Milano Paul
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I stuggled through August with just one fish to show for my efforts. It came good again in September & October - I caught as often as not. My last carp of 2005 was in mid-November. These are my biggest two from the autumn.
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Hi Tommy, Looks like you had a memorable year and successful too. You fish some nice waters.
2005 was good for me too, not so much in numbers, but I had a few lumps...I caught this mirror on the same day Scott had his 41lb mirror, then in July I caught my first 30+ common from the UK.
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When fishing with a tight baitrunner I find that the John Roberts butt grips hold the rod down quite firmly. They're made of a soft plastic & you push the rod butt down into them. This is about the best picture I have of them.
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Macfish, I've caught channel cats...the fight from a Wels if different, you don't get the head shaking like you get with channels - just raw power. I end up loosing at least 50% of the cats I hook when they get me in a weedbed or round an island - they're a bit much on carp gear. The last thing I'd describe a Wels as is cute.
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I catch a few Wels from one of the lakes I fish in the UK, but only by accident, while I'm carp fishing. The go to about 35lbs. As for the fight, I'd say they pull a lot harder than a carp would, lb for lb, but the fight is different. I can't ever remember one kiting on me; they just pull away against the direction of pull, really hard. I've often though I was into a big carp, only for it to turn out to be a double figure cat.
You can normally tell from the run when a catfish has picked up your bait - typically you get a one-toner out of nowhere.All the ones I've caught by accident have been on boilies, all but one of them on fishmeals. I did fish for them for a few sessions several years ago using largish lumps of lambs liver for bait, hair rigged on a size 1 hook on a light link leger. Most of the guys that fish for them regularly use livebaits. They use a leger rig with a 1.5-2" polyball on a 3" hair & the bait - say a small roach - is lip hooked. Halibut pellets seems to be the bait that's in fashion at the moment - 4 22mm pellets hair rigged on a large strong hook fished over a kilo of freebies - dropped off by boat preferably, so they are tight to the hookbait.
This is my biggest from the summer - 28lb. It picked up a 15mm Source pop-up just after dawn, size 8 hook, 15lb snakebite hooklink. The braid in snakebite is tighter weaved than most - which helps a lot with their teeth, looser braids fray more easliy and eventually give out.
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Stewart,
Congrats on the Grass Carp, and the cat.
PM me your mailing address if you want a copy of IC.
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Thanks Paul
Maybe I'm just being a dummy here? However, I used to be able to put up 640 x 480 before the forum upgrade but when I tried to upload the first one of these at that size it refused citing too large.
Does anybody know what the absolute pixel limit is for an individual image upload these days??
Thanks.
Iain.
I use paint shop pro for editing my photos. If you use Save As... after editing your pictures there is an options button - in there I set the compression ratio to about 15-20% & encoding to Standard Encoding. The file format preferences are set to 72 dpi. This generally produces a file of less than 100K when it is 640*480 pixels in size.
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Nice fish Iain. I wouldn't mind a couple like that this season.
You need to resize your pictures to about 600 or 700 pixels wide before uploading them. The images you posted look pixelated when you blow them up.
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Dave,
Check out your local haberdashery & see if they have any small crochet hooks - they make fine baiting needles for corn.
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Well let's see a few pictures of these monsters then....
On Orange it was just a matter of waiting for the shoal / s of commons to come by.. <_<
I've only caught a few grassies - all from Orange. They all took maize hookbaits, while most of the better carp I had fell to single 20mm rosehip isotonic boilies (my biggest was on maize too). My mate Barry was really pestered by them. We think the ammount of maize he'd put out was holding them in his swim & most of them weren't getting to my spot.
Phil - you know what it's like to have motionless swingers for 24 hours???
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What a cracker! Well done Scott.
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Pat,
I think you caught it in May '02 at about 14lbs. It looks to have grown a few inches in the meantime.
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Milano Paul caught a 30 from a nearby swim a couple days later.
Sorry Brian.
I'm sure it was 1999 - the year I came over with Kevin.I did a similar thing when Barry lost a good fish round one of the islands at Orange lake a couple of years ago. I landed a mid-30 later in the day & was able to give him his plastic corn back...he was grateful, but not happy.
A loss that still stings for me happened about 20 years ago on Drayton Fen in the UK. I'd found half a dozen fish that were swimming in and out of a small bay & decided to have a go at them with floatfished worms (brandlings). Most of the fish were much bigger than I'd caught at the time, a couple looked like what I imagined 30s to look like. Anyway, after a while I got a chance to put the bait about 20' in front of the biggest of the bunch, which carried on swimming & took the bait without any hesitation. I set the hook & the fish charged off out into the lake, but my line had been damaged where I'd pinched on a split shot and parted like cotton. I was all over in a couple of seconds, but it took about an hour to stop shaking.
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On the lakes I fish in the UK my usual accidental captures are bream, tench & wels catfish. Bream most of the time. I've also caught roach, rudd, eels, pike & chub. Most of the pike were taken while reeling in, but they ocassionally pick up a static bait.
That's a nice Rudd Scott...I didn't know they were in the US.
Here's a picture of a bream.
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A place called Ferry Lagoon at Fen Drayton. It's a gravel pit, about 20 or 30 years old & around 100 acres in size - low stocking density water.
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Thanks for posting the bream picture Steve - I heard that someone else caught it...
James fishes a couple of waters that I fish...that's not the first big bream he's had from where he's fishing; he had a 16:8 last year (& some nice carp). I'll make sure to ask him for some bream tips when I next see him.
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David, I knew it was a carp when I hooked it, but it didn't give as good a scrap as a more normal shaped carp. It was more of a fast waddle, than a fight...I can't remember having to give it much, if any, line.
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I always prefer this type of underwater shot.
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I caught this little fatty in September.
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Rob - With a comment like that I thought you might enjoy this link: French Military History
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I've caught a few goldfish-common crosses in the Tidal Basin, so I guess you can get crucian-common crosses as well. The hybrids in the TB looke like commons except the rays on their dorsal and anal fins are less pronounced and they have no barbules. I don't have a picture of one, but I'm sure one of the DC carpers will have...
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Stewart - Yes, those are the first english 30s I've had this year, and it's the first time I've had 2 in a session over here.
Tim - We don't think there are any original fish (leney's) left - the last one that we know of died a couple of years ago. The linear certainly has the same looks though. Next to the commons, it's probably the best looking big fish in the lake.
I like to have a day or 2 off work in the 3rd week of October - it always seems a good time for big fish.
BTW, those fish were caught on 15mm Source pop-ups, popped up about 3-4" on a size 8 Fang hook, 15lb Kryston Raptor hooklink & 1.5 oz running lead. For chum I used 15 crumbled up boilies, 15 boilies chopped in half & 15 whole boilies (15mm boilies) over each spot, which were gravelly patches in amungst lots of dying back weedbeds & algae. I wasn't fishing very far out so I could be really accurate... I fished with slack line/light bobbins with about a 1 foot drop from the butt ring - you get pretty good bite indication most of the time, but quite a few false beeps...
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And the other side
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Here the picture...
2005 - a great year of fishin'
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A successful year for other species with 3 new PBs - Wels, Tench & Pike. I was carp fishing when I caught the Wels & the Tench, but they still count!