In reply to Post #190
Decorating didn't take long Brian.....
Decorating didn't take long Brian.....
In reply to Post #191
thats what friends are for!
i buggered off down the lake, came home sunday & the room was painted!
came home from work yesterday, & the new carpets down!
i just have to pay everyone.....
thats what friends are for!
i buggered off down the lake, came home sunday & the room was painted!
came home from work yesterday, & the new carpets down!
i just have to pay everyone.....
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In reply to Post #196
this was long before i met dick its the story of two young men struggling to catch in the mid sixtys. ithink it was 1967 when myself and graham obtained permission to fish a small pool about two acres the owner told us it held big carp and tench atter a look arround we decided to fish from a staging which was out in the pool access was repaired and we were like two exited youngsters , what we using for ground bait says graham blood says i so off to the local abitor the foreman was quite amazed when i told him it was for fishing after filling my bucket from a tap i arrived home and mixed layers mash and bread crums it absolutely stank we decided to fish from firs light the day arrived getting there at one am getting most of the tackle onto the stage i went back for the rods guess what yours truly slipped and went head first into the pool bloody soaked through and to far to go home i decided to stick it out i was froze in went the ground bait cor did it stink we were using floats id made out of drinking straws whith a brass insert in the end with a whipped eye to it practicaly self cocking a small shot above the float and bb above the hook first light arrived and we caught from the start they went absolutly mad tench after tench all regurgitating the blood and mash the sun came up and i steamed like a kettle what a morning id never seen anything like it at mid day we struggled to lift our nets in all we caught 200 pounds of tench with many fish going to 5 half pounds also perch over 2pounds we returned the next week to catch another eighty pounds the carp eluded us but as i said to graham there is always another day
this was long before i met dick its the story of two young men struggling to catch in the mid sixtys. ithink it was 1967 when myself and graham obtained permission to fish a small pool about two acres the owner told us it held big carp and tench atter a look arround we decided to fish from a staging which was out in the pool access was repaired and we were like two exited youngsters , what we using for ground bait says graham blood says i so off to the local abitor the foreman was quite amazed when i told him it was for fishing after filling my bucket from a tap i arrived home and mixed layers mash and bread crums it absolutely stank we decided to fish from firs light the day arrived getting there at one am getting most of the tackle onto the stage i went back for the rods guess what yours truly slipped and went head first into the pool bloody soaked through and to far to go home i decided to stick it out i was froze in went the ground bait cor did it stink we were using floats id made out of drinking straws whith a brass insert in the end with a whipped eye to it practicaly self cocking a small shot above the float and bb above the hook first light arrived and we caught from the start they went absolutly mad tench after tench all regurgitating the blood and mash the sun came up and i steamed like a kettle what a morning id never seen anything like it at mid day we struggled to lift our nets in all we caught 200 pounds of tench with many fish going to 5 half pounds also perch over 2pounds we returned the next week to catch another eighty pounds the carp eluded us but as i said to graham there is always another day
In reply to Post #2
do u use a antique hook
do u use a antique hook
In reply to Post #198
No i have just been around alot longer than u and have more experience, we used meat hooks
No i have just been around alot longer than u and have more experience, we used meat hooks
In reply to Post #199
Have you posted anymore to Bill yet Pete??
Have you posted anymore to Bill yet Pete??
In reply to Post #197
it was early seventys when i first got permision to fish bomere a big water for us approx 25 acers it had been stricticly private for many years with no one fishing it the problem was it was very badly over grown it had a reputation for its big pike it was quite deep going from 20 ft to 45ft we cleared a couple of swims and prepared to give it a go, using sprats and mackerel the problem was the rods we used were only 10 ft built cane more sea rods than pike rods we could not get the distance we needed so with a little bit of thought we floated the baits out by using polestirine tiles with a balloon fixed to it we sailed the bait out the first time we used this method we caught six pike biggest sixteen pounds we44 continued to use this method for quite some time catching many pike to 20 plus . we also fished for the roach and caught many big specimens the best night catching eight over the two pound mark fantastic fishing one funny storey was the night graham and i fished the place was supposed to have been haunted the lake used to turn of at midnight and start again early morning we had got are heads down i had my umberela down over me and was fast asleep when i felt some thing breath on my face i woke with a start to see a big white face under my broly i shouted graham and fell off my bed chair up went the brolly and disaperd in the dark what the hell was that graham said we got our torches out i was swtill shaking looking up the bank behind us was the farmers horse with my umberella firmly on his head we rolled about laughing not long after the owner died and his son took over it went day ticket i became bailiff thats the first time i met dez taylor he was pike fishing tryed to sell me a one piece suit it was not long after that itook on the lease and formed a syndicate by this time we had formed the thee countys specemen group and the syndicate was mostley members of the group thats all for now more to come
it was early seventys when i first got permision to fish bomere a big water for us approx 25 acers it had been stricticly private for many years with no one fishing it the problem was it was very badly over grown it had a reputation for its big pike it was quite deep going from 20 ft to 45ft we cleared a couple of swims and prepared to give it a go, using sprats and mackerel the problem was the rods we used were only 10 ft built cane more sea rods than pike rods we could not get the distance we needed so with a little bit of thought we floated the baits out by using polestirine tiles with a balloon fixed to it we sailed the bait out the first time we used this method we caught six pike biggest sixteen pounds we44 continued to use this method for quite some time catching many pike to 20 plus . we also fished for the roach and caught many big specimens the best night catching eight over the two pound mark fantastic fishing one funny storey was the night graham and i fished the place was supposed to have been haunted the lake used to turn of at midnight and start again early morning we had got are heads down i had my umberela down over me and was fast asleep when i felt some thing breath on my face i woke with a start to see a big white face under my broly i shouted graham and fell off my bed chair up went the brolly and disaperd in the dark what the hell was that graham said we got our torches out i was swtill shaking looking up the bank behind us was the farmers horse with my umberella firmly on his head we rolled about laughing not long after the owner died and his son took over it went day ticket i became bailiff thats the first time i met dez taylor he was pike fishing tryed to sell me a one piece suit it was not long after that itook on the lease and formed a syndicate by this time we had formed the thee countys specemen group and the syndicate was mostley members of the group thats all for now more to come
In reply to Post #203
lets start again dennis rang me to say angling times wanted a feature on bomere don bridgwood was the reporter don was also free lance but did a lot of features for angling times, it was to be a thirty six hour session ledgering at night and float fishing in the day , the feature was mainly to catch the big roach that inhabited the lake, the problem with float fishing was the extreme depth so sliding floats would be used, knowing the lake as i did i was not very confident fishing all night it usualy turned of arround midnight to comence again early morning, graham and i manged a few good roach the first night on bread flake still one of the best baits even today, dennis also caught but none of the bigger fish showed up the ones caught werre mostly arround the pound mark but all the same quite welcome, the float fishing produced a great many roach but all about the same weight, because of the ground bait going in and the amount of roach we started getting trouble from the pike so out went the pike gear float fishing live baits it went abslutly mad catching from the start i think the final count was about 12 pike between 10 and sixteen pounds quite welciome for the feature. if you have watched a float for 12 hours in the sun with a ripple on the water you know how tiring it can be i ended up with a severe migrane so i retired to my bedchair and slept it off, feeling a lot better graham and i dicided to fish from the only punt on the water it might give us the chance of some better fish, but we did no better catching fish in the pound bracket,i did manage to catch a six pounds eight oz tench on lob worm all the other members managed to catch and i think the final tally was arround ioo pounds of roach with some good pike thrown in oh and my tench, i was completly drained but it made a good feature but was not sorry to get home, two days latter we were off again this time betton, dennis fanced having a go at the bream although not big by standards thre were plenty of them graham and i set up in a big bay at the top end of the lake we had ground baited the swim a couple of times i think it was the most exiting fishing ive ever experenced fishing two rods each using bread flake we caught from the start ending the night with 180 pounds of bream plus half a dozen roach to 2 pounds in weight and one eal to graham on bread flake dennis also caught with many bream to six pounds. it was about this time we met a lad called berny weaver who fished for the eals on betton who has remained a good freind to this very day and a great fisherman more stories to tell of bern graham and myself latter
lets start again dennis rang me to say angling times wanted a feature on bomere don bridgwood was the reporter don was also free lance but did a lot of features for angling times, it was to be a thirty six hour session ledgering at night and float fishing in the day , the feature was mainly to catch the big roach that inhabited the lake, the problem with float fishing was the extreme depth so sliding floats would be used, knowing the lake as i did i was not very confident fishing all night it usualy turned of arround midnight to comence again early morning, graham and i manged a few good roach the first night on bread flake still one of the best baits even today, dennis also caught but none of the bigger fish showed up the ones caught werre mostly arround the pound mark but all the same quite welcome, the float fishing produced a great many roach but all about the same weight, because of the ground bait going in and the amount of roach we started getting trouble from the pike so out went the pike gear float fishing live baits it went abslutly mad catching from the start i think the final count was about 12 pike between 10 and sixteen pounds quite welciome for the feature. if you have watched a float for 12 hours in the sun with a ripple on the water you know how tiring it can be i ended up with a severe migrane so i retired to my bedchair and slept it off, feeling a lot better graham and i dicided to fish from the only punt on the water it might give us the chance of some better fish, but we did no better catching fish in the pound bracket,i did manage to catch a six pounds eight oz tench on lob worm all the other members managed to catch and i think the final tally was arround ioo pounds of roach with some good pike thrown in oh and my tench, i was completly drained but it made a good feature but was not sorry to get home, two days latter we were off again this time betton, dennis fanced having a go at the bream although not big by standards thre were plenty of them graham and i set up in a big bay at the top end of the lake we had ground baited the swim a couple of times i think it was the most exiting fishing ive ever experenced fishing two rods each using bread flake we caught from the start ending the night with 180 pounds of bream plus half a dozen roach to 2 pounds in weight and one eal to graham on bread flake dennis also caught with many bream to six pounds. it was about this time we met a lad called berny weaver who fished for the eals on betton who has remained a good freind to this very day and a great fisherman more stories to tell of bern graham and myself latter
In reply to Post #206
by this time id got to know dick quite well the and the advice he had given me was quite welcome on all aspects of fishing . he certainly was a very educated man very kind and considert. id made up my mind to fish betton for the big eals and decided to fish every friday or sat night using dead baits or lob worms i knew it held big ones as bern had caught them to six pounds also there was quite a few big carp , i was using richard walker 10ft built cane carp rods and mitchel reals , for indercation my ping pong ball with low voltage bulbs inside.my first take came in the early hours draging my rod off the rests id forgot to put my real on back wind. what ever i had hooked was big i played that fish for a good half hour only to have the hook pull. i was gutted so was graham and dennis . half hour latter the other rod shot off the back wind buzzing id got another big fish on i played that for some time only to loose it nearly at the net another hook pull i was devestated, the night ended with one to graham only 3pounds but very welcome graham and dennis thought the fish i lost were carp we carried on fishing betton every week end catching some very big eals between 3 and 6 pounds in weight but the bream were always on our mind so back it was to colmere we fished the rest of the season but it was hard going the weather was horible rain and rain a bit like now think dennis had two arround eight poundsi ended up with one fish of 9 pounds 12oz but we struggeld and pulled of in october it was then to crows mere to fish for roach weather permiting but thats another story
by this time id got to know dick quite well the and the advice he had given me was quite welcome on all aspects of fishing . he certainly was a very educated man very kind and considert. id made up my mind to fish betton for the big eals and decided to fish every friday or sat night using dead baits or lob worms i knew it held big ones as bern had caught them to six pounds also there was quite a few big carp , i was using richard walker 10ft built cane carp rods and mitchel reals , for indercation my ping pong ball with low voltage bulbs inside.my first take came in the early hours draging my rod off the rests id forgot to put my real on back wind. what ever i had hooked was big i played that fish for a good half hour only to have the hook pull. i was gutted so was graham and dennis . half hour latter the other rod shot off the back wind buzzing id got another big fish on i played that for some time only to loose it nearly at the net another hook pull i was devestated, the night ended with one to graham only 3pounds but very welcome graham and dennis thought the fish i lost were carp we carried on fishing betton every week end catching some very big eals between 3 and 6 pounds in weight but the bream were always on our mind so back it was to colmere we fished the rest of the season but it was hard going the weather was horible rain and rain a bit like now think dennis had two arround eight poundsi ended up with one fish of 9 pounds 12oz but we struggeld and pulled of in october it was then to crows mere to fish for roach weather permiting but thats another story
In reply to Post #207
Keep them coming matey
Keep them coming matey
In reply to Post #208
Keep at it Pete
Keep at it Pete
In reply to Post #209
Absolutely brilliant Pete, keep it coming mate.
Absolutely brilliant Pete, keep it coming mate.
In reply to Post #207
althought money was short in those days i managed to buy a pair of coniflex blanks and had them made to my own specifcation they were absolutely brill and coupled with the but indercators i had made i caught maney good roach and bream. as i said the winter came and we started to fish crows mere and newton mere for the roach they held. it was hard and cold arriving on frosty mornings but we stuck it out catching some good specimens to about 2 pound using bread crum as ground bait and fishing bread flake we absolutly caned crowsmere catching good bags of roach every session the close season arrived and i think we were all glad for a rest. at the time dennis was also chairman of stoke angling club and was quite involved in netting certain waters and buying fish for the club graham and i used to go along and help it helped in the boredom in the close season. one session that sticks in my memory was netting combermere cheshire in the first drag of the net we caught 12 bream all big fish with three over the british record i will always rember dennis standing there with this one bream for a photo 14 pounds in weight huge for that time so they did grow it realy wet our appetite i said to dennis cant we fish here the answer was no it was strictly private at the time dennis myself and graham were also on the commite of the ellesmere angling club wich also took up some of our time. the new season came it was all exitment we decided to start at acton burnell fishing for the tench i was a freind of the owner so there was no problem getting permission we arrived first light on setting up we caught from the start big tench the biggest seven pounds also catching some good roach the night was a disaster we fished throught one of the worst thunder storms i have ever seen i retired to the car and left them to it they blanked not a good start to the season but it happens to continue
althought money was short in those days i managed to buy a pair of coniflex blanks and had them made to my own specifcation they were absolutely brill and coupled with the but indercators i had made i caught maney good roach and bream. as i said the winter came and we started to fish crows mere and newton mere for the roach they held. it was hard and cold arriving on frosty mornings but we stuck it out catching some good specimens to about 2 pound using bread crum as ground bait and fishing bread flake we absolutly caned crowsmere catching good bags of roach every session the close season arrived and i think we were all glad for a rest. at the time dennis was also chairman of stoke angling club and was quite involved in netting certain waters and buying fish for the club graham and i used to go along and help it helped in the boredom in the close season. one session that sticks in my memory was netting combermere cheshire in the first drag of the net we caught 12 bream all big fish with three over the british record i will always rember dennis standing there with this one bream for a photo 14 pounds in weight huge for that time so they did grow it realy wet our appetite i said to dennis cant we fish here the answer was no it was strictly private at the time dennis myself and graham were also on the commite of the ellesmere angling club wich also took up some of our time. the new season came it was all exitment we decided to start at acton burnell fishing for the tench i was a freind of the owner so there was no problem getting permission we arrived first light on setting up we caught from the start big tench the biggest seven pounds also catching some good roach the night was a disaster we fished throught one of the worst thunder storms i have ever seen i retired to the car and left them to it they blanked not a good start to the season but it happens to continue
In reply to Post #211
still traveling down to see dick with kieth wilkinson when i could get a day of from work it was always nice to see him he had a great sence of umer, one day sitting in his office i plucked up enought courage and said straight out dick some of what you write is a bit way out he smiled and said if it was not i would be out of businesss i have to be controversial for people to write back to me he never took offence at all what a great man. now back to fishing dennis started fishing on white mere graham and i fanced a ghange a freind told me about a small pool in south shropshire you wont get permission he said its never fished its in a wood you get to it by walking through a deep wooded gully after some directions one sat morning of we went , on finding the location away we went tackle on back well this gully was full of fern it was a hot sunny day we did sweat the ferns were nearly up to our head are you sure this the place graham said lets press on and see said i eventualy we came out in this clearing what a site the most beautiful pool i have ever seen it had a boat house in need of repair and an island the water was nearly blue we learned that it used to be a marl pit , out came the rods poaching or not we certainly were going to have a go thre was a big hall behind up the bank you would hear the dogs bark at times but it never once put us off out went our floats and baited hooks maggot and bread flake from the start rudd big fish from a pound to two pounds we also got broke on a number of times then realized there were carp preasent as well and not small by standards big fish we ended the day with about sixty pound of prime rudd some realy big for five weeks we poached that pool having great sport breaking our personal best for rudd many times with fish to 3 pounds it was to far to take our carp tackle so we never fished for the carp but did get broke on float tackle many times, i said to graham its time we asked permision as we were always on edge. so after finishing one day it was off to the hall. we were met by a very well spoken gent enquiring what we wanted can we fish your pool in the woods i say he looked amazed how do you know about them a freind told me and i would like to fish it. quite abrubtly he said no one goes down there no one do you hear its private sorry. then out of the blue he said do you samon fish, after saying no he said we could fish it for the chub and dace he explained were it was and said we were most welcome to fish ther any time. but the pool was a no little did he relize we had already fished it and i have never returned to this day more to come
still traveling down to see dick with kieth wilkinson when i could get a day of from work it was always nice to see him he had a great sence of umer, one day sitting in his office i plucked up enought courage and said straight out dick some of what you write is a bit way out he smiled and said if it was not i would be out of businesss i have to be controversial for people to write back to me he never took offence at all what a great man. now back to fishing dennis started fishing on white mere graham and i fanced a ghange a freind told me about a small pool in south shropshire you wont get permission he said its never fished its in a wood you get to it by walking through a deep wooded gully after some directions one sat morning of we went , on finding the location away we went tackle on back well this gully was full of fern it was a hot sunny day we did sweat the ferns were nearly up to our head are you sure this the place graham said lets press on and see said i eventualy we came out in this clearing what a site the most beautiful pool i have ever seen it had a boat house in need of repair and an island the water was nearly blue we learned that it used to be a marl pit , out came the rods poaching or not we certainly were going to have a go thre was a big hall behind up the bank you would hear the dogs bark at times but it never once put us off out went our floats and baited hooks maggot and bread flake from the start rudd big fish from a pound to two pounds we also got broke on a number of times then realized there were carp preasent as well and not small by standards big fish we ended the day with about sixty pound of prime rudd some realy big for five weeks we poached that pool having great sport breaking our personal best for rudd many times with fish to 3 pounds it was to far to take our carp tackle so we never fished for the carp but did get broke on float tackle many times, i said to graham its time we asked permision as we were always on edge. so after finishing one day it was off to the hall. we were met by a very well spoken gent enquiring what we wanted can we fish your pool in the woods i say he looked amazed how do you know about them a freind told me and i would like to fish it. quite abrubtly he said no one goes down there no one do you hear its private sorry. then out of the blue he said do you samon fish, after saying no he said we could fish it for the chub and dace he explained were it was and said we were most welcome to fish ther any time. but the pool was a no little did he relize we had already fished it and i have never returned to this day more to come