Tag Ure – Ellenthorpe Corn Dryers

Snowy Day

Chilly Day It was supposed to stay dry until lunchtime but the snow started about 9:30am and persisted on and off most of the day. I was hoping for some Chub but tried lobworm, cheese paste and breadflake all to no avail. Early afternoon I got one bite from this nice Perch on lobworm. You can tell that the water…

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Pre-baiting, No Result

Great Expectations Having had a couple of nice Bream from peg 25, I decided on a pre-baiting session to see if I could get a shoal of Bream feeding. Therefore I went out at 7:30am and lunchtime for each day from Mon to Thu, intending to fish it on Friday. I really had no idea how much to feed at…

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Nice Roach

Chilly & Foggy Day This was a fairly chilly day with fog rolling off the field and down into the river. I persevered with worm (alternating between lobworm and dendras) then started to get a few taps. I ended up with a few medium sized Perch and a couple of nice Roach. One was exactly 1lb and was a bit…

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A new personal best

Average session with a cherry on top The river had been near normal for the last couple of days and it had been a mild and bright day. So my attention turned once again to Perch fishing at the Corn Dryer part of the Ellenthorpe stretch. I fished my Barbel rod mid river with a hair rigged Halibut pellet for…

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Very wet week off work

Lots of rain, few fish That sentence sums up my week. I took a week off work and had plans to fish lots of different swims and tactics including trotting for silvers, Perch fishing in the shallows and a session at the lake for Bream. However the weather put paid to those plans. We have had lots of rain, strong…

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