Meadow Waters 3

Another Sunday for fishing.

Again with my fishing buddy Daz, and again we went to Meadow Waters. We stopped off at the local tackle shop for our baits, i got mixed maggot, Daz as ever got a tub of worms, caster and maggot
It was a fine day, a bit overcast and cold but still a good morning. We arrived at the venue at 09.30 and were fishi9ng for for 10.00am.

We did not get our usual pegs, we were pipped at the post, , but not to worry, We tackled up and set about landing fish. We both chose the feeder for the day. As ever we both had the running ledger, IMHO a great and very safe rig to use,

Groundbait wise, again i had Halibut groundbait, laced with brrown crumb, and a few maggots in every feeder full.
The weather was good to us, nippy but fair, altho the wind did pick up slightly.
We both got into fish, just about straight away.
I landed a small roach of about 3oz, then Daz landed a fine roach not long after, the atch rate progressed like that, altho i was getting into the skimmers, Daz was hitting the roach and Perch,

The weather took a turn for the worse, the wind picked up speed and we had no cover, if the brollies went up it would have meant a reposition of the peg, seatbox etc.
We finally called it a day at around 14.45,

In all i had 7 skimmers and 4 roach, Daz had a good mixed bag of , roach, perch and skimmers, not heavy bags but a very welcome break on the bankside of out favourite fishery.

I'll post some images later
A nice day with my good mate Daz. once again mate, thanks

PS

My secret addative, i forgot to pack it LoL

Club Waters,3

Back home from my jaunt with Daz down to see Mr Middy, THANKS again mate for the use of the lounge, and yet again to Daz for taking me down,. Had a great time, albeit a tiring one,

We arrived on Friday night, and not long after we unloaded the car, and got settled, off to the club.

Les being his amiable self, right what yer avin, I had John Smiths Smooth, Daz had a Carling and Les had a John SMiths bitter. We were joined by Gary and Alec a little later on
ALL for less than a £5, The John Smiths cost £1.45 and the carling £1.75, and for anyone drinking Worthingtons Creamflow, £1.35, Guinness was a paltry £2.00, and what a cracking pint, You can keep these clubs that charge almost £3.00 for a pint of Worthys, and £3.00+ for Guinness, , Two FULL sized SNOOKER tables, two pool tables and darts. £2.00 for GUINNESS, now thats a proper club, eat your hearts out The drinks flowed all night.

Come Saturday we got out fishing, i forgot the name of the place, it was a club water tho, Daz had ther better day, he bagged up on silvers, Les and myself did not fare at all.
We did pack in for an hour to go and meet with Mark and Lesley in the local Tesco's, Then off back to the venue. The fishing was forgotten about for me, i had a lot of things to catch up on with Mark, The was 6 members from fishingposts.com, and they we told some home truths about things, all of them could not believe what was being said, but they say the truth is hard to swallow, , we all had a very good laugh about it, LMAO, but never mind that is rotten history now., Come Saturday night, guess what, back to the club, we were joined again by Alec and Gary, this time they had there lovely wives out, and i must say it was a cracking night, we all laughted and joked about a lot of thing, There was a bit more news told tho, the ladies could not believe it, LMAO what was being revealed

Come Sunday we went to another water ran by our club, BLYTON, a nice place to fish, an Ice Cream Parlour, plus cafe, and a cracking breakfast for a fiver. We also have a proper plumbed in TOILET, a flushing bog, with real RUNNING WATER,

We met with Bob on the bankside, a warm greeting and we were fishing.Later in the day Alec joined us

Daz as ever fished the pole, i fished feeder and Les went on the feeder and float. We all done well, lots of skimmers,apeice, On the last drop of the day Daz hookied into something,OFF IT WENT like a stean train, Daz only had the yellow hydro laccy in his pole set up, so it was a bit hairy,, the fish would not show its self at all.

However it did run out of steam, and here it is. It was foul hooked strasight thru its snout,

Les setting up

Bob in action

Today, Bank Holiday Mondy
At last got to see the River Trent stretch which is ran by my club

River Trent Newark S.P.A.C. And what a sight, in one word, BRILLIANT.

We walked the full length of the stretch, all flat and in prestice condition. Cracking pags,and more important, there is vehicular access to ALL PEGS, which means the stretch is VERY DISABLED ANGLER FRIENDLY.
Park the car behind your peg and fish to your hearts content, the only trouble you have to overcome is to open and close the gate behind you. There will be a comfatable 100 pegs, and out of that i would say 90 of those are DISABLED ANGLER FRIENDLY

I would say this is one of the best stretches of any river i have seen, a stretch od 100+ pags in anyones book would agree that its a cracking stretch. Some smaller stretches may be handy, but the larger clubs have the clout to get things,
10 to 15 barbel a session is not uncommon on this stretch, ranging well into DOUBLE FIGURES. We do have a team of very dedicated Bailliffs policing the stretch, but i think anyone daft enough to spoil it would be a complete and utter idiot, albeit there are a few of those about, total nobhead,ready to break the law by claiming to be trout fishing, total nobheads The club has a VERY strict rule, leave litter and your out, no ifs or buts about it.

There are also some brilliant chub swims, chub to 6lbs, not bad, and there's enough pegs for everyone to fish, the gravel bar has around 30 pegs, each capable of double figure barbel. The barbel are that prolific in the stretch even the EA net them to remove the spawn and sperm for their rearing fisheries, So you never know, you might have caught a barbel from our club stretch LoL.

Right then picture time

Drool over these,













Then we went to the " MEADOW " stretch, a slow and lazy stretch, ideal for stick float or feeder fishing, bream to double figures have come out of this stretch, again ALL pegs are VERY DISABLED ANGLER FRIENDLY, with direct parking behind your peg. The roach are second to none on this stretch,

A taster

What a cracking stretch of the RIVER TRENT, and its all there waiting for us on a real stretch of the river, all 100+ pegs of it.

The list of people wishing to fish the stretch is growing, i think we could get 50 names in a couple of hours LoL.
One thing i will say is this.
If your near enough to this superb stretch of the RIVER TRENT, pay the £25 joining fee and you will not be let down.
Back home from my jaunt with Daz down to see Mr Middy, THANKS again mate for the use of the lounge, and yet again to Daz for taking me down,. Had a great time, albeit a tiring one,

We arrived on Friday night, and not long after we unloaded the car, and got settled, off to the club.

Les being his amiable self, right what yer avin, I had John Smiths Smooth, Daz had a Carling and Les had a John SMiths bitter. We were joined by Gary and Alec a little later on
ALL for less than a £5, The John Smiths cost £1.45 and the carling £1.75, and for anyone drinking Worthingtons Creamflow, £1.35, Guinness was a paltry £2.00, and what a cracking pint, You can keep these clubs that charge almost £3.00 for a pint of Worthys, and £3.00+ for Guinness, , Two FULL sized SNOOKER tables, two pool tables and darts. £2.00 for GUINNESS, now thats a proper club, eat your hearts out The drinks flowed all night.

Come Saturday we got out fishing, i forgot the name of the place, it was a club water tho, Daz had ther better day, he bagged up on silvers, Les and myself did not fare at all.
We did pack in for an hour to go and meet with Mark and Lesley in the local Tesco's, Then off back to the venue. The fishing was forgotten about for me, i had a lot of things to catch up on with Mark, The was 6 members from fishingposts.com, and they we told some home truths about things, all of them could not believe what was being said, but they say the truth is hard to swallow, , we all had a very good laugh about it, LMAO, but never mind that is rotten history now., Come Saturday night, guess what, back to the club, we were joined again by Alec and Gary, this time they had there lovely wives out, and i must say it was a cracking night, we all laughted and joked about a lot of thing, There was a bit more news told tho, the ladies could not believe it, LMAO what was being revealed

Come Sunday we went to another water ran by our club, BLYTON, a nice place to fish, an Ice Cream Parlour, plus cafe, and a cracking breakfast for a fiver. We also have a proper plumbed in TOILET, a flushing bog, with real RUNNING WATER,

We met with Bob on the bankside, a warm greeting and we were fishing.Later in the day Alec joined us

Daz as ever fished the pole, i fished feeder and Les went on the feeder and float. We all done well, lots of skimmers,apeice, On the last drop of the day Daz hookied into something,OFF IT WENT like a stean train, Daz only had the yellow hydro laccy in his pole set up, so it was a bit hairy,, the fish would not show its self at all.

However it did run out of steam, and here it is. It was foul hooked strasight thru its snout,

Les setting up

Bob in action

Today, Bank Holiday Mondy
At last got to see the River Trent stretch which is ran by my club

River Trent Newark S.P.A.C. And what a sight, in one word, BRILLIANT.

We walked the full length of the stretch, all flat and in prestice condition. Cracking pags,and more important, there is vehicular access to ALL PEGS, which means the stretch is VERY DISABLED ANGLER FRIENDLY.
Park the car behind your peg and fish to your hearts content, the only trouble you have to overcome is to open and close the gate behind you. There will be a comfatable 100 pegs, and out of that i would say 90 of those are DISABLED ANGLER FRIENDLY

I would say this is one of the best stretches of any river i have seen, a stretch od 100+ pags in anyones book would agree that its a cracking stretch. Some smaller stretches may be handy, but the larger clubs have the clout to get things,
10 to 15 barbel a session is not uncommon on this stretch, ranging well into DOUBLE FIGURES. We do have a team of very dedicated Bailliffs policing the stretch, but i think anyone daft enough to spoil it would be a complete and utter idiot, albeit there are a few of those about, total nobhead,ready to break the law by claiming to be trout fishing, total nobheads The club has a VERY strict rule, leave litter and your out, no ifs or buts about it.

There are also some brilliant chub swims, chub to 6lbs, not bad, and there's enough pegs for everyone to fish, the gravel bar has around 30 pegs, each capable of double figure barbel. The barbel are that prolific in the stretch even the EA net them to remove the spawn and sperm for their rearing fisheries, So you never know, you might have caught a barbel from our club stretch LoL.

Right then picture time

Drool over these,













Then we went to the " MEADOW " stretch, a slow and lazy stretch, ideal for stick float or feeder fishing, bream to double figures have come out of this stretch, again ALL pegs are VERY DISABLED ANGLER FRIENDLY, with direct parking behind your peg. The roach are second to none on this stretch,

A taster

What a cracking stretch of the RIVER TRENT, and its all there waiting for us on a real stretch of the river, all 100+ pegs of it.

The list of people wishing to fish the stretch is growing, i think we could get 50 names in a couple of hours LoL.
One thing i will say is this.
If your near enough to this superb stretch of the RIVER TRENT, pay the £25 joining fee and you will not be let down. [/

Castletown Dene

At last, back on the bankside with my good mate Daz, Its been almost 5 months since i whet a line and its even longer for Daz,, so today was a great day for the two of us,

We decided to fish a local " new pond " its about 6 years old, species include, Carp, tench roach, and STICKLEBACKS, LoL

We arrived at the venue at about 8.50am, nobody else was at the venue, so we had the choice of the pags,

W e chose the top pegs, closer to the car LoL

Here's a shot of the venue

The water was very weedy, and with green algae, !!! We both set our poles up, Daz had done a recky last week and the lads who were fishing it then were bagging the roach on the pole, great stuff.

All tackled up and in the rigs went. My float began to dip almost from the word go, AAARGHHH, could not hit the bite's. i had flouro pinkie and alternated betwwen maggots and pinkie's. i had a rig on with 2lb bottom and a Kamasan B611 size 18 hook, i kept missing the " bite's ", then the frustration got to me, i set my feeder rod up. I mixed some plain brown crumb top a damp consistincey, enough for the feeder.

Daz then said a little word, LoL, it was clear why i could not hit the bite, Daz had a 1lb bottom and a size 20 hook.

A STICKLEBACK had taken his bait

This continued all morning for Daz, he did manage some minnows. He even moved to a new peg to try and tempt the roach, today was not a roach day for Daz.

Here's Daz on the pole

Two other angler appeared on the bottom of the lake, one of them came to our pegs for a chat, the usual stuff ensued, had much, nah, just stickles and minnows, LoL

He then told me about the bottom of the pond, pointing to where he was talking about, mmmmm thought i.
I then decided to cast my line to where the angler had shown me, BINGO first cast a small roach, in all i had 5 roach, two stickles and one minnow, LoL.

We had wander down to chat with the lads, they then pointed out the carp that were cruising the area, One of the lads showed us the pictures on his phone of the fish he had caught from the pegs we were standing on, a fine 15lb common, and a magnificent 6lb tench, those were among other species he had caught

The pond was very weedy where i was fishing to, i lost s few rigs due to the weed, !!!
It was a decent day on a new venue, even tho the roach did not bite, Another new place was tried out,
An easy day eased back onto the bankside for the two of us.
Roll on the next outing, with luck in two weeks time, this time to a more prolific venue.
Thanks Daz, your a star mate

A couple of pictures

My peg

One of the local wild life

Meadow Waters 4

Off to Meadow Waters with Daz again today,03/06/07.
We arrived at around 9.30, fishing for 10am.

Baits, Red Maggot, Bronze Maggot, White Maggot, 3mm Feeder pellets were added to my groundbait, Marine Halibut type.
I fished the feeder again, Daz was using his pole and feeder rod.

The weather was glorious, roasting hot, too hot at times.
Now the fishing.

Daz was first to land a fish, a skimmer, he continued to catch skimmers, dace roach at a steady pace.

The first fish i caught was a fine skimmer of about 3/4lb, more came to my net, 7 in all. I also managed to catch 5 bream average weight about 2lb, 3 roach and this little fella

Must have been very hungry because it took a unbaited hook, LoL.
The day got hotter as it went on, the fish were loving it, thrashing about on the surface, rolling and having fun while we poor anglers baked in the hot sun.
The other picture i took are not very good, blurry, so i wont put em on
It was a pleasure yet again to fish with Daz.
Thanks mate.
Oh here's my peg with my gear on