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Post by pontyowl on Jun 21, 2012 21:43:48 GMT
Looking at going here a week monday.From what ive read about the place it sounds a good runs water. Has anyone fished it recently and could shed any info on recomended pegs/swims,best baits,depths etc?  |
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Post by binner on Jun 22, 2012 7:12:56 GMT
historicly the boards have been good pegs
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Post by smudge1989 on Jun 22, 2012 10:35:08 GMT
Im down next saturday/sunday, will let ya know
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Post by adam-smithy on Jun 22, 2012 13:11:03 GMT
them carp would eat turds mate any bait will work lol |
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Post by pontyowl on Jun 22, 2012 18:39:14 GMT
thanks lads. Lad im going with has already fished it but keeping quiet as theres a wager on it for most and biggest fish.
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Post by norbs on Jun 25, 2012 22:44:47 GMT
Drayton is immense, most baits will catch but I've always done well on catmeat...white boilies are supposed to do well also I hear. Pellet wag is also popular there, you'll see plenty of beasts crashing about on top. It can drop off a little through the day sometimes but don't be disheartened, the evenings are mental and your arms will proper ache.
You will catch anywhere, but as Binner says the boards (where the sailing club is) are notoriously good. That side of the res also gets the sun through the day so I always go on that side.
Have fun, but be warned...it will spoil you!
PS....use a pole at your peril!
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Post by pontyowl on Jun 26, 2012 17:00:59 GMT
lol thanks,cant wait to go now,definetley going this monday for a day session. So hopefully there will be some pics to post monday night?!
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Post by smudge1989 on Jun 26, 2012 17:15:56 GMT
Shame you aint there on the weekend pal, doing 36 hours
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Post by pontyowl on Jun 26, 2012 17:32:22 GMT
im in newcastle on my stag do this weekend,will have to let me know how you get on though.
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Post by pontyowl on Jun 29, 2012 19:28:17 GMT
drunk or hungover its a no contest mate,you'll be begging to fish my swim! lol |
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Post by Spudgun on Jun 29, 2012 20:54:27 GMT
Wouldn't ever want to take a pole to this venue these days, might have been fine when it was stocked originally but I have never had UK carp pull back like these, did 2 nights and was literally black and blue, non stop fish had to pull in to get a few hours sleep. Ached that much I had to pull a sickie when we got back, couldn't lift up my arms.
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Post by pontyowl on Jun 30, 2012 9:22:53 GMT
a bet of mcd's sounds good to me,always tastes better when someone else pays!
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Post by pontyowl on Jul 1, 2012 12:48:52 GMT
cheers for that!
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Post by pontyowl on Jul 2, 2012 19:40:15 GMT
how did you get on smudge on your 36hrs?
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Post by smudge1989 on Jul 3, 2012 19:33:58 GMT
Ended up going down to Orchid lakes in oxfordshire mate, by time i got to drayton it was rammed, few mates had 22 fish over 24 hours, how did u get on?
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Post by pontyowl on Jul 3, 2012 20:38:13 GMT
i had 2 carp from 2 runs and that was it between 3 of us,fished off dam wall and didnt see any other people catch either was a hard cold wet miserable day.Was lucky enough to catch a common though as the baliff said there quite rare in drayton?
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Post by smudge1989 on Jul 4, 2012 8:09:21 GMT
Yeah i heard that, gotta be there at 4am to pick good pegs though
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Post by threelander on Jul 4, 2012 17:36:48 GMT
best thing to do at drayton is get 6 lads together and book the pegs.then you can turn up and fish when you want.the boards are available as we are looking at booking them
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Post by threelander on Jul 4, 2012 17:40:43 GMT
me and my mate fished the boards 2 years back and we had 80 carp in 9 hours it was hard work don,t wanna do it again lol
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Post by threelander on Jul 5, 2012 20:32:19 GMT
hi mate drayton is all or nothing mate like you say there must be venues nearer but i will say the day me and my mate did the 80 carp we where down there for a few days and i said i,m not going to drayton again the next day so we went to another british waterways water called stockton waters not far away and we enjoyed that a lot better than drayton.i,m gagging to go back there
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Post by BOF on Jul 6, 2012 11:03:23 GMT
Waterlicked there is quite a bit of info on Drayton on the site, all you needed to do was do a search (small "Search" tab above the YF banner). This year Barnsleyandy, and Scouse11 have put their bits in about baits etc., and I put a map with the better pegs on it, but I also put that the best bit of info was to ask the bailiff for advice. We do this every time, (despite going down every year since' 07), when we phone to book on. It is a long way down, and thus very expensive in fuel, to go without a clear idea of where is fishing well. I too have fished the dam wall and the fish did not get round there till late enough on to make me worried see my report here:- "Had my own "off the wall" moment yesterday, we ( Spudgun, Chris, and Sam) arrived at 7.30am (ish), and were fishless until mid afternoon, cooking slowly on the exposed platforms. It was all looking very embarrassing. Come 3.30pm however and like the switching on of a machine, the Carp arrived in my peg in a feeding mood, and in an hour or so the fish topped and shouldered all over the dam wall area. However they didn't seem to go anywhere near the two leger rigs I had out, (nor the others for that matter). I must point out at this juncture that the water off the dam wall was around 8ft deep under the rod tip, dropping to around 30ft at 30yds range, or so, and I realized that the tight line in mid water, may be spooking the fish. So I switched to fishing with slack lines, ie I let the rig and PVA net of pellets sink on a slack line untill it hit bottom, then dropped the rod tip till it touched the sand in front of the peg, and slowly tightened the line letting it run along the bottom, and lifted the rod up to the alarms still letting slack line off the spool. Ok, you dont get drop back bites, but the screamers when the fish ripped off with the bait left nothing to the imagination. Finally one made a mistake, and it all went on from there. Soon fish after fish began zipping off with the boilie, ("Howard the rigs" barbless flouro rigs working faultlessly, as usual), and a hectic s  developed. I really understand the suggestion to take one rod out at this point, as I was working like someone demented to tie the PVA nets of boilie and mini pellet fast enough to keep two rods in the water, after I used up the pre tied ones I had prepared. It was manic! Especially with two fish being played at the same time, (something that occurred quite frequently). Finally I dropped off a fish in mid s , and I did something I have never done before in over 40 years of fishing, simply sinking back on my seat, and saying "thank G** for that!", I was totally exhausted, and almost out of bait. What a day! Frankly I was completely exhausted, and had totally lost count of the numbers of fish. Ok the biggest we had between us (Spudgun) was only around 15 / 16lb, (smallest, which was one of mine around 8 / 9lb), but the shear number of them were mind boggling, so if it has to be BIG Carp and BIG only, then dont go to Drayton. Yes, there are large fish in there (c40lb), but simply isolating them from the run of the mill fish, would be a nightmare. No, go for the experience of a completely different world, and be prepared for it to leave you whacked out." Maybe next time eh lads? BOF  |
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Post by pontyowl on Jul 6, 2012 14:16:21 GMT
Nice write up Bof. Shame we didn't have quite the same experience the day we went, but im sure with the right weather conditions and now the experience of being there and fishing it next time will be better.
Both my carp came from off the bottom at about 40yds the common to flavoured soaked pellets on the method feeder and the mirror carp too a white chocolate boilie attached too a stick pva of 4 more boilies.
The Baliff did tell us too fish under the rod tip from around 3/4 p.m but it was that choppy and misearable and i think the carp stayed further out at 30ft, there was very little carp showing all day.
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Post by Spudgun on Jul 6, 2012 22:56:32 GMT
Totally wierd place Drayton, at 3pm when the daily matches finish it is almost as if someone has rung Pavlovs bell and all the carp in the lake come really close in looking for the bait that's been thrown in at the end of the matches, that's when it gets a bit hectic.
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Post by norbs on Jul 7, 2012 14:05:10 GMT
it's a shame that so many knowledgeable lads weren't able to point us in the direction of the "good pegs" before we went. lol, did you not read the thread? |
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Post by threelander on Jul 7, 2012 18:20:29 GMT
so is the place open 24hours now.it din,t used to be did not open till 7 am last time i was there and the gates were locked at dusk.there was no night fishing at all so first come first served.as i said in a ealier post best thing is to pre book the pegs but also lok into stockton waters or clattercotes.i have been lucky i had a cracking day at drayton which i enjoyed but i,m in no hurry to go back there
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Post by BOF on Jul 7, 2012 21:55:57 GMT
No, as far as I know the place isnt open 24 hours, the gates are shut and locked as before, (shut each evening till 7am). The only swims that are "booked" are the limited number of bivvy swims. As for the "first come first served" rule, I have seen guys arrive at 5 am climb the gate and nip round to the favoured pegs with their kit then go back and wait for the official opening time. BOF |
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