Lingmere Fishery 2006-06-15 (many photies)

[KeviN]

Sandy and me arrived Lingmere at 2:30pm, we met Ste at the HOT peg and I just set up right of him as his mate was packing up. NICE TO MEET YOU STE.

3 swims ,6M out at 10 and 12 o'clock, and a margin swimnext to lily pads on my right. BOMBbombBOMBbomb..... 6 VDE supercarp fishmeal groundbait balls were thrown in.

First cast made at 3pm, 12 oclock swim, 6mm green swimstim hooked put in, 1..2..3.. FLOAT GONE... I striked firmly and hooked to a nice fish. It surrendered after 3min a ghostie not huge but a good start.


Then I was into some small carps and tench.
3:50pm - managed a good condition mirror


As the swims were solid with fish, I passed the pole to Sandy. She still not used to pole so missed a few good bites, but she's improved a lot and managed some small carps and skimmer, I think next time she'll get something big!

Alright I fished again after an hr, first cast and hooked to something heavy, but swimming VERY SLOWLY!
We had a good laugh and it shows it's face on the water. A Carp - Koi - Goldfish hybrid with big eyes and belly, that's why it swam so slowly


After 6min, I managed my PB roach, still small but I am happy.


Then another carp..


I have fed the margin swim with maggots( given by a nice angler when he left) and pellets for 2.5hrs, and I saw the WAVES. I told Sandy there must be a big tench! Bait put in, float gone after 3 sec!!! It dashed in the lilys in no time, hook pulled.... but the rig was fine, as I was using a strong 0.16 line it just cut the lily pads.

Put another hooker in, this time 1 feet away the lily pads. Float gone and I stiked and dragged the fish away from snags. It gave a very good fight on my pink bungee 14-16.
My best tench of the day.


I used up groundbait and don't wanna mix more, I just few the swims with 3mm pellets. That attracted tons of small fish in. Less feed few bites, more feed more small fish. So I just packed up at around 7.

I am well chuffed today, caught a few nice fish and they all look so different! Managed over 40lb net in 4 hrs, my best session in Lingmere.

Good decision to fish rather than watch the world cup!

by the way, one more bonus photo for you from Sandy..

[Bri]

Well done again Kevin

Your reports get better al the time. We are now beginning to get a nice reports section going thanx to you and the other guys.


That Goldfish thingy is great. Thats what I like about Lingmere, you never know what the next fish is goint to be.

I think some groundbait is going in next time I fish it.

[ryan06]

well done mate great report wierd fish tha goldfish.

[KeviN]

ryan06 said:

well done mate great report wierd fish tha goldfish.

you're right mate, it looks it's got gold fish genes, or it's just a goldfish as you said?

[Jamie]

nice one kev mate Scary looking fish

[jameshamo]

kevin said:

ryan06 said:

well done mate great report wierd fish tha goldfish.

you're right mate, it looks it's got gold fish genes, or it's just a goldfish as you said?

it just looks like a koi but the fin to far down its back so it must be a hybrid with a comon

[Danny]

well in kev looks like you had a good day thee mate.

[bigdave]

when i fished it the other week me and mick were getting all kinds of strange gold coloured carp...nice fish mate

[jameshamo]

there are a few golden rud golden roach and golden tech

[steroo2006]

Yeh Nice Meeting You As Well Kev I Stuck With Corn Had A Load Of Roach, 2 Carp & A Lovely 5-6lb Tench. Had A Few Goes Of Floating Bread On My Pole And Got Snapped About 5 Times. I Learned Of Kev What Bait 2 Take With Me Next Time Pellets Coz I Was There For Over 14Hours From half 6 In The Morning Til Half 8 And Kev Caught More Then Me. Next Time Kev I Will Come Out Better

[jameshamo]

trout pellet is a good feeder for lingmere as thats wht is thrown in when its not fished as much in the winter buy the owner steve. and the green swim stim koi ground bait mixed into paste is a good hook bait. corn also does well. if your going for the skimmers try ledgering half way to the iland on worm for sum reason does well

[KeviN]

sterooney2006 said:

Yeh Nice Meeting You As Well Kev I Stuck With Corn Had A Load Of Roach, 2 Carp & A Lovely 5-6lb Tench. Had A Few Goes Of Floating Bread On My Pole And Got Snapped About 5 Times. I Learned Of Kev What Bait 2 Take With Me Next Time Pellets Coz I Was There For Over 14Hours From half 6 In The Morning Til Half 8 And Kev Caught More Then Me. Next Time Kev I Will Come Out Better

I know you'll do better mate! I reckon 3mm feed pellet attract lots of small fish in and cause line bite, no good!
Better feed 4mm or even 5mm pellets with 6mm hooker, feed the swim every fish, no fish still feed every 5min and I gaurantee you'll have a sour arms landing fish next time!

And what line elastic were you using mate?
I used 0.14 line with 12-20 elastic before and landed 10lb carp no problem, yesterday I stepped up to 0.16 even better!
not a single tangle rig and can CUT thru the weeds!

Next time I'll get the bait band and CAT biscult to catch the carp on top mate.

[jameshamo]

I know you'll do better mate! I reckon 3mm feed pellet attract lots of small fish in and cause line bite, no good!
Better feed 4mm or even 5mm pellets with 6mm hooker

i disagree mate i think all hook pellets are crap in lingmere apart from the bad ass madrass and halibut 4mm pellets personally i think you should stick to corn and a bit of spam meat, have a small pot of feed going in every time you ship out and then every other after the first hour get a nice bed of trout pellets down and have the fish in your swim all day, i have a great days fishing all sorts of fish like bream carp Rudd roach tench barble chub, had a 8lb ghostie last time

[KeviN]

jameshamo said:

I know you'll do better mate! I reckon 3mm feed pellet attract lots of small fish in and cause line bite, no good!
Better feed 4mm or even 5mm pellets with 6mm hooker

i disagree mate i think all hook pellets are crap in lingmere apart from the bad ass madrass and halibut 4mm pellets personally i think you should stick to corn and a bit of spam meat, have a small pot of feed going in every time you ship out and then every other after the first hour get a nice bed of trout pellets down and have the fish in your swim all day, i have a great days fishing all sorts of fish like bream carp Rudd roach tench barble chub, had a 8lb ghostie last time

I think the only answer is every people got his/her lucky bait.
Like one of Mathew's favourite additives is predator plus, but then I bought one, and everytime I used it, no bite! back to my no flavour expander bites start again.

May be one day we should fish Lingmere together with different tactics see which score better.

[mathew]

I know you'll do better mate! I reckon 3mm feed pellet attract lots of small fish in and cause line bite, no good!
Better feed 4mm or even 5mm pellets with 6mm hooker, feed the swim every fish, no fish still feed every 5min and I gaurantee you'll have a sour arms landing fish next time! [/quote]

I reckon line bites are caused because of too much feed.. Introduced it light and constant.. and you would notice that there would be lesser line bites and more distinctive bites. However, been fishing with you for so long Kev. I've have decided to call you Agressive Feeder Man.

Mathew

[KeviN]

that's why I said don't feed 3mm pellets(unless when I use 4mm expanders for small fish), feed 4mm, or even 5mm, 6mm to match the bigger hook bait. If like half pot of kinder pot 4mm pellets, there's only a 10 grains, not much. But like half pot of micro is a lot and spread a large area especially the swim is more than 3 feet, the fish just get crazy as you said.

when bigger fish is in the swim there must be liner problem, I normall solve by using a hollow tip float and leave half inch of bristle showing.

okie, I admit am s***e fisherman, you and james both said my tactics no good.... I am not telling out my tactics anymore.