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Truly stunning beast of a fish, one lucky man! Hats off to the water management team, they have learnt from the other "super" waters that have appeared and disappeared very quickly, abused by pressure, pike do not survive well with constant pressure, their short opening periods obviously works...

Major spawning last weekend, fish showing in other areas, but no bites for anyone. A change in the weather coming Sunday to Wednesday, hopefully it might promote some feeding activity, just a matter of location!

The weather has seemingly delayed some species spawning activity, except the carp. A 12lb bream caught today was full of spawn, they have usually spawned by now, the perch are hiding, by this time they usually appear and destroy worm baits, no sign as yet. All the Tench are showing no signs of...

Early start, lots of fish showing, mainly out of range, but enough closer in to give some encouragement, eventually had a real screamer, no doubt it was an angry carp, long ,tricky scrap resulting in a 20lb 3oz mirror. decided to pack up about 7pm, literally last rod in the water, just about to...

Frustrating start this morning, 1st swim choice, just a blanket weed nightmare, 2nd swim much better. Saw a couple roll, game on, had a really fast take shortly after a recast, netted after a good scrap, typical male scrap, 2nd rod screamed off, a much more brutal, dogged scrap, ended up with...

Been fishing a large southern pit for a few weeks for nothing, last week was much better, 4 on Tuesday, 2 on Wednesday and 1 Thursday. 0ne 5lber, one 6lber, two 7s, two 8s and a beast of 9lb 14oz, all immaculate but will fatten up a lot, then the wind changed and nothing to follow bar a few...

At last the cold weather has gone and the tench were very active this morning, showing allover the swim, just a couple of knocks, then 11.30 a solid bite, great scrap and a superb 9lb 5oz male, 15 minutes later, an 8lb 14 oz female followed by a 4lb 14oz little un, and that was it. So nice to...

Whilst not exactly ideal conditions, just felt a tinca was possible, sure enough, 4.30 this afternoon, a male of around 5lb. Having seen a few whilst piking, they seem to favour one area, residents ,maybe, but nice to get one, took a worm over a sprinkling of hemp.

Signed up

Keep local is reasonable, puts the blocks on my Avon Salmon fishing from FEB 1st, but it may change, but in the meantime I have miles of the lower Thames and some pits within 3 miles of my front door, local enough I would think.

It will all become more transparent soon, seems unlikely fishing will be OK, but who knows, my third dose of furlough, and without fishing it could be very boring!

All of my favorite and productive lower Thames swims have a distinct similarity, they are not accessable from anywhere else, no fear of someone jumping in next door, always a must for my swim choice. I do fish some very popular areas, but I will only fish them with nobody fishing anywhere close...

Double Davy knot is very easy to tie, and gives maximum BS, like that loop knot, I normally use a figure 8

Had plenty of eel attention using spam, both straight from the tin and heavily curried/garliced, but none using bacon grill, try it, caught plenty of barbel on both, bacon grill is much tougher, but strangely doesn,t seem very effective when dosed in curry/garlic unlike spam. !

I bought a pair of Snowbee thin neoprenes, only 1mm thick, but I fly fish with them no problem, waterproof too ,so handy for unhooking pike, not mega warm, but enough for me.

Fingers crossed and all that, the prospect of being locked down for a month(+?), without fishing again is not appealing at all, luckily my fishing is all local at present, but the Salmon season involves an 80 mile drive eachway, a few months away, but who knows where this is all going, travel...

I caught a 5lb fish from the Avon a few years ago on a big chunk of spam, quite a shock, must be weird trout season, caught a 5lb brownie yesterday from the lower Thames ,again on a big chunk of spam, where it came from is anyone,s guess but livened up a quiet day!

IF allowed, try particles rather than boilies, tigers are fairly immune from crayfish nibbling, as are chick peas, maize, maples, peanuts etc. I know a lot of fisheries don,t allow them, but some do, worth finding out!

Great fish, fair play to the captor for claiming it,. but I would imagine his mates are not happy, the trophy hunters will be there en masse, camped out until march 14th. Not my scene, but it is for a very large number of people, the only plus being it will leave my own fishing somewhat quieter...

I think any strong flavour will work, personal favorite being hot madras, but an addition that really makes a difference, especially in clear waters is to dye the bait, dark brown to black asd well as adding a flavour, has proved devastating in many rivers for me, just another edge. I use food...