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digitaldan		#41	[-]
Posts: 89 (12/06/08 23:37) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ahhh....The anticipation is "Almost" too much...........!! Just get these 3 night shifts out the way for Sundays "Proper" night shift....!!!! Dan
Nick Roberts		#42	[-]
Posts: 314 (13/06/08 08:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	ousechav wrote: Nick. Worth noting. No guest tickets issued till the 2nd of July Yes, was aware of that. I will be starting the season in the Colne Valley after monster carp. Will probably head off down the racecourse sometime late July. Just have to suck it and see I suppose!? If I struggle to catch during the say with Chris, I might try a few nights Hampton Court way.
nicetench		#43	[-]
Posts: 1 (13/06/08 08:52) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hello all, new member here, good luck wherever you go and lets hope you don't catch too many of those pesky carp! Looking forward to trying some thames barbelling for the first time.
Lawman		#44	[-]
Posts: 1762 (13/06/08 11:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	River does indeed look in good nick. It's lost 2ft over the last 48hrs. Light showers only please for the next three days....... Re the previous posts about catching in daylight against night time. For me it's a general confidence thing, ie, most feel that dusk/dark is the best time. Some of the lads have had some great day time catches all the way through our river. "A mound of earth on Walton Breck Road was created for the growing numbers of fans to watch the team. It was called the 'Spion Kop' after a battle in the Boer War six years earlier. It was not the only Kop - low hill in Afrikaans - nor the first. But it would become the greatest......." Last Edited By: Lawman 13/06/08 11:39. Edited 1 times.
sneakypeter		#45	[-]
Posts: 468 (13/06/08 20:28) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Getting very close now , can,t wait. Daytime, nightime, each of us have our own preference, I have always found days to be the best by a big margin, as Lawman said, its a confidence thing, if you are fishing it in the right way, in the right place, then you should be able to catch, at anytime. If you never fish days, try it , you just might be surprised, but do open your mind to presentation, these fish can be easily spooked, especially in low/clear water conditions! Tightlines Peter
Geoff Sykes		#46	[-]
Posts: 2 (14/06/08 20:44) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I hope that the person who prebaited with 8K of various Baitwarehouse products at Walton today and then dumped the bags on the bank reads the carp forums not these! TAKE YOUR LITTER HOME - why should I have to do it for you. Is it any wonder the antis are after banning what we love to do. Tight lines and good luck to everyone Geoff
exiledbarbelman		#47	[-]
Posts: 494 (15/06/08 02:46) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Geoff, I hope that the culprit sees your post and realises the error of their ways. That's just a damned shame! As for prebaiting with 8 kilos, it would be a choker if someone was sitting in the swim when they showed up to fish, don't you think?
thisisjohn		#48	[-]
Posts: 7952 (15/06/08 09:22) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Almost definately a carper, its the way most of em fish that place, pile it in and wait or the bream to attract the carp, either way theres no excuse for leaving litter as theres plenty of rubbish bins and if not the ever present black back outta yer carrying bag, have a great star to the season guys, the rivers are in great nick...j.w
Thames bloke		#49	[-]
Posts: 84 (15/06/08 13:18) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Have seen a couple of carpers at Sunbury putting a ton of bait in yesterday. Won't be fishing there for a few days, the fish will be full me thinks. It was this BIG
DigitalDansMateJutt		#50	[-]
Posts: 142 (15/06/08 13:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Makes you laugh don't you think, if they are going to pre-bait with a load of gear, at the very least remove the evidence so no one knows where it has gone in and what feed they are using, I mean this is fairly basic stuff !!! They obviously need a session with us secret squirrel Barbel boys ! Just getting the last of me gear sorted for the first night session, river looks mint, let's hope them Beards co-operate. I am sure the Bream, and Carp ? Will be up for it though ! Will just be nice to get out on the Thames again. Have a good one ! J
bloominreeds		#51	[-]
Posts: 26 (15/06/08 14:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Right!, I can't bare it any longer, I've opened me fathers day pressies (my boy is only 15 months and he managed to get me 4 E.S.B. and a book for me to read to him called "my daddies a giant") I dont know when he would have had the time to be honest!!?? Anyway, I have done all my jobs and I can't wait so I shall begin packing the car for tonights bash. Good luck all, see you Thursday Jutt.
stecor		#52	[-]
Posts: 33 (15/06/08 14:59) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	2 days off work.should be nicely fined down monday evening..good luck and to all who sail in yer
easystevee		#53	[-]
Posts: 81 (15/06/08 15:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yep, good luck to all from me too. Hope to catch up with some of you again this year. Steve
DigitalDansMateJutt	Off To A Flyer !	#54	[-]
Posts: 143 (16/06/08 13:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well guys, think of the best possile way to start the new season, what would it be ? How about this. Rods out BANG on Midnight, was absolutely chomping at the bit to go early, and could of, but waited until 12..... Twenty minutes later, slightest of bites, another few minutes later, my first Barbel of the season, wait for it......12lb 10oz !!!! An absolute stonker of a fish, we were all in complete awe of her ! Woah, twenty munutes into the new season, fisrts cast, first bite, big Barbel ! How's that for a start then chaps ??! I couldn't have asked for a nicer start. Big 5lb Chub and then Bream after that. 4am, just getting light (couldn't believe how short the night is at the moment), into another Barbel, again, a lovely fish, and exactly 9lb, a real scrapper and for sure would have been a double usually, very spawned out fish. Then another Chub and a few more snottys, and weirdly after a proper bite, 2-3lb jack pike ! For a moment it was like the Great Rod Race ! What a start to the season, was lovely sitting up all night watching the tips after so long off the Thames,makes the wait all worthwhile, nothing beats that magical June 16th, let's hope it stays that way, if only to see Digital Dan pacing around at 10pm before we can start, it was like he was waiting for his case to come up at Crown Court ! Out tonight for some more fun, can't wait ! J
bloominreeds		#55	[-]
Posts: 27 (16/06/08 18:09) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	7 out last night on a new stretch to me. No beards!, 2 bream out to a fellow but that was it. A few anglers turned up to see if it was fareing better than the Kennet!!!!!!!! Loddon tomorrow!
Thames bloke		#56	[-]
Posts: 85 (16/06/08 18:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hopefully going to have a morning session tomorrow, last night was a flop. But hay i was out fishing so can't be all bad. It was this BIG
DigitalDansMateJutt		#57	[-]
Posts: 144 (17/06/08 00:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Had a few hours this evening, all fairly quiet, just a few knocks,even the snottys were quiet, I don't think the Thames is quite on form at the moment to be honest. Anyway, Just as the light was going I managed a sneaky, perfectly mint 7 pounde Whisker which made me smile. Capped off a fantastic June 16th for me really, added to the 2 Barbel last night/this morning and the other fish, and just the day overall fishing with me mates it has been mint and one to remember. Now I have had a couple today, and with some time to give it a go this week, I am going to try some of me new bits that I have been checking out over the close season, if anything to get away form the madding crowd and have some peace and quiet.... J
easystevee		#58	[-]
Posts: 82 (17/06/08 09:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Good fishing Jutt. I started on the Blackwater as i thought it would offer more chance of a fish......it did, a bloody Brown Trout on boilies!!! Reading the other boards, it appears that most rivers have had a slow start. Good to be out though............... Steve
Motorcycle Michael		#59	[-]
Posts: 14 (17/06/08 11:21) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hello all, Firstly best of luck for the new season. Even though the Thames is my local river I don't get to fish it much but this year I'm going to make the effort. I used to fish Hampton Court, Walton, Richmond , Desbourgh etc quite a lot. I thought that you would be interested in what my neighbour told me last night. He was fishing a local dock, around 2-3 miles downstream of Tower Bridge and saw a 2-3lb barbel caught. The dock is still connected to the Thames and gets opened occasionally to allow boats to enter, I doubt if barbel were ever stocked in it. I know that the Thames is getting cleaner and more diverse ecologically but I never thought I'd hear of a barbel being caught this far down stream, amazing. He was quite shocked and said that 5 or 6 anglers verified it as a barbel. Makes you wonder how far down stream barbel do go.
DAVSURB		#60	[-]
Posts: 733 (17/06/08 12:14) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thats very interesting Michael, thanks for sharing. I am not sure how far down it would be classed as brackish so a full tidal Barbel there is amazing. I work right next to St Katherines dock which is just below Tower Bridge and have seen a few Carp cruising around plus a big shoal of Bream. It is unfishable as the owners of some very large boats may not be impressed but still good to see this far down. From what I understand the docks below here are club controlled but fishable. Dave Last Edited By: DAVSURB 17/06/08 12:20. Edited 2 times.

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