neil r

Started out with pellet method feeder and wafter on one rod and groundbait feeder with corn and maggot on the other but ended up with both on the groundbait feeder with maggot

Tried for bream today , didn’t get any but had a few one toners that turned out to be roach

Just had a quick go on the canal with the xul gear but it was coloured for some reason and had loads of pieces of weed floating about so I only had a few casts with a 0.45gm size 14 jighead and a flouro orange 20mm whitebait . Had a small jack but the weed was annoying me so I went on the little pond again for half an hour and had 2 perch and a big roach about 1-1/2lb on a 0.2gm size 14 jighead and a 27mm junebug nano minnow

Just had a couple of hours on the canal and the little pond I’ve been fishing . Struggled on the canal because the wind was holding the 0.3gm jighead up so I went on the pond and unusually never had a perch and only had one fish which was this 2lbish hybrid on a 20mm crazy fish whitebait

Not been here long and I’ve had a chub and just had this double take . My mate at the side has had a chub , a 9.1 and a 12.9 pb as he was putting the 9 back

Had a quick go with the xul gear on this little pond this afternoon . Ended up with 9 perch and 1 roach in just under an hour on a 0.3gm size 14 jighead and purple 1.1inch nano minnow . Missed a fair few delicate takes because I had no feeling at all in my fingers and couldn’t react quick enough so I came home

Quick hour on this tiny pond today

Just on a farm pond with the xul gear , it’s tough going but had this decent one on a 1.1inch nano minnow on a size 14 0.4gm jig head

Pike , I’ve had loads of roach , dace and chublets for bait though . Had a pike hit my float twice and then take a roach but drop it and another dropped run . literally just had this 12.12 on a decent chublet as I was posting .

Just had 45 minutes on a little pond with one of my new xul outfits . Had these 5 on a 1.1 inch nano minnow and 0.3gm size 14 homemade jig head . Even though they were only small , biggest being about 8-10oz they all put a good bend in the 0.2-0.8gm rod . If it wasn’t as windy I’d have dropped to a 0.15gm size 18 to try and get some roach

We definitely get a bit too complacent around water . Ive waded in places I shouldn’t have and fished off steep slippy banks and after you’ve done you think i shouldn’t have done that but then you go and do it again . This place in the pictures is down near whistling sands and it’s a lot steeper and higher than it looks . We climbed down the sharp rock edge of the bit on the right carrying all the gear to fish off the very point because it was the only way down . If we’d have slipped to the left it was straight off and to the right it was down the cliff bouncing off the sharp rocks

The ribble is a snag pit and the Calder’s not much better in places . I like the Calder and I think it’s better for grayling than the ribble , there’s some good ones in there aswell .

Normally the ribble has shallow margins but this particular stretch on this side is deep and coupled with the steep sides and mud it’s pretty bad . It was about 10-12ft off the rod top and couple of years ago about 100 yards downstream another member wasn’t so lucky and he went in and drowned .