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Re: Fish, Fox Hunt and More Fish! Hi Meatman Yup you are right its a Mitchell Match, I bought it in the 1980's when I was still at school (saved up my dinner money for yonks......needs must). I have still got the original tube of Mitchell reel lube! Give the bale arm a good clean and it goes a treat, perhaps a bit heavy in comparison to the new reels though? I thought the same as you on the fox hunting, good to see the old fox live to fight another day! Posted on August 11, 2017 at 2:02 PM
Re: Fish, Fox Hunt and More Fish! Cheers DavidH, the fish are still there, I guess with serious floods in recent years and the effect that will have had on the riverbed they have just moved to different parts of the river. What I love about the Teme is when you are float fishing (mainly maggots and casters) you don't know what you are going to catch next. Posted on August 11, 2017 at 7:29 AM
Fish, Fox Hunt and More Fish! Had an interesting late afternoon session yesterday on the Teme at Bransford. There I was minding my own business trotting a float down, had a few nice chub and just landed a barbel of 5lb 8oz.....I could hear a fox hunt in the fields upstream, next thing approx 20 hounds crash through diagonally directly to my right literally down the river as there are shallow riffles upstream and through my swim and preceded to jump in and out of the swim....at this point the sediment that the hounds had churned up had turned the swim into a cocoa coloured river! Amazingly with the hounds out of sight the fox appeared and slunk off from under the far bank up stream......I decided to fish on and within 30 minutes landed a chub of just under 5lb and 2 more barbel (lost another just at the net)! The stirred up water seemed to get the fish feeding even better! Went for a beer after at the pub nearby.....aptly named the Fox.....what an evening! Attachments: Barbel_1_9_August_2017.JPG Barbel_2_9_August_2017.JPG Barbel_3_Bransford_9_August_2017.JPG Chub_Bransford_9_August_2017.JPG Net_of_Chub_9_August_2017.JPG Posted on August 10, 2017 at 1:53 PM
Teme on the stick. Hi there Fished Bransford a few weeks ago on an evening session, stick floating caster with hemp and caster as grounbait and had 20lb of chub, best 4lb 9oz, plus 2 lovely fat dace and a nice brownie....removed a big hook attached to braid from one of the bigger chub that had been in a while and created a sore on its mouth......river was on its bones then! Attachments: image1.JPG Posted on August 07, 2017 at 8:03 AM
Re: Surprise large bream from the Teme Hi there Nice bream......fished Bransford a few weeks ago on an evening session, stick floating caster with hemp and caster as grounbait and had 20lb of chub, best 4lb 9oz, plus 2 lovely fat dace and a nice brownie....removed a big hook attached to braid from one of the bigger chub that had been in a while and created a sore on its mouth......river was on its bones then! Attachments: image1.JPG Posted on August 03, 2017 at 3:49 PM

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Re: Fish, Fox Hunt and More Fish!

Hi Meatman

Yup you are right its a Mitchell Match, I bought it in the 1980's when I was still at school (saved up my dinner money for yonks......needs must). I have still got the original tube of Mitchell reel lube! Give the bale arm a good clean and it goes a treat, perhaps a bit heavy in comparison to the new reels though?

I thought the same as you on the fox hunting, good to see the old fox live to fight another day!

Posted on August 11, 2017 at 2:02 PM

Re: Fish, Fox Hunt and More Fish!

Cheers DavidH, the fish are still there, I guess with serious floods in recent years and the effect that will have had on the riverbed they have just moved to different parts of the river. What I love about the Teme is when you are float fishing (mainly maggots and casters) you don't know what you are going to catch next.

Posted on August 11, 2017 at 7:29 AM

Fish, Fox Hunt and More Fish!

Had an interesting late afternoon session yesterday on the Teme at Bransford. There I was minding my own business trotting a float down, had a few nice chub and just landed a barbel of 5lb 8oz.....I could hear a fox hunt in the fields upstream, next thing approx 20 hounds crash through diagonally directly to my right literally down the river as there are shallow riffles upstream and through my swim and preceded to jump in and out of the swim....at this point the sediment that the hounds had churned up had turned the swim into a cocoa coloured river! Amazingly with the hounds out of sight the fox appeared and slunk off from under the far bank up stream......I decided to fish on and within 30 minutes landed a chub of just under 5lb and 2 more barbel (lost another just at the net)! The stirred up water seemed to get the fish feeding even better! Went for a beer after at the pub nearby.....aptly named the Fox.....what an evening!

Posted on August 10, 2017 at 1:53 PM

Teme on the stick.

Hi there

Fished Bransford a few weeks ago on an evening session, stick floating caster with hemp and caster as grounbait and had 20lb of chub, best 4lb 9oz, plus 2 lovely fat dace and a nice brownie....removed a big hook attached to braid from one of the bigger chub that had been in a while and created a sore on its mouth......river was on its bones then!

Posted on August 07, 2017 at 8:03 AM

Re: Surprise large bream from the Teme

Hi there

Nice bream......fished Bransford a few weeks ago on an evening session, stick floating caster with hemp and caster as grounbait and had 20lb of chub, best 4lb 9oz, plus 2 lovely fat dace and a nice brownie....removed a big hook attached to braid from one of the bigger chub that had been in a while and created a sore on its mouth......river was on its bones then!

Posted on August 03, 2017 at 3:49 PM

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Teme on the stick.

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