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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 15:10 James Mitchell

Well the closed river season has ended, so a trip down the local rivers was definitely in order ! After a previously hard session on the Bickley Mill stream (don't ask ) at ringwood, the Throop fisheries covering several miles of the Stour was picked as a location, and what a days fishing was had. The plan was to go "light", so I stripped my normal fishing bag of all the junk I usually carry around, Blimey there really is allot of it !!! and to limit myself to just one rod and reel.  The setup was to use a light stick float, with light tackle and to trot using single maggots on the various stretches of the Throop...The journey started from the Bournemouth end of the Throop, where we would find a nice stretch of river, setup and fish for 30-60 minutes..The river really is very picturesque, and there is plenty of dace and roach action ! It was then a case of following the river up under the motorway and into the countryside! this really was exceptional...fishing 30 minutes... moving... fishing... moving... much more challenging than being static on the lakes all day and really enjoyable, even though after the first few hours I had wished that I was more ruthless with the amount of fishing tackle I had bought...remember less is more I think in total we walked around 6 miles up and down the Throop, and I must admit that I was knackered at the end...but it was awesome fun, and a really nice change, I'm certainly looking forward to the next time.

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Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:36 Paul Wyatt

Now that the winter frosts and snow have disappeared the desire to fish has started to grow the hunt for the next PB just seems much more exiting. It was in my last trip out that I caught my best fish so far and here is my view on that great day.

It was a fairly mild weekend and it was decided that we would all attend, what has become a favorite at fishingfools, Turfcroft farm in the new forest. The night before was the usual double checking of  rigs, bait, equipment and documents.  That night I had decided I would be trying something slightly different from the maggots on the hook and I spent a good hour making a number of hook lengths with hair rigs. The process of making the hair rigs is fairly straight forward but the thinner the line the harder it becomes.

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Sunday, 18 January 2009 18:59 Paul Wyatt

Since starting fishing  four months ago most of the fishing has been on still water lakes using the waggler and I have caught a number of silver fish and a handful of small carp.  Being my first winter as a fisherman I have now learnt the lesson not to go to a lake with out checking the weather first.

Once Saturday morning as part of a group I travelled to a new lake and as we walked to the location full of excitement we turned the corner to notice that the whole lake was frozen with no chance to fish. We promptly drove to a fall back option but as we drove up the road the gates were securely closed again most likely due to a frozen pond.

After driving around the fishing the group decided to call it a day and plan something for the following day. After hours of research we all decided that a river was our only option. With some input from a local tackle shop we decided to travel to the Throop on a day ticket.

When we arrived at our location we found it to be a fairly straight foreword walk to the river bank we started setting up ready to fish. As a beginner I had opted to fish maggots with a float a balsa to be precise.

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Thursday, 06 November 2008 21:24 James Mitchell

Well it's been a very eventful fishing weekend, loads of highs and lows, lots of fun and certainly a very steep learning curve in the art of fishing over the winter period!  The venue started with the fishing fools heading out to Whinwhistle Fishery - had a really good morning catching small carp ( < 1lb ) on one of the swims on the top river stretch, due to a tip-off by the owner John Hardeley  must of caught around 40-50 carp....it was truly insane...at times there was an orderly queue for the landing net.  It was interesting to see how the fish were biting allot gentler in the colder water, it made judging a positive bite on the float a real challenge, you had to look for the smallest of signs be it bubbles, swaying, or faint bobbing movement - the definite float under water from a few weeks earlier was a thing of the past...Oh...and the casting...got a top tip on how to do the underarm cast...I really like it...looks very pro, reduces the splash as the float enters the water, and so far no floats stuck in trees  Also got the opportunity to try out the pellets, along with the hair rig setup - what a fiasco that was....All the information on the Internet/books makes it look sooooo easy...you just slam the pellets onto the hair rig, flick it in the water and then real in your 10lb carp - well that didn't happen for me... I really didn't get on well with the hair rig setup and pellets, it felt like a step to far from the hook and maggots, so I'm sticking with what I know for the time being...

The second venue was a trip down to...