Bluemoon Angling Thread

Didsbury Dave said:
Are the canoeists the same or has it been stopped?
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Very few this year but saw the "wild swimmers" and a couple of very, very attractive young ladies doing that thing where you stand on surfboards and paddle.

Oddly, for an old curmudgeon like me, I quite like the canoeists. Firstly, I have a soft spot for young people in general and secondly, I have never found them to have an adverse effect on the fishing. I've had barbel from right underneath them while they sit and watch and marvel. But then I've always been one for an audience.

I have a great photo, taken by a mate, of me fishing whilst a lad has fallen out of a canoe and is floundering around in my swim whilst his companion hovers around offering encouragement. I think the poor lad was mentally handicapped because the water was only about 18 inches deep.
 
snorky said:
Just been for a look on the Wye. Bloody awful colour! It's getting worse every summer.
Crap from the chicken farms upstream giving higher phosphate levels over the last 6 years than ever recorded before, I am told.
Just another nail in the silver tourists coffin. :(
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There was an article in the Sunday Times last week highlighting the problem.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Very few this year but saw the "wild swimmers" and a couple of very, very attractive young ladies doing that thing where you stand on surfboards and paddle.

Oddly, for an old curmudgeon like me, I quite like the canoeists. Firstly, I have a soft spot for young people in general and secondly, I have never found them to have an adverse effect on the fishing. I've had barbel from right underneath them while they sit and watch and marvel. But then I've always been one for an audience.

I have a great photo, taken by a mate, of me fishing whilst a lad has fallen out of a canoe and is floundering around in my swim whilst his companion hovers around offering encouragement. I think the poor lad was mentally handicapped because the water was only about 18 inches deep.
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I don't mind canooists and other boaters in general as long as they have etiquette on a river in not ploughing through my swim whilst fishing. Most are polite and courteous TBF, but one or two are snobbish and look down their noses.

I remember fishing Rudyard lake years ago. Sat there fishing and minding my own business. All of a sudden a yacht came in 10 yards Infront of me before performing an 180% turn... "Excuse me pal I'm fishing"..... "Sorry, didn't see you"...... "Ok, no problem"... A few minutes later I heard the boom clattering - "Starboard turn" (in plummy voice) ..... "Excuse me, I'm fishing, already said I was!". Only this time I wasn't as friendly..."oh, sorry"(smug grin as he said it) They sailed off and I thought that was that.

I was ledgering and needed to make up another groundbait mix full of maggots and casters to catapult about 40 yards into the swim. I was using a floating buoy as a distance marker to catapult to.

All of a sudden 'matey buoy' and his posh woman came towards me to perform another fancy turn but this time the wind dropped to dead calm. Both were fannying about trashing my swim so I launched half a dozen orange sized balls at the main sail covering them in groundbait goo! She started screaming he asked me - "why did you do that"?..... "I asked you nicely twice and you decided to take the piss, now fuck off up the other end of the lake"!

I didn't see them again: )
 
BlueMoonRisin' said:
I don't mind canooists and other boaters in general as long as they have etiquette on a river in not ploughing through my swim whilst fishing. Most are polite and courteous TBF, but one or two are snobbish and look down their noses.

I remember fishing Rudyard lake years ago. Sat there fishing and minding my own business. All of a sudden a yacht came in 10 yards Infront of me before performing an 180% turn... "Excuse me pal I'm fishing"..... "Sorry, didn't see you"...... "Ok, no problem"... A few minutes later I heard the boom clattering - "Starboard turn" (in plummy voice) ..... "Excuse me, I'm fishing, already said I was!". Only this time I wasn't as friendly..."oh, sorry"(smug grin as he said it) They sailed off and I thought that was that.

I was ledgering and needed to make up another groundbait mix full of maggots and casters to catapult about 40 yards into the swim. I was using a floating buoy as a distance marker to catapult to.

All of a sudden 'matey buoy' and his posh woman came towards me to perform another fancy turn but this time the wind dropped to dead calm. Both were fannying about trashing my swim so I launched half a dozen orange sized balls at the main sail covering them in groundbait goo! She started screaming he asked me - "why did you do that"?..... "I asked you nicely twice and you decided to take the piss, now fuck off up the other end of the lake"!

I didn't see them again: )
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Good job mate. You should have had a maggopult too that would have knocked the smug smile off his visage and given his boat a nice infestation of bluebottles.
 
I have never caught a salmon within an hour of seeing a canoe.
I have seen over 50 canoes in one day on the Wye.
Half have not got a clue what they are doing.
I pay over £80 a year to the EA just to be on the water. They pay nothing.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Good job mate. You should have had a maggopult too that would have knocked the smug smile off his visage and given his boat a nice infestation of bluebottles.
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Didn't need a maggot pult mate. I clearly remember them(her) in blind panic screaming trying to empty maggots casters and sloppy groundbait out of their cagoule hoods. I found it highly amusing; )
 
snorky said:
I have never caught a salmon within an hour of seeing a canoe.
I have seen over 50 canoes in one day on the Wye.
Half have not got a clue what they are doing.
I pay over £80 a year to the EA just to be on the water. They pay nothing.
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I think you need wear a face mask mate. Not for social distancing. So salmon(and canooists) can't see your fugly mug ; )
 
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