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Post by rushy on Jun 18, 2015 18:43:45 GMT
Well . no bubbles while me and Brent were there today. Mind you we did have Bobble with us so we were close. Had another great day with the Last Cast lads introducing them to the basics of Barbel fishing. Brent got a nice 6 pounder first cast (photo on Bobbles video ) and so did I while guarding Bobbles rod as he set up the gear for our next Last Cast go Barbel Fishing video ................ serves him right ended the day with 3 Barbel between us and a nice last cast Chub !! Thanks to Paul Deanos and Karl KPKH for their technical and physcological support whilst landing this 7lb 2 ounce beaut
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Post by grford77 on Jun 18, 2015 18:58:22 GMT
Well . no bubbles while me and Brent were there today. Mind you we did have Bobble with us so we were close. Had another great day with the Last Cast lads introducing them to t, he basics of Barbel fishing. Brent got a nice 6 pounder first cast (photo on Bobbles video ) and so did I while guarding Bobbles rod as he set up the gear for our next Last Cast go Barbel Fishing video ................ serves him right ended the day with 3 Barbel between us and a nice last cast Chub !! Thanks to Paul Deanos and Karl KPKH for their technical and physcological support whilst landing this 7lb 2 ounce beaut Lovely rusty! Glad you got Brent one too, he will be hanging the pike rods up now. Would love to have caught that Chub on a little crankbait.
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Post by deanos on Jun 18, 2015 21:11:09 GMT
Nice dog of a chub to cap the day with Dave! Great bunch of lads and what work you all put in to clear a path to the pegs. We are lucky to have the Nidd on our doorstep.
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Post by dranv8 on Jun 18, 2015 21:41:15 GMT
Well . no bubbles while me and Brent were there today. Mind you we did have Bobble with us so we were close. Had another great day with the Last Cast lads introducing them to t, he basics of Barbel fishing. Brent got a nice 6 pounder first cast (photo on Bobbles video ) and so did I while guarding Bobbles rod as he set up the gear for our next Last Cast go Barbel Fishing video ................ serves him right ended the day with 3 Barbel between us and a nice last cast Chub !! Thanks to Paul Deanos and Karl KPKH for their technical and physcological support whilst landing this 7lb 2 ounce beaut Lovely rusty! Glad you got Brent one too, he will be hanging the pike rods up now. Would love to have caught that Chub on a little crankbait. Glen that will never happen mate pike will always be number one for me bud, ;-)
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Post by nige_LS7 on Jun 18, 2015 22:40:53 GMT
Some gorgeous fish there lads, well played. can't wait to get back to the Nidd ... was gonna be Saturday but now tomorrow from about 5pm as well
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Post by nige_LS7 on Jun 22, 2015 11:43:06 GMT
Well . no bubbles while me and Brent were there today. Well I can see from the 'out-take' that you spent some time in the same peg (I can even see the skidmarks left by that daft swimming cow on the bank behind you) ... but no bubbles on thursday for you. then on Friday and saturday i also watched the swim for a while, but didn't feed it or fish it. No bubbles. It's not gas from the river bed rising on its own, but I always knew that cos of the way the bubble streams came upstream Not otters, cos I'm not that bad a naturalist that i don't know the difference, and otters aren't so daft that they stay in a swim for 5 hours, cos if they did there'd be no bloody fish. I saw otter bubbles in another swim friday night, and sure enough, heard an otter grunting a bit later under a willow - same first thing Saturday morning - i do know the difference These were defo fish bubbles (whether emitted by fish or gas released by their movements on the river bed) and defo more bubbles on the exact patches where I'd fed, and then bigger bubbles in longer lines coming up to my feed. Paul confirmed when I met him Saturday that he saw this in the same peg last week, though I'm guessing not as much as I saw, and that could have been because of my feed that involved some krill-glugged pellets and krill-glugged little scraps of meat. I also saw a heron fishing the shallowest bit of that peg Saturday morning. Working conclusions so far: small fish and fry like that swim, my feed attracted them, and in turn attracted larger fish coming upstream - repeatedly - over a 5-hour period, and then backing off, repeatedly. Barbel is a possibility. But pike most likely (thanks for the p-m by the way - you know who you are ). And pike fishermen - I'd say get the krill glug out for your deadbaits (next September) if it attracts them as much as I'm guessing it does. And yes, now that I've bagged my first of hopefully many, I'm more relaxed about barbel tactics, though I have to say I'm pleased with the results of a back lead - no 'line bites' from anything (but does make the line spin more and kink more?)
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Post by grford77 on Jun 22, 2015 12:57:17 GMT
Well . no bubbles while me and Brent were there today. Well I can see from the 'out-take' that you spent some time in the same peg (I can even see the skidmarks left by that daft swimming cow on the bank behind you) ... but no bubbles on thursday for you. then on Friday and saturday i also watched the swim for a while, but didn't feed it or fish it. No bubbles. It's not gas from the river bed rising on its own, but I always knew that cos of the way the bubble streams came upstream Not otters, cos I'm not that bad a naturalist that i don't know the difference, and otters aren't so daft that they stay in a swim for 5 hours, cos if they did there'd be no bloody fish. I saw otter bubbles in another swim friday night, and sure enough, heard an otter grunting a bit later under a willow - same first thing Saturday morning - i do know the difference These were defo fish bubbles (whether emitted by fish or gas released by their movements on the river bed) and defo more bubbles on the exact patches where I'd fed, and then bigger bubbles in longer lines coming up to my feed. Paul confirmed when I met him Saturday that he saw this in the same peg last week, though I'm guessing not as much as I saw, and that could have been because of my feed that involved some krill-glugged pellets and krill-glugged little scraps of meat. I also saw a heron fishing the shallowest bit of that peg Saturday morning. Working conclusions so far: small fish and fry like that swim, my feed attracted them, and in turn attracted larger fish coming upstream - repeatedly - over a 5-hour period, and then backing off, repeatedly. Barbel is a possibility. But pike most likely (thanks for the p-m by the way - you know who you are ). And pike fishermen - I'd say get the krill glug out for your deadbaits (next September) if it attracts them as much as I'm guessing it does. And yes, now that I've bagged my first of hopefully many, I'm more relaxed about barbel tactics, though I have to say I'm pleased with the results of a back lead - no 'line bites' from anything (but does make the line spin more and kink more?) Why dont you just stop worrying so much about the bubbles Nige and get on and catch the bloody fish!
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Post by nige_LS7 on Jun 22, 2015 15:20:52 GMT
Well I can see from the 'out-take' that you spent some time in the same peg (I can even see the skidmarks left by that daft swimming cow on the bank behind you) ... but no bubbles on thursday for you. then on Friday and saturday i also watched the swim for a while, but didn't feed it or fish it. No bubbles. It's not gas from the river bed rising on its own, but I always knew that cos of the way the bubble streams came upstream Not otters, cos I'm not that bad a naturalist that i don't know the difference, and otters aren't so daft that they stay in a swim for 5 hours, cos if they did there'd be no bloody fish. I saw otter bubbles in another swim friday night, and sure enough, heard an otter grunting a bit later under a willow - same first thing Saturday morning - i do know the difference These were defo fish bubbles (whether emitted by fish or gas released by their movements on the river bed) and defo more bubbles on the exact patches where I'd fed, and then bigger bubbles in longer lines coming up to my feed. Paul confirmed when I met him Saturday that he saw this in the same peg last week, though I'm guessing not as much as I saw, and that could have been because of my feed that involved some krill-glugged pellets and krill-glugged little scraps of meat. I also saw a heron fishing the shallowest bit of that peg Saturday morning. Working conclusions so far: small fish and fry like that swim, my feed attracted them, and in turn attracted larger fish coming upstream - repeatedly - over a 5-hour period, and then backing off, repeatedly. Barbel is a possibility. But pike most likely (thanks for the p-m by the way - you know who you are ). And pike fishermen - I'd say get the krill glug out for your deadbaits (next September) if it attracts them as much as I'm guessing it does. And yes, now that I've bagged my first of hopefully many, I'm more relaxed about barbel tactics, though I have to say I'm pleased with the results of a back lead - no 'line bites' from anything (but does make the line spin more and kink more?) Why dont you just stop worrying so much about the bubbles Nige and get on and catch the bloody fish! Oh I'm not worrying, I'm watching & learning fast mate - from advice on here and from the bubbles - it's all going to help with the catching. Those bubbles kept me in the same peg for 5 hours last Tuesday, when other pegs were waiting pre-baited, but if I saw them again now a week later, I'd probably leave the peg or get a lure out.
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Post by dranv8 on Jun 22, 2015 15:34:56 GMT
Why dont you just stop worrying so much about the bubbles Nige and get on and catch the bloody fish! Oh I'm not worrying, I'm watching & learning fast mate - from advice on here and from the bubbles - it's all going to help with the catching. Those bubbles kept me in the same peg for 5 hours last Tuesday, when other pegs were waiting pre-baited, but if I saw them again now a week later, I'd probably leave the peg or get a lure out. I think you are probably of the mark re pike as if pike were in the swim taking a shoal of small fish you would definitely have known about it with it only being a narrow river,you would have had a good commotion
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Post by nige_LS7 on Jun 22, 2015 16:02:57 GMT
Oh I'm not worrying, I'm watching & learning fast mate - from advice on here and from the bubbles - it's all going to help with the catching. Those bubbles kept me in the same peg for 5 hours last Tuesday, when other pegs were waiting pre-baited, but if I saw them again now a week later, I'd probably leave the peg or get a lure out. I think you are probably of the mark re pike as if pike were in the swim taking a shoal of small fish you would definitely have known about it with it only being a narrow river,you would have had a good commotion I thought this last week....cos only occasionally in the 5 hours did I notice small fish jump out the water at the top of the swim as if being hunted, and I thought 5 hours was too long for pike to keep coming back every few minutes ...but 2 people have said most likely pike, so I thought that the maybe pike weren't actually being successful but couldn't resist the fishy attraction of the feed time after time, even though the small fish had spooked by the time the pike got there ... Anyway I will give up on this now cos of contradictory advice from different experienced people who certainly seem to know their fish behaviour but I can't show them any 'film' of what was going on. People naturally try to fit what I describe in with other things they have observed, even if they aren't quite the same as what I'm trying to describe. Thanks for all the advice folks!!
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