Bluemoon Angling Thread

[J.G.Blue.]

The only fishery in my local area that I could legally travel to looks like this.
Makes fly presentation a little difficult although when you are on the dries, they sure wont sink.

Nice photo, I used to spend most of my spare time fishing but not been for years (life gets in the way), this thread makes me want to dig out my old rods and stuff in the attic, any idea what caused the disturbance in the lake? looks like a boats been through it?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

No mate this is a Scottish Bank vs English Bank. This years will be the 44th match - we fish one year in Scotland, one year in England. We even managed to hold it safely last year.

Thinking about that rig. I read it has a 5g tungsten head which is a bit heavy to cast with a fly rod - possible but I'm not partial to a bullet to the back of my head! Love the idea of the boyant rubber though, think I will just buy that and see what I can concoct with my own tungsten beads. Thanks for mentioning it.

I’m not using anything like 5g. I’m using 1-2g. It needs to just offset the buoyancy of the rubber so that it’s just less than neutrally bouyant and sinks very slowly, waving as it does. Let us know how you get on!

 

[Saddleworth2]

Nice photo, I used to spend most of my spare time fishing but not been for years (life gets in the way), this thread makes me want to dig out my old rods and stuff in the attic, any idea what caused the disturbance in the lake? looks like a boats been through it?

The owner will have tried to break up the ice and given up.
Dig those rods out and get back to it mate. A bad day fishing is still better than a good days work.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

The owner will have tried to break up the ice and given up.
Dig those rods out and get back to it mate. A bad day fishing is still better than a good days work.

Will do, but I might just wait till the weather warms up a bit!

 

[Scouse Blue]

No posts since Tuesday and page 3 of 'off topic' FFS! :-) You sure can tell the weather is awful and there are still residue floods everywhere.

 

[Blue_eyes]

No posts since Tuesday and page 3 of 'off topic' FFS! :-) You sure can tell the weather is awful and there are still residue floods everywhere.

Its my fault, last weekend I saw that our local river had receded back to near normal and it was warming up. So I drew up plans to steal a day off and have my first session this winter.

Within twenty four hours of that thought and after heavy overnight rain, its unfishable again. Shame because I bought some clobber to help keep warm for when I do take the plunge.

 

[Sir peace frog]

no fishing day means trawling ebay and other places for new gear :) , to leave in the shed lol

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Its my fault, last weekend I saw that our local river had receded back to near normal and it was warming up. So I drew up plans to steal a day off and have my first session this winter.

Within twenty four hours of that thought and after heavy overnight rain, its unfishable again. Shame because I bought some clobber to help keep warm for when I do take the plunge.

I hope for your sake you don't take a plunge:-)

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

no fishing day means trawling ebay and other places for new gear :) , to leave in the shed lol

Haha. So your Mrs doesn't mither you for spending money on tackle I bet. Been there myself : )

Is Lymn dam still open?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Its my fault, last weekend I saw that our local river had receded back to near normal and it was warming up. So I drew up plans to steal a day off and have my first session this winter.

Within twenty four hours of that thought and after heavy overnight rain, its unfishable again. Shame because I bought some clobber to help keep warm for when I do take the plunge.

Was looking to get out this weekend as after the snow last week we've had a few unseasonably warm days and I even noticed the goldfish in the garden pond 'topping' and mooching about for food so had high hopes, but everywhere flooded :-(