Bluemoon Angling Thread

Good to see the thread alive again and some superb catches. Well done @snorky in particular.

I've been out myself a few times but can't catch a cold. I can't even remember the various trips since I caught a 2lb perch a few weeks ago but I had one where I could only catch 2 minnows and didn't catch a perch, I went barbel fishing in floodwater on The Ribble on Friday evening but ended up washed out as the river rose, struggling to keep a bait in amongst the branches and leaves, and went lure fishing (pike rod and perch rod) on a reservoir on Sunday and hooked one little fish which fell off.
 
snorky said:
Yes mate, thumping take. They do get aggressive this late in the season.

I am still hoping to get a few days on the Annan or Tweed before they close.
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Nice fish mate and well done, you thoroughly deserve it.

But here's a question.

Why don't you wear camou gear because the fish can see you stuck out looking like a big Telly Tubby ?

I bet the salmon are thinking. "Oh fuck, I'm not going near Benny Hill's lovechild again!" ; )
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
Nice fish mate and well done, you thoroughly deserve it.

But here's a question.

Why don't you wear camou gear because the fish can see you stuck out looking like a big Telly Tubby ?

I bet the salmon are thinking. "Oh fuck, I'm not going near Benny Hill's lovechild again!" ; )
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Thank you, and fuck right off :)
 
Went down to the Severn at Shrewsbury on Tuesday. The river had had a good flush from when I was last there and all the silk weed had gone, and surprisingly not many leaves. Didn't get in till 10am , very busy road down through Whitchurch. Had 5 Barbel, upto 2pm, 9.5, 6.5 and 3 about 5 a piece. All on maggy. Then nothing until I packed just after 5pm as I wanted to catch the match on my drive home.
 
its grim up north said:
Went down to the Severn at Shrewsbury on Tuesday. The river had had a good flush from when I was last there and all the silk weed had gone, and surprisingly not many leaves. Didn't get in till 10am , very busy road down through Whitchurch. Had 5 Barbel, upto 2pm, 9.5, 6.5 and 3 about 5 a piece. All on maggy. Then nothing until I packed just after 5pm as I wanted to catch the match on my drive home.
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Good day that, mate.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Good day that, mate.
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It was, for a predominantly still water man, with commercial fishery tackle, which is holding up OK as the river is low. Dont know how I'll get on with a bit of extra water in. A good practice for our 3 days at the Unicorn coming up on the 26th. :-)
 
A free afternoon today so I took the lure gear out to do a reccy on the River Aire which I’ve never fished and is rumoured to contain lumps. I looked at three stretches and didn’t even cast because it was bleak and horrible with a gale force wind and torrential showers .

Headed back home but didn’t want to waste the day so I stopped off locally to fish an area I know is reliable. Instead of the usual retrieve jigging I just nudged a shad along the bottom in a clearish area and found the perch were having it so changed to a crayfish lure on a Cheb rig. I had five perch over a pound with the best being 1-10. Nothing showed to the pike rod but it was a great hour or so which rescued the day.65DF3A31-8E81-44BF-96CE-708B59B3E867.jpeg
 
Didsbury Dave said:
A free afternoon today so I took the lure gear out to do a reccy on the River Aire which I’ve never fished and is rumoured to contain lumps. I looked at three stretches and didn’t even cast because it was bleak and horrible with a gale force wind and torrential showers .

Headed back home but didn’t want to waste the day so I stopped off locally to fish an area I know is reliable. Instead of the usual retrieve jigging I just nudged a shad along the bottom in a clearish area and found the perch were having it so changed to a crayfish lure on a Cheb rig. I had five perch over a pound with the best being 1-10. Nothing showed to the pike rod but it was a great hour or so which rescued the day.View attachment 58251
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Showed this picture to my wife last night who pissed harself laughing at my hair, saying it looks like her mum’s when she’s just had a perm.

You don’t do your hair when you’re going fishing FFS. You roll out of bed, maybe do your teeth and get on with it.
 
Was on Coldingham on Thursday. Bright sun and a strengthening westerly. Started on dries and took one on the drift pretty quickly. The breeze put the fish down so I put on a couple of flies to imitate fry, a minkie on the point and a cormorant of my own design on the dropper. I started picking up fish regularly by casting tight to the shore. Takes were in the first 6 feet of water in no more than 3 feet depth. By lunch I had 10, most of them to the cormorant. I moved around the loch each time casting almost onto the shore and packed in at 2.30 when I reached 20. The cormorant took 15 which is unusual for a dropper fly. Usually the point outfishes it 2:1.
I gave the cormorant pattern to a lad that was struggling and shared with him how to fish it. He came off same time as me and had 8. He said it was his best session in years. It’s funny how fish occasionally lock on to a specific pattern fished in a very specific way.

I’m certain to blank next time. :-)
 
Another afternoon out with the lure gear yesterday after my boys' match and before the City match. The river had come up and was coloured so after a fruitless hour or two wandering I headed for one of the local canals which is weed choked but tends to stay clear. To combat the weed I used a small Salmo Slider jerkbait which stays high in the water. First cast in a new area and a 2lb+ perch appeared at my feet, gulped the lure down, I lifted the rod and somehow the lure (with two trebles!) popped right out of its mouth and the perch shot off. Nothing more happened around this area apart from a wonderful sight of a kestrel hovering within a few yards of me (I froze under a tree), dropping down and coming up with a mouse, almost within touching distance.

I had a final half hour or so so drove to a marina which gets hammered and poached but I wondered if they might not have seen mini jerkbaits before. I quickly landed a jack pike. On the way back to the car I had a chuck between some barges, hooked a fish which unbelievably turned out to be a skimmer bream which had wolfed down the jerkbait.731F61A0-734A-41E3-833B-32AE7B778D13.jpeg
 
Well, after the highlights of last week it was bound to be a disappointment yesterday. Its amazing how quickly confidence drains when you try the same method, in the same place, with the same fly where before it was a fish a chuck and then yesterday nothing. nil. Nout, None.

Little scaly bastards.

So a complete rethink and in the end resorted to pulling lures, trying dies, nymphs, dynamite ;-)
In the end I winkled out five, each on a different fly, my boat partner had seven, winning score was fifteen.

Even rehearsed a scene for 'youv'e been framed' where I caught a fish at the head of the wind, immediately got blown into the reeds, got landing net, fish, rod, line, various items of clothing caught on vegetation whilst trying to manipulate the bloody engine into reverse and then when that didn't work nearly falling overboard trying to 'punt' us out of the thick stuff with an oar that kept sticking in the mud. My boat partner all the time laughing like he was actually watching something that was funny. Bastard.

It was his Birthday and I forgave him when he produced a lovely malt to help us calm down a bit.

Finished at 4, just in time to catch the second half on the radio :-)

Try again at Menteith on Wednesday.
 
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Saddleworth2 said:
Well, after the highlights of last week it was bound to be a disappointment yesterday. Its amazing how quickly confidence drains when you try the same method, in the same place, with the same fly where before it was a fish a chuck and then yesterday nothing. nil. Nout, None.

Little scaly bastards.

So a complete rethink and in the end resorted to pulling lures, trying dies, nymphs, dynamite ;-)
In the end I winkled out five, each on a different fly, my boat partner had seven, winning score was fifteen.

Finished at 4, just in time to catch the second half on the radio :-)

Try again at Menteith on Wednesday.
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That's fishing mate. Just when you think you have it cracked......
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
That's fishing mate. Just when you think you have it cracked......
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Ah you missed my edit. Here is the missing bit:

Even rehearsed a scene for 'youv'e been framed' where I caught a fish at the head of the wind, immediately got blown into the reeds, got landing net, fish, rod, line, various items of clothing caught on vegetation whilst trying to manipulate the bloody engine into reverse and then when that didn't work nearly falling overboard trying to 'punt' us out of the thick stuff with an oar that kept sticking in the mud. My boat partner all the time laughing like he was actually watching something that was funny. Bastard.
It was his Birthday and I forgave him when he produced a lovely malt to help us calm down a bit.
 
Menteith yesterday with wind gusting to 40mph. Despite that it was a good day and we had 12 to the boat, honours even. We could have had more if we had thought more deeply about the flies we were fishing. Turns out they wanted small and dark rather than the bright lures we were fishing. Most the fish caught were close in to the bank and up in the top three feet of water.

Menteith was lovely in her Autumn clothes;

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