Dispite my initial worries it turned out to be a great evenings fishing with some interested parties visiting to look at my old rod. All things said they were a nice bunch of lads.
An evening with Prawns
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Harry H
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An evening with Prawns
Thought I would give Prawns a go for some Perch as some of you chaps have had some great results with them. So I grabbed some Sainsburys value Prawns picked up my Avon and Trudex which is loaded with Drennan 3lb float line and off I went to a local farm pond. When I arrived at the pond my heart sank as lined up along the car park bank was 4 bivvies. So it was off to the dam end for some piece and quiet,it started of with a hat full of Rudd then I got a bit of a shock when a double figure Carp picked up my Prawn (so the bivvie boys do have their uses as I had to borrow a unhooking mat). This was followed by my one and only Perch (which wasn't a lot bigger than the prawn) followed by three Tench the best being just over 4 lb male.
Dispite my initial worries it turned out to be a great evenings fishing with some interested parties visiting to look at my old rod. All things said they were a nice bunch of lads.
Dispite my initial worries it turned out to be a great evenings fishing with some interested parties visiting to look at my old rod. All things said they were a nice bunch of lads.
There are three things that improve with age: wine, friendship and water sense, and there's no short cut.
Anthony Shepherdson
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Loop Erimder
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Re: An evening with Prawns
Nice catch indeed, nice towel.....oops nice perch 
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish
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AshbyCut
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Re: An evening with Prawns
A splendidly pleasurable evening by the sound of it. Well done, Sir.
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.
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Aitch
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Re: An evening with Prawns
"It's a real hoopy frood who really knows where his towel's at..."Loop Erimder wrote:Nice catch indeed, nice towel.....oops nice perch
(c) Douglas Adams
Cracking Tench Sir
Just one more cast love, and I'll be on me way home
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures and memories
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures and memories
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LuckyLuca
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Re: An evening with Prawns
Terrific evening Harry!
What a fish catcher prawns are!
What a fish catcher prawns are!
I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete.
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete.
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LuckyLuca
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Re: An evening with Prawns
Bluelabel wrote:"It's a real hoopy frood who really knows where his towel's at..."Loop Erimder wrote:Nice catch indeed, nice towel.....oops nice perch
(c) Douglas Adams
Cracking Tench Sir
Great quote! brought a knowing smile to my face.
I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete.
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete.
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Aitch
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Re: An evening with Prawns
Well..... Bluelabel.... he's just this guy y'know...!? 
Just one more cast love, and I'll be on me way home
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures and memories
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures and memories
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MaggotDrowner
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Re: An evening with Prawns
Lovely fish, Harry. I have found prawns a funny bait. On one water I fish they catch work as if the fish want to be caught. On the other hand in another lake they don't work at all! I can be catching well on worms and switch to prawn and it kills the sport dead.
"I'd rather be fishing!"
MD
MD
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JimmyR
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Re: An evening with Prawns
Well done fella, glad they worked for you. I just been to Aldi to get my prawns for early evening session, i swear by them at the moment, i cant catch on them until light begins to fade, but then the Big perch come out to play.
Jim
Jim
The brotherhood of the angle.
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Re: An evening with Prawns
Wondering when prawns came along as popular bait, I don't remember seeing them used or reading about them up to the mid eighties.