I quite often get sent a nice
selection of photos plus letters from our members so decided to dedicate a
page on the site to the comments thoughtfully passed on by others...
presenting Members Moments...
AN INCOMPLETE ANGLER
WRITES...
To all CFPAS
members. One of the things I like about the web-site is the occasional
accounts of fishing days that other anglers provide. There haven’t been
many lately so I thought rather than moaning about it I’d do one of my
own. Now I know that with other articles you often get useful tips but
sadly there will be none from me . I’m afraid I’m not a good enough angler
for that! My technique is awful , my gear is old , I still think that
Mitchell 300’s are the best reels in the world, and I think I’m the only
angler in Cambridge who hasn’t got a Pole. (No silly jokes please!) So
anyway I thought I’d tell you about my trip to our new water , ‘Byron’s
Pool’ in Grantchester.
It’s only a long
cast away from Lord and Lady Archer’s Country retreat so on the way there
you can say hi to Jeffrey , or throw some maggots at him if you prefer. If
you haven’t been before, this water is more of a large stream than a
river. If you were a good long-jumper you could probably get across
without getting your feet wet. It’s set in a wood that is straight out of
a high budget horror movie and the first impression you get is that it is
very weedy. Get your sunglasses out though , and you will realise that
the weed is not everywhere and there are some holes which are pretty deep.
So what did I
do? Well after ignoring my partner’s suggestion that I should ‘fish
somewhere sunny’ I settled down at peg 5 , had a roll-up and flicked a few
maggots in. I then trotted a small float down and immediately caught a
fish – a roach of about 2oz! Yes I read the Angler’s Mail too so I kept up
the feed to get rid of the small ones. I caught another ten of them! Then
I tried a maggot and worm cocktail and caught a few more. And then.......
I got a serious bite!! It must have been a chub. Well if it was a roach it
was a record-breaker! Anyway I lost it.
After I’d stopped
crying I went for a walk to have a chat with another angler who told me
that a couple of days previously he’d had 11 chub , the best going to
5lb. Am I the only angler who always turns up a couple of days after
the action. He wasn’t getting much that day but he did tell me that he got
the chub on quiver-tipped cheese-paste. Thought I’d give this a go until I
remembered I’d got no cheese and no quiver tip either! So I went back and
caught a few more roach and then went home for a drink.
To conclude I
would encourage you to make use of this water. Particularly if you are
amongst the minority of anglers who value the venue nearly as much as what
you catch. Byron’s Pool is beautiful. Those of you over 40 will know what
I mean when I say that it’s real ‘Mr. Crabtree’ stuff. Oh , and one more
thing ,there are beautiful purple dragon-flies down there who have the
endearing habit of perching on the end of your rod just long enough to
take a picture. When I looked at the picture though , it seemed to be
laughing at me!
Hope to see some
of you down there!
Tight
lines from ‘The Incomplete Angler’!
content
from a Taff. "the carp abyss"
After being asked to write an
article for the website all summer by Graham, here I finally am. All us
carp anglers (and match fisherman alike) were extremely expectant of the
prospect of fishing Milton Pits this year. Yes my mates said to me, a new
venue to fish, result. Todd Pits, the runs water on the Milton complex,
has been busy with many people fishing it regularly all year. My advice
for Todd's would definitely be to use a helicopter chod type set up or a
shocker or running bolt rig using lead core because not only is there more
weed in Todd's in the summer than in Amsterdam, but the bigger part of the
carp jigsaw is that there are very big boulders that sit all over the bed
of Todd's, I know the carp have learnt over the years to zigzag in between
the boulders as soon as they bite, taking with them your latest mono fluro
or even braid and basically chopping it to bits against the stones. So
remember to catch every fish. 15lb plus line is required at Todd's for the
carp. The first time I fished there I caught four carp in five hours and
only landed one because of 10lb line.
Anyway what a good summer it has been. I have included a few photos
to remind u all our club is a carp abyss so its winter know empty banks,
greedy fat carp popping out for the old Scooby, winter angling soon sorts
the boys from the men.
I said I would start Dickerson's Pit late Autumn,
so far I have only managed two days there at the end of October. One day
was spent markering this big tricky water which lays in the middle of
Cambridge on the Milton complex that no one catches carp from. Not a
single carp all year has been landed. On my first day markering I spotted
a small group of 4 big carp patrolling, confirmation that they were here.
A few nice clear spots were felt her and there on the marker rod, I
covered the whole lake in a day but you always miss tiny hotspots here and
there. Always marker your lake four times a year minimum, it changes down
there from season2season year to year on the bottom. So I was set for my
first days angling on this big snaggy lake, one kilo of bait had been
dropped on my chosen spots three days previously I was hopeful. but
expecting a blank due to the reputation as a hard water at Dicko's and
blank I did. I am really angry with myself for not going back there yet.
but I cant leave Hertitage Lake alone. So I am going to make a pact on
paper to fish Dickerson's more and see if I can break the blanking curse
of the lake. So common boys and girls lets get one of those big old fish
out of there.
Slack lines, Tony Duffin.
All the fish are lure caught using
a 6"6 bait-casting rod and mini multiplier from the Chesterton to
Clayhythe stretch of the cam..
The 3.8 pound perch was this season
early morning second cast of the day :-) and hit the lure so hard he
nearly swallowed it, a new personal best: - the forceps in the photo
are 10 inches long so the perch was 15-16 inches
The
file with the strange name is of a chub of over 2 pounds also caught this
season the perch that's in the photo stupidly swam into my landing net as
I netted the chub was really funny. about 5 Min's later I had 2 massive
carp swim past me right at my feet they were both well over 20 pounds I
didn't even know there were carp that big in the cam.
The other two photos are of fish I
caught out the same stretch of the cam between 2000 and 2002 that I
thought might be of interest my personal best 16.5pound pike and two
14+pound pike , a 3.1pound perch and a chub of just over 4pound (I've only
recently taken up fishing again after a long break and the first thing I
did was renew my membership to this great club as I love the nice
selection of waters available especially the rivers).
I
haven't had much luck with pike this season yet but its early days , I do
seem to be catching a huge number of perch to 2+ though and chub to 3+ so
cant complain :-)
Thanks
for listening I hope the photos attached are useful for the website as I
really enjoyed catching these fish :-)
William Dawes
Thanks for this
information William we hope other site users will find this information
useful. If you have any photos you would like to send to us along
with details of your favourite days spent fishing our waters please send
in an email to me... alirev@tiscali.co.uk
Back to Top
Club Address:
Club
President: Graham Tweed
Address: 27a Villa Road,
Impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 9NZ
Telephone: (01223) 234616
before 9pm
Membership:
Address: 39 St. Johns Close,
Needingworth, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 4TT
Telephone: (01480) 301694
before 9pm
Membership:
alirev@tiscali.co.uk
Webmaster:
alirev@tiscali.co.uk
