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[leadlugger]

Couldnt fish the past 2 weekends due to the supposedly "bad weather" so Sunday will be the first fishing trip out cant wait
Its only a 4 hour match but every second on the bank counts.
Gunna try a maggot clip for the first time as it scores well in the lake im going to. Would of won the match there a few weeks back but went arse over tip on the peg while playing a fish and the hook pulled!! so that upset me.

Anyway wish me good luck and ill let you no how i got on
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

[Kev]

Good luck mate Dont get falling over this week

Never had much luck with the mag clip You should post a picture up how you set yours up
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[leadlugger]

Cheers kev,
Ive just heard about the bad reports of the mag clip
Will do mate, its set up blow back style but i may attach it to a D rig depends how i feel when i get there.

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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

[leadlugger]

Well today was a shocker got set up with my maggot rig and a pva bag of mags the a women cast out next to me 5 mins alter beeeeeeeeeeeeep she has a fish then it come of thank god lol . Getting a few knocks from the little rudd, roach, bream, etc had that on for an hour reeled in mags chewed to high heaver so i put on a Pro biotic boilie (which scored before) with a bag of mags and chopped pro biotics but low and behold nothing for 3 hours and in that time a chap at the other end of he lake had a 14.12 and 10.04 also a little lad (the one who theives things from you ) had a 12.10 and rain starts lashing it down couldnt puit me bivvy up as i was tight for space so i errect my brolly and the wind almost takes it
How ever i did get to free floats out of it and we all had a right laugh when the women's alarm next to me screamed of only to net the fish and it turned out it was a chub haha.

Sorry i didnt post any pics forgot me to take me phone and my bag is in the shed.

Just hope i have better look down the canal next weekend.

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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

[snowman]

fair play for getting out, the weather is pants
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[leadlugger]

Thanks, i know i just lay there on my bed chair in the rain in the end lol.

Ill keep you guys informed when i go to the canal saturday

Adam.
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

[snowman]

how does the canal fair for carp?
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[leadlugger]

A bloke from the comp on Sunday fished it Friday and had a 22 out on mainline coconut pop-ups (he swears by them but they let him down Sunday haha), you see them jumping all over in he morning 5-8 (shall get there for 5.30) and the owner of the tackle shop said he did a night down there in September and had 17 in total ranging from 3-18lb (he had them on small pineapple dunbell bottoms with a small pva bag of them) seems like fruity baits are the way for them.
Ill have a snow man rig on the one rod (18mm pineapple bottom and a 14mm mainline milk toffee pop-up with a pva bag of chopped and hole pineapple boilies) and the other rod a 18mm pineapple boilie with a small bag of pineapples.

If none of this works then ill switch to the old faithful probiotics

Not going to bother with baiting up as they are hardly fished for and i worry that by baiting up they will think something is up.

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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

[snowman]

plus i suppose canal fish are fairly nomadic, they're either there or their not.
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[Kev]

I would bait up mate The carp in the canal move around alot. I know from when i was fishin my local canal. I never baitted up and had one or two fish over a few weeks, then started to find the fish had moved on like 2 miles away from where i was fishin So i started to bait up a few days aweek even if i was not fishin it I started to have four or five fish anight I know of the chap from the tackle shop aswell and he will be baittin up for sure
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[leadlugger]

Really,
Well i know for sure where they are mainly due to walking the canal of a morning in the dark and they stay there for a considerable amount of time and Steve has told me the where abouts of the carp on the basin and he didnt bait up from what he told me and when i told him my approach he agreed

Yes Steve, hes a good man took me to is syndicate for a night sesh thats where i had my pb 18.05.

I may bait up the night before tho through in about 1/4 kg pineapple boilies and a pint maggots maybe a pint of hemp?

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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

[slayer]

Where do you fish the comps

[leadlugger]

Herriots (Lido park pond) in Droitwich but occasionally in the summer ill do a few commie matches but atm i am concentrating on carp onlys.
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

[leadlugger]

Cant get any money to by bait to paid up the canal so i will be fishing the water of the previous matches instead on Saturday and try for the 8 20's in there. Gunna give the good old pro biotic ago and some milky toffee pop-ups on my new pop-up rig i have cundred up;) get there for 5 maybe even 4 if i pluck up the courage to walk through the park on my own with the comfort of my new head torch lol.

Adam.
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

[Kev]

What time does the match start then
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