In reply to Post #29
Believe it or not the club i am on is very quiet 4 lakes and lots of members but not as busy as normal but still can't buy a bite . Odd fish coming out on floaters.
Same rigs same bait same spots as last year and ziltch. Bait i use is different to everyone else I've seen using. Last year only blank a handful of times. This year nothing.
Lots of others saying the same. Fishery been shut since November due to flooding and then covid. So wondering if they gone back to naturals.
They were feeding pellet into lakes during closure so tried a rod on pellets only on last 24hrs n still nothing. Tried zigs during day on patrol routes and nothing. Never had this in all my fishing life. AAAAAHHHHHHH
Believe it or not the club i am on is very quiet 4 lakes and lots of members but not as busy as normal but still can't buy a bite . Odd fish coming out on floaters.
Same rigs same bait same spots as last year and ziltch. Bait i use is different to everyone else I've seen using. Last year only blank a handful of times. This year nothing.
Lots of others saying the same. Fishery been shut since November due to flooding and then covid. So wondering if they gone back to naturals.
They were feeding pellet into lakes during closure so tried a rod on pellets only on last 24hrs n still nothing. Tried zigs during day on patrol routes and nothing. Never had this in all my fishing life. AAAAAHHHHHHH
In reply to Post #30
Unbelievable
I've fished the same place twice in the last few weeks,apart from my mate who fished with me,seen no-one for the 3 days 
200 acres of solitude 
Unbelievable
I've fished the same place twice in the last few weeks,apart from my mate who fished with me,seen no-one for the 3 days 200 acres of solitude
In reply to Post #32
Mate of mine watched carp smashing fry in the margins on two completely separate and different lakes. Perhaps the first big blooms of naturals should be added to the challenges.
I haven't been able to fish at all since lockdown, as my syndicate didn't open until last night and I've been working throughout. Got three days off next week and hoping that it's not too busy. New lake excitement.
Mate of mine watched carp smashing fry in the margins on two completely separate and different lakes. Perhaps the first big blooms of naturals should be added to the challenges.
I haven't been able to fish at all since lockdown, as my syndicate didn't open until last night and I've been working throughout. Got three days off next week and hoping that it's not too busy. New lake excitement.
In reply to Post #16
The reservoir has been pretty quiet, but there is a lot of it. Set up Friday in the North end, with where the wind was supposed to go, instead I ended up getting very suntanned and Sky was uncomfortable in a suntrap for 3 days.
Blanked, although my view is I have learned another area.
The reservoir has been pretty quiet, but there is a lot of it. Set up Friday in the North end, with where the wind was supposed to go, instead I ended up getting very suntanned and Sky was uncomfortable in a suntrap for 3 days.
Blanked, although my view is I have learned another area.
Just wondering how folk are getting on - it seemed to be that a lot of us were experiencing a similar dip in bites for a spell.
I'm looking to get out a bit soon - are they picking up again?
I'm looking to get out a bit soon - are they picking up again?
In reply to Post #35
Nope - what's the opposite of a purple patch?
Even blanking for bream lately
Nope - what's the opposite of a purple patch?
Even blanking for bream lately
In reply to Post #36
Yeah even the Bream action has stopped for me, as for the carp, forget it!
From what I've seen I think they are preoccupied with naturals at the moment
Yeah even the Bream action has stopped for me, as for the carp, forget it!
From what I've seen I think they are preoccupied with naturals at the moment
In reply to Post #35
My last three outings have all resulted in a blank!
My last three outings have all resulted in a blank!
been blanking on the river since it opened apart from a swan 
Here in sunny Wales we were still in lockdown for travel until this Monday ( 5th July). My Syndi is on the English side of the Wales/England border so despite paying my fees at the end of March I've been unable to go there. The English based members have been on for a few weeks now and it is fishing really well. 
Now we are out of lockdown I'm packing up the car for a week session starting this Monday. Will I still be tuned in?? Who knows but it will feel brilliant just to be back on the bank👍
Now we are out of lockdown I'm packing up the car for a week session starting this Monday. Will I still be tuned in?? Who knows but it will feel brilliant just to be back on the bank👍
In reply to Post #40
Still struggling, I know it's not my bait as i've done well on it everywhere, just struggling to get bites despite some superb weather recently. Hoping that now the numbers on my waters slowly drop off, the fish lessen their guard.
Still struggling, I know it's not my bait as i've done well on it everywhere, just struggling to get bites despite some superb weather recently. Hoping that now the numbers on my waters slowly drop off, the fish lessen their guard.
In reply to Post #41
Look at it logically. I live near the oxford waters where people are literally living on the lakes, the bait is being piled in and the waters are not even producing very well. Every man turns up and spods but the fish just move on to the next piece of water with no lines in (if they can find it). I'm watching it right now, there is one swim closed and the carp are happily sitting 25 yards out and feeding on naturals but the rest of the lake is heaving with lads doing 5/6 night sessions and catching the odd fish. Just be quiet and use very little bait
And you can still nick bites. Baiting up should be limited in times like this. Look what's happened at bluebell
Look at it logically. I live near the oxford waters where people are literally living on the lakes, the bait is being piled in and the waters are not even producing very well. Every man turns up and spods but the fish just move on to the next piece of water with no lines in (if they can find it). I'm watching it right now, there is one swim closed and the carp are happily sitting 25 yards out and feeding on naturals but the rest of the lake is heaving with lads doing 5/6 night sessions and catching the odd fish. Just be quiet and use very little bait
And you can still nick bites. Baiting up should be limited in times like this. Look what's happened at bluebell
In reply to Post #42
Agree. Post spawning on the naturals, people canning the bait in making it harder and harder
Can't stop catching bream at the moment, seems to be an explosion of bigger fish where I'm fishing. Be hauling if I was a matchman
Bait limits are a very sensible thing to do for me, especially the buckets and buckets or particle ****. Years ago on one of my waters there was a group who used to blast it in, killed the fishing and they were catching virtually nothing
Not thinking about the fishing, habit, cane a bucket of bait out and sit over it, now and again it works, or it does for the angler who arrives 5 days later...
Look what's happened at bluebell
What's happened?
Agree. Post spawning on the naturals, people canning the bait in making it harder and harder
Can't stop catching bream at the moment, seems to be an explosion of bigger fish where I'm fishing. Be hauling if I was a matchman
Bait limits are a very sensible thing to do for me, especially the buckets and buckets or particle ****. Years ago on one of my waters there was a group who used to blast it in, killed the fishing and they were catching virtually nothing
Not thinking about the fishing, habit, cane a bucket of bait out and sit over it, now and again it works, or it does for the angler who arrives 5 days later...
Look what's happened at bluebell
What's happened?
In reply to Post #43
Judging by the birds on these lakes there is bait everywhere. Some of the anglers I speak to in the shop have reported bait floating around in the margins (weirdly the same make on 3 different lakes) and reports of slow fishing up and down the U.K.. July has always been a crap month for me and thank god im normally too busy to go through the summer but I'm told that bluebell started closing swims as the pressure had been so intense and people doing so much time that the fish were not looking good. That came from a lad who had been there for weeks so it's second hand info. I know another club water that the fishing has been almost non existent for the last month yet the bait is still being piled in.
Judging by the birds on these lakes there is bait everywhere. Some of the anglers I speak to in the shop have reported bait floating around in the margins (weirdly the same make on 3 different lakes) and reports of slow fishing up and down the U.K.. July has always been a crap month for me and thank god im normally too busy to go through the summer but I'm told that bluebell started closing swims as the pressure had been so intense and people doing so much time that the fish were not looking good. That came from a lad who had been there for weeks so it's second hand info. I know another club water that the fishing has been almost non existent for the last month yet the bait is still being piled in.
In reply to Post #44
To be fair I can understand people.wanting to go fishing after this lockdown crap so I can imagine places packed out, I started and pulled of.my water for the year, doing my bulb in rammed
Like you say, not a good time of year, need some oxygen blasting through the water, fish are lethargic and the fishing is in fits and bursts
To be fair I can understand people.wanting to go fishing after this lockdown crap so I can imagine places packed out, I started and pulled of.my water for the year, doing my bulb in rammed
Like you say, not a good time of year, need some oxygen blasting through the water, fish are lethargic and the fishing is in fits and bursts