down the hight bank onto this ledge i was a bit worried about falling in due to me not bieng so good on my legs. but with the help of mike i was soon fishing . sport was a bit slow if i rember right i caught a couple of chub to five pounds. the wind got up and weather started to get worse with some quite heavy rain , but we stuck it out my rod tip flew arround and landed a nice chub weighing in it at just over six pounds followed by another two arround four pound mike had also caught some good fish to four pounds. by this time it was asolutly pooring on landing a barbel of eight pounds we called it a night two days later saw mike and myself in the company of andy who fanceyd coming for the night it was to be a short season from eight pm till one am we fished the fast water and was catching from the start andy had a big fish just under ten pounds. so i was quite hopfull of bigger to follow mike had caught a couple to just over eight pounds when once again my rod was nearly pulled from the rests now this was a good fish i could not gain line on him as he made his way down stream eventualy snagging me in some weed so in went mike and andy torches on and net in hand. as they got to the weed they shouted it was a great big carp on trying to get the net under it away it went using the current it eventualy broke me. we eventualy ended the night with at least twenty eight fish between us, i was quite happy but would of dearly loved to have landed that carp but thats fishing. more to follow
we started to fish below shrewsbury once again mike fanced fishing some slower water and we went on one of our short sessions once again the only trouble was getting down the hight bank onto this ledge i was a bit worried about falling in due to me not bieng so good on my legs. but with the help of mike i was soon fishing . sport was a bit slow if i rember right i caught a couple of chub to five pounds. the wind got up and weather started to get worse with some quite heavy rain , but we stuck it out my rod tip flew arround and landed a nice chub weighing in it at just over six pounds followed by another two arround four pound mike had also caught some good fish to four pounds. by this time it was asolutly pooring on landing a barbel of eight pounds we called it a night two days later saw mike and myself in the company of andy who fanceyd coming for the night it was to be a short season from eight pm till one am we fished the fast water and was catching from the start andy had a big fish just under ten pounds. so i was quite hopfull of bigger to follow mike had caught a couple to just over eight pounds when once again my rod was nearly pulled from the rests now this was a good fish i could not gain line on him as he made his way down stream eventualy snagging me in some weed so in went mike and andy torches on and net in hand. as they got to the weed they shouted it was a great big carp on trying to get the net under it away it went using the current it eventualy broke me. we eventualy ended the night with at least twenty eight fish between us, i was quite happy but would of dearly loved to have landed that carp but thats fishing. more to follow