Bluemoon Angling Thread

How's this for a result? My wife's Dad's friend got married at the weekend and my wife attended the wedding. His garden backs onto the Trent at Kelham Hall which is an extremely well known barbel area. He's going to let me fish it whenever I want.

There are big downsides: I don't know him and he seems a bit odd, and I really don't want to socialise with anyone whilst I'm fishing. Also, looking at the pictures, it's too tight for a bivvy.

But there's a big upside too: looking at Google maps the river narrows and bends at this point which is likely to create a perfect "barbel alley". Even better, nobody can fish the far bank or any of the downtream swims. Also, I suspect I can get him to pre-bait it for me once I've got to know him.

Extremely interesting little project. I'm just so busy at the moment I can't make any time.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
How's this for a result? My wife's Dad's friend got married at the weekend and my wife attended the wedding. His garden backs onto the Trent at Kelham Hall which is an extremely well known barbel area. He's going to let me fish it whenever I want.

There are big downsides: I don't know him and he seems a bit odd, and I really don't want to socialise with anyone whilst I'm fishing. Also, looking at the pictures, it's too tight for a bivvy.

But there's a big upside too: looking at Google maps the river narrows and bends at this point which is likely to create a perfect "barbel alley". Even better, nobody can fish the far bank or any of the downtream swims. Also, I suspect I can get him to pre-bait it for me once I've got to know him.

Extremely interesting little project. I'm just so busy at the moment I can't make any time.
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That is brilliant. It's little breaks like that that open doors to the unknown. Catch that perch and then get on it. And keep us posted.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
How's this for a result? My wife's Dad's friend got married at the weekend and my wife attended the wedding. His garden backs onto the Trent at Kelham Hall which is an extremely well known barbel area. He's going to let me fish it whenever I want.

There are big downsides: I don't know him and he seems a bit odd, and I really don't want to socialise with anyone whilst I'm fishing. Also, looking at the pictures, it's too tight for a bivvy.

But there's a big upside too: looking at Google maps the river narrows and bends at this point which is likely to create a perfect "barbel alley". Even better, nobody can fish the far bank or any of the downtream swims. Also, I suspect I can get him to pre-bait it for me once I've got to know him.

Extremely interesting little project. I'm just so busy at the moment I can't make any time.
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Hmmm
This all sounds too good to be true mate. Perfect Barbel swim, on the best barbel river, for free?
He seems a bit odd how?
Does he have a large chest freezer in his garage?
I would want inspect the contents before you set up your bivvy mate! Certainly a unique grooming approach.

in all seriousness upsides out weigh the downs considerably. Hope you enjoy it.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
How's this for a result? My wife's Dad's friend got married at the weekend and my wife attended the wedding. His garden backs onto the Trent at Kelham Hall which is an extremely well known barbel area. He's going to let me fish it whenever I want.

There are big downsides: I don't know him and he seems a bit odd, and I really don't want to socialise with anyone whilst I'm fishing. Also, looking at the pictures, it's too tight for a bivvy.

But there's a big upside too: looking at Google maps the river narrows and bends at this point which is likely to create a perfect "barbel alley". Even better, nobody can fish the far bank or any of the downtream swims. Also, I suspect I can get him to pre-bait it for me once I've got to know him.

Extremely interesting little project. I'm just so busy at the moment I can't make any time.
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Can't really see the downside tbh....most people I meet when fishing (including some anglers) are a bit odd... lol
Surely worst scenario is he spends too much time chatting, which is bearable if he supplies the tea, and he'd get bored soon enough!
Why worry about a bivvy? I never use a bivvy in England, year round nights and only ever a brolly, as us carpers say "are you an angler or a camper" ;)
 
southamptonblue said:
Can't really see the downside tbh....most people I meet when fishing (including some anglers) are a bit odd... lol
Surely worst scenario is he spends too much time chatting, which is bearable if he supplies the tea, and he'd get bored soon enough!
Why worry about a bivvy? I never use a bivvy in England, year round nights and only ever a brolly, as us carpers say "are you an angler or a camper" ;)
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He said to my wife "Has he got a rod I can use?" which suggest to me he might want to sit with me. I can't be arsed making small talk when I'm seriously fishing to be honest. By bivvy I'm including brollies too. There's just a tiny little stone jetty which I'd get my rods on and then a slope behind it. And The Trent is all about fishing right through the night in the summer.

I'm going , don't get me wrong, potentially this Friday!
 
Didsbury Dave said:
He said to my wife "Has he got a rod I can use?" which suggest to me he might want to sit with me. I can't be arsed making small talk when I'm seriously fishing to be honest. By bivvy I'm including brollies too. There's just a tiny little stone jetty which I'd get my rods on and then a slope behind it. And The Trent is all about fishing right through the night in the summer.

I'm going , don't get me wrong, potentially this Friday!
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Sounds very dodgy. First clarify what he means by "rod" :-)
 
Didsbury Dave said:
He said to my wife "Has he got a rod I can use?" which suggest to me he might want to sit with me. I can't be arsed making small talk when I'm seriously fishing to be honest. By bivvy I'm including brollies too. There's just a tiny little stone jetty which I'd get my rods on and then a slope behind it. And The Trent is all about fishing right through the night in the summer.

I'm going , don't get me wrong, potentially this Friday!
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He'll probably get to about 1am and fuck off back inside to his bed once he realises it's not about pulling one out every two minutes if he's not an angler.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
How's this for a result? My wife's Dad's friend got married at the weekend and my wife attended the wedding. His garden backs onto the Trent at Kelham Hall which is an extremely well known barbel area. He's going to let me fish it whenever I want.

There are big downsides: I don't know him and he seems a bit odd, and I really don't want to socialise with anyone whilst I'm fishing. Also, looking at the pictures, it's too tight for a bivvy.

But there's a big upside too: looking at Google maps the river narrows and bends at this point which is likely to create a perfect "barbel alley". Even better, nobody can fish the far bank or any of the downtream swims. Also, I suspect I can get him to pre-bait it for me once I've got to know him.

Extremely interesting little project. I'm just so busy at the moment I can't make any time.
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Let me know if you want me to keep you company catching barbel mate; )
 
Just been prepping some spam for the morning and wondering if humans actually still consume this and other tinned meat in this day and age, or if it's just us fish botherers that keep them in business? Also worth noting spam is the top end of this sort of product with the quid a can own brand stuff being even worse. £2.20 for a small tin of spam means it's actually more expensive than decent meat per kilo too.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Just been prepping some spam for the morning and wondering if humans actually still consume this and other tinned meat in this day and age, or if it's just us fish botherers that keep them in business? Also worth noting spam is the top end of this sort of product with the quid a can own brand stuff being even worse. £2.20 for a small tin of spam means it's actually more expensive than decent meat per kilo too.
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Funnily enough my brother and I were talking about this on our way home from the Wye on Monday. We were remembering that, at our primary school, in the late 60s, the best meal that we all looked forward to was spam, mashed potato and beans. (Chips were undreamed of).

So, I suspect that spam served as food may be a generational thing.

Just had a quick search and there are a couple of threads about spam (as a foodstuff) so someone is obviously still eating it.
 
quick question,

i was watching a video on pike fishing, the guy was using heavy fluoro instead of a wire trace is this a good thing, also if it is good what strength fluoro would you use ?
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Just been prepping some spam for the morning and wondering if humans actually still consume this and other tinned meat in this day and age, or if it's just us fish botherers that keep them in business? Also worth noting spam is the top end of this sort of product with the quid a can own brand stuff being even worse. £2.20 for a small tin of spam means it's actually more expensive than decent meat per kilo too.
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spam fried is lovely as is bacon grill :)
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Just been prepping some spam for the morning and wondering if humans actually still consume this and other tinned meat in this day and age, or if it's just us fish botherers that keep them in business? Also worth noting spam is the top end of this sort of product with the quid a can own brand stuff being even worse. £2.20 for a small tin of spam means it's actually more expensive than decent meat per kilo too.
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Cheap luncheon meat or chopped ham and pork is a better bait than spam because it's firmer and oilier.
 
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Second attempt on the Nene only delivered 3 reasonable bream and a large bream for my mate and 3 reasonable bream for myself, so poor again unfortunately. Someone needs to explain to DD that the bloke who is asking 'has he got a rod he can use' sounds extremely dodgy!! Off to cook some fried spam, hash browns and beans for lunch. Yes people do still eat spam, but only very occasionally :-)
 
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