2Nd Fish This Year

[squab 2,875]

They get wise very quickly,you got get them competing for floaters before trying hook one as you know but great sport when you get a take,I always found you get better class of fish taking them off the top don't know why and maybe bollix but that's what I found over the years

[bobcullen79 1,495]

You do get some clonkers off the top. My mate, the one that had a 49.12 English fish once nicked a biggie off me. I put some floaters out in the margins in 3 swims in a row and opted to sit in the middle. He opted for the mobile approach. When I hooked one in the middle swim, he walked round to see how big it was, only he never made it to me. On his way round he seen fish slurping in the right hand swim and dropped in on them. By the time I had landed, weighed and returned my 12lber, he was into a decent one in a swim which was not much more than a hole in the bushes. After a mental fight through the pads and sunken trees,(I do love a good scrap) he got it. 25lb+ of linear mirror. Nice fish it was, but I couldnt help feeling robbed. b*****d. I still wind into him about that still today

[NEWKID 27,132]

Cracking stuff Bob, that old dark fish is a beauty....

[slip lead 862]

Big hatch at this time of year, get on BUGS, zigged if your waters have gone quiet , because that's what a lot will be eating at the moment especially in Gravel pits.

 

Happy Hunting

[bobcullen79 1,495]

 

 

Nice fish , its still special when their over twenty ..

Oh yeah definitely. Theres just something more special when your on your own, under no pressure and in a nice, wild tranquil place. Its a million miles away from a commercial fish. Big, old, slow grown English fish are where its at. This one was around the same weight, but probably 30+ years older and much more satisfying to catch. IMG_0179thl.jpg

that's a lovely fish Mate atb AT

 

Yeah there was a couple in there like that bud, originals. They had weird names like the bionic and the jurassic lol.