Bluemoon Angling Thread

Saddleworth2 said:
Bloody hell, I used to commute there from Edinburgh on a weekly basis. Taxi from Manchester airport up the M62 and back was fun. I didn't realise that the Calder was such a good Grayling river.
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It’s as good for trout. I’ve had them to 5lb by accident, and plenty of 2s and 3s when lure fishing.

if the trees weren’t festooned with carrier bags and tampax and the backdrop was rural Dorset and not industrial West Yorkshire they’d charge you £50 a day.
 
Well I was mad enough to go out at the weekend. With the lockdown restrictions and the conditions it would have been difficult to pick a worse situation. We had heavy snow on Thursday and Friday followed by a thaw on Saturday. this meant that the rivers were flooded with snowmelt. This is commonly known as the worst-case-scenario on all rivers for all species and the local canal system, which is fed by the river, had turned chocolate brown too.

Grayling and Chub were off limits then and lure fishing in freezing cold murky canal water would surely have been a waste of time. The canal banks are packed with walkers at the moment too which does my head in. There was only one option: stillwater pike. I was up at a local reservoir late Sunday morning and immediately knew how tough it was going to be: the feeder stream had coloured the res up with snowmelt. Did an hour and a half on this res with two deadbaits but my confidence was close to zero so I packed up and drove to a nearby canal marina. Same here, not a touch and not really any hope of a touch.

Got home for food and football wondering why I bothered.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Well I was mad enough to go out at the weekend. With the lockdown restrictions and the conditions it would have been difficult to pick a worse situation. We had heavy snow on Thursday and Friday followed by a thaw on Saturday. this meant that the rivers were flooded with snowmelt. This is commonly known as the worst-case-scenario on all rivers for all species and the local canal system, which is fed by the river, had turned chocolate brown too.

Grayling and Chub were off limits then and lure fishing in freezing cold murky canal water would surely have been a waste of time. The canal banks are packed with walkers at the moment too which does my head in. There was only one option: stillwater pike. I was up at a local reservoir late Sunday morning and immediately knew how tough it was going to be: the feeder stream had coloured the res up with snowmelt. Did an hour and a half on this res with two deadbaits but my confidence was close to zero so I packed up and drove to a nearby canal marina. Same here, not a touch and not really any hope of a touch.

Got home for food and football wondering why I bothered.
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cos you love it, going out with the daughter this afternoon, weve been in isolation for what seems years, my new rod and reel have arrived and are all spooled up, daughter is now the proud owner of my old set up, going more for the out and about, and hoping for a cheeky perch or two, and hoping the dortz doesn't smash me out of the park with a giant perch again, as i said more about getting out and about, but fingers crossed
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Well I was mad enough to go out at the weekend. With the lockdown restrictions and the conditions it would have been difficult to pick a worse situation. We had heavy snow on Thursday and Friday followed by a thaw on Saturday. this meant that the rivers were flooded with snowmelt. This is commonly known as the worst-case-scenario on all rivers for all species and the local canal system, which is fed by the river, had turned chocolate brown too.

Grayling and Chub were off limits then and lure fishing in freezing cold murky canal water would surely have been a waste of time. The canal banks are packed with walkers at the moment too which does my head in. There was only one option: stillwater pike. I was up at a local reservoir late Sunday morning and immediately knew how tough it was going to be: the feeder stream had coloured the res up with snowmelt. Did an hour and a half on this res with two deadbaits but my confidence was close to zero so I packed up and drove to a nearby canal marina. Same here, not a touch and not really any hope of a touch.

Got home for food and football wondering why I bothered.
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Hardcore mate. Not quite as harsh as me freezing my spuds of in Dowry though; )

I was going to go last Monday as it was sunny and a rise in temperature but I rang my local tackle shop and he said he had no frozen deadbait packs left. Couldn't be bothered driving to Edgeley sports for some so didn't bother. I'll keep an eye on the weather forecast and go later in the week. I fancy another bash in Lymn dam as there are big pike in there, and pleasant surroundings to look at whilst blanking : )
 
BlueMoonRisin' said:
Hardcore mate. Not quite as harsh as me freezing my spuds of in Dowry though; )

I was going to go last Monday as it was sunny and a rise in temperature but I rang my local tackle shop and he said he had no frozen deadbait packs left. Couldn't be bothered driving to Edgeley sports for some so didn't bother. I'll keep an eye on the weather forecast and go later in the week. I fancy another bash in Lymn dam as there are big pike in there, and pleasant surroundings to look at whilst blanking : )
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take your wellies, we went for a walk round there and it was ankle deep in sludge
 
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