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I don't think catfish and koi would cross, looks more like an albino wels to me - Keith would probably have the last word on this though
Yes, an Albino Wels, a.k.a. Mandarin Catfish.
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Jonathan, That one went 39:4 and was my biggest of the summer. I also had this one at 39 exactly, on 2 22mm halibut pellets. A 40 has to be due soon!
This one was a memorable fish, caught while I was carp fishing - on a single 16mm fishmeal boilie. A 34lb Koi-Catfish cross.
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macfish here. Those are some pretty nice looking catfish. I thought I heard or read somewhere that the Wels cats (and maybe their eggs as well?) are poisonous so nobody eats them, or at least the large ones are supposed to be. Anyone else heard this? Jonathan
I think it's the eggs that are poisonous, smaller fish are edible. Not sure I'd fancy eating one if they taste anything like they smell though.
I like to fish for them in the UK...where they don't get anywhere near the size of those Spanish fish. You still need to used stepped up carp tackle though. This one was caught on a halibut pellet/squid & octopus pop-up snowman.
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you definatly can. you can cover more of the lake in shorter time and you can go further in the lake. with tip up you just let them sit with a shiner or sucker on them and wait for a flag. no jigging neccesary. one set back is when your in shallow water you get perch picking on your shiners and seting of the flags. i hate dem perch.
Perch can make good baits, if you're allowed to use them...
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That's a nice looking pike - it has more spots than the fish you get over here...
2 feet of ice?!
A few of the smaller lakes over here froze for a night or two a couple of weeks ago, but no more than 1/2". It's been a mild winter for us this one, but wetter than usual... I've never had the opportunity to go ice fishing. Do you think you catch as many fish when the water is frozen against fishing from the bank when it isn't?
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Nice one Jake.
What's a jig up? ...I've been using jigs a bit lately myself (cast from the bank). I've only caught on a 4" twintail so far - 3 fish a couple of weeks ago, but that seemed to be the only lure they'd look at on that day. What type of jig were you using?
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well, to further complicate things, rudd can apparently hybridize with golden shiners... so maybe thats what we have
You quite often get hybridization with roach, rudd & bream. Makes the record fish committee's job a bit of a headache when you get roach/rudd crosses being claimed as one or the other.
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This is a rudd...the anal fin on you mistery fish looks a little bit longer.
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Looks like a Rudd to me. The fins are slightly redder than a roach and the Lower Jaw sticks up.
BTW - Every time I buy Shiners for bait they look identical to roach to me. Does anyone know?
The dorsal fin is straight above the pelvics on a roach, but further back on a rudd. The mouth is usually the give away though. I've not seen a golden shinner up close...
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I always wair glasses, but I once had a near miss with a 2.5oz lead...pulling it out of a thick weedbed, when it came loose it flew back & hit me squarely in the cheekbone. I was lucky...
I also burny off my eyelashes with my coleman stove, on the same session...it tuned out aalright in the end though as I caught a nice mirror.
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Paul, did Barry happen to catch that in Lanesboro(sp) ?? .Theres a WWD there that is a great place for the bream etc. A year or two ago there was a report of a visiting angler catching a carp while fishing for the bream??
I think that's where he was fishing - it was near a WWD anyway. It was more like 4 or 5 years ago though. He used to go over for the match fishing festivals. I only went over to Ireland once, before I really got into carp fishing, we were fishing for bream on the river Barrow.
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I have to stop and count my blessings sometimes, we have so much available fishing here in the USA for a very reasonable price.
For example - A Georgia non trout licence is $9.00 per year. GA DNR stock reservoirs with 2.5 stripers per acre. That's 22,000 fish per year in Alltoona alone for example. If you get the trout stamp (an extra $5 bucks) you then have some access to great trout fishing. For example the Hootch recives 13 trout stockings per year.
All good value for money.
It always amazes me how much good fishing you get over there for so little. Another difference is that fishing is policed much better too - it's rare to see an EA bailiff (I've only been checked a handful of times over 30 years).
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Killykeen Forest Park now has carp in the Sally lake. They are growing fast in there.
Were they stocked or escaped pike baits? Just curious...
My mate Barry once had a small common from the Shannon - said he thought he'd hooked the mother of all hybrids.
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Then a new pb!...6lb
I didn't know there were carp anywhere near Galway. Must of taken you a while tracking down that water... Well done on the PB!
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Wow! I have licenses to 4 states and I spend less than $200 to fish anywhere there. You must spend a lot of money in the UK to fish. Tickets, gear, bait etc. I have to admit if I had to do that in the USA, to fish, I would. Is fishing going the way of hunting in the UK, in regards to it becoming very costly and more for the wealthy? Just curious.
If you want to fish a water with a good head of big carp, then it is expensive, and often hard to gain membership. If you set your sights lower or fish for other (non-salmonoid) species it's more reasonable. It seems most good waters are controlled by limited membership syndicates these days, which can cost from about £250 up to £1000 per year in my area. Some syndicates operate a waiting list, but most are by invite...i.e. you need to get recommended by an existing member. The good ones have a low turnover of members. This season I'm a member of 2 syndicates and a couple of clubs, and I've also fished another syndicate as a paying guest. I probably spend more than most on tickets, but not as much as some people I know.
Some places have a night syndicate, a cheaper dawn-dusk ticket and maybe day tickets. There's a few complexes of gravel pits near me that operate in this manner. You could just join a place like this with the day season ticket & get a lot of good fishing (on several waters) for less than £100 for the year. These type of places tend to get more attention, which makes the fishing that bit harder than on quieter syndicate waters. The biggest fish I go for are in these waters...
I tend not to fish waters that are run on a purely day ticket basis as these get the most hammer of all, and seem more expensive when you're paying out week after week.
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Do you have to pay to fish in canals like that in the UK. I know you pay to get on lakes. I was just wondering if most waters were like that there. By the way, as an American who has never been to the UK, your pictures continue my sterotype of it in my head. Rain, rain, and more rain.
To fish in the UK you first need a rod license, which covers you for one or two rods. If you want to use 3 or 4 rods (the max allowed) you need 2 rod licenses. You can get these online, from the Environmental Agency's website. I don't think you need a rod license in Scotland. After getting your rod license(s) you need to get permission from the owner of the land/water to fish, this usually involves joining a club or syndicate or buying a day ticket. In some places you just need the farmer's permission. There are a few places you can go fishing for free (still with a rod license). It can get quite expensive if you like to fish a lot of different waters. I must of spent in the region of £1000 in license & membership fees last year!
We get more rain the the west - it's usually drier over on the East side.
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Wow, you're on a roll! Time to update your sig.
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Very interesting pattern on that pike. Is that a common color and pattern for pike from that river or is that one unique. Our pike don't usually have that vertical pattern and are darker. Great looking Pike.
Peace
You might find this article interesting - Pike Recognition It talks about 4 different variations in their spot pattern, usually each water wil only have one type. It also says that those transverse markings tend to disappear as they grow.
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Congrats on the new PB Stewart. Nice looking fish.
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golden shiners or suckers
Golden shiners are similar to the Roach we get over here. They make pretty good pike baits too, but I've had my best results on smelts & mackerel this winter...
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Well done on the pike & new PB walleye! Sounds like you have a good days fishing. The ice, when we get it, never gets thick enough to go out on in he UK... What kind of bait were you using on your tip ups?
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Great, great fish!
Dead baiting for northerns is something I really need to try here. For whatever reason, we(the collective "we" here in the states and Canada), seem to only use dead bait much in the winter, under the ice. I have a feeling it would work just as well here as there...and we have some untapped big pike waters, primarily the bays of the Great Lakes.
I use my second set of carp rods for deadbaiting. These have a nice progressive action, so it's less likely to rip the hooks out on the cast than if you're using a more "tippy" rod (when you're giving it the biggun
). They are 12' 3.25lb TC when I'm fishing at range or 12' 2.75lb TC for closer in. When fshing at range I leger, but often use a float at close range - a 7" length of 1/2" balsa dowel attached bottom only (sliding on the line) with a small diameter bead & powergum stopknot set about 18" overdepth.Here's a picture of the rig I used at the weekend - 20cm foreceps give some idea of scale. 2.5oz running lead (to get the distance I was fishing - I usually use 1.5oz), 50lb power pro mainline, 100lb test swivel, 28lb 7 strain wire & no.6 Kamasan pike trebles. I attach the bottom treble & swivel to the wire by twisting, rather than crimps/sleeves, but that is just for convenience on the bank. When you use the twist method it helps to soften the last 1/2 of the wire under a lighter flame, then twist the last inch back up. There is a device know as a twiddling stick that makes twisting easier... The top trebles is semi-fixed by turning the wire 3 or 4 times round the shank. The trebles I use are semi barbless (one bait holding hook with a small barb), which make unhooking quicker & easier. BTW the lead is attached to the mainline with a John Roberts paternoster boom & a cheap snaplink.
The baits I use can vary from 1/2oz up to about 10oz, using size 8 trebles for small baits, up to 4s for bigger baits. I use size 6s most of the time. Heres a closeup on how I hook the deadbait. The top teble is hooked through the root of the tail, through the backbone, with the bottom treble about 2/3-3/4 of the way up the flank.
I use drop off indicators to register the run, with a buzzer on the front rod rest in case I miss the indicator falling - see Sodbury Steve's thread. You can make your own drop offs with a clothes peg, legth of cord, pingpong ball & hair-grip (preferably an adjustable line clip). I always adjust the drop-off's run clip at the start of a session so it takes very little resistance for the line to pull out - sudden gusts of wind can be a nightmare!
I hit a run as soon as it is moving off (a 2 or 3 second delay usually) - with the hooking arrangement shown any decent sized fish will have the hooks in their mouth - a missed run usually means it was a small fish. I don't actually strike a run...point the rod down to the fish & wind down into it, then firmly sweep the rod round to the side & hold the pressure while to hooks pull home.It doesn't hurt to throw lures around your deadbait - by combining both methods I think you'll get quite a few extra fish (that may have been aroused by your lure, but not enough to take it). Don't expect as much action as you get on lures...just bigger average sized fish.
Best of luck...
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Nice Paul - You still have all your Bass Pro lure collection from 2006 ?
I don't think I've lost any yet, but it's not like I'm using them all the time. I use 40lb power pro on my jig rod/spinning reel combo & 65lb on my jerkbait rod/baitcaster setup.
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Paul, that is a great brace of Pike. I would have liked to have also seen the Zander!! Nice start to the New Year, indeed!!!
Here's the Zander...my camera doesn't focus very well in the dark. The zander in this pit are unusual in that they will pick up sea deadbaits, they normall fall to freshwater baits or jigs on most waters. Not that I'm complaining.
Here's a better picture of a 9lb Zander I caught on New Years Eve, about 4pm in the afternoon. The river started to flood in about 2pm, creating an area of colored water straight away. I caught this fish from the area of colored water, also on a smelt. It had a rather nasty chomp mark on it (the other side was worse). Over the past year I've also had a couple of pike in the 9-12lb region that also had fresh bite marks. I think there's a very special pike swimming around in this pit...
Horace - Thanks for the kind words about my webpages, I really need to set some time by & add some more stuff...but I'm a terrible writer.
Landing a Wels cat in Spain
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Yes, they are amazingly powerful compared to a carp of the same size. I'm surprised more people don't fish for them - I'm the only one that bothers on most of the lakes I fish. Being predators & scavengers there is a lot of ways of fishing for them too, which keeps things interesting. I catch most of mine on stepped up carp tactics (pellets or boilies on free-running rigs), but I was getting more into fishing for them with livebaits this year. I catch more Pike that Cats on fish baits, and I've had carp to 27+ on cat rigs this summer, but I don't mind that.