Simple Match Fishing Forum

Long Eaton Vic match on Tammy road was won with 6-9 by Phil Cox with 230 squatt fish-Tench were 2nd 3rd and 4th-34 fished.

Long Eaton Feds turn on Saturday-Alan Wright running this one draw at the haunted house-Moorlands fishing 120 back-Aubreys bridge end.

Sundays match at Cotmanhay was won with 5-13 which included 5 tench-very hard with very few small fish caught-tap water here.37 fished

Notts AA running the Sunday match at Sandiacre with the draw at the Plough contact Johnny Johnson.Fishing Sandiacre and Stanton Gate.

30 booked in on Monday night for Saturdays match so far

Gonna be busy

I thought this Sunday was going to be C & D sections? Or is the AT info pack out of date?

Thats where he was talking about in the pub Sunday so dunno

Due to work being done on the towpath we are now going from peg 1 back.As of wednesday night 42 booked in.Pegging will be peg 2 miss 1 etc.

Candock city bring a cutter

Due to work being done on the towpath we are now going from peg 1 back.As of wednesday night 42 booked in.Pegging will be peg 2 miss 1 etc.

Candock city bring a cutter

Where is candock city?

Local dialect me duck

Yam might call em cabbages we call em candocks-big green things that grow like billyo and make the canal go like tap

We also call them little silver bream jobs pommies

We also call them little silver bream jobs pommies

Thems are popeyes used to be loads in the bridgy ::)

their gusta's.

pommies

crappity smack Popeyes

They are exports from the River Trent. Pommies.

pommeranus pommeranus Latin

If you believe that shyte you'll believe 'owt, the last bit anyway.

Ain't there a few in Rudyard?

Ain't there a few in Rudyard?

Loads of em in Rudyard bill, some of em are well over a pound.. didn't show last year tho hope they aint been eaten by them cormerants

All this talk of the Trent and misery got me thinking anyone remember them little things called bitterling? looked like they were a cross between a silver carp and a roach and had been hit with a mallet used to catch a few at Willington and Barrow roadside.Mind you aint fished there for 10 years probably been eaten :(

Willington used to be full of "night fighters" as well - them miniscule ruffe that you had to squeeze their heads to get your hooks back last time i caught a ruffe was on the luffboro canal evil looking things

Still plenty of bitterling (litterbins I call 'em) in the T & M. They are actually a member of the carp family, sometimes confused with deformed roach. Last time I fished Burton in a WL I had about 25 of them.
There are not so many around Stafford but still a few. They are in the Shroppie as well, quite a few around Nantwich area; I have had a couple at Little Onn as well.

Do they ever grow? Always seemed to catch small ones like blade roach

Think there is a record for litterbins; it may be in metric but I think it is just a bit bigger than one ounce.

We always reckon if you are catching litterbins you tench to catch nowt else much

you tench

Is that a Freudian slip Bill............are they on your mind this weekend

Is that a Freudian slip Bill

Gerr off....
It was commonly known as a crappity smack up. Should have been tend.
What crappity smack tench?

anyone remember them little things called bitterling?

There used to be quite a few in the Trent & Mersey canal Northwich / Barnton area a few years ago ...... i once caught a dozen or so for about an ounce on a winter league there many years ago