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I fish for dace on the stickfloat a fair bit during the season on the ribble and calder which are 2 of the best dace rivers in the country for both numbers and size with 10oz+fish common on both and 1lb fish not as unusual as you’d think. Simon Ashton the dace record holder did a video for drennan’s youtube channel on radacs day ticket stretch at ribchester float fishing for dace and had them to a lb . The calder also has plenty of gudgeon aswell and if you’re stood in the river trotting aswell as catching them they will be around your feet feeding on any dropped bait
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Trying for tench and crucians on the lift method with a centerpin today
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Mine and my mates around me are all off the ground and we strim regular and if there’s food in the feeders don’t top them up but there’s people on the pens around them that don’t keep on top of the undergrowth, leave piles of wood and just feed on the ground . The woman who feeds the wild birds only has 1 feeder on her pen and everything else is just thrown on the floor and on top of buckets. Out of 30 odd people there’s only 8 of us actively trying to keep them down but we’re pissing in the wind when the rest of them don’t think feeding on the floor and leaving piles of rubbish is a problem .
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They do my head in , just when you think you’ve got on top of them loads more appear . I put one coop up last year and they were there in no time and the feeds off the floor so it’s not like there was food on the floor for them . My big coop didn’t have any for over a year then they suddenly appeared. I did clear that shed and it was clear for a while but I noticed they were back last weekend . I’ve used a bit of poison over winter but mainly trapped them in my fen’s and I’ve had loads . My mate at the back of me has had loads in his traps and my mate at the side as been poisoning along with t
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Ive had thousands of pike over the years but can’t remember getting one with markings like that . Im guessing it’s to do with the water colour
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Had a go for tench today, didn’t get any but this nicely marked pike took a liking to my worms
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It’s just on the way out of Great Harwood
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Down on the Calder for a few hours with the stickfloat and centerpin before it shuts tomorrow . Had some chub and grayling plus a few out of season brownies . This is the best one , thought it might make 2lb so I weighed it but it went 1.14
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Just been done in a snag so dropped to one rod . Had 2 doubles and 2 in the 6-8lb range . Got another 2 hours before we need to be off and it’s probably the last barbel session of the season
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I’m down again now for the last time and was expecting it to be busy but nobody is near the swim . Just had 4 and lost one and 2 were doubles at 10.11 and 10.14
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We finished with 14 barbel and 3 chub plus a few that came off in about 4-1/2 hours fishing
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It’s going mental . Just after posting my mate had a double and another straight away on the recast and I’ve just had another about 6 . We’ve had 10 barbel and a chub so far
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Down on the ribble again with a mate and it’s been brilliant . We’ve had 7 barbel and a chub so far in 2 hours including 2 double hook ups and a new pb of 11.14 for me and a 9.12 for my mate
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It did look decent so I weighed it and couldn’t believe it was only 6.9 . I ended up with 3 decent chub and 5 barbel , the biggest was a new pb of 11,7
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Come down to the ribble again and just had this barbel after about half an hour edit . Just had another
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Couple of hours on the river tonight . Had 3 chub and missed a few
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There’s no mistaking it now , he’s turned into a fair sized bird and I think the nicer of the 2 . The one with the white tail is still the dominant one but the one I wasn’t sure about has shot up and is slightly bigger . Seems to have paired with the hen in the nest box aswell and follows her everywhere, even stands in front of the nest box and waits while she’s laying
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Bought a few traps a couple of weeks back but I’ve only made one box so far so only been using one . Had 7 so far from the side one of my chicken coops as they come out from underneath . The coops only been there just over 4 weeks so it shows how quickly they turn up
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Just stumbled on this on YouTube. Didn’t know the Monday’s was a cover
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Going to be cold on the fingers today Edit- it was grim , only managed 3 dace and a couple of missed bites and the eyes were constantly freezing up
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I know , I could have done with them at the time though and he was fairly local so I tried more than I normally would .
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I’ve given up trying to sell on Facebook. You get messages asking if it’s still available so you say yes and they never respond . Another one is if you’ve got something up for say £100 they’ll message you and say £20 cash and I’ll collect tonight , like they’re doing you a favour . I had one clown from Chorley message me within minutes of me putting a reel on saying he definitely wanted it so we did a deal and I arranged to meet him next morning at darwen services . He never showed up and wouldn’t answer any messages . Buying can be as bad on there though , I’ve responded to a fair few ads and
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I’ve got a few silkie Sussex hybrids , light Sussex and cream legbars just for eating eggs and some rare breed houdans and Swedish flower hens for hatching eggs and chicks and now the old English game bantams .
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They are , I tried to get him to part with another dark hen to make a trio up but he wouldn’t go for it . I want a break from building runs and pens for a few weeks then I’ll knock some more up and get some Pyle and ginger and maybe some black red - partridge if I can find some
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Managed to get these today on my way back from picking some more Swedish flower hens from maryport . Got them from a bloke in Penrith . That will do me now till I can get some more pens built for some other colours
