We all do it for different reasons. By organised I mean things like keeping a check on the weather, the winds, moon phases etc. From being over fussy with everything you do right down to things like washing your hands before baiting up. Big yourselves up lads and keep up the good work! Terry Hearn Features To me, location and watercraft are the most important things of all. Old Father Thames When it comes to bait sometimes the older edges work best. A 30lber from the spring. Changing from pop-ups to bottom baits made a massive difference when it came to fooling the older fish.
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Glenn Coleman says:. Alfie Waters says:. Jack says:. Search Search. And return they did, towards the end of October. By now you know the routine; there before first light on the Monday, with two baits out on the same productive far margin mark as before. To begin with I never bothered with the third rod, it was only after receiving no action for the first 24hrs that I had a bit of a rethink. I lined up the mark whilst leaning against a tree at the front of the swim, before the wind picked up again concealing their location, and then much later in the day I sent the boat out there on its own for a bit of a recce.
Just like everywhere else along the drop off, the slope there was incredibly steep, going from 3ft to 20ft inside a couple of rod lengths. Things were going well, and I still had another night to go. In the morning I saw a couple of shows further up the far margin, where the lake widened out.
The spot was long, a hundred plus yards from the swim and just to one side of an overgrown spit. On this occasion however, seemingly going to the same place but from a different angle, I somehow found depths as shallow as ten feet, and well off the bank too. So I now had all three rods on completely different marks, all of which I felt super happy with, and all the while I had a beautiful pit to myself.
Autumn had well and truly set in, and as afternoon turned to evening the lake fell calm again, and the leaves on the far bank glowed orange. It was heaven! Just into dark the rod fished long on the new spot signalled a drop back, and I pulled into what felt like a tench.
I sent a fresh rig and bait straight back out to the same spot in the dark, using a tree on the far margin to line up with. At around 10am that same rod signalled another take, the bobbin dropping back a few inches before cracking straight back up to the butt.
It was clear from the very off that it was another big fish, slow and ploddy, no mistaking it. Several times I took a couple of backward steps up the slope, only to then be pulled straight back down again as it stubbornly refused to come away from the far margin. I knew there was the odd snag along that bank, evident by the Mere-like branches protruding out of the water here and there.
It was another of those fights that felt like it went on forever and ever, when in reality it was probably no longer than ten or fifteen minutes. As soon as it surfaced, gurgling water beneath the tip, I pushed the net deep down beneath it and lifted. It was a big common alright, broad, plump and barrel like, clearly a different fish to the It was 45lb 4oz, of Bazil size and proportions, and in beautiful condition. Truly an unexpected result, especially as my fishing there had only happened because the Parrot in the other lake had recently been caught.
Talk about a blessing in disguise! A lad I know, who lives at home with his parents, works through the winter to fund his fishing through the better months.
Another, I knew, worked 3 days a week then fished the rest and as a result, lost his wife and kids. He carried on the same and one Xmas, he sat on a deserted lake in the snow for the whole holiday period, and when the lake froze over, moved his bivvy to the nearby river.
I would think, the majority of anglers, look to fulfill their domestic responsibilities of wives, kids, mortgage etc. They look to keep their lifestyles in perspective which gives them the buzz of weekly expectation of getting back on the bank.
I wonder how many would keep the same buzz, if they went fishing full time? Fulfillment is not about having it all your own way. Then there is no prospect of expectation. The grass isn't really greener for full timers. Just a different mind set. Think of all the other pleasures in life that they miss out on. In reply to Post 27 Yeah I reckon I've just got to wait until my boy turns 18 and then get the mrs out working 2 jobs.
That's the plan anyway! In reply to Post 23 exactly! Thats why i have so much respect for people who grind it out for their target fish. Funny enough I've been thinking along similar lines recently. If im lucky I can sometimes get to fish 2 or 3 24 hour sessions a month but this sometimes means I have to sacrifice a day by not working during the week to go fishing, and as im self employed I don't get holiday pay. I know the likes of Darrel Peck justify their fishing time as working as it is part of their contract etc.
However I've often wondered how some of the previous full timers managed to hold it all together? In reply to Post 23 Did they do it out of choice or did their sponsors say they need regular content? In reply to Post 22 Shows you just how hard Burghfield is doesn't it mate, the likes of Pecky and Jonny Mac pulling off.
In reply to Post 20 I know he did, but pulled off because he doesn't get the time to do that kind of fishing anymore. Seems a lot of his time is spent fishing waters you know he doesn't really want to be on. In reply to Post 18 Terry made his name on the royal parks as a kid which were a few quid a year before moving onto a very open and easy to access yateley before fishing the mere which anyone could fish as well as wraysbury on the leisure sport book, not many doors opened through his dad there.
Depends where in the country you are. In reply to Post 18 Pretty sure all of Laneys early 50s came from waters that anyone could get on. He's since had 50s from Northey, Burghfield etc Lerroyjenkins, Pecky did go for the BC but called it a day, such is the enormity of the challenge on limited time. Think he is on Wellington now. Agree he is as close as I can see to the 'old school' anglers and also agree that he always seems to come across as a little restricted when on film.
Great angler and from what I have seen and heard a decent bloke. Contacts are very important, terrys father was a well known angler so I expect a few doors were opened for Terry, obviously what he did after was down to him. Dave's had I think 5 50's, how many anglers get the chance to fish on lakes with fish like that in?
I personally like both of them and I don't say that about many of the attention seeking bullsh1ting names. Funny how times change, you will never see anglers like that again. I always imagine that Darrell Peck is as close as a modern day angler will ever get to the likes of Terry or dave.
Well he could be anyway. I always wonder if one day he will jump the korda ship and go fish for himself rather than what he does now, Im never convinced he's happy doing what he does. I'd love to hear he was sat on the banks chasing the Burghfield Common whilst it's still there. In reply to Post 15 My thoughts exactly Josh. If us workers really wanted it, we could fish before and after work for the twilight period where bites are likely to come.
For me personally the full time thing would be like a horrid nightmare. I think most people are the same. I know some of the old school full timers were very adept at things like getting free meals out of people Couldn't bare the thought of sacrificing the ability to feed myself for some fish and the chance of my face in a fishing paper. But hats off to those who do it. They must be made out of some very special atoms to stick with it effectively for months on end.
In reply to Post 8 Agree scozza, I can't wait to fish with my lad when he's older but I'd not have him full-timing. TheWatcher, spot on mate. In reply to Post 1 Interesting debate, for me I look up to the likes of Holt and Alcott above all else Working full time, doing it quietly with results most full timers could only wish for! However, give Hearn or Lane limited time and no free tackle or bait and they would outfish most anglers on a level playing field! In reply to Post 1 Different era back then, not the marketing, bait and tackle circus it is now.
Those guys you mention below rolled their own baits, developed and discussed methods, sometimes had jobs, sometimes went on the dole and had a lot of time to do what they had a passion for. Each decade has evolved another strain of carp angler, spurred on by great carp legends before them.
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