Which Fish ?

[rhornegold]

Now the season is under way, which coarse fish do you consider the most difficult to catch by design.

[fatboy]

For me it would be either quality roach or rudd.

[daytimedave]

lake.,river.
size of water to fish stock ratio
rules ,etc
many different scenarios dictate diffaculty in catching a certain
fish.

when i first started fishing ,carp were deemed as difficult to
catch,crucians even harder ,grayling,chub etc

which is the easyist?

keep it challenging!
dtd

[SAMR]

I would say that very large eels are the most difficult to catch.
easiest would be carp for the reasons that fisher of carp stated in his post.
sam

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[clive]

Fisher of carp, I used to fish the Roding at the bottom of Luxborough Lane as a young lad (many years ago!) for minnows and gudgeon, don't think I could handle the chub then!

Bob, as far as I'm concerned, they're all hard to catch! lol.

Clive

[rhornegold]

SAMR,
How are you mate?
But I think you are right, big Eels are very difficult to catch, they eat the bait of the hook without indication.
When you evenually hook one they tie thier tail around anything they can get hold off and swim backwards.
But big Roach and Rudd can be the most difficult fish to catch just finding them is hard enough.
Then there are Bream, not the ones that give themselves up to boilies, but the ones that feed on tiny water creatures.
I'm sure there are lots of others?
Bob

[SAMR]

hi Bob,
I think that it all depends on the scenario, every type of fish can be very difficult to catch in the right circumstances.
sam

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[rhornegold]

SAMR,
As you know those Bream were known about at Horton, but I dont think anyone suspected an 18lb fish.
But as a species Eels have it for me.
Bob

[rhornegold]

Fisher of carp,
That is a great lake at the bottom of Luxbourough Lane, I live very near West Hatch School, but never got permission to fish it.
Do you know anything about the place and who own's it, has to be big Eels in there right next to the river.
Bob

[scorpio]

Specimen Roach without a doubt for me... closely followed by eels and then I would say Sea Trout.

The easiest is Carp by far

Tony

[CarponlineEditor]

I reckon those huge commons that live in every lake you know are the hardest to catch, as every one has seen them but no-one has ever caught one, lol

Andy

[rhornegold]

Andy,
I know the one, North Lagoon, Nazing Meads, or was it that Chub of 8lb from the Lagoon.
It maybe the myths about big fish of all species that makes them so hard to catch.
How would you go about targeting these monsters?
Bob

[CarponlineEditor]

Personally if i were trying to catch one of those big ones that never gets put on the bank it would have to be stalking in the warmer months.

Years ago in a water in Kent (Johnsons) I saw a huge common in there in the close season and at the time no one had caught a big common from there, I would have tried a bit of slow sinking flake for it and seen if it took it.

I have mentioned before the fact that there are some carp which do not eat anglers bait very often if at all and you would have to trick them really.

I had a common in an aquarium many years ago which would not eat anything but the green plant life that grew on the sides of the tank. Eventually the fish, and some others had to be put into my dads garden pond. The others would eat everything that was thrown in but the common would only eat the weed and any bugs that fell in. Made me think really as this fish hadnt ever been hooked, so if one had been hooked when little it may be even harder to catch.

Well those fish are now pretty big and they live in a local library pond. You can go and feed them sweetcorn, mixers etc etc but you wont see that common eat any of it. It will just sit there mid water watching and nibble on the weeds.

It would be a very hard fish to catch that one if anyone were allowed to fish there.

Andy

[scorpio]

I think the only way of targetting a monster is to spend as much time at the water as possible just observing... for this you need a lot of time and patience.

I took over 3 months once singling out a big chub from Pippingford lakes in East Grinstead. I got him in the end but it was the most frustrating 3 months of my fishing life.

Tony