In reply to Post #327
Keep it coming pete , your memories are very special and should be saved for future anglers to enjoy.

In reply to Post #327
well it was back to south shropshire the weather had been quite good so mike and i fanced our chances, i set up by the dam wall opposite the lillie bed and mike was to my right fishing to island we got the rods out two to the lillies and one to th dam the far side . we decided to also fish with a feeder rod till dark hopping to catch some the big perch . it did not take long mike had a couple arround two pounds plus and i followed with simaler fish. on dark we planned to put an extra rod out for the eels once again using lob worm mike was the first to catch a nice eel of arround three pounds. followed by another of four pounds . i was awoken at three am to a run on the eel rod and on stricking every thing went tight it had snagged me in the lillies the only thing i could do was pull for a break hopping that would get it moving it certainly did but not for long it broke me by the dam wall bloody hell it felt a goog fish. i could not be botherd to tackle up again so got my head down. morning came without another bleep on our alarms, we caught bits and pieces throught out the day, hopping for some action in the night, if we only knew what was coming i think we would have gone home. i was bivied up under a big lime tree well the wind got up and did it rain it was absolutly blowing a gale. i can tell you we did hang on to those bivies i was bloody scared stiff thinking that old lime tree would come down on top of me. i think it nwas one of the worst nights i have ever experienced fishing and could not wait till morning. iu was so relieved when i got home and by the way we blanked more to follow

In reply to Post #329
it was once again back to the barbel andy came once again also mikes young son jaclk. setting up on the fast water we caught from the start young jack had a very impressive chub and on weighing turned the scales to just under four pounds. mike and i went off checking tickets on the bank living andy in charge removing our rods before we went . when arriving back andy had caught a couple of nice fish and jack had caught his personal best a fish of nine pounds. i think that paticular night mike and i caught about twenty fish between use the biggest just over nine pounds mike had also had one or two nice chub andy and jack had also done quite well catching fifteen fish betweeen them. now here comes the funny bit, andy and jack were fishing above myself and mike. andy came down to see me saying some one or thing was on the far bank watching them could i come and have a look its got big eyes he said and quite big mike and i went to have a look on getting the torches out all i could see was a fox looking back as he went up the bank the far side of the river. its only a fox i say and theres a house just up the bank. carry on with your fishing . and a away went mike and my self. we had just got comfortabale when there was a shout and jack and andy came running down towards us you would of thought old nick was after them. were not fishing there they say we have just seen an alien it got up from behind the stile its big watched us a ran down the side of the river, well i was killing myself laughing they would not even fetch their tackle unless we were with them, so getting out our torches once again mike and i had another look nothing they were asolutly spooked and would not fish that spot, so mike and i lugged there tackle back to our swim, but no way would they fish any longer. well i had forgot that the house oppisite was a donkey sanctry and id took some photos earlyer on and looking at them next day lying behind this fence was a donkey that was there alien mike and i did have a laught about that and they never really lived it down for some time every time we go now we say rember the alien ha ha well there you go more later

In reply to Post #330
well the next week so myself in north shropshire arriving quite early we both decided to fish towards the island i was quite confident on catching how wrong i could be i could not buy a bite, it was all mike we had been there approx four hours and mike had a screamer on his middle rod and after landing it and weighing it turned the scales to eighteen pounds a. lovely looking mirror .and believe me it did not stop there within the next hour he was in again another good looking mirror of ninteen pounds. and by evening he was once again attached to another angry mirror this time sixteen pounds. we were fishing exactly the same i could not believe i was about to blank and thats just what did happpen. he managed two more before we left the biggest just nudging twenty pounds.. i was well pleased for mike.funny old thing this fishing but then there will always be a next time. more stories to come will be away on holidays the rest of the week so no more till sat

In reply to Post #331
well of we go again we started to fish a lake in north shropshire lets call it the secret lake, a freind of ours took us there his name is tom and had fished the lake maney years ago now before we get any further i have never caught from there. it was mainly a bream an roach water next to it is two small pools wich were orginaly used as stock pools for carp and a few got into the bigger water. the bream run up to arround ten pounds and might even grow bigger some good roach and some very big carp and i mean big. up to now i have only seen one fish come out and that was caught by another freind called nick he was lucky enought to catch it off the top on dog biscuit i my self have only fished it twice. but mike has managed a lovely bream eight pounds plus the carp nick caught was a lovely twenty one pound commen with not mark on him there are not many and it is megga hard the owner does not like night fishing althought he may relent but quite honestly i think they can be caught in the day as it has seen no pressure. the farmer found one dead a few years ago and that was a top thirty. i have peronaly seen two fish together and the one was at least 25 pounds and was dwarfed by the one with him its unusual to find a lake not fished so watch this space. mike and i had been fishing another water just up the road fom the water ive told you about the owner had told us there was some good carp in there but could tell us nothing about the size of the fish, it had been and still was used by a club for match fishing. and some anglers had broken there poles on large fish. more to tell of the pool later

you need to write a book or something

In reply to Post #333
quite agree haha

In reply to Post #334
I think the Pete fan club will lynch you for the yawning sign !

In reply to Post #335
why should he be lynched ??
if he finds it a boring read ,nothing wrong in voiceing an opinion,,

In reply to Post #336
Then let the replies commence.........

I for one will not be removing any of the more explicit ones, just for you !

In reply to Post #332
well mick and i joined forces with tom and nick and its funny really tom was one of the said poachers i chased all those years ago but really he is a gentle ghiant a big man weighing 22 stone. we all started fishing a water in swouth shropshire it was a bit of a runs water a more or less fished it in the winter. the fish never really got much above fifteen pounds , but it was good sport i fished it on the feeder when i first started there and caught from the start on light tackle did they go mike and i were averaging twenty fish per sessoin the farmer gave a prize in money for the largest fish caught in that particular year. its about this time my mate graham came arround to my house and said he had got cancer. i was stuck for words my mate i had fished with all yhose years ago having that he had got it in the prostrate wich they had found it when they operated. i took him every morning for 18 weeks for radio therapy.. and after maney tests since he has been given the all clear. and guess what after all these years he is fishing with us once again, i thing he found it a bit hard methods had changed there was the hair rig i ended arround at his home showing him how to tye them. he bought new rods reels but he had in our earlier days never fished with heavy leads as we do today and it was like a learning proces all over again he is now seventy one but at least fishing and catching some resonable fish well one day talkingto the farmer he told us a thirty plus had come out and he had photos and had paid the chap that caught it the annual cash prize. so it ended up doing a night session on the place mike and my self both used light weight carp rods using feeders and bolies on the busnesss end, well never again from the start i caught and by morning i was a complete wreck i caught thirty eight fish all between ten and fifteen pounds, mike was more sensable and packed up and got some sleep, but not a ll on the lake caught the lads below myself only had one fish, and wanted to know what i wAs using i soon but them right. and should really of got some sleep but i carried on a ll day..and i think the final total was over fifty carp, i never fished the next night i was completly exusted and with my health problems it did not help so i left it to mike and i forgot graham who had also come. they fished that night while i slept. and caught quite a nuber of fish, i would never night that water again. we have been back but more as a winter water just to get a few runs, but last time i went the water was getting over run with anglers from all over as far away as liverpool. the farmer was on about netting the place and removing some of yhe smaller fish we will have to see. ive now got to be off to teach some young lads to hoppfully fish till mid day. then go on holls for a few days if the weather improves more to come later on my return

In reply to Post #338
well it was back to ellesmere we had fished on and of all year . i really wanted to catch one of the cat fish that inahabited the lake there was only two in the water but both big fish last time one had been caught it weighted forty nine pounds. well it was to be on this particular day in the company of mike i managed to hook one it took a fish meal bollie and nearly dragged my rod from the rests. it led me a merry dance the lake has an arm coming of it and goes arround like a cannal and back in the other side. well up this cannal it went with me in full cry i managed after some time to get him back in the main lake well i must of had this fish on for at least half an hour and could not gain line at all. into the middle it went full steam a head with me just hanging on for crim death.in the end all went solid snagged but on what as far as i knew there were no snagges in the lake well it happend i pulled and i was broke on retreving the end tackle it was absolutly shreeded i was guttted. but thats fishing. i have never had anything on like that in my live. but i live in hope that it may happen once again. but the day was not so bad mike managed five carp to twenty pounds. and i managed three mirrors to ninteen and one commen of twenty pounds. well thats it for now more later

In reply to Post #339
it was to martin mere next to fish for the pike once again trolling from mikes boat. i decided to use the jelly lures yet again and on the first trip arround the lake i had the lure completly bit in half the way the pike took the lure it must of been a very large fish. we continued all morning catching pike the heavest arround twelve pounds not big but we were happy they were fish and we were not blanking after some food and a cupa we continued our fishing and ended the day with fifteen fish not large by standards but very welcome. two days later saw us fishing the river once again for the pike we were dead baiting once again with sprats and herrings and in the first half hour had two runs resulting at one of fifteen pounds and one of twelve, mike managed one at ten pounds and two jacks we fished the rest of the day without another take. i returned on my own the following day and managed to catch another two with the biggest going sixteen pounds not a bad result i was quite happy..to continue after holls

In reply to Post #340
graham had started fishing once again and we decided to have a day on shomere the rudd fishing on there could be quite superb if you could get amongst the bigger fish the only problem was the mozzies it was infested with the little blighters . we arrived quite early just taking ouur float rods with us we fished into eight foot of water using maggot and bread flake it did not take long to get amongst them catching fish from a qauter to half pound in weight but none of the bigges that we knew were preasent but it was good sport catching the odd bream in between.. there was also the old problem with the pike as soon as you get the rudd feeding in come the pike. they are not huge fish but fished on the right tackle can be great fun. i think we caught arround five that morning with the biggest only going to eight pounds. we did catch a few of the bigger rudd as the day came to an end but nothing over a pound and a half . the next day saw me once again at berrington hopping to catch the carp. on setting up on the boards, my right hand rod shot off and i was connected to one angry carp on netting and weighing it turned the scales to twenty two pounds not a bad start to the day. the next fish was a nice tench of arround five pounds followed by one of six pounds i stuck it out for the rest of the day but that was it the place went absolutly dead. i decided next time i fished there .i would use the feeder rod for the bream i returned the next day armed with my feeder rod and had quite a good day catching half a dozen tench to six pounds and a few bream to four pounds. although other members of the syndicate say . the big bream are still in the water i am not that certain as years ago you would see them rolling all over the pool.. more to follow

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