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William Pettigrew
 Posts : 1125
Join date : 2010-10-25
Age : 59
Location : roehampton
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sun Nov 04, 2012 9:45 am | |
| ive got this week off work,and will be fishing most days. the question is,what do i fish for?.i think the conditions have thrown a few spanners in the works  i was hoping to go for perch,but water is very coloured? i know zander feed in coloured water. maybe ill take a feeder rod,float rod and a carp rod??? | |
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Neil Depledge
Posts : 721
Join date : 2010-01-21
Age : 71
Location : Ashford, Middx
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sun Nov 04, 2012 9:51 am | |
| - Ed Randall wrote:
- Just don't steal Neil's holy mud weight. Only he can break the curse once it is recovered.
The curse can be broken by the ritualistic offering of pints of beer (offered by me of course)  | |
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Adrian Hoare
Posts : 1438
Join date : 2010-01-21
Age : 46
Location : sunbury on thames
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:36 am | |
| It's got to be barbel or zander really . More chance of a pick up using a small roach deadbait as opposed to a livebait in coloured water . I like to inject fish oils into a dead roach to make them easier to find in the coloured water .
I fancy having a go this week with small fresh deadbaits in the margins as long as water deep enough still . It is pushing really hard again , just as it was about to calm down :-( | |
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William Pettigrew
Posts : 1125
Join date : 2010-10-25
Age : 59
Location : roehampton
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Fri Nov 09, 2012 7:30 am | |
| sat here all week not fishing,apart from monday i was invited to a days fishing with mr harry notley,he took me to his club water,good day out a few fish caught. also i caught a fish ive never heard of? a geeble. anyway im going to teddy now | |
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Adrian Hoare
Posts : 1438
Join date : 2010-01-21
Age : 46
Location : sunbury on thames
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Fri Nov 09, 2012 7:34 am | |
| Good stuff willie ! Let me know how you get on .
Apparantely the red boards have been lifted on the Kingston stretch so teddy should of slowed up a little . Good luck m8 !
I wanted to be fishing today but got to help my parents out with some stuff that needs moving around . | |
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Ed Randall
Posts : 3326
Join date : 2010-11-19
Age : 58
Location : Twickenham
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Fri Nov 09, 2012 8:34 am | |
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Neil Depledge
Posts : 721
Join date : 2010-01-21
Age : 71
Location : Ashford, Middx
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:17 pm | |
| Another invasive species??
Good luck at Teddy. | |
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Adrian Hoare
Posts : 1438
Join date : 2010-01-21
Age : 46
Location : sunbury on thames
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sat Nov 10, 2012 3:39 pm | |
| Well guys , the section of river in question has now dropped the red boards , and no rain forecast all week next week (at the moment , touch wood) so when I finish Wednesday morning it should be fishable !
Not expecting it to drop to normal run off levels but the flow will of slowed up enough to fish for preds ! Or sea trout lol !
Ill be down there thurs fri and sat for as many tides as possible as they will be huge also :-) | |
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Keith Collett
Posts : 2557
Join date : 2010-12-15
Age : 62
Location : ADDLESTONE
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sat Nov 10, 2012 4:33 pm | |
| - Neil Depledge wrote:
- Ed Randall wrote:
- Just don't steal Neil's holy mud weight. Only he can break the curse once it is recovered.
The curse can be broken by the ritualistic offering of pints of beer (offered by me of course) I will take the curse of you Ed, for a bacon sarny | |
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Matt Johnson
Posts : 271
Join date : 2010-08-15
Location : woking innit bruv
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:32 pm | |
| - Adrian Hoare wrote:
- Not expecting it to drop to normal run off levels but the flow will of slowed up enough to fish for preds ! Or sea trout lol !
Ill be down there thurs fri and sat for as many tides as possible as they will be huge also :-) chucking it through this afternoon, and even though the river height was about 1m below normal low tide, the river was the colour of milky tea and bombing it through. It did not look to good tbh | |
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David Barratt
Posts : 10
Join date : 2011-02-09
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sun Nov 11, 2012 8:39 am | |
| - Neil Depledge wrote:
- Another invasive species??
Hi Neil. Personally I wouldn't regard Gibel as an invasive species. They've been in our waterways for a long, long time, it's just that they get misidentified so often, a bit like Silver Bream. I've been catching them for over 25 years in the stillwaters of one of my clubs (almost certainly the same one Willie visited as it's the only place I've fished where they are known as Gibel, though I've caught them at many other waters too) and they have done no discernible harm to the ecosystems of those lakes. Cheers Dave | |
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Richard Crimp
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Posts : 1875
Join date : 2010-01-20
Age : 57
Location : London
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:33 am | |
| They look a little like bitterlings? Which are an indigenous species. Richard  | |
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Richard Crimp
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Posts : 1875
Join date : 2010-01-20
Age : 57
Location : London
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:57 am | |
| In fact they [gibels] look nothing like bitterlings... pardon me!  Richard | |
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William Pettigrew
Posts : 1125
Join date : 2010-10-25
Age : 59
Location : roehampton
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:28 pm | |
|  this was the geeble i caught?
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Adrian Hoare
Posts : 1438
Join date : 2010-01-21
Age : 46
Location : sunbury on thames
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sun Nov 11, 2012 9:42 pm | |
| Looks similar to a fantail goldfish to me ?
Looks like a cross between every carp strain imaginable :-)
Quite a pretty fish willie | |
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David Barratt
Posts : 10
Join date : 2011-02-09
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:40 pm | |
| That's an unusual looking one, 99% of the Gibel in there don't have the fan tail. | |
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Adrian Hoare
Posts : 1438
Join date : 2010-01-21
Age : 46
Location : sunbury on thames
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:07 am | |
| Well , back to the draw off thread - river looks spot on in my intended areas tomorrow thank god !! About 2' visibility in my chosen swim believe it or not !
River on the semi is slowing up a lot , well , compared to last week of course .
And we have huge tides this week with little or no rain forecast so it zander the next four days :-)
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Richard Crimp
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Posts : 1875
Join date : 2010-01-20
Age : 57
Location : London
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:35 am | |
| Get on it Ades, slay those vampires!
Richard | |
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Iain Stevens
Posts : 4
Join date : 2011-12-14
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:44 am | |
| Was wondering at low tide at the moment. is it possible to navigate.the semi tidal. as there is still so much flow at the moment. as living to far away to have a look.cheers iain. | |
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Adrian Hoare
Posts : 1438
Join date : 2010-01-21
Age : 46
Location : sunbury on thames
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Wed Nov 14, 2012 5:38 pm | |
| Hi Iain - it is navigable definately but unless you know the river well I'd wait till the tides coming in .
There's big humps and bumps all along the semi tidal , especially in the weir , as I found out a few years ago in Jims boat when we hit into a submerged load of huge rocks , 4ft of water under the boat then directly into 3 inches with huge boulders ! at low tide run off you should have plenty of water to go afloat but be careful :-) | |
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Adrian Hoare
Posts : 1438
Join date : 2010-01-21
Age : 46
Location : sunbury on thames
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Wed Nov 14, 2012 5:39 pm | |
| - Richard Crimp wrote:
- Get on it Ades, slay those vampires!
Richard I'm sea trout fishing tomorrow m8 I've decided lol . All I seem to catch is trouts down there lately :-) | |
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Iain Stevens
Posts : 4
Join date : 2011-12-14
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:30 pm | |
| I saw neils photo on page 3. And it didn't look like it was down that much. as its nearly the same flow . as this week. cheers. | |
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James Mitchell
Posts : 738
Join date : 2011-11-14
Location : Kingston
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:55 pm | |
| - Adrian Hoare wrote:
- Richard Crimp wrote:
- Get on it Ades, slay those vampires!
Richard
I'm sea trout fishing tomorrow m8 I've decided lol .
All I seem to catch is trouts down there lately :-) Presumably you mean brown trout Ade unless you have a migratory fish licence...  | |
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Adrian Hoare
Posts : 1438
Join date : 2010-01-21
Age : 46
Location : sunbury on thames
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:39 pm | |
| It's lower now Iain ! By a fair bit , but not as low as normal by a long shot - definately lower than the pics your referring to .
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Ed Randall
Posts : 3326
Join date : 2010-11-19
Age : 58
Location : Twickenham
| | Subject: Re: Draw Off 2012 Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:37 pm | |
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