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Anyone who follows the match results for the Bristol Docks on this blog will realise how important groundbait is when fishing in deep water. The docks system is 12ft deep at its shallowest and parts go down to 20ft. Loose feeding at any distance in that depth of water is very ineffective, if you allow for the wind spreading the...
The clever lads at maver has just released a new micro bore pole bush, it is a bush with a 3.8mm outside diameter, that is size 5 in the maver range, but instead of the usual 3.5mm inside diameter it has only a 2mm inside diameter.This allows you to put fine elastics in your power kits without the connector getting...
Thursdays evening match saw high winds and waves make the fishing very difficult for the anglers, the water colour was good with a nice tinge of colour, but presentation was spoilt by the strong wind and undertow. Good conditions for sailing, and there were plenty of boats about.Making the best of the conditions was Jason Bird, who caught 5lb 9ozs...
This weeks hot weather has seen fish start to spawn on most of the local lakes and hopefully they will start on the docks, because its so deep the water takes longer to warm up, but hopefully they will get it done soon and then maybe the fishing will start to improve.Thursdays match saw the water levels down 12" with...
As soon as I knew that I was in the squad for this years Euorpeans, I started to plan my preparation. I knew a bit about the venue, at Novi Sad in Serbia, as I was part of the under 22s who won gold there 7 years ago, it is a cut off channel from the mighty Danube.The main part...
Baltic Wharf is still not fishing its best, this Thursdays evening had very dirty water and lots of flotsum on the surface, probably caused by the recent high tides.The weather was mild enough, a few more dgrees and hopefully the fish will spawn and the Wharf will start to fish as it normally does this time of the year.Top rod...
The water level had been dropped by 20" for Thursday evening match and the fish didnt like it at all, combined with coloured water and a windy evening, the roach and bream failed to show.A recent change of Dock gates means the water is now being drawn from the bottom of the gates and not the top, as before, and...
The Docks system is taking a long time to warm up this year, Wednesday we had a hail storm, hardly the weather for Mid May. The water temperatures are way below what they should be for the time of the year and spawning is very late.The conditions for Thursdays evening match was pleasant enough, no wind or flow and the...
Thursdays evening match didn't feel very Spring like with strong winds and heavy rain making the fishing very difficult at Baltic Wharf.Alan Healey made the best of the conditions to catch 2 bream and some skimmers for a winning weight of 9lb 3oz, Alan caught all his fish on a groundbait feeder. Second was Dave Shore with 7lb 3oz which...
