| #1  07-01-2008, 08:45 PM | ||||
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| Crockerton Breamfest As I finished work early yesterday, I thought I'd pop over to pay Bananna Steve a visit at Crockerton. He had been bivvied up there for a couple of days Carp fishing. I'd spoken to Steve on the mobile & knew that the Carp were feeding well, but I wanted to try out my new 16m Pole. So I chucked my kit in the Car & was set up in the next swim to Steve by 3.30pm. I'd stopped off on the way to buy some Luncheon meat & Sweetcorn for bait, but when I arrived, Steve gave me a dodgy looking baitbox full of diced Luncheon meat that he'd had in his tackle box for a week or two. It was starting to smell a bit high, but Crockerton fish ain't too fussy. I set up a pole rig with 6lb line straight through to a size 14 barbless hook, loosefed a few bits of meat & placed my rig baited with a tiny peice of meat under an overhanging bush about 9 metres out in about 7ft of water. Immediately I was into a nice fish which turned out to be a roach of about a pound. I was really hoping for a Tench, to put my new pole through it's paces, but after the first roach, I started to catch a steady stream of good size Bream. This set the pattern for the next 4 hours. A bream almost every cast, along with the odd roach. Then just as I was about to pack up, I hooked something that made a determined dash for the snaggy tree roots. However the new Pole coped admirably & I soon had a nice Tench on the bank to round off a cracking evening. A nice bag that weighed in at 35lb on Steves Carp scales. Steve was also having some cracking sport with the Carp & judging by the sound of his bite alarms, he was getting some screaming takes. But that's another story, which i'm sure he will soon relate to the Forum once he's recovered. Right, got to sort my gear out now, as we're off to the River Avon tomorrow after a few species hunt points.....  __________________ One man's fish is another man's poissons http://www.deepsea.co.uk http://www.wildtrout.org     |
| #2 07-01-2008, 08:50 PM | ||||
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| Re: Crockerton Breamfest Top Sport Ian, glad you had a good time, we must get a forum meet at Crockerton sometime. Weldone  __________________ "The muscles of 20 men, and the brains of 20 mussels", |
| #3 07-01-2008, 08:54 PM | ||||
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| Re: Crockerton Breamfest That is one hell of a bag Ian, well done....the bream at Crockerton do put up a fight on the pole don't they!? __________________ There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind." - Washington Irving |
| #4 07-02-2008, 06:21 AM | ||||
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| Re: Crockerton Breamfest Nice looking bream mate that must have kept you busy __________________ Richard|Sea Fishing |Carp Fishing| Spud Gun | Zander fishing | Fishing Reports | Hunting Reports |
| #5 07-02-2008, 07:02 AM | ||||
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| Re: Crockerton Breamfest nice sport there ian,looks like you have mastered the pole,well done mate |
| #6 07-02-2008, 07:15 AM | ||||
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| Re: Crockerton Breamfest Well done Ian, good catch __________________ Dan `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ Big or small, look after them all! ¸.·´¯`·.¸ ><((((º> |
| #7 07-02-2008, 07:30 AM | ||||
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| Re: Crockerton Breamfest nice one ian sounds a pleasent eve  dave __________________ 24 beers in a case and 24 hours in a day , Game on www.exmouthsaa.co.uk I have the body of a God, Pity its Buddha :-0 |
| #8 07-02-2008, 03:34 PM | ||||
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| Re: Crockerton Breamfest Great catch on the Pole Ian, I can no longer use mine as I suffer from neck pain when I do, but thats age creeping in suppose, well done mate __________________ My Web Site (The Average Angler) Happiness is Fish Shaped (It used to be woman shaped but the wifes getting on a bit now) |
