DAYS FISHING ON TIDCOMBE BENDS

16TH MARCH 2014

 

Welcome back as the weather is still good i am glad to say i am getting out fishing more which means you lucky readers get more blogs any hope you enjoy my latest blog from fishing at tidcombe bends today on the grand western canal I arrive at tidcombe at about 9 am I walked up and had a look at the area and the wind was light up on the bends as it curls round and is a bit more sheltered then most areas along the town end of the canal I decided this was the swim I was going to fish I started setting up I was only going to fish one are with a light pole rig at about 6 meters I fished a match top 3 kit with a number 3 elastic through just the top 1 section I was using a 2lb mainline to a 1.4oz hook length to a size 22 silver fish hook the float I was using was a lake 0.40gr Orange tip wire stem float I plumbed up at 6 meters straight out in the boat channel I was fishing it a dead depth and after plumbing up I fed a 250ml pole cup of white crumb and left it for a bit while I set up the rest of my gear after getting sorted I started off by fishing a 4mm bread bunch I was catching fish on and off for most of the day with the bits being spread out with a couple of hours at mid day when the bites really did slow up but from 3pm they started to feed again I ended up with a bream of about 3lb and a couple skimmers and 15 or more small roach up to about 6oz anyway I decided that at 4:30pm it was time to pack up and call it a day so hope you enjoyed the blog you feed back would be welcome at (leeshort34@live.co.uk) thanks for taking the time to read and if you out fishing be safe tight lines

lee

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER GOOD SESSION ON THE CANAL

                                                          

13TH MARCH 2014

 

 

 

WELCOME TO THE LATEST BLOG ON THE CANAL I COULD NOT BE SAT IN ON A FINE DRY SUNNY DAYS LIKE IT WAS TODAY SO I DECIDED THERE WAS ONLY ONE THING I COULD DO AND THAT WAS TO GET THE GEAR AND BAIT SORTED AND HEAD UP TO THE CANAL FOR A SHORT SESSION ON THE DEAD STRETCH AT THE TIVERTON END I DIDN'T PLAN ON GETTING UP AND DOING A EARLY SESSION SO I ARRIVED AT THE PEG AT ABOUT 10AM AND IT WAS SUNNY AND ALREADY WARM SO I SET UP SLOWLY I WAS ONLY GOING TO FISH ONE TOP KIT I SET UP A MATCH TOP 3 KIT WITH A NUMBER 3 BROWNING LATEX WHITE ELASTIC THROUGH JUST THE TOP ONE SECTION I WAS USING A LAKE 0.40GR POLE FLOAT ON A 2LB MAINLINE TO A 1.4OZ HOOK LENGTH TO A SIZE 20 HOOK I STARTED OFF BY FEEDING A MEDIUM CUP OF LIQUIDISED BREAD ON THE SWIM AT ABOUT 7 METERS I PUT ON A 4MM BREAD PUNCH AND SHIPED OUT AND HAD A BIT STRAIGHT AWAY IT WAS A GOOD FISH AS IT WAS PULLING OUT A LOT OF ELASTIC WHEN I GOT IT TO THE NET IT WAS A BREAM OF ABOUT 3LB THE REASON IT WAS FIGHTING SO HARD IT WAS FOUL HOOKED UNDER THE GILL SO WITH THAT IN THE NET I WENT BACK OUT AND HAD A FEW SMALL ROACH AND THEN HOOKED INTO ANOTHER GOOD FISH IT WAS ANOTHER BREAM OF ABOUT 4LB SO I FEED A BIT MORE BAIT AND AS IT WAS ONLY A SHORT SESSION I ONLY FISHED ANOTHER HOUR I HAD A FEW MORE ROACH WITH THE BIGGEST UP TO ABOUT 6OZ AND ANOTHER SKIMMER OF ABOUT 7 OZ AND THE 2 BREAM FROM THE SESSION IN THE SESSION SO FOR 3 AND A HALF HOUR SESSION I HAD A GOOD SESSION AND NET OF FISH SO I PACKED UP AND LOADED MY GEAR ON THE TROLLEY AND HEADED HOME HOPE YOUR ENJOYING THE BLOGS PLEASE FEEL FREE  AND LEAVE ANY FEED BACK AND COMMENTS WITH THOUGHTS ECT THANKS AND UNTIL MY NEXT BLOG IF YOU ON THE BANK BE SAFE AND TIGHT LINES

LEE  


GOOD DAYS FISHING BETWEEN THE BRIDGES ON THE GRAND WESTERN CANAL

9TH MARCH 2014

 

Hello and welcome back to my latest blog where i am fishing again on the grand western canal which starts in tiverton devon.Now with the weather looking good my self and a couple mates decided to meet up and have a days fishing on the canal so i left home and headed to the canal i was meeting the others on a stretch of canal at halberton which we call between the bridges a short stretch which is a good area in the summer we were hoping it was going to be good fishing today as well as in the summer i met up with martin and we started setting up Colin was going to join us in a hour or so.I started setting up i was going to set up 2 top kits both with quite light elastic one a number 3 to 4 purple elastic through just a top 1 section of a match top 3 kit and a number 3 browning latex elastic again through just the top section of a match top 3 kit so now it was time to get some rigs on the tops on the number 3 elastic I was going to use a drennan 4x12 float with a 2lb mainline and a 1.4 bottom to a size 20 hook this rig was going to be a rig for fishing up in the water so there was no need to plumb the depth so I hooked it up and put the kit in the roost and the other top kit I put on a lake 0.3g pole float on a 2lb main line to a 1.6oz bottom to the same as the other a Preston 20 hook this rig I was going to fish dead depth so I plumbed it up and again clipped it up and placed it on the roost I fed 2 medium cups of bread crumb and left it while I had a chat with martin and Colin before I went back and started fishing I had fish straight away it started off with small fish but as the day went on I started getting bigger fish I chopped and changed from fishing up in the water and on the bottom changing from 4 to 8 mm bread punch at the end of the session I had 10 roach and Rudd between half a pound and a pound with about 60 to 80 small fish it was one of the best session I have had on the grand western canal in years Colin had a few small fish and martin a few better Rudd but I didn't seem to be able to do any thing wrong the fish had seemed to have shoaled up right in front of me but I really enjoyed the days fishing and 5pm came so we decided it was time to pack up and head off home so I will be fishing this area again in the next few weeks so thanks for reading the blog please feel free to comment on my blogs and if your on the banks lakes canal ect be safe and tight lines

 

lee

FISHING ON THE RIVER EXE WALK WAY IN TIVERTON

 

28TH MARCH 2014

 

WELCOME TO ANOTHER BLOG WHICH IS GOING TO BE A SHORT BLOG AS THE FISHING WAS CRAP HAHAHA :) I DECIDED I WAS GOING TO FISH THE TIVERTON TOWN WALK WAY ON THE RIVER EXE IT AS BEEN IN FLOOD FOR 2 OR MORE MONTHS WITH ALL THE BAD WEATHER WE HAVE HAD AND IT WAS STILL QUITE HIGH BUT LOWER THEN IT HAS BEEN FOR A WHILE WE HAD A BIT OF RAIN THE NIGHT BEFORE I MAY HAVE PUSHED THE WATER LEVEL UP A COUPLE INCHES SINCE I WALKED ALONG THE OTHER DAY WHICH IS NOT GOOD BUT I DECIDED TO TRY DOWN ON THE STRETCH BELOW THE WEIRE IN THE FAST MOVING WATER TO START WITH AND THEN MOVED UP TO THE TOP END OF THE WALK AS THAT WAS A LOT SLOWER WATER I FISH THE STICK FLOAT ON A 13 FOOT MATCH ROD AND A CENTER PIN REEL USING AND FEEDING RED AND WHITE MAGGOTS FOR ABOUT 4 OR 5 HOURS I REALLY ENJOYED IT AND WILL BE FISHING THE CENTER PIN MORE NEXT SEASON SO BACK TO THE FISHING THE FISHING WAS BAD I HAD ONE BITE WHEN I MOVED UP TO THE SLOWER MOVING WATER I DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING BUT COLIN DID MANAGE A SMALL TROUT AGAIN ON THE SLOWER WATER ANY WAY SORRY FOR THIS BLOG BEING SO SHORT BUT THE WEATHER IS LOOKING GOOD FOR NEXT WEEK SO I AM HOPING TO GET OUT AND BRING YOU SOME MORE LONGER BLOGS ANYWAY UNTIL MY NEXT BLOG IF YOUR OUT FISHING ON THE RIVERS CANAL LAKES BE LUCK BE SAFE AND TIGHT LINES

 

LEE

FISHING ON THE GRAND WESTERN CANAL

26TH MARCH 2014

 

Welcome to another of my fishing blogs on the grand western canal my mate and i decided to fish the top end of the dead stretch on the grand western canal (www.grandwesterncanal.co.UK)

 

we were going to fish on the dead stretch just before you get to tidcombe bridge were there is a big turning bay for the boats and barges etc to turn in this we chose a couple pegs that are know to some times be very good but other times it can be very hard but when u this pegs fish well they fish really well and you can have a good days fishing my mate Colin fish on of the pegs we are on today early last week he had a great session with 8 or 9 skimmer bream and 10 really good sized roach so were had good feelings about todays session and hoping it was going to fish again today like it did last week

 

We met up at the top of the dead stretch and picked were we wanted to fish we both got set up and I wAs going to feed liquidised bread and fish the bread punch over the top after setting up the pole rig on a top 3 match kit I got it all plumbed up and I fed a cup of ad crumb and left it while before I started fishing anyway to fill you in on the fishing it was not a good session it was a hard day the bites were very few and far between but at 3 pm I had enough and decided to call it a day I had a total of 10 bits all day and a total of 10 small fish and they were very small fish they were all roach and I did pull out of a good fish on the far bank swim which I am sure would have been a skimmer I think Colin ended up with one roach of about 6oz and 7 smaller one we packed up and had a chat about the days fishing which would have taken all of about 10 seconds but like I said we both said before we started it was going to either fish really well or bad and it fish bad we decided we would keep in touch and sort out another fishing session soon anyway until my next session be safe and tight lines

 

Lee  

 

FISHING AT PADBROOK PARK

24TH FEBRUARY 2014

 

Welcome back to another blog today for a change this blog is going to be on a pond instead of on the grand western canal with the weather a bit more quitter and the wind a lot lighter then it as been for about the last 3 months the long heavy rain we have had for the last 3 months are now very heavy short showers instead of long days of strong wind and heavy rain. So we are now near the end of February and spring is around the corner with the weather getting better I am hoping to get down on the rivers before the closed season in a couple of weeks.Anyway back to today's fishing I have spoke to Colin in the week and we decided we would meet up on Tuesday and head off to fish a new pond that we had never been to before but we been talking about trying for the last few weeks we were told that they only get about 40 anglers fish it every year as they don’t advertise there lake there just advertise there golf course and hotel the fishing is just a bit of extra cash if people turn up so with the pond not seeing many anglers we were hoping to have a good day it was a very old lake and there was a lot of the really old fish with a few new stock fish we had been told the record carp for the lake was up at around 24lb so it was looking good and we were both looking forward to it as it would be the first session away from the canal since before mid December last year and also the weather was looking better then it had been for the last 3 months and about time it did get better we Arranged to meet at 9 am Colin was going to pick me up down the road from were I live at the shop we were going to be travelling light with little gear just what we needed I took 2 rods a garbilno carp picker feeder rod and a dawia harrier 13ft match waggler rod a bag with my my reels in and some end tackle other bits and bobs and bait flask and food ect and landing net and carp unhooking mat which was folded inside my nash h gun folding carp chair we loaded the gear in to the car and headed of to the local tackle shop (exe vally angling) to get some bait. Which you would think would be nice and easy well you would be wrong there as we walked in the tackle shop with our bait tubs Andy that worked there smiled at us and said hope you don’t want maggots boy they all sold Saturday everone wanted them as there was a club match on one of the local club waters that did mess up out plans a bit as we were heading to a new water and when I have never fish a pond or fishery before I like to go with maggots the first time.

The nearest tackle shop was cullompton which was near were we were going fishing but then Andy in the shop informed us that Ian at Cully shuts on Monday which put a end to that plan but Andy had a look in the freezer out the back and managed to find us a pint of frozen maggots he had put back for his self so we had them and headed off we got in the car and looked at each other and at the same time we both said those maggots are s**t hahahaha J so off we went to find padborook we headed to cullompton via the main road through halberton and willand were we finally came to cullompton we knew we had to head through the main street and head toward the new housing estate we went through the new kingfisher estate were we then say the sign for padbrook park hotel and golf course we drove up toward the main entrance for the hotel were we parked in the car we walked around the main entrance of the car park as we had to get a day ticket to fish the lake but we had to find the main golf hut but we couldn't find it after having a good look around we headed back towards were we were parked we saw 2 chaps walking towards us so we asked them if they knew were the golf hut was they pointed us in the right direction we made our way up to the golf hut via a small foot path it was about a 5 minute walk up to the golf hut we went in to the golf hut we bought our tickets which cost us £5.00 each for a day from first light until dark which was very good we had a chat with the golf manager and he pointed us in the right direction to the fishing lake it was another 5 minute walk form the golf hut up to the fishing pond I think that when we fish this place again we will be bring a trolley anyway when we arrived at the pond we were shocked at how over grown it was the pond was very sangeg with a lot of fallen trees and branched in the water so we had a walk around the pond and saw a few carp on the surface they were only small carp of around 3 to 4 lb after having a look around and there only being 3 pegs on the whole pond were you can get in and fish on the right hand side this side was still very snaggy colin fished on the first swim which was a bit more open then any of the others I fished the second swim up past the hut with the water pumping gear in on the same side as colin I was right in front of the island there was a fallen tree on the left hand side of me with a fallen branch right in front of me off of the island I was only going to set the waggler rod up to start with I set up a long 3 bb self weighted waggler straight out in front of me about 3 foot off of the island to the left hand side of the branch in the water I put on a ssg to plumb the depth and cast out I didn't have any idea what the depth was going to be I cast out and the float was gone I reeled in and moved the float up about 3 ft and out it went again I moved it up another 2 ft as it was still to shallow and now it was right I was surprised at how deep it was It was about 8 foot deep.now with the rod set up I fed about 5 balls of bread crumb and 40 or 50 grains of sweet corn and left it while I went up and had a chat with my mate was still setting up but it was looking good as he had fish showing in front of him and a few fish on the surface.I went back and started fishing on sweetcorn it was about 30 minutes before I had my first bite I had a fish on for about 30 seconds before the hook pulled out and I lost the fish it felt a good size fish as well I landed one about 15 minutes later which was around 4lb I then went on to have 3 more carp on the sweetcorn before I changed to the maggots well dead maggots it was a good change as I went on to catch another 5 carp on the maggot and ended the session with 8 carp and colin had a few more and ended his session as well with 15 carp all caught in close in the open water we both did better on the dead maggot an when we feed them we noticed the fish go there heads down and were blowing all over the area we had fed so after a good days fishing we packed up and headed home with a total of 23 carp between us we had a weigh of over 100lb between us which I think was good for a pond we had never fished and was early march and not had much warm weather to get the fish feeding yet it is a place we will go back and fish again in the summer any way thanks for reading the blog and if your on the banks soon be safe and tight lines

 

lee