In reply to Post #342
ellesmeres a syndicate m8! us members try to keep it hush hush!
ellesmeres a syndicate m8! us members try to keep it hush hush!
In reply to Post #337
Oi Oi little v
Loads aint there,, 
Oi Oi little v
Loads aint there,,
In reply to Post #343
its not were i go mate so i would not worry to much
its not were i go mate so i would not worry to much
In reply to Post #342
and what are you on about tom i am suprised at you considering your a mate and in my syndicate
and what are you on about tom i am suprised at you considering your a mate and in my syndicate
In reply to Post #346
there are a few who dont like you mention places on here you no longer fish pete
there are a few who dont like you mention places on here you no longer fish pete
In reply to Post #347
I just happen to know that the water Pete is referring to as Ellesmere, is a day ticket water so he's not breaking any code of silence there. As for the other folk who want Pete to stop writing, shame on you.
The bloke has been specimen angling longer than most folk on here have been alive. So what if you fish the waters that he has, you can't take away the fact that he has fished them in the past. This whole thing is a little piece of angling history, Pete's history and good on him for sharing it I say
I just happen to know that the water Pete is referring to as Ellesmere, is a day ticket water so he's not breaking any code of silence there. As for the other folk who want Pete to stop writing, shame on you.
The bloke has been specimen angling longer than most folk on here have been alive. So what if you fish the waters that he has, you can't take away the fact that he has fished them in the past. This whole thing is a little piece of angling history, Pete's history and good on him for sharing it I say
In reply to Post #348
Well said Martin. What Pete's written has been the best thing I've read for a long time. I hope he keeps it coming and that the killjoys retreat into their shells - and stay there.
Well said Martin. What Pete's written has been the best thing I've read for a long time. I hope he keeps it coming and that the killjoys retreat into their shells - and stay there.
In reply to Post #348
whilst not wanting to take anything away from petes recollections,
some sort of time line would be nice.
when did all this take place? over what sort of time scale?
are we looking at a couple of seasons here, or a couple of decades?
not having a dig, just interested.......
whilst not wanting to take anything away from petes recollections,
some sort of time line would be nice.
when did all this take place? over what sort of time scale?
are we looking at a couple of seasons here, or a couple of decades?
not having a dig, just interested.......
In reply to Post #341
well as i said in a earlier thread mike and i found this other small pool just outside shrewsbury. we had reports of match anglers getting broke so we joined the club and decided to give it a go , the only problem was the hight banks and the small stages thaqt the club had made, i was a little bit concerned about getting down to them with my bad legs. on our first visit on looking arround we found the fish were spawning at the bottom end of the lake but did see some good fish preasent and quite a few upper twentys . on the next visit we started to use feeders. the first four hours passed without a bleep on the alarms and quite honestly though we were going to blank, i dont think the fish had ever seen a bollie, but out of the blue my right hand rod shot off. it was a night mare playing this fish partly because of the hight banks and the dence vegetation which was growing along the bank. but after some time it was netted. well i was quite shocked when looking in the net the fish was a cross cruscian commen i had never seen such funny looking fish after weighing it and photos took it was returned. the next take nearly pulled my rod from the rests and was a bit of a scramble to get to it, this fish turned out to be a mirror weighing in at eighteen pounds. and a very deep belled fish. not long after i was away again this time i was completly smashed i could do nothing with the fish and was broken in the margins further to my right. mike managed one fish arround twelve pounds. we made arrangments to fish the pool at a later date. unfortuntly we did not get back for some two months owing to other commitments on arriving we were told that the pool had suffeed from a big otter kill so that was that. we have returned to have a look in the last twelve months but have spotted no big carp it appears to be empty. but then thats nature . mor to follow
well as i said in a earlier thread mike and i found this other small pool just outside shrewsbury. we had reports of match anglers getting broke so we joined the club and decided to give it a go , the only problem was the hight banks and the small stages thaqt the club had made, i was a little bit concerned about getting down to them with my bad legs. on our first visit on looking arround we found the fish were spawning at the bottom end of the lake but did see some good fish preasent and quite a few upper twentys . on the next visit we started to use feeders. the first four hours passed without a bleep on the alarms and quite honestly though we were going to blank, i dont think the fish had ever seen a bollie, but out of the blue my right hand rod shot off. it was a night mare playing this fish partly because of the hight banks and the dence vegetation which was growing along the bank. but after some time it was netted. well i was quite shocked when looking in the net the fish was a cross cruscian commen i had never seen such funny looking fish after weighing it and photos took it was returned. the next take nearly pulled my rod from the rests and was a bit of a scramble to get to it, this fish turned out to be a mirror weighing in at eighteen pounds. and a very deep belled fish. not long after i was away again this time i was completly smashed i could do nothing with the fish and was broken in the margins further to my right. mike managed one fish arround twelve pounds. we made arrangments to fish the pool at a later date. unfortuntly we did not get back for some two months owing to other commitments on arriving we were told that the pool had suffeed from a big otter kill so that was that. we have returned to have a look in the last twelve months but have spotted no big carp it appears to be empty. but then thats nature . mor to follow
In reply to Post #352
mick and i continued fishing ellesmere and had some really good days we fished from febuary to may catching one hundred and fiftyy carp maney over the twenty pound mark. one such day which will remain with me forever was the day we fished on my sixty third birthday we fished in the company of another freind called nick the day started so well for me . on my first cast catcing a superb twenty plus commen to follow it with another twenty commen i was really on a hight . nick managed one of fifteen pounds not long after well to continue my story i managed another three fish between fifteen and seventeen pounds. i was quite satisfied witrh my day and looking forward to going home to a party my family had prepared. following mike home a car came arround a corner completly out of control he had lost it and yours truly was hit head on i dont rember much after only coming arround stuck on top of this hedge. mick was shouting he thought i was dead. the fire service were called and eventua;ly they cut me out. my new car was a complete write off. but i was still alive. it serously effected my fishing for the next couple of months and i suppose i have not really recovered even to this day. but there you go thats life well mick ran me every were even fishing we ended fishing in south shroshire on our syndicate lake i found it terribly difficult as the crash had effected my spine and the syatica nerve. but we continued catching some nice perch and eels the carp had turned off completly and other members had not been catching. well i did get a screamer on my right hand rod only to lose it to a hook pull. i did manage one other fish a small ten pound commen so mick and i decided to give the lake a rest and fish another venue. more of that later
mick and i continued fishing ellesmere and had some really good days we fished from febuary to may catching one hundred and fiftyy carp maney over the twenty pound mark. one such day which will remain with me forever was the day we fished on my sixty third birthday we fished in the company of another freind called nick the day started so well for me . on my first cast catcing a superb twenty plus commen to follow it with another twenty commen i was really on a hight . nick managed one of fifteen pounds not long after well to continue my story i managed another three fish between fifteen and seventeen pounds. i was quite satisfied witrh my day and looking forward to going home to a party my family had prepared. following mike home a car came arround a corner completly out of control he had lost it and yours truly was hit head on i dont rember much after only coming arround stuck on top of this hedge. mick was shouting he thought i was dead. the fire service were called and eventua;ly they cut me out. my new car was a complete write off. but i was still alive. it serously effected my fishing for the next couple of months and i suppose i have not really recovered even to this day. but there you go thats life well mick ran me every were even fishing we ended fishing in south shroshire on our syndicate lake i found it terribly difficult as the crash had effected my spine and the syatica nerve. but we continued catching some nice perch and eels the carp had turned off completly and other members had not been catching. well i did get a screamer on my right hand rod only to lose it to a hook pull. i did manage one other fish a small ten pound commen so mick and i decided to give the lake a rest and fish another venue. more of that later
In reply to Post #353
it was about this time we joined another syndicate in north shropshire it was a pretty water and had a reputation for producing big fish. at one time it had produced some very big grass carp but not in the last few years but carp in the upper thirtys had been caught . after seening the owner and having a look arround and seeing some resonable fish we paid our money and decided to give it a go. we did a couple of day sessions to start with. there was two lakes with a dam wall spliting them in half to top lake had an island but was very silty . i decided to fish from the corner of the dam wall one rod in front of the dam and two rods to the island. i used chod rigs on the rods fished to the island. i did not have to wait long the rod by the dam shot of and i had soon landed a nice commen of ninteen pounds i was quite pleased as it was my first atempt on the water. then away went one of the rods fishing to the island and another nice commen was landed. one of the other lads managed another little mirror of fifteen pounds. i was quite looking forward to our next session but arriving at the water the fish had got there minds on other things spwning all over the lake we did give it a go but it was usless and decided to give it a miss for a couple of weeks. we started to fish the lake in south shropshire having a few short seesions i was fishing my three rods to a island and m ike fished to open water. it did not take long and iwas away on my right hand rod landing a mirror just under fifteen pounds. mike was next catching a simalar fish to be honest it went a bit crazy with a fish a cast for the first hour but none over fifteen pounds but good sport all the same. at the end of the day mike and myself had caught fifteen carp a mixture of mirrors and commens. and decided to do a night session on the water at a later date . more toio come later
it was about this time we joined another syndicate in north shropshire it was a pretty water and had a reputation for producing big fish. at one time it had produced some very big grass carp but not in the last few years but carp in the upper thirtys had been caught . after seening the owner and having a look arround and seeing some resonable fish we paid our money and decided to give it a go. we did a couple of day sessions to start with. there was two lakes with a dam wall spliting them in half to top lake had an island but was very silty . i decided to fish from the corner of the dam wall one rod in front of the dam and two rods to the island. i used chod rigs on the rods fished to the island. i did not have to wait long the rod by the dam shot of and i had soon landed a nice commen of ninteen pounds i was quite pleased as it was my first atempt on the water. then away went one of the rods fishing to the island and another nice commen was landed. one of the other lads managed another little mirror of fifteen pounds. i was quite looking forward to our next session but arriving at the water the fish had got there minds on other things spwning all over the lake we did give it a go but it was usless and decided to give it a miss for a couple of weeks. we started to fish the lake in south shropshire having a few short seesions i was fishing my three rods to a island and m ike fished to open water. it did not take long and iwas away on my right hand rod landing a mirror just under fifteen pounds. mike was next catching a simalar fish to be honest it went a bit crazy with a fish a cast for the first hour but none over fifteen pounds but good sport all the same. at the end of the day mike and myself had caught fifteen carp a mixture of mirrors and commens. and decided to do a night session on the water at a later date . more toio come later
In reply to Post #354
we returned to our south shropshire mere pike fishing this time takiing my old mate graham, we decided once again to troll behind the boat, hoping to catch one of the bigger rezidents that inhabited the mere this time we used the big plugs that rattle when moved throught the water. on the first circuit arround graham was in and the way it was fighting i thought we had got our first big one. but getting it two the net it was only twelve pounds when weighted but still not a bad start it was mikes turn next god did they hit these plugs nearly taking the rod out of your hands realy vicous takes. his fish was another simalar size fish as grahams we ended the day with fifteen fish with none over twelve pounnds, we still live in hope as over the last couple of years there has been two over thirty caught. well the winter came and went , by this time mike and i had packed the south shropshire syndicate in althought we had caught some good fish from the lake ie eels and big perch we felt the larger carp were no longer in there and had caught nothing larger than sixteen pounds over the few seasons we were in it. we did do some early spring days at ellesmere we had the lake more or less to our selves exept for two of our mates it was hard fishing and very cold in two months i managed to catch twelve fish the biggest just under twenty mike and nick managed four or five between them so in the end it was quite sucsesfull, unfortunatly the north shropshire syndicate we were in sufferd a big otter kill so most members packed the syndicate in. my health was getting a lot worse and i was suffering with this syatica nerve it would go then return, but i managed to continue my fishing and i am very greatfull for the help my freinds give me in times of need getting my tackle to my swim and erecting my bivie i owe them so much more to come
we returned to our south shropshire mere pike fishing this time takiing my old mate graham, we decided once again to troll behind the boat, hoping to catch one of the bigger rezidents that inhabited the mere this time we used the big plugs that rattle when moved throught the water. on the first circuit arround graham was in and the way it was fighting i thought we had got our first big one. but getting it two the net it was only twelve pounds when weighted but still not a bad start it was mikes turn next god did they hit these plugs nearly taking the rod out of your hands realy vicous takes. his fish was another simalar size fish as grahams we ended the day with fifteen fish with none over twelve pounnds, we still live in hope as over the last couple of years there has been two over thirty caught. well the winter came and went , by this time mike and i had packed the south shropshire syndicate in althought we had caught some good fish from the lake ie eels and big perch we felt the larger carp were no longer in there and had caught nothing larger than sixteen pounds over the few seasons we were in it. we did do some early spring days at ellesmere we had the lake more or less to our selves exept for two of our mates it was hard fishing and very cold in two months i managed to catch twelve fish the biggest just under twenty mike and nick managed four or five between them so in the end it was quite sucsesfull, unfortunatly the north shropshire syndicate we were in sufferd a big otter kill so most members packed the syndicate in. my health was getting a lot worse and i was suffering with this syatica nerve it would go then return, but i managed to continue my fishing and i am very greatfull for the help my freinds give me in times of need getting my tackle to my swim and erecting my bivie i owe them so much more to come
In reply to Post #355
well i am coming to the end of my story, im still fishing with mike and my old pal graham, i have not done as much this year because of health issues, but i am hopping to get a few trips in and maybe catch a few lumps. there are maney waters that i have not mentiond one such water is the now famous birch grove i fished that water for years long before any syndicate fished there you were lucky if you saw any more anglers on the place . i mostly fished it with a pal and caught some very big eels and carp from the pool. i have been very lucky to have fished some of these waters. although now private they will remain in my memory for the rest of my life. i would like to thank all the members on this forum for there pms who encouraged me to continue writing my stories. and all the kind things they have said. thanks to you all,i would like to thank mike for his understanding and compasion he has shown me erecting my bivie and at other times getting my tackle to my swim a top man and freind and all the other pals you know who you are without m e saying and lastly my dear pal graham for putting up with my passion all those years ago, i am so privalidged to have met so maney of the old greats . dick who has been a big inspiration throught out my years of angling and a great freind and lots more to maney to mention. and lastly i would like to thank bill livingstone and gregrot for the task of editing my stories . a lot of work and i will always be gratfull i owe you both one..well i do hope you have enjoyed my stories. and a big thank you to you all. i now hope to get a bit more fishing done god willing thanks again pete
well i am coming to the end of my story, im still fishing with mike and my old pal graham, i have not done as much this year because of health issues, but i am hopping to get a few trips in and maybe catch a few lumps. there are maney waters that i have not mentiond one such water is the now famous birch grove i fished that water for years long before any syndicate fished there you were lucky if you saw any more anglers on the place . i mostly fished it with a pal and caught some very big eels and carp from the pool. i have been very lucky to have fished some of these waters. although now private they will remain in my memory for the rest of my life. i would like to thank all the members on this forum for there pms who encouraged me to continue writing my stories. and all the kind things they have said. thanks to you all,i would like to thank mike for his understanding and compasion he has shown me erecting my bivie and at other times getting my tackle to my swim a top man and freind and all the other pals you know who you are without m e saying and lastly my dear pal graham for putting up with my passion all those years ago, i am so privalidged to have met so maney of the old greats . dick who has been a big inspiration throught out my years of angling and a great freind and lots more to maney to mention. and lastly i would like to thank bill livingstone and gregrot for the task of editing my stories . a lot of work and i will always be gratfull i owe you both one..well i do hope you have enjoyed my stories. and a big thank you to you all. i now hope to get a bit more fishing done god willing thanks again pete
In reply to Post #356
its up for youon general discussion
its up for youon general discussion
In reply to Post #358
thank for the offer stu i would be most gratful for your help as bill is far to busy to do the editing thanks again
thank for the offer stu i would be most gratful for your help as bill is far to busy to do the editing thanks again