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Trout fishing with light lures is brilliant but the fly lot don’t like the riff raff catching their fish and tend to make access difficult but I’m lucky that it’s the coarse clubs that control most of the rivers round me and I can pick and choose where to go I tend to use 6lb cahira nitinol single strand titanium on the canal these days but mono or flouro for trout . I tend to miss the slower deeper sections and target shallow rapids and never had pike in them before but I’ll try the ti leaders now and see if it makes a difference to the trout because all my hard lures are jdm and I
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The canal by me is virtually unfishable at the minute. It’s like a bowling green with floating duckweed . It does get broke up by the wind and heavy rain but you don’t know which bit will be fishable at any given time so unless I already know somewhere is clear I won’t bother with the canal till later in the year and I’ll go on the rivers after trout , chub , perch and grayling instead . Went on Friday and had a few brownies on my little Japanese lures , also had a Jack about 5lb in some really shallow fast water . Went down to the next section of shallow rapids and hooked a double that bit th
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Got an 11 week old rare breed vorwerk cockerel here if anyone wants it , don’t want anything for it just ended up with 2 of them and only need 1 . Located in bb6 , Great Harwood area
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Had a go on here this morning using just hemp and tares . Had absolutely loads of roach and a couple of skimmers mainly on the pole but also had a few on an old dam quickstick swing tip rod I bought last week
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The one on the left is a tricast tribune spliced tip and the other is a dam carboron spliced tip . Ive gone back to older spliced tip rods , it’s not until you use them again you realise just how good they are compared to modern rods . I had drennan acolyte ultras and even though they are always mentioned as top rods they simply aren’t as good as the older ones . The reels are Abu 503’s
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Just had a look at them , quite like the cuckoo coloured ones .
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There still doesn’t seem to be many keeping flower hens over here but luckily the bloke I got them off didn’t charge that much for them , I got them for £24 each which I didn’t think was too bad . The guy in Warrington with the marsh daises had some Norfolk greys up for sale recently but I think he was getting rid of his stock of them because they were 3 yrs old . I did like the look of them though and I’d be tempted if I came across some . Funny you mention salmon faverolles , my mate was offered some over keighley way a couple of months back but knocked them back because they didn’t look rig
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Marsh daisies are one that I keep thinking about. There’s a bloke in Warrington who was doing them and I think I saw some in Nelson aswell . Some of the breeders ask silly money for eggs and young birds , I was looking at silver deathlayer eggs and the guy was asking a fair bit more than I think was fair for them . I’ve been offered some 8 week old houdans for free off the bloke on the next pen but I’m not overly keen on the crested birds
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Anyone keep rare breed chickens . I’ve got a mixed lot of light Sussex and sussex/silkie hybrids with a few cream legbars and vorwerks in with them just for eggs but I’m going to start doing rare breeds in some new runs for hatching eggs and young birds for next year . The first lot I’ve bought are these Swedish flower hens from maryport . Still need a cockerel to go with them but there’s no immediate rush for that . I’m looking for suggestions for a couple more breeds once I get some more runs built in the next few months . I’m not bothered about prolific egg layers , just looking for breed
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You’ve not seen the canal near me , there’s less rubbish dumped on the tip
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Just had 2-1/2 hours tonight , had a dozen jacks and 7 perch all on the pinky/purple nimble copy . Annoyingly I had about 20 small perch grab the lure just by the legs behind the hook . I could see them doing it in the clear water which was frustrating and it didn’t make any difference what I did with the retrieve
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I’m not keen on fish but I’ve been told by people who’ve had them that perch are not bad to eat , wouldn’t fancy one out of my local canal though
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Saw one over my pen in Great Harwood this afternoon
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Was only talking about red kites with a mate at the weekend saying we were surprised they haven’t turned up round us yet . We used to see a fair few round Harrogate when I used to go every week a few years ago but the closest I’ve seen one to home is on a roadkill pheasant on the blubberhouses . When I was the falconer on the tip I got sent a Pere/saker from a site in Oxford that had taken a dislike to red kites and done 4 in a week . The bloke I worked for said there was that many they couldn’t fly the bird there anymore because it would end up causing trouble and cost him the contract
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Just had half an hour on my way home , had 1 Jack about 3lb and this wasp . Think I’ve said on here before that they just disappear over winter round here and don’t start showing again till April and this is my 3rd in 3 trips , not many but it won’t be long till they are back in numbers
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Managed to upload the photo this time , no idea what was stopping it before . Had it and the jacks on my usual pinky/purple morning dawn colour nimble copy . This colour must catch 90% of the pike and perch I catch
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Just had a an hour this morning had the usual few jacks and managed my first perch of the year . Tried uploading a photo but it won’t upload for some reason
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You can still get the real thing , they just don’t sell it to the general public . I’ve just done an engine oil/creosote mix on this pallet wood chicken run , hopefully lasts a good few years but 40 years is some going .
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Anyone been out? What’s everyone shooting
neil r replied to Jake w's topic in Catapult & Slingshot Hunting
Just picked this handmade one up . It’s done with pippy oak , padouk , American walnut, maple , purple heart and another that I can’t remember. Going to band it up in a minute and try it out tomorrow -
Nothing wrong with that . I normally use about 3-4ft of 0.19 Preston reflo so if I need to retire a jighead on I’m not leaving things too short . I’ve never bothered tying a loop , just a blood knot to the jig . I prefer a 4 turn water knot for braid to mono because it’s a smaller knot that’s easy to tie on the bank but the Albrights a good knot aswell
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I use size 4 with the 40mm and size 2 with the 65mm . I also mainly use the 40mm size unless the waters really coloured and then I’ll step up to the 65’s I just straight retrieve them as slow as needed to keep them above the rubbish and weed . I don’t bother jigging them up and down because I’d lose a lure every cast because of the rubbish in the canal round here .
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Been out today just using this colour , had 9 jacks and had another 5 drop off because I’d crushed the barb . My mate was using a two tone pink version and had 6 and lost a few aswell
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Sounds about right for fox , their pike gear isn’t the best despite what the marketing and sponsored anglers say . Lure factors is where I get my jig heads from . I pay £7.70 for 20 , 3gm size 4 delivered . You can even get them in all sorts of colours for a bit extra if you want . Have a look at these supercontinent lures , they’re a copy of the crazyfish nimble but every bit as good , just cheaper. They are all I take on the canal and colour k is what I catch most pike and perch on . Size 4 jig for the 40mm and 2 for the 65mm . You can get them off aliexpress , temu and I think Amazon
