Norfolk
There are lots of bass being reported from anglers fishing at Caister beach, with the biggest reaching the 5lb mark.
Tactics: The bass can be caught close in with fresh lugworms or ragworms on a three-hook rig with size 1 hooks. There are also a few smoothhounds being taken by those fishing at range with crabs on a Pennell rig. A flood tide is preferable, and the best catches have come during the evening once the light is off the water. There is lots of parking close to the fishing.
Suffolk
The sole are now starting to show in good numbers off Dunwich beach, and there are also lots of bass to be had averaging 1lb-2lb.
Tactics: Ragworms are pretty much the only bait you need to catch at this venue and it only needs to be cast around 20yds-30yds. It doesn¹t matter too much which tide you fish, but the evening is by far the most productive time of the day. There is plenty of free parking available close by.
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Bait Tech Mojo groundbait
Due in this friday
Bait Tech Mojo groundbait is a totally new concept that utilises the latest technology to formulate a groundbait unlike many others. Designed for full on attraction with low food content, Mojo attracts fish into the swim and holds them wothout filling them up. Devastating as a method mix or in a open ended feeder. It makes an extremely effective, soft paste that emits strong fish attractants. Creates the ultimate PVA stick mix. Perfect for cupping in loose to form a fish enticing cloud or equally effective as a balling in mix.
Monday, 12 July 2010
Prestons carp cad pots
carp cad pots are now in stock
Cad Pots are designed to be left on the pole whilst fishing. They clip directly onto the top of the pole and are available in three sizes (Cad Pot Micro, Cad Pot Midi and Cad Pot Carp). Available in multiple packs with removable, aperture opening tops.
The Carp Cad Pot has a large 'keyhole' groove that will fit larger diameter power kit tops.
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
The floating method coil from Nisa
I now have the red version in stock
A whole different concept in Feeder Fishing!
Groundbait is squeezed into the coil, initially making the feeder sink to lake bed.
As the groundbait breaks down the buoyancy built into the feeder makes it slowly rise, dispersing an attractive cloud on the way up.
If a fish has not been taken by this stage the feeder will reach the surface and now becomes a float!.
Because the feeder still holds groundbait even at this stage, a cloud column will build up, attracting fish at all levels.
These are rigged Inline as normal METHOD COILS and are especially useful for cruising carp and other big fish.
Friday, 2 July 2010
The Sun's piranha story
I found this story/artical on the Angling Times web site and thought it was worth sharing.
The Sun's piranha story was a complete fairytale
By Steve Partner
General News
02 July 2010 16:00
The Sun. The good old currant bun. Home of page three, puns and some of the most humorous – and memorable – headlines in history. ‘Gotcha’, ‘Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster’, ‘Up Yours Delors’ and, my personal No1, ‘It’s Paddy Pantsdown’ being among the more quotable.
Yes, our favourite daily newspaper – read by 2.9 million – is the populist prince of print, the red-top super heavyweight that’s become a modern day icon. And, last week, it was also guilty of some of the worst journalism I have ever had the misfortune to read.
Now, I know, like ex-professional footballers who comment on the current crop, criticising someone in your own game is tantamount to treason, but there are some stories so ridiculous, so flawed and so potentially damaging, they are immune from the normal insurance of self-imposed silence. Like the story entitled ‘Killer Piranha in Folkestone Pond’ that appeared in The Sun’s June 17 edition.
If there has been a more misleading and misinformed article masquerading as news then I have yet to see it. Fairytales are more believable.
For those left in any doubt by the screaming headline as to what the ensuing words described, let me explain. Basically an ‘angler’ claimed to have caught a piranha while fishing Radnor Park in Kent.
On the face of it, there doesn’t appear to be much of an issue. Should a piranha, with all its over-inflated Hollywood-fuelled reputation for menace in tow, be caught thousands of miles from its Amazon home
in a lake somewhere in Folkestone, I can see the news value. If it were true, it would deserve its place as lead story on page 11 in Britain’s best-selling newspaper. The trouble is, it wasn’t. Remotely.
Let’s start with the ‘piranha’, that fearsome creature which, to quote the story, ‘can strip the flesh of a human in seconds’. This will be the same ‘piranha’ that was actually a red-bellied pacu, a fish that’s completely harmless, unless you happen to be a piece of fruit, that is.
And what of the rest of this tall tale of fiction? What about the quotes attributed to the angler, Derek Plum?
“It dragged my line about 500 yards,” he alleged. On a lake no bigger than 100 yards by 80 yards? Unless the thing was on steroids and did five laps, the figures don’t add up.
“It took me about 15 minutes to reel it in,” he added. At 1lb 4oz? What was on his reel? Cotton?
“When it emerged it was thrashing around and going crazy,” he continued. This a fish that normally lives in water temperatures of 27ºC to 30ºC and can’t, according to those who know, survive in the cold waters of a pond in Kent.
The Sun even wheeled out an ‘expert’ to validate this work of fiction. It would be unfair to name names, but the Angler’s Mail journalist in question needs a crash course in fish identification if he thinks a pacu is a piranha. I can almost feel the warmth of his embarrassment from here.
There is, of course, a wider point at issue here. National newspapers – and The Sun is by no means alone – have a sickeningly patronising view of fishing, only reporting on the outlandish, the crazy and the freakish elements of the sport. Ordinarily fishing is too dull to be newsworthy, occasionally appearing on the radar when it ticks certain boxes like fear, wackiness or unbelievable size.
I’m not naïve. I know all of that. But when papers like The Sun print this nonsense, it is taken as fact. Just like the way it reported the recent death of Heather the Leather, claiming it had been caught more than 1,000 times rather than the 40 to 60 that is reality, the unquestioning masses have no reason to doubt what they read.
And not only is that irresponsible, it’s dangerous too. We have enough battles to fight without the national press misrepresenting us so flagrantly.
Angling’s millions surely deserve better – and until they get it I’d suggest they look elsewhere for their daily fix of news.
The Sun's piranha story was a complete fairytale
By Steve Partner
General News
02 July 2010 16:00
The Sun. The good old currant bun. Home of page three, puns and some of the most humorous – and memorable – headlines in history. ‘Gotcha’, ‘Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster’, ‘Up Yours Delors’ and, my personal No1, ‘It’s Paddy Pantsdown’ being among the more quotable.
Yes, our favourite daily newspaper – read by 2.9 million – is the populist prince of print, the red-top super heavyweight that’s become a modern day icon. And, last week, it was also guilty of some of the worst journalism I have ever had the misfortune to read.
Now, I know, like ex-professional footballers who comment on the current crop, criticising someone in your own game is tantamount to treason, but there are some stories so ridiculous, so flawed and so potentially damaging, they are immune from the normal insurance of self-imposed silence. Like the story entitled ‘Killer Piranha in Folkestone Pond’ that appeared in The Sun’s June 17 edition.
If there has been a more misleading and misinformed article masquerading as news then I have yet to see it. Fairytales are more believable.
For those left in any doubt by the screaming headline as to what the ensuing words described, let me explain. Basically an ‘angler’ claimed to have caught a piranha while fishing Radnor Park in Kent.
On the face of it, there doesn’t appear to be much of an issue. Should a piranha, with all its over-inflated Hollywood-fuelled reputation for menace in tow, be caught thousands of miles from its Amazon home
in a lake somewhere in Folkestone, I can see the news value. If it were true, it would deserve its place as lead story on page 11 in Britain’s best-selling newspaper. The trouble is, it wasn’t. Remotely.
Let’s start with the ‘piranha’, that fearsome creature which, to quote the story, ‘can strip the flesh of a human in seconds’. This will be the same ‘piranha’ that was actually a red-bellied pacu, a fish that’s completely harmless, unless you happen to be a piece of fruit, that is.
And what of the rest of this tall tale of fiction? What about the quotes attributed to the angler, Derek Plum?
“It dragged my line about 500 yards,” he alleged. On a lake no bigger than 100 yards by 80 yards? Unless the thing was on steroids and did five laps, the figures don’t add up.
“It took me about 15 minutes to reel it in,” he added. At 1lb 4oz? What was on his reel? Cotton?
“When it emerged it was thrashing around and going crazy,” he continued. This a fish that normally lives in water temperatures of 27ºC to 30ºC and can’t, according to those who know, survive in the cold waters of a pond in Kent.
The Sun even wheeled out an ‘expert’ to validate this work of fiction. It would be unfair to name names, but the Angler’s Mail journalist in question needs a crash course in fish identification if he thinks a pacu is a piranha. I can almost feel the warmth of his embarrassment from here.
There is, of course, a wider point at issue here. National newspapers – and The Sun is by no means alone – have a sickeningly patronising view of fishing, only reporting on the outlandish, the crazy and the freakish elements of the sport. Ordinarily fishing is too dull to be newsworthy, occasionally appearing on the radar when it ticks certain boxes like fear, wackiness or unbelievable size.
I’m not naïve. I know all of that. But when papers like The Sun print this nonsense, it is taken as fact. Just like the way it reported the recent death of Heather the Leather, claiming it had been caught more than 1,000 times rather than the 40 to 60 that is reality, the unquestioning masses have no reason to doubt what they read.
And not only is that irresponsible, it’s dangerous too. We have enough battles to fight without the national press misrepresenting us so flagrantly.
Angling’s millions surely deserve better – and until they get it I’d suggest they look elsewhere for their daily fix of news.
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