Bluemoon Angling Thread

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its grim up north said:
When me and mates go out now we always mention ,we should have an evening down at Agden, but it never happens, just a change in habit probably. Bet there are no pegs "dug out" behind Old No 3.
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The Old No. 3 has been closed down for a while now. "Home" too - previously Stamford Arms, down the road from the 3.
 
tonerain said:
The Old No. 3 has been closed down for a while now. "Home" too - previously Stamford Arms, down the road from the 3.
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In our younger days, we spent hours upon hours on the length up towards the Pub, between the bridge and the pipe. Never guaranteed along there but hit it right and wow what a session you could have. On of the most memorable was a gcod few years ago a couple of us had been on Cicely and and decided to try Agden for the evening. Just round the bend where the boats started we had a fish a chuck till it went dark and nearly everyone of them was netter. Roach , Bream, Hybrids and the odd snap off. Every fish was almost perfect , far removed from the commercials now. Im definitely talking myself into couple of hours there.
 
crublue1 said:
Loved reading the last few pages of this thread, made me think back to when I was a kid, fishing local ponds for rudd, bread as bait cos maggots were expensive. Crude tackle, getting a new rod for xmas and it being better than getting a new bike.
Getting a pig heart off the butcher and breeding maggots in the shed lol.
Making my own floats. My tackle box was made by tupperware.
A neighbour gave me a mitchell match (the one with the auto bail arm) and I thought it was the best thing ever. Also had an abu closed face which was awful, but I was billy big bollox with that.
When the carp bug bit later on, I made a barrow by converting a builders barrow, welding a frame to it. I took the back seats out of my sierra, and could push the barrow through the hatch fully loaded, up a home made ramp.
Hate to think how much ive spent on tackle and bait, well over 10k i'd imagine, but the memories are worth it.
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I still have (and use now and again) a Mitchell match reel ((the blue one) with the auto bail arm :-)
 
I’m starting to think there are no proper perch left in my river. I did a couple of hours in my new hotspot with worms on Thursday and landed one of about 12oz. Got down there again at 4am this morning and landed nothing but two massive fuck off crayfish. Went out again for five hours this afternoon with the lures, fishing at fast pace over about four miles of both river and canal. I hooked something big which bit through the fluorocarbon leader. Must have been a pike. I had two more hits which felt like perch which fell off.
 
Got my arse handed to me today on Menteith. My boat partner beat me 11 - 5. a real skelping.
Water still like a tepid bath so the fish were deep and we encountered them at 25 feet. He had one of the new booby basher lines, I had an old fashioned di7. Presentation of both is quite different though and I suspect he was able to keep his flies in the right zone for longer. Some beautiful conditioned fish caught to 5lb. Blues with iridescent backs and silver rays in their tails and fought like demons.

the tactic was to throw the line out as far as possible, retrieve slowly to let the line sink and then stop at 25feet. You can only do this if you have line markers which we both had. Then do nothing other than lift the tip of the rod 6 inches or so every so often to make the booby dive and then rise. Presentation had to be perfect. Takes were very very violent.

every day is a learning day :-)
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Got my arse handed to me today on Menteith. My boat partner beat me 11 - 5. a real skelping.
Water still like a tepid bath so the fish were deep and we encountered them at 25 feet. He had one of the new booby basher lines, I had an old fashioned di7. Presentation of both is quite different though and I suspect he was able to keep his flies in the right zone for longer. Some beautiful conditioned fish caught to 5lb. Blues with iridescent backs and silver rays in their tails and fought like demons.

the tactic was to throw the line out as far as possible, retrieve slowly to let the line sink and then stop at 25feet. You can only do this if you have line markers which we both had. Then do nothing other than lift the tip of the rod 6 inches or so every so often to make the booby dive and then rise. Presentation had to be perfect. Takes were very very violent.

every day is a learning day :-)
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Sounds complicated. I think I'll stick to coarse fishing!
 
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Change of scene yesterday because I had to be in Blackpool at 10am and then again at 7.30pm. Instead of two jounreys I did what any decent angler would do and took my gear for a day on The Ribble at Brockholes. It was bright sunshine and the river lower and clearer than I've ever seen so I took a "mix and match" approach.

I fished 4-5 swims with the centre pin and stick float, catching lots of lovely roach, big dace and chublets, wading right out to my waist. Very enjoyable. As I moved swims I baited each one with hemp and pellets. I spent the last few hours doing half an hour in each of these baited swims with a light barbel rod with a small pellet on. But it was so bright and hot that I didn't fancy my chances and I was proved right.

Some lovely nature sightings as there always in at Brockholes. A deer crossed the river. Saw a buzzard, a merlin and a pair of egrets. Also to provide the yin to the tang, in one swim about a dozen kids came swimming, the little shits. Overall a lovely day.
 
I've not fished since I was a kid many years ago.
Gave away all my fishing tackle yonks back but I've been thinking about doing a bit of river fishing again.
Can someone give me a few pointers about what gear to get (rod and reel), I'm envisioning a simple set up, 1 rod and reel plus a bag of bits and a fold up chair. Nothing elaborate.
Don't know where to start with purchases though... generally I prefer to buy decent qualty stuff rather than cheap shite.
Any advice gratefully received...
 
ShedDweller said:
I've not fished since I was a kid many years ago.
Gave away all my fishing tackle yonks back but I've been thinking about doing a bit of river fishing again.
Can someone give me a few pointers about what gear to get (rod and reel), I'm envisioning a simple set up, 1 rod and reel plus a bag of bits and a fold up chair. Nothing elaborate.
Don't know where to start with purchases though... generally I prefer to buy decent qualty stuff rather than cheap shite.
Any advice gratefully received...
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What's your budget?
 
No water, bright sun and no salmon seen on the Tummel last week.
Managed one small sea trout that decided to take a size 6 double in the blazing sun as I was mucking about testing lines.
Some days the whole Tay catchment were only reporting 4 fish caught on Fishpal, that's my excuse for blanking, and I am sticking to it!

Back up on the Annan in a couple of weeks.
 
snorky said:
No water, bright sun and no salmon seen on the Tummel last week.
Managed one small sea trout that decided to take a size 6 double in the blazing sun as I was mucking about testing lines.
Some days the whole Tay catchment were only reporting 4 fish caught on Fishpal, that's my excuse for blanking, and I am sticking to it!

Back up on the Annan in a couple of weeks.
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Best of luck.
 
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