FISHING SEASON 2K12!!!!!!

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Good reports.

I just threw the net a few times to get bait and left the lake for a couple hours, bout to go back. 10 throws of net and probably 50 crappie, 3 carp and nice shad! Gonna be a good day.
 
Hi all,

I'm in the UK, and I drove from London to visit my best buddy George who recently relocated to Lincolnshire. We fly fish for bass, trout, sea trout and coarse fish and sea fish. Any way, I arrived on Friday night, tied some flies chatted away about fishing, ferreting, wildfowling and lamping for a while. Then got an early night (- the single malts) for us to get up at 6am and drive an hour to a reservior called Toft Newton. It has a reputation of fishing very well. It's nick named "The Hungry Bowl" by some, haha.

Anyways I foul hooked a rainbow of about 3lbs quite early in the trip, it very rarely happens but when it does its always very irritating for both parties! then whilst fishing an orange cactus fly on a "dead-drift" I saw the fly line move slowly away and struck into an 8lb rainbow. Here is a pic;

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As you can see I am pretty happy, my largest rainbow so far, but my PB brown trout I caught last year is bigger, at 11lb.

Roll on the rest of the year! :-)

8lb rainbow Toft Newton.PNG
 
very nice! that's a monster!
 
great rainbow!



well my little girl got tired of fishing so I called it a day early. Landed probably a dozen channels and a dozen carp as well as countless crappie and shad. Biggest channel and carp both weighed in at 5 pounds :/ stayed really busy though! As you can see I have some good bait left... transplanted some carp and crappie into my bait pond and the dead crappie in the pic are just ones that didnt make it. My bait pond is full of bass, channels and bluegill but sadly nothing else until today.

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any day with multiple 5lb fish landed is not a bad day and it looks like you got some good bait out of it, big flatties will be on your line before you know it!
 
jworth, watch catching "sport fish" with a cast net. Most states consider crappie a sport fish and most states forbid catching sport fish with cast nets, Id check the Indiana regs just in case.

I picked up a new reel today, well new to me since they stopped making them. Its a Penn 706z with an nice after market power knob. I felt I got a great deal at 165. Here it is on an AllStar Cobia Classic ready to go with this beautiful ling jig. Have yall ever used a bailless spinning reel?

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