Aldi Specialbuy Comp and River Dee trip
A warm welcome to this weeks blog update i hope i find you all well and your nets wet. A special update to the blog this week as i am again proud to have been asked to work along side ALDI with regards to them launching their fishing range this Sunday 02nd August. In this update i will be product reviewing two of their products with a further two to come next weekend and there will also be a very special on line competition for all followers of Dannys angling blog on facebook to enter and be in with a chance of getting their hands on some Aldi fishing tackle. The fishing this week See's us visit the River Dee for the first time in a long time and although low and very clear one or two dace did show and also the odd small perch.
On to the update
Online ALDI Fishing Tackle Competition!!
This Sunday ALDI are are launching their Special Angling Event across all their stores nationwide. I have personally used their tackle in the past and i was genuinely surprised by the quality of the tackle and price.
Check out the tackle on sale at ALDI stores nationwide here: https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/sun-2-aug/
Working with ALDI and their team has been a real dream i have found their representatives to be fantastic to work with and share ideas between ourselves. Early on ALDI agreed to run a competition on my blogs facebook page for a carp angling set up but after hearing about my hopes of getting a new angler hooked up with a starting angling set up they also agreed to help promote anglers to fish their local ponds and canals by running a second prize aimed at float fishing. This for me shows great commitments by the team at ALDI who could have just agreed to the really popular carp angling prize.
The two prizes on offer are as follows:
Carp Prize: Carp Rod and Reel, Buzz bars and bite alarm and landing net
Float Prize: Float rod and reel and keep net
Entering the Competition is simple!!, Simply click the link to my blogs facebook page here: DANNYS ANGLING BLOG PAGE
once on the page simply like and share any of the competition posts on there to enter. The winner must have liked and shared at .least one competition poast and also LIKE the blogs facebook page.
The Competition ends Midnight August 6th..............................Good Luck!!!
ALDI Product Review
Keep net Review
Product Info:
Price:£7.99
Specifications: A Fish Friendly 9 ring safe net for freshwater catches. Features Soft mesh to eliminate damage to your fish. Suitable for Bream, carp, perch and silverfish. Adjustable tilt mechanism.
My Review:
I have to say the email from ALDI came at a good time for me as i had returned from the trip on the river dane having had my keep net attacked by a pike leaving ti with a big gaping hole. The list of reviews to choose from the keep net was always on the list and this net joined me on the bank last weekend on the river dee and also on my daughters first fishing trip to a local pond, more on that in next weeks update.
My first impression of the net was how light weight it was and for me as an angler this is really important as on some of our river trips you can be carrying your gear 3-4 farmers fields to the river bank. The next area i looked at was the mesh and just like the description said it felt really soft to the touch as if it would not be abrasive on the fishes flanks and damage them. Length wise the net is about as short as i will go for a net as on some banks you can be quite high up from the water. I was really shocked as well when i noticed the net came with a tilt mechanism, for the price i was sure it would have been a simple screw bolt. On the bank the net performed well on the pond but i do think it will need added weights to the end for the river trips to get it down in the moving water.
All in all a fantastic and affordable piece of modern fishing tackle and easily worth more than the £7.99 price tag.
Field Boot Review
Product info:
Price: £12.99
Specifications: All weather lace up boot, Removable warm polar fleece lining. Waterproof sole. size 7-11.
My Review:
Waking up on my first trip to the bank using these boots i was really impressed with how comfy they where once on they really did feel comfy. The second thing that instantly struck me about the boots was how light they where, on those long days in winter walking the canal pike fishing that can only be a good thing. Walking around in the boots all day i was left shocked as to how good these boots really where, i always say the test of a boots is not in you sitting there thinking these boots are warm or these boots are comfy" but in the fact you are sat there not thinking your feet are cold or uncomfortable. The ultimate test of these boots will of course come as the temperatures drop but first impressions are really good and amazing they are only £12.99.
On tot he fishing....
Finally back on the River Dee.....
Sat on Friday evening chatting to my uncle about where to wet a line the next day we went over all manner of possibilities from a local pond the a out of the blue trip to the River Severn. We eventually decided on a trip to the River Dee and it was a trip that was well over due. It has been a few months since our last trip to the river dee and travelling along the M56 it hit home just how long it has been since i was driving down this most motorway to what i regard as the most beautiful river we fish and who can argue with this as a swim!
The swim i set up in is a really fast flow on a bend with plenty of cover on the far bank and a huge slack on the inside bank. It is a swim i have done well in the past for dace. There are a lot of people who visit my blog and i do try to use the blog to help out as many people as possible but the blog for me is a huge help for my fishing as i have a complete record of trips to look back on and the night before i had a quick read of my previous trip and although i did not go into much detail i did notice i recorded that it took a while without a bite until the dace shoal arrived in the swim.
With that in mind i fed the swim heavily from the off to try and lure the fish up the swim. The beauty of this swim is that you can not really over feed the swim due to how fast the flow is here the bait is constantly flushing through the swim. Feeding heavily with maggot and hemp seed it was still a good hour before the first dace of the session came to grace my palm.
A dace is always a fish that i love to see coming to the net as you know with this fish that where there is one there is always more as they are a shoal fish. This fish was followed by a steady stream of fish which all seemed to come over my hemp fed area. It did become very clear on the session that it was the hemp not the maggots that was getting the fish feeding so every trot through i fed a few grains of hemp over my float as it went down and this seems to bring the bites one.
The beauty of fishing the river is you really dont know what you are going to catch and you really do catch what is in the stretch of river you are visiting that day, come back next week the shoal has gone and a swim full of dace can be a swim full of grayling and trout, that's river fishing. It became apparent during this session that had a sizable shoal of small dace n the swim as all this fish where quite small and the size did not really change until i tried a slack and picked up the odd perch.
I was treated during this session to a big salmon holding position right at my feet. It would go out of sight then slowly moved back into the slack behind a bug boulder but it was literally underneath my feet and estimated over 10lb it was a sight to see. The fish seemed to be there all session and was not bothered by my rod going over its head time and time again.
The session was an enjoyable one back on the river i love, a river where it is impossible to leave unhappy due to its stunning views, we called it a day around 2pm. The net is not the biggest net i have ever caught from the dee but on this session it did not matter it was great to just catch a few fish and be out on the dee, although a man taking his pet pg for a walk did have me worried!!
Well that's it for another blog update please take the time to enter the competition and good luck,
till next time
tight liens
danny
On to the update
Online ALDI Fishing Tackle Competition!!
This Sunday ALDI are are launching their Special Angling Event across all their stores nationwide. I have personally used their tackle in the past and i was genuinely surprised by the quality of the tackle and price.
Check out the tackle on sale at ALDI stores nationwide here: https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/sun-2-aug/
Working with ALDI and their team has been a real dream i have found their representatives to be fantastic to work with and share ideas between ourselves. Early on ALDI agreed to run a competition on my blogs facebook page for a carp angling set up but after hearing about my hopes of getting a new angler hooked up with a starting angling set up they also agreed to help promote anglers to fish their local ponds and canals by running a second prize aimed at float fishing. This for me shows great commitments by the team at ALDI who could have just agreed to the really popular carp angling prize.
The two prizes on offer are as follows:
Carp Prize: Carp Rod and Reel, Buzz bars and bite alarm and landing net
Float Prize: Float rod and reel and keep net
Entering the Competition is simple!!, Simply click the link to my blogs facebook page here: DANNYS ANGLING BLOG PAGE
once on the page simply like and share any of the competition posts on there to enter. The winner must have liked and shared at .least one competition poast and also LIKE the blogs facebook page.
The Competition ends Midnight August 6th..............................Good Luck!!!
ALDI Product Review
Keep net Review
Product Info:
Price:£7.99
Specifications: A Fish Friendly 9 ring safe net for freshwater catches. Features Soft mesh to eliminate damage to your fish. Suitable for Bream, carp, perch and silverfish. Adjustable tilt mechanism.
My Review:
I have to say the email from ALDI came at a good time for me as i had returned from the trip on the river dane having had my keep net attacked by a pike leaving ti with a big gaping hole. The list of reviews to choose from the keep net was always on the list and this net joined me on the bank last weekend on the river dee and also on my daughters first fishing trip to a local pond, more on that in next weeks update.
My first impression of the net was how light weight it was and for me as an angler this is really important as on some of our river trips you can be carrying your gear 3-4 farmers fields to the river bank. The next area i looked at was the mesh and just like the description said it felt really soft to the touch as if it would not be abrasive on the fishes flanks and damage them. Length wise the net is about as short as i will go for a net as on some banks you can be quite high up from the water. I was really shocked as well when i noticed the net came with a tilt mechanism, for the price i was sure it would have been a simple screw bolt. On the bank the net performed well on the pond but i do think it will need added weights to the end for the river trips to get it down in the moving water.
All in all a fantastic and affordable piece of modern fishing tackle and easily worth more than the £7.99 price tag.
Field Boot Review
Price: £12.99
Specifications: All weather lace up boot, Removable warm polar fleece lining. Waterproof sole. size 7-11.
My Review:
Waking up on my first trip to the bank using these boots i was really impressed with how comfy they where once on they really did feel comfy. The second thing that instantly struck me about the boots was how light they where, on those long days in winter walking the canal pike fishing that can only be a good thing. Walking around in the boots all day i was left shocked as to how good these boots really where, i always say the test of a boots is not in you sitting there thinking these boots are warm or these boots are comfy" but in the fact you are sat there not thinking your feet are cold or uncomfortable. The ultimate test of these boots will of course come as the temperatures drop but first impressions are really good and amazing they are only £12.99.
On tot he fishing....
Finally back on the River Dee.....
Sat on Friday evening chatting to my uncle about where to wet a line the next day we went over all manner of possibilities from a local pond the a out of the blue trip to the River Severn. We eventually decided on a trip to the River Dee and it was a trip that was well over due. It has been a few months since our last trip to the river dee and travelling along the M56 it hit home just how long it has been since i was driving down this most motorway to what i regard as the most beautiful river we fish and who can argue with this as a swim!
The swim i set up in is a really fast flow on a bend with plenty of cover on the far bank and a huge slack on the inside bank. It is a swim i have done well in the past for dace. There are a lot of people who visit my blog and i do try to use the blog to help out as many people as possible but the blog for me is a huge help for my fishing as i have a complete record of trips to look back on and the night before i had a quick read of my previous trip and although i did not go into much detail i did notice i recorded that it took a while without a bite until the dace shoal arrived in the swim.
With that in mind i fed the swim heavily from the off to try and lure the fish up the swim. The beauty of this swim is that you can not really over feed the swim due to how fast the flow is here the bait is constantly flushing through the swim. Feeding heavily with maggot and hemp seed it was still a good hour before the first dace of the session came to grace my palm.
A dace is always a fish that i love to see coming to the net as you know with this fish that where there is one there is always more as they are a shoal fish. This fish was followed by a steady stream of fish which all seemed to come over my hemp fed area. It did become very clear on the session that it was the hemp not the maggots that was getting the fish feeding so every trot through i fed a few grains of hemp over my float as it went down and this seems to bring the bites one.
The beauty of fishing the river is you really dont know what you are going to catch and you really do catch what is in the stretch of river you are visiting that day, come back next week the shoal has gone and a swim full of dace can be a swim full of grayling and trout, that's river fishing. It became apparent during this session that had a sizable shoal of small dace n the swim as all this fish where quite small and the size did not really change until i tried a slack and picked up the odd perch.
I was treated during this session to a big salmon holding position right at my feet. It would go out of sight then slowly moved back into the slack behind a bug boulder but it was literally underneath my feet and estimated over 10lb it was a sight to see. The fish seemed to be there all session and was not bothered by my rod going over its head time and time again.
The session was an enjoyable one back on the river i love, a river where it is impossible to leave unhappy due to its stunning views, we called it a day around 2pm. The net is not the biggest net i have ever caught from the dee but on this session it did not matter it was great to just catch a few fish and be out on the dee, although a man taking his pet pg for a walk did have me worried!!
Well that's it for another blog update please take the time to enter the competition and good luck,
till next time
tight liens
danny
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