Bluemoon Angling Thread

Newman Noggs said:
Yes. Just near where the River Leam runs into it. Photo from the bank of the Grand Union canal where it crosses the river.

I'm thinking of going out tomorrow.
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Lovely looking stretch, nice pic.

I met a guy on the Wye in the summer who fishes the Avon. He's invited me down to fish it, on your club waters, Leamington anglers. Somewhere I've never fished. He's also in Birmingham AA and fishes the Severn. I'm tempted to join BAA because I used to fish Knowle sands and Quatford in the 80s. There used to be a cracking peg at Quatford called 'barmy hole'. Was a deep back eddy going onto a gravel gravel bar. Absolutely stuffed with barbel. The swim will have changed since then but for a bargain £40 a year for the privilege of fishing some cracking stretches I'm tempted to join.
 
BlueMoonRisin' said:
Lovely looking stretch, nice pic.

I met a guy on the Wye in the summer who fishes the Avon. He's invited me down to fish it, on your club waters, Leamington anglers. Somewhere I've never fished. He's also in Birmingham AA and fishes the Severn. I'm tempted to join BAA because I used to fish Knowle sands and Quatford in the 80s. There used to be a cracking peg at Quatford called 'barmy hole'. Was a deep back eddy going onto a gravel gravel bar. Absolutely stuffed with barbel. The swim will have changed since then but for a bargain £40 a year for the privilege of fishing some cracking stretches I'm tempted to join.
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I joined in December for the same reason. Virtually all their waters are less than an hour's drive of my house. I'm particularly interested in their stretches of the River Teme.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Yes. Just near where the River Leam runs into it. Photo from the bank of the Grand Union canal where it crosses the river.

I'm thinking of going out tomorrow.
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I love the bleakness of a winter river and any fish caught from it in these conditions is a prize to savour.

A nice smelly ball of cheese paste has got to be your attack, surely?

I might try to get out myself this weekend but I fear it's grayling or bust on my local river.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I love the bleakness of a winter river and any fish caught from it in these conditions is a prize to savour.

A nice smelly ball of cheese paste has got to be your attack, surely?

I might try to get out myself this weekend but I fear it's grayling or bust on my local river.
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Agreed. I once had a barbel on the Severn with snow on the ground and there was something special about it.

There don't appear to be many barbel in the Avon just here so it has to be chub and, you're right, I'm thinking stilton paste.

Next weekend, subject to the weather it will be fly-fishing for grayling on the Hodder. Love the smell of grayling.
 
Newman Noggs said:
There don't appear to be many barbel in the Avon just here so it has to be chub and, you're right, I'm thinking stilton paste.

Next weekend, subject to the weather it will be fly-fishing for grayling on the Hodder. Love the smell of grayling.
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I’ve been enjoying some trotting for grayling this Christmas. They smell of cucumber. I might try to get a photo of one in the snow this weekend actually, if I can keep hold of the fucker. In fact this is going to sound a bit weird but I’ve been actually trying to log and compare the different smell of each species recently because when I catch something the smell is always familiar and they are all a bit different. Chris Yates reckons that on still summer days you can smell carp from waters containing them. Not sure I buy that but I like it.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I’ve been enjoying some trotting for grayling this Christmas. They smell of cucumber. I might try to get a photo of one in the snow this weekend actually, if I can keep hold of the fucker. In fact this is going to sound a bit weird but I’ve been actually trying to log and compare the different smell of each species recently because when I catch something the smell is always familiar and they are all a bit different. Chris Yates reckons that on still summer days you can smell carp from waters containing them. Not sure I buy that but I like it.
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Funnily enough, I definitely agree with him to the extent that certain days in certain conditions "smell" fishy. And when my boys were young they could smell it too. We'd come out of the house some mornings and they'd say "ooh, smells fishy today" and it was a smell nothing like that of an actual fish, more musky and earthy.

I also agree with him that after a period of inactivity you can "sense" the approach of a fish and your senses suddenly heighten for no apparent reason. Could that be to do with smell ?

I've also noticed, in fact my girlfriend noticed first, that when we walk our German Shepherd along the canal, she'll (the dog, not my girlfriend) sometimes just stop and stare intently at the water as though she can smell something. It could be imperceptible movement, of course, but I'd be more inclined to believe it's smell.

Anyway, I look forward to the result of your research. I always admire those guys (and girls) who can identify "notes of raspberry, plum and vanilla" in bottles of wine. You could be the first person to do that for fish.
 
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