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Post by johnboy66 on Aug 1, 2015 20:33:53 GMT
yh but Rushy there was only me knee deep in water recovering tree branches from Pete and Cabbo been on a bloody mission, put it this way I don't think that tree as any life left in it now.
I noticed there where no photos of my hard work, it most of been when you where having your sandwich and discarding the wrapper on the floor for me to pick up later (leave litter leave tha club) I will be keeping a eye down there anymore egg mayonnaise pkt`s I know who`s been down there
WATCHING YOU RUSHY!!!
RESPECT!!!
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Post by johnboy66 on Aug 1, 2015 20:37:52 GMT
some good barbel came out this afternoon sadly not by me, tried several swims only had 2 decent perch and a couple of chubblets.
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Post by Eddie on Aug 1, 2015 21:07:16 GMT
Yeah, well done boys, plenty of hard work done, but it was probably at its most overgrown this time of year! So never going to be a walk in the park. So a Stirling effort by all. Hammerton mill is now open for business!!! Give yourselves a pat on the back.
Eddie.
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Post by andyp on Aug 2, 2015 6:31:12 GMT
A big well done to all the team. It looked an impossible task considering we couldn't see the river from the bank, the balsam and nettles where a lot higher and overgrown than the previous work party(see Rushys photos). So after some hard graft we now have places which have become fishable. Access down to some of the pegs ( how do I put it) could be a bit challenging but that's all part of fishing. It's a smashing venue and If you don't mind the walk, I would urge you to give it a go.
So once again thanks to Rushy for organising the day and the team ( you know who you are) for turning up and doing the hard work.
Andy
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Post by moose on Aug 2, 2015 7:05:43 GMT
Hi just joined forum
Great work lads, this is where I used to come as a kid when my mates dad would drive us, it was a change from roundhay park and they were special days - why would anyone want to go to a commercial when there is such natural beauty???!!!
once again top job boys
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Post by nige_LS7 on Aug 2, 2015 9:17:11 GMT
Hidden Treasures Restored for all Leeds Anglers: "X" Marks the Spot at Hammerton
About 30 cracking pegs opened up there - great work everyone. And again apologies from me for only putting in a late half shift (I turned up about 10 a.m. and joined forces with Paulyboy and his "Presidential Palace Peg" Project, with its majestic staircases leading down to the pegs). I could tell you the full story of my excuses, but not on a public forum. It started at 3.30 p.m. on Friday, with a drink or three that was an essential part of my new job, honest guv I really don't go on the p*ss every Friday evening, honestly I don't, but it's just that the two working parties I've been on have both been the night after certain essential events with a certain amount of unavoidable imbibing. Suffice to say when I got dropped off at Skip Bridge at 6.30 am Saturday (with me bike of course), I only intended to fish till about 8.30, then join the working party, but the hangover and one or two tackle failures meant the only real fishing was from 8 til about 9.15. Had a decent chub on a halibut boilie so it was hard to tear meself away, sorry.
Anyway I had a nose round all of the new pegs when we you'd finished the working party, then my first ever walk down to the legendary Horseshoe Bend just to try to see/imagine what all the fuss was about from all the old g*ts . It's further than it looks, like everyone says. For those of you who weren't there, but who have been beyond the stile, the photos above will tell the story not only of all the hard work by Jez & Co (RESPECT!!) but also of how the Horseshoe Bend stretch can now be accessed via the path that they strimmed, and then along the edge of the wheat barley (thanks Jez) field - THIS IS UNOFFIALLY SPEAKING OF COURSE. When that huge field has been harvested (any time now I think), the issue will be simpler... but camouflage is always a good idea You follow the edge of that field along the flood bank then back up onto the bank when you're not far from the farm after which farmhouse glide is named. I got as far as the pegs that 'NickMac' must have been talking about when he said on here that he'd made some pegs and had some chub down there the other day. Great work Nick.
But I knew there was no way I'd make it down there and back with my tackle on this particular day, and I was in no rush to start fishing at the first field, either, thinking that the fish would have been disturbed by all the chopping and digging .....and anyway I'd be around till dark ... so no hurry. It was warm at this stage of the day and I'd already run out of fluids, despite bringing loads, so traipsed back from Horseshoe Bend and went to the Skip Bridge garage on me bike. Much further round from Hammerton than from Skip Bridge(obviously)! Sausage and bacon baps reduced to 49p....thank you Co-Op, so I bought FOUR of the blighters to last me till I got back home at midnight!! Red sauce, brown sauce ... or no sauce at all? That is the question (which is asked on the Danny Baker show every Saturday morning, for those who don't take a radio when they're fishing. The answer is easy when the sauce is 20p a sachet, Danny). Meanwhlie I even watched some of the village cricket match!! Not played the game at all this summer due to getting my hand trodden on in football back in April .. I knew I should have gone to the hospital with that ...errm anyway - cricket, football, no - what was it I came to Hammerton to do again ?
Oh yeah, fishing, thats's it! Do I really have to? All I knew at that point was I didn't have the energy to get back to fish anywhere more than about 200 yards from the Mill, but there were still so many fantastic new pegs to choose from ... plus Jb had mentioned this top field, that I'd never seen yet, so I had another recce around there, where I disturbed some rare breeds - springer sheep that when they are separated from their lambs they bounce towards you along the flood bank like a springer spaniel through the grass... or was it a ram protecting his harem? Anyway I think despite the mad sheepII managed not to disturb Ronnie looking so relaxed on his sun-lounger... I could listen all day to the soft trill of his centrepin as the kingfisher flits past and the damsel flies dance their dances... but come on come on Nige wake up, these new pegs won't fish themselves... Help!!! I still can't decide which of a dozen tempting pegs to start on... I'd like to fish the weir pool itself of course, but that's where the most work has gone on all day from the demon chainsaw artists like Cabbo & Pete... and Johnboy's wading will have scared all the fish off if nothing else has...so I'll leave that till next time ...
Then, and thank you to whoever it was, I noticed someone had put an "X" of balsam stems on top of a post as a bit of a tracker's secret sign to mark one of the pegs (or to give it some kind of mysterious blessing??) ... so even though I had already nicknamed that peg "Mr. Crabtree's Green Ski Jump", because of its potential dangers, I decided I'd start there.... someone might have marked this peg out as one to try later ... or maybe it's one they loved when they were a nipper, back in the day when maggots were 3d a gallon and rods were made from split bamboo or summat ... Besides, this peg is right next to the other one where I'd already heard the other Nige land a Bertie (and I had turned up in time to see the evidence - well played to The Original Forum Nige).
I had a few equipment issues as I was tackling up during the moment about 3.30 when the skies just opened and then just stayed open for 15-20 mins. No brolly - I should have gone back to "Paulyboy's Palace Peg" to shelter, but that only occurred to me afterwards. When the downpour finally stopped, my first cast was lucky to avoid a willow....
But hey-up, what's this? within a minute, something small has taken the meat ... hmm, not much resistance here ... ah wait a minute it's headed towards me to this other willow, and OK I see, that's just the weight of the feeder being taken up, it's not very fast though, this fish .... must be a little chub .... only needs a bit of pressure here to steer it away..... it's at the surface already ... oh it IS a barbel after all, ...just a small barbel, not even much fight till it's near the net .... maybe when you've way above them in a high-up swim like this one it's like they can't fight as hard with their heads up all the time???... Oh ... but when you're this high up, you can't net them either ....errm, why didn't I think of this before (answer cos I've never fished a peg like this before...) .... doh I've got the net in me hand too soon, before getting the correct line length down from the rod tip ....kneel down, don't lean forward , rod as high as poss, careful this peg is now a wet ski-jump of liquidised balsam sap ....there's only one spot I can reach the water here. You idiot, Nige, for not even extending the handle fully before you cast out !! (it's my most portable landing net and it's handled barbel before, but it's not the longest or strongest) ... even when the fish is over the net the angle is so steep the fish slips out ... twice..... but finally SCOOP (at that moment Johnboy pops up behind me at the top of the ski jump ..."barbel?") ....
"Just a little one" I said, and LIFT .... wow, not a long fish but what a girth ... "it's heavier than I thought" .....errm try to LIFT again .... ouch ...me back... nope, there won't be much cricket for me this summer.
So my first cast at Hammerton was at about 3.50 pm... first cast in a newly-cut swim .... and my first Hammerton barbel was in the net before 4pm... they look smaller and they fight smaller when they're so far down below you in the river, so I'll weigh this one just to put a figure on how surprised I am, if you like ... 5-11 ... now to rest the poor thing ... not easy here, so quick! find a peg where I can rest it and release it properly ... quick dash with the net round to the "former and future footbridge" peg, where the fish soon kicks away strongly. THANK YOU FORUM AC WORKING PARTY!!
No photo ... 'cos I was fumbling around everywhere with my gear now spread in 2 different pegs ....and I couldn't find me camera anywhere ... though after looking everywhere, it was at the bottom of the jacket pocket all along ...
I only had 3 more casts there, and the next cast after the fish was straight into a willow ....that peg dead now, so off into the other Nigel's peg - he's gone - I'll call it "Smithelback's Loft Ladder" - he'd already had a barbel there an hour and a half, maybe two hours earlier... careful down here Nige after that downpour.... AAAAAAARGH .... SLIDES AND CRRRRRRAAAAAASHES DOWN THE STEPS .... sits up at the bottom.... ah well, count me blessings, if this had happened in the last peg I'd be in 4 foot of water .... and at least the bait bucket hit me shoulder, not over me head, or I'd have even more bait running down me neck. Is my rod tip still intact? ... yes, phew, nice one, just clean that mud off the reel ..... let's get all this bait back in the bucket ... half of my bait's in the landing net ... OH. B-U-G-G-E-R. This is where I see that the rim of this folding landing net has broken, not just in one place but on both sides of where it folds as the rim joins the handle!!! Suprised that just a fall down a slope can do that ... but, now that I think about it, the way I netted and then carried that last fish round to the next peg won't have helped...
No landing net = no more fishing today, of course. I'll have to go home now and it's only 5.30pm
But come on Nige. Where's your survival spirit? ... 20 mins later I've lashed two bank sticks to the sides of the net and then down to the handle, and OK, maybe I haven't got a landing net that will lift by the handle, but I've got one that will net a fish, and then I'll just have to lift the actual net rims from both sides, not the handle. In this peg I can reach it and do that, as long as the net stays where I'm putting it now....All it means is that just like the last peg, there will only be one spot I can land a fish from, and I'll just have to guide the fish to that spot. No difference really!!
Luckily, the strapped-together net was never tested. I had a few casts on that peg, and something sneaked the meat off the hair twice, I think. So then I thought I'd go to a peg with a soft beach of black mud, where a tired fish could be guided onto the net then lifted in very safely onto my mat .....that was the theory anyway, so i spent the last 3 hours in Paulyboy's very promising "Presidential Palace Peg" with its ceremonial staircase .. very Health & Safety-minded is our Paulyboy, so there'll be no slipping on balsam sap here ... [NB this is not to be confused with Paulyboy's adjacent "Royal throne" peg, on which Johnboy had a couple of perch that afternoon]. Nice peg, but after nearly 3 hours casting around every inch of it with different baits, I'd had no takes, just a few shy nudges .... dunno why I never tried running a float down this one ...wish I had done now.... I had no live bait, but I could/should have dug up a few worms somewhere...as soon as I'd tackled down at 9.30 though, yep, a few fish started rolling as if to say "So long and thanks for all the fish pellets."
************************************************************************* So, another great working party from Forum AC .... but will we all fish it?? I get the impression that yes, we'll fish it, and the best of these pegs will stay open ... like they have at the railway stretch where we did the other working party.... MIND YOU, YOU SHOULD SEE THE STATE OF THE BALSAM THERE NOW, from the railway underpass through to about the fourth peg .... it's over ten foot high and you have to push through it at points ..... I'm just glad there's scheduled to be matches there for the next 4 Sundays .. that should sort it back out again (if those are real matches not 'phantom' ones). So yeah, let's keep this access to all these stretches open by fishing them!
One thing though that I'm not at all optimistic about is this Hogweed invasion. It wasn't just this year's fully grown plants that were tall and obvious at Hammerton yesterday... but when you started to look down it was the young green plants all around the pathways ... those huge leaves mean they can out-compete anything, and just in that first field it is set to be a massive player in coming years.
Does anybody want to start a business with me, specialising in eradicating this horrible pest? Could be errrm, a big "growth industry" in the years to come. Mind you, I wouldn't want to be paid by the long-term results, about which I'm not optimistic.
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Post by nige_LS7 on Aug 2, 2015 10:41:12 GMT
A good day and plenty of work put in by all, there's some good pegs opened up now. I stayed on for a few hours and fished the sheep field above the weir, I'd seen enough pink flowers for one day, got a chub about three lbs on the stick but that was it. By the way talking of control of invasive species, sheep seem to love those pink flowers of the balsam - hence none on that field - wish it was simple with the Hogweed! Paulyboy pointed out to me a spot on the opposite bank from the peg we were digging out, and said "someone's been accessing the river down the bank there (at start of the York stretch maybe??)", but from fishing it later and watching them at it, I can say it's the lambs eating the flowers off Himalayan balsa, and other sheepy delicacies. they seem to love that sticky knotweed. Well done on the chub Ronnie. I passed you twice yesterday but never said hello 'cos I didn't want to disturb your picture of tranquility (I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on you being actually awake at the time )
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Post by nickmac on Aug 2, 2015 11:09:01 GMT
Some great reports . Looks like you had a good day there.Having walked round that stretch I knew you had your work cut out! I will be having a go in some of those swims I have not fished in years. A big thankyou from me your all a credit to the club. Well done!
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Post by patterdalewilson on Aug 2, 2015 13:53:08 GMT
Yesterday's work party outing to Hammerton was a very enjoyable experience on many fronts.
Great set of blokes. Great venue. Great work effort. Great result.
I could add lots more positives to that list but you get my drift , the fishery is now much improved and will be a joy to fish I'm sure. Let's hope the pegs are as productive as they look.
Thanks to all who participated yesterday, there were some heroic performances with various scary looking impliments powered and otherwise.
Heres to the next one , Mick.
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Post by ronnie on Aug 2, 2015 17:30:22 GMT
I was awake all the time Nige, I only had my unhooking mat to sit on, didn't bother with a seat in case i fancied a walk back downstream and I was laid down resting my back, you must have crept by, I didn't hear you. Wouldn't dare doze off and risk losing my rod after Rushy's posts on the subject, that must have been after I changed from float to bomb.
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Post by jhop on Aug 2, 2015 17:35:10 GMT
Great effort by all yesterday nice to see old pegs re-opened. Ronnie was heading to his peg in 1st field as i walked back to car to drop tools off and picking the fishing gear up. Walked back to mill with Johnboy, some were heading to the pub had a chat with Nige as he was just geting back to mill after his stroll down to horseshoe. Cut across 1st field following path under power lines found other Nige in his favourite peg. My destination was down to farmhouse glide dropped into a peg that I told Cabbo to fish last year, but fished myself had 2 chub & a barbel, lost 1 last year. This time caught plenty small dace roach on stick early on then whilst raining swicthed to ledgering with hair rigged spam got a barbel & 2 chub. Packed up about 8:45 walked back to car, didn,t seem as long a walk this year as last. Will be even easier when the crops have been harvested.
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Post by johnboy66 on Aug 2, 2015 20:24:16 GMT
Hidden Treasures Restored for all Leeds Anglers: "X" Marks the Spot at Hammerton
About 30 cracking pegs opened up there - great work everyone. And again apologies from me for only putting in a late half shift (I turned up about 10 a.m. and joined forces with Paulyboy and his "Presidential Palace Peg" Project, with its majestic staircases leading down to the pegs). I could tell you the full story of my excuses, but not on a public forum. It started at 3.30 p.m. on Friday, with a drink or three that was an essential part of my new job, honest guv I really don't go on the p*ss every Friday evening, honestly I don't, but it's just that the two working parties I've been on have both been the night after certain essential events with a certain amount of unavoidable imbibing. Suffice to say when I got dropped off at Skip Bridge at 6.30 am Saturday (with me bike of course), I only intended to fish till about 8.30, then join the working party, but the hangover and one or two tackle failures meant the only real fishing was from 8 til about 9.15. Had a decent chub on a halibut boilie so it was hard to tear meself away, sorry.
Anyway I had a nose round all of the new pegs when we you'd finished the working party, then my first ever walk down to the legendary Horseshoe Bend just to try to see/imagine what all the fuss was about from all the old g*ts . It's further than it looks, like everyone says. For those of you who weren't there, but who have been beyond the stile, the photos above will tell the story not only of all the hard work by Jez & Co (RESPECT!!) but also of how the Horseshoe Bend stretch can now be accessed via the path that they strimmed, and then along the edge of the wheat field - THIS IS UNOFFIALLY SPEAKING OF COURSE. When that huge field has been harvested (any day now I think), the issue will be simpler... but camouflage is always a good idea You follow the edge of that field along the flood bank then back up onto the bank when you're not far from the farm after which farmhouse glide is named. I got as far as the pegs that 'NickMac' must have been talking about when he said on here that he'd made some pegs and had some chub down there the other day. Great work Nick.
But I knew there was no way I'd make it down there and back with my tackle on this particular day, and I was in no rush to start fishing at the first field, either, thinking that the fish would have been disturbed by all the chopping and digging .....and anyway I'd be around till dark ... so no hurry. It was warm at this stage of the day and I'd already run out of fluids, despite bringing loads, so traipsed back from Horseshoe Bend and went to the Skip Bridge garage on me bike. Much further round from Hammerton than from Skip Bridge(obviously)! Sausage and bacon baps reduced to 49p....thank you Co-Op, so I bought FOUR of the blighters to last me till I got back home at midnight!! Red sauce, brown sauce ... or no sauce at all? That is the question (which is asked on the Danny Baker show every Saturday morning, for those who don't take a radio when they're fishing. The answer is easy when the sauce is 20p a sachet, Danny). Meanwhlie I even watched some of the village cricket match!! Not played the game at all this summer due to getting my hand trodden on in football back in April .. I knew I should have gone to the hospital with that ...errm anyway - cricket, football, no - what was it I came to Hammerton to do again ?
Oh yeah, fishing, thats's it! Do I really have to? All I knew at that point was I didn't have the energy to get back to fish anywhere more than about 200 yards from the Mill, but there were still so many fantastic new pegs to choose from ... plus Jb had mentioned this top field, that I'd never seen yet, so I had another recce around there, where I disturbed some rare breeds - springer sheep that when they are separated from their lambs they bounce towards you along the flood bank like a springer spaniel through the grass... or was it a ram protecting his harem? Anyway I think despite the mad sheepII managed not to disturb Ronnie looking so relaxed on his sun-lounger... I could listen all day to the soft trill of his centrepin as the kingfisher flits past and the damsel flies dance their dances... but come on come on Nige wake up, these new pegs won't fish themselves... Help!!! I still can't decide which of a dozen tempting pegs to start on... I'd like to fish the weir pool itself of course, but that's where the most work has gone on all day from the demon chainsaw artists like Cabbo & Pete... and Johnboy's wading will have scared all the fish off if nothing else has...so I'll leave that till next time ...
Then, and thank you to whoever it was, I noticed someone had put an "X" of balsam stems on top of a post as a bit of a tracker's secret sign to mark one of the pegs (or to give it some kind of mysterious blessing??) ... so even though I had already nicknamed that peg "Mr. Crabtree's Green Ski Jump", because of its potential dangers, I decided I'd start there.... someone might have marked this peg out as one to try later ... or maybe it's one they loved when they were a nipper, back in the day when maggots were 3d a gallon and rods were made from split bamboo or summat ... Besides, this peg is right next to the other one where I'd already heard the other Nige land a Bertie (and I had turned up in time to see the evidence - well played to The Original Forum Nige).
I had a few equipment issues as I was tackling up during the moment about 3.30 when the skies just opened and then just stayed open for 15-20 mins. No brolly - I should have gone back to "Paulyboy's Palace Peg" to shelter, but that only occurred to me afterwards. When the downpour finally stopped, my first cast was lucky to avoid a willow....
But hey-up, what's this? within a minute, something small has taken the meat ... hmm, not much resistance here ... ah wait a minute it's headed towards me to this other willow, and OK I see, that's just the weight of the feeder being taken up, it's not very fast though, this fish .... must be a little chub .... only needs a bit of pressure here to steer it away..... it's at the surface already ... oh it IS a barbel after all, ...just a small barbel, not even much fight till it's near the net .... maybe when you've way above them in a high-up swim like this one it's like they can't fight as hard with their heads up all the time???... Oh ... but when you're this high up, you can't net them either ....errm, why didn't I think of this before (answer cos I've never fished a peg like this before...) .... doh I've got the net in me hand too soon, before getting the correct line length down from the rod tip ....kneel down, don't lean forward , rod as high as poss, careful this peg is now a wet ski-jump of liquidised balsam sap ....there's only one spot I can reach the water here. You idiot, Nige, for not even extending the handle fully before you cast out !! (it's my most portable landing net and it's handled barbel before, but it's not the longest or strongest) ... even when the fish is over the net the angle is so steep the fish slips out ... twice..... but finally SCOOP (at that moment Johnboy pops up behind me at the top of the ski jump ..."barbel?") ....
"Just a little one" I said, and LIFT .... wow, not a long fish but what a girth ... "it's heavier than I thought" .....errm try to LIFT again .... ouch ...me back... nope, there won't be much cricket for me this summer.
So my first cast at Hammerton was at about 3.50 pm... first cast in a newly-cut swim .... and my first Hammerton barbel was in the net before 4pm... they look smaller and they fight smaller when they're so far down below you in the river, so I'll weigh this one just to put a figure on how surprised I am, if you like ... 5-11 ... now to rest the poor thing ... not easy here, so quick! find a peg where I can rest it and release it properly ... quick dash with the net round to the "former and future footbridge" peg, where the fish soon kicks away strongly. THANK YOU FORUM AC WORKING PARTY!!
No photo ... 'cos I was fumbling around everywhere with my gear now spread in 2 different pegs ....and I couldn't find me camera anywhere ... though after looking everywhere, it was at the bottom of the jacket pocket all along ...
I only had 3 more casts there, and the next cast after the fish was straight into a willow ....that peg dead now, so off into the other Nigel's peg - he's gone - I'll call it "Smithelback's Loft Ladder" - he'd already had a barbel there an hour and a half, maybe two hours earlier... careful down here Nige after that downpour.... AAAAAAARGH .... SLIDES AND CRRRRRRAAAAAASHES DOWN THE STEPS .... sits up at the bottom.... ah well, count me blessings, if this had happened in the last peg I'd be in 4 foot of water .... and at least the bait bucket hit me shoulder, not over me head, or I'd have even more bait running down me neck. Is my rod tip still intact? ... yes, phew, nice one, just clean that mud off the reel ..... let's get all this bait back in the bucket ... half of my bait's in the landing net ... OH. B-U-G-G-E-R. This is where I see that the rim of this folding landing net has broken, not just in one place but on both sides of where it folds as the rim joins the handle!!! Suprised that just a fall down a slope can do that ... but, now that I think about it, the way I netted and then carried that last fish round to the next peg won't have helped...
No landing net = no more fishing today, of course. I'll have to go home now and it's only 5.30pm
But come on Nige. Where's your survival spirit? ... 20 mins later I've lashed two bank sticks to the sides of the net and then down to the handle, and OK, maybe I haven't got a landing net that will lift by the handle, but I've got one that will net a fish, and then I'll just have to lift the actual net rims from both sides, not the handle. In this peg I can reach it and do that, as long as the net stays where I'm putting it now....All it means is that just like the last peg, there will only be one spot I can land a fish from, and I'll just have to guide the fish to that spot. No difference really!!
Luckily, the strapped-together net was never tested. I had a few casts on that peg, and something sneaked the meat off the hair twice, I think. So then I thought I'd go to a peg with a soft beach of black mud, where a tired fish could be guided onto the net then lifted in very safely onto my mat .....that was the theory anyway, so i spent the last 3 hours in Paulyboy's very promising "Presidential Palace Peg" with its ceremonial staircase .. very Health & Safety-minded is our Paulyboy, so there'll be no slipping on balsam sap here ... [NB this is not to be confused with Paulyboy's adjacent "Royal throne" peg, on which Johnboy had a couple of perch that afternoon]. Nice peg, but after nearly 3 hours casting around every inch of it with different baits, I'd had no takes, just a few shy nudges .... dunno why I never tried running a float down this one ...wish I had done now.... I had no live bait, but I could/should have dug up a few worms somewhere...as soon as I'd tackled down at 9.30 though, yep, a few fish started rolling as if to say "So long and thanks for all the fish pellets."
************************************************************************* So, another great working party from Forum AC .... but will we all fish it?? I get the impression that yes, we'll fish it, and the best of these pegs will stay open ... like they have at the railway stretch where we did the other working party.... MIND YOU, YOU SHOULD SEE THE STATE OF THE BALSAM THERE NOW, from the railway underpass through to about the fourth peg .... it's over ten foot high and you have to push through it at points ..... I'm just glad there's scheduled to be matches there for the next 4 Sundays .. that should sort it back out again (if those are real matches not 'phantom' ones). So yeah, let's keep this access to all these stretches open by fishing them!
One thing though that I'm not at all optimistic about is this Hogweed invasion. It wasn't just this year's fully grown plants that were tall and obvious at Hammerton yesterday... but when you started to look down it was the young green plants all around the pathways ... those huge leaves mean they can out-compete anything, and just in that first field it is set to be a massive player in coming years.
Does anybody want to start a business with me, specialising in eradicating this horrible pest? Could be errrm, a big "growth industry" in the years to come. Mind you, I wouldn't want to be paid by the long-term results, about which I'm not optimistic.
BLOODY HELL Nige!!!
got me sen a cuppa and a couple of nice biscuits before I settle down to see if there was any reports from the work party,
what a waste of time that was by the time I`d gone through your post and devolgued what you had wrote tha tea was cold and tha bikkies where soggy
nice write up mate don't give up tha day job what with you and Rushy my life is now over lol
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Post by mortia on Aug 3, 2015 7:01:47 GMT
Thanks to all who took part on saturday - the effort is there for all to see. I left with all good intentions of having a couple of hours at Nun Monkton on the way back home, but started nodding within 10 minutes of getting started so after an hour of almost continual zzzzzzzzz's I left for home - burnt out ! After 3 hours cutting my hedge yesterday (can't get enough of it !!!!) I decided enough time had elapsed to let things settle down at Hammerton so I sneaked back - had it to myself from about 5.30pm til 10 & managed to snaffle 3 barbel out & a perch from the newly accessible pegs. They weren't particularly big (all around 3 to 3.5lbs) but in great condition. The gods were smiling down on our efforts. Cheers Andy
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Post by rushy on Aug 3, 2015 8:46:01 GMT
Thanks to all who took part on saturday - the effort is there for all to see. I left with all good intentions of having a couple of hours at Nun Monkton on the way back home, but started nodding within 10 minutes of getting started so after an hour of almost continual zzzzzzzzz's I left for home - burnt out ! After 3 hours cutting my hedge yesterday (can't get enough of it !!!!) I decided enough time had elapsed to let things settle down at Hammerton so I sneaked back - had it to myself from about 5.30pm til 10 & managed to snaffle 3 barbel out & a perch from the newly accessible pegs. They weren't particularly big (all around 3 to 3.5lbs) but in great condition. The gods were smiling down on our efforts. Cheers Andy That's a great result Stripey (that's his new nickname by the way ) Shows the fish are there , all we have to do now is get anglers down there , get some bait going in and this time next year they will all be doubles As the battery on my phone went dead on Saturday I didn't manage to get piccys of all the pegs. When I go this week I will take piccys of all the new pegs and post them on here .... Should attract some more anglers. Some cracking float pegs as well
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Post by nige_LS7 on Aug 3, 2015 11:18:15 GMT
Great to hear. So that's at least 8 barbel out Saturday and Sunday between at least 5 of us from the work party, and at least 2 others having other fish (perch, chub). So we'll call it 7 out of 7 having decent sessions, with no blanks yet reported!! It's my new favourite place... and what a contrast with how it looked when I first saw it on the 2nd Saturday of the season! Working full time now for the first time in a year, but gonna try to make time for a 5.30-10 session meself this week, maybe Thursday.
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