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  1. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    With just two days to go before Christmas I just had to take advantage of this mild weather. The forecast said a possible 17c in the afternoon with a little sunshine. My RiverApp indicated a healthy flow would come from the barrage late afternoon, so I just had to get back to the garden swim...
  2. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    Late Autumn update, the "summer" weather continued until the first week of November! Great for us, but the river was low and the fishing difficult. But the fish were still there and occasionally feeding. At the start of November a good weather forecast for the day, at breakfast Sally says "We...
  3. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    I am revising the weight of that carp due to not having reading glasses handy at the time! Yesterday I weighed a barbel and the digital scales reading was much less than I had estimated. So I dug out my cheap reading glasses and took a better look at the tiny screen. The weight was in big...
  4. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    Well, my fishing ego hates being out-fished! Alistair phoned me this afternoon telling me he had bought a new carp rod, he asked if I had an idea where to try it out. This morning I had been down to a certain stretch of river to see our family guests off on a canoe outing. I noted there was...
  5. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    The long summer canicule (heatwave) finally has eased, but there is still no sign of real rain! Fishing has been pretty dire and only the smaller barbel want to feed. I hooked a couple of carp in one session but with low water levels and lots of weed they quickly made my barbel outfit look...
  6. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    A bit remiss of me not updating this thread for some months! A few fish to report. My eyesight had deteriorated more than I realised, age related. Finally I had to have cataract operations which now involves replacing the old natural lens. Although it's a common operation of course it's still a...
  7. Steve Arnold

    West Coast Loch Shuna

    I fished off Size Matters shortly after it was built. Truly excellent boat and we had great fishing some distance off Plymouth, great memories! We also fished off the original owners other boat Tiburon about the same time. Not sure if both those photos were from the Tiburon day or the Size...
  8. Steve Arnold

    Any slow pitch jigging experience on here?

    You need to find lures that do not have a full spin action. They will cause problems! Hence my liking for the Dexter wedge, it's more wobble and flash with this lure and a slight sideways dart when pulled at moderate speed. I just took a look at ebay and there are sellers of slow pitch lures at...
  9. Steve Arnold

    Any slow pitch jigging experience on here?

    I am sure the lures will work well for the job they were designed for. The type of jigging I found most productive comes very much in that "Slow pitch jigging" category. That is a relatively new term for what I have seen widely practised around Scotland, I am not the only angler to have found...
  10. Steve Arnold

    Any slow pitch jigging experience on here?

    Perhaps you should have worded your question better. I now think you are looking for advice on the latest slow jigging specific rods, reels, lures etc. My replies were to answer your question in your OP. As to how you work these lures to entice fish, well it varies day-by-day. Of course each...
  11. Steve Arnold

    Any slow pitch jigging experience on here?

    Thanks for being so instantly dismissive of my fairly comprehensive answer to your simplistic question! No idea what age you are but superbraid lines must have been marketed 30+ years ago. The first ones were kevlar, unfortunately they degraded after about a seasons use. They were quickly...
  12. Steve Arnold

    Any slow pitch jigging experience on here?

    I am sure many boat anglers around the UK will have used the slow jigging technique. Off the east coast of Scotland it was often a killing technique, I had plenty of cod and pollack from my boat out from Dunbar and Crail. Slow jigging has been a common technique in Scottish waters for many...
  13. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    I would not eat the bream, very bad rep! Sea bream a completely better "kettle of fish" - I prefer them to bass!
  14. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    End of 2021 report and a good start to 2022. December is the one month of the year where I have never caught a barbel here, 2021 kept that tradition going! I did try hard for the barbel but weather conditions, floods and some low temperatures put the lid on that. Eventually I dropped to...
  15. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    I had my days exploration upriver. Very little flow in the river until the last hour and only the last swim produced a nice barbel and five "3' twitch" bites which failed to find a hook-hold. But it was worth the drive to find what will be some cracking swims on the right day. You have...
  16. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    There is some great sea fishing on the Atlantic coast. Like the UK though, it is very localised and seasonal! Brittany has plenty of bass, particularly for the boat anglers. Around La Rochelle and Arcachon you can add meagre (corvina in Spanish), they grow to hefty sizes! If you live in these...
  17. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    This last few weeks has seen a change in the weather. We are finally having a little taste of winter with a week of quite heavy rain and now falling temperatures and frost. Still nothing like Scottish winters, I do not miss them in the least! With some healthy flow restored to the river Lot my...
  18. Steve Arnold

    East Coast Crail Harbour - minor success

    It's probably 10 years since I last fished Crail, but it was one of my favourite places for some years. My best coddies usually came fishing the very end of the outer harbour wall with just a 20-30 yd cast. Casting any further put you across and out of the boat channel and into shallow rocky...
  19. Steve Arnold

    River fishing in France

    My "River App" installed on an Android phone has been a revelation for me. It's aimed at the canoeists but gives me some major clues when deciding where and when to fish. There has been little rain this last couple of weeks and the river had almost no flow - except when the two barrages upriver...
  20. Steve Arnold

    Show us yer pike

    These pike had a regular diet of stocked trout! When they get to these sizes they regulate pike numbers by eating the jacks as well. I do not know how the Lake of Menteith (only LAKE in Scotland!) is fishing now, at the time these fish were caught there were both excellent trout and many 30 lb+...
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