Mowed the lawn yesterday afternoon It takes a couple of hours to do & I'm seriously considering losing some of it already, watered the tomatoes, now they are starting to come on nicely, got some nice blackberries & decided to leave one elderberry bush near to my shed which will provide some nice chub & roach bait, it's got a nice bloom of berries on it that are still green at the moment in time but should be ripe, probably by the end of this month.
I've had some great results with elderberry in the past, caught some nice roach, also dace on it & decent chub too fished over a bed of hempseed with a few casters & mini feed pellets, on both stick float & feeder tactics.
Bream used to like elderberry too in a local gravel pit & on a stretch of canal I used to frequent, but for some strange reason I cannot tempt the barbel in the Trent with elderberry, I've tried stringers, scaled down the tackle, tried longer & shorter hook lengths, it's gonna be a case of try, try & try again until I find what works with barbel & elderberry, maybe they don't like elderberry, I'm not sure or maybe it's the way I'm presenting elderberry to them !
Right better go get on with some jobs, :)
It's all about me, What I get up to, my fishing, the gear I use for my fishing, also other stuff from time to time & anything or everything else that comes & goes along in between ; )
Showing posts with label Barbel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barbel. Show all posts
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Thursday, 22 July 2010
Not been on for a while
Been busy of late, with now being self employed, still doing all the hard graft me'self though, sometimes you just cannot win.
Anyhow had to miss the BFAMW Trent fish in due to some hassle at home, damn it was really looking forward to that an'all, but still these things happen.
That reminds me, I must give Coops a bell!
Don't know what happed with this years world cup but jesus, it's been the most boring world cup, i've ever watched! & as for England well lets not go there.
Been doing some barbel bashing on the Trent last weekend, had one out at 6.5lb, in a late friday afternoon session,not a bad looking fish, looks like it had been on the bank before because there were a few scales missing & some red marks round it's mouth.
Also had another one at 11.5lbs, in another session on the sunday yes a new PB double, I could'nt beleive the size of it when it came upto the surface, the fight of this double was totally different compared to the smaller fish, these doubles don't scrap like splashers do, it just hugged the bottom, but didn't go very far off downstream like they normally do, looking at it this one's also been banked before aswell anyway here's a photo of her.
Anyhow had to miss the BFAMW Trent fish in due to some hassle at home, damn it was really looking forward to that an'all, but still these things happen.
That reminds me, I must give Coops a bell!
Don't know what happed with this years world cup but jesus, it's been the most boring world cup, i've ever watched! & as for England well lets not go there.
Been doing some barbel bashing on the Trent last weekend, had one out at 6.5lb, in a late friday afternoon session,not a bad looking fish, looks like it had been on the bank before because there were a few scales missing & some red marks round it's mouth.
Also had another one at 11.5lbs, in another session on the sunday yes a new PB double, I could'nt beleive the size of it when it came upto the surface, the fight of this double was totally different compared to the smaller fish, these doubles don't scrap like splashers do, it just hugged the bottom, but didn't go very far off downstream like they normally do, looking at it this one's also been banked before aswell anyway here's a photo of her.
So far two sessions two fish & i'm well happy & i even left behind Ray's dub dodging club, cannot wait to get down there again.
William.
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