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I’ll will send another update soon as to state of the medway in the upper reaches and hopefully soon the new christmas lures can be christened!

Good luck to all and I hope you all have a great 2010!

Its been a while since i’ve posted so i thought i’d post up a little update.  I’ve been hard at work finishing my pond off which is literally done now.  So hopefully back on the fishing as soon as possible!  If all goes to plan another night will be spent on the river this weekend to see if life is returning to a very low looking river.  Not much fish movement to report at all and captures… well even less so!

I’ll hopefully be posting up on here sunday of some marvelous captures, well probably not to be honest but i’m staying optimistic just in case something special comes my way!  If not i think it may be time to try somewhere else for a while until we have some real amount of rain to rejuvenate a somewhat silent river that is really struggling to produce at the moment.  Fingers crossed for the weeks to come!

I’m back on the hunt tonight, and thankfully a night to be spent on the river is ahead of me!  I’m going out to fish until its too dark for the stripeys and then out with the carp rods for the night to see if i can find anymore monsters! 

I’ll update the site again upon my return!  Wish me luck! 

The day arrived and i was down on the river by 4:15 ready to launch an assualt on the fish that lurked beneath.  The river was quite clear with a slow flow to it, not ideal conditions but i had to be there!  I baited with chopped worm and reg maggots on the edge of the reeds in the hope to tempt a stripey into biting!  I didn’t have to wait long and the first one was in the net.  Not a biggie but it was what i was after so i couldn’t complain.  After this i managed two more perch to a 1lb and a half on worms, a 4lb bream and a small chub.  Then the swim died. 

I put the rod down and a pike went for the float which was just dangling on the water… shortly after he then assumed his resting position right against the bank about 2 feet away from me.  I couldn’t help to see what he would like for lunch, so i tried a few worms and managed to get them on video dropping into the water, then i tried a few tiddlers to see whether or not he was up for the challenge of a fishy snack! 

Check out the videos in the forum to see what happened!

Ok back i went to the same location, it wasn’t quite as productive as the first session as it was a lot windier but we still managed around 15-20 perch.  Biggest again just below a pound… i’m sure there are bigger in there after seeing an easy 2 pounder last autumn.  Hopefully i will be back down there tomorrow to see whats about and try another very perchy area of the lake.  Fingers crossed – and whatever happens i cannot wait for the 16th to come around.  I’m counting the days now.  The new perch rods have arrived and the worms are on order to arrive Friday so i can get out and prebait a few chosen swims on my favourite section of river.

Good luck to any readers who like myself will be aiming for stripeys on the opening day!

Why is it that as soon as the close season begins the rivers looks its best for ages?

I have fished the last three weekends on a near untouched lake trying to find whatever will take my bait, albeit for the time being its just been Bream whilst i’ve been there.  This weekend an attempt will be made to see what predators or in the lake… at 15-20 acres its a challenge to say the least but hopefully something nice will grace my net over the weekend.  Its barely fished so i have no idea what is in there and with only once seeing an angler fishing it – there is a buzz about the place for me to find something special.  I’m hoping this weekend i can find atleast one Perch to really set the off season campaign in to action…!  I was told a few months back of a number of pike in the lake but on questioning the perch population there was no information to hand.

Maybe its just waiting for someone to target them, and hopefully that person is me!  I’ll let you know how the place progresses, as atleast for now i have until June 16th to see if its back to river or not…!  Please oh please let the Perch come to see me, the place is so special and off the beaten track it will be a great pleasure to find some stripeys hidden out there somewhere!  

I’ll keep you informed!

Just a quick report to say we’re 5 days in and already achieved 10 members!  If it carries on like this hopefully it will be a great resource for all us Perch and Predator anglers out there.

Come on in and have your say!  Signing up only takes a minute and all anglers are welcome!

Thanks for dropping in! 
Mark

This saturday i decided to try a new spot!  Much of my current success has been on a stretch approx a mile down river from where i tried on Saturday.  The old spot was looking pretty much dead on a few evening visits i had made after work, and with it getting a few more anglers on that stretch i decided to venture somewhere new.

The alarm clock beeped away at 6am and there i was alone on a secluded back stream of the river by 6:30 i had high hopes for the morning.  The part i had chosen had lovely deep undercut banks and was a small fish holding area.  Livebaits were coming thick and fast and i thought this day was looking good.  I tackled up the perch rod with a float fished paternostered live bait around 3″ long, with high hopes that Mr Perch would soon arrive for his breakfast.  I also opted to put out a pike rod as this area normally produces a good few pike.  I’d had them previously here up to around 9-10lb.  On a normal morning here i’d have seen many pike striking in the early hours but this time i had seen none – weird!  After 2 hours i decided it just wasn’t happening here today.  I had positioned the perch rod in favoured spots but produced nout.  It was time to move. 

I up’d rods and went for a look at other areas of the river.  I found a nice spot with a lot of cover from reeds and lilly pads, it wasn’t an easy place to fish but looked good for a perch bite.   Out went the float paternoster rod just off the lilly pads in a nice area of shade.  And the other rod i positioned about 10 yards upstream tight to the bank.  I began to question myself after 30 minutes if it just wasn’t to be today, but low and behold the float started to bob… and then it was off i struck as soon as the float went for a swim and i was in.  A few minutes later a nice stripey as in the net!  At 1lb 10oz it sure wasn’t the biggest but boy was i glad to see it.  After thinking it wasn’t going to happen i was very happy i’d decided to move. 

So guess where i’m heading this weekend!  Got to see if there are many more Perch up in that area.  It should be a good spot after the heavy rain from yesterday as its sheltered and off from the main flow.   3 days of work to go!  I just hope the stripeys are hungry!

Well i have no idea what went wrong… the pike weren’t about feeding like normal, the perch were not up for it and even the silver fish had legged it!  What a day.  The river was dull with a slow flow to it, the weather looked good but the fishing wasn’t to be that great!  Tried different stretches down the medway and just before packing up managed a Perch just under 2lb – phew i had survived what i was certain of being a blank session.   I really thought the conditions looked good, but thats fishing i guess.  If it was always easy i suppose i’d get bored of it.  Hopefully this weekend after a long week at work the river will be full of life again and those preds will be after some of my baited rigs!

If not i guess its time to sit back and read Perch – Contemporary Days and Ways that turned up in the post earlier this week!  Seems like a good read so far and makes the daily commute to work a little easier!

Well what did i want more than another large perch…?  Not much i can tell you!  And this morning after changing location another river caught 3lb’r graced the net.  There was me thinking to myself that it wasn’t going to happen this morning and i’d missed the prime time, when low and behold the float started to bop away and off she went.   What makes this even better was looking at previous catches there aren’t any other recorded 3lb’ers down this stretch of river, and this is my second in a year. 

The last one went 3lb 10oz and this one was bang on 3lb.  Will there be a 4lb’er soon who knows! 

The hunt continues!!!