Bluemoon Angling Thread

[snorky]

Interesting report and well done on the fish. I've been looking at Rutland for a winter predator trip. I think it has big zander as well as pike and perch. I seem to remember it's not open for very long for coarse fishing though.

I've been out loads with the lure gear, light and heavy, for very few results. I remember a small pike on a tiny wobbled plug designed for perch. I remember a couple of thumps and a heartstopping lunge from a big reservoir pike to a big lure and a hooked canal trout which leapt and fell off. But apart from that I must have had at six short lure blanks since my last post. Twice I've been roving/deadbaiting on the same reservoir too and been pestered to death by massive crayfish.

Scoff the crayfish mate!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Scoff the crayfish mate!

You don’t really hook them on dead bait. They just strip the fish down to a skeleton. Does your head in.

 

[snorky]

You don’t really hook them on dead bait. They just strip the fish down to a skeleton. Does your head in.

BMR has some crayfish traps I think mate, steal them and have a go!
I bet they are signal crayfish too. Nasty invasive tasty bastards!! :)

 

[Didsbury Dave]

BMR has some crayfish traps I think mate, steal them and have a go!
I bet they are signal crayfish too. Nasty invasive tasty bastards!! :)

They are signals. Horrible bastards. I actually caught someone’s trap on a lure with some in there once.

It’s illegal to trap them and illegal to return them alive funnily enough.

 

[snorky]

They are signals. Horrible bastards. I actually caught someone’s trap on a lure with some in there once.

It’s illegal to trap them and illegal to return them alive funnily enough.

I thought you could get a licence in some areas to trap the buggers. The river Lugg near me is teaming with them!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I thought you could get a licence in some areas to trap the buggers. The river Lugg near me is teaming with them!

You can only get a licence if there are no native white claw crayfish in the area and there aren’t many areas where that applies.

 

[snorky]

You can only get a licence if there are no native white claw crayfish in the area and there aren’t many areas where that applies.

I checked and the EA are not issuing licences to anyone at the moment....

They ain't doing much about pollution/poaching/predation etc etc either imho :)

Lets just catch the fuckers and do a bluemoon @idahoblues style shrimpy gumbo and moonshine party!....


Without the cousin fucking though.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Just been out perch fishing for a couple of hours and things improved. First canal, not a touch, exploring with a curly tail jig. Second canal, two casts and two big perch, then 100 yard up the canal 2 chub in the same swim then further up the canal again 2 more perch. None weighed but the best was a perch I’d estimate at a pound and a half.

 

[idahoblues]

I checked and the EA are not issuing licences to anyone at the moment....

They ain't doing much about pollution/poaching/predation etc etc either imho :)

Lets just catch the fuckers and do a bluemoon @idahoblues style shrimpy gumbo and moonshine party!....


Without the cousin fucking though.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Its association water mate... I just joined Wirral Game Anglers and they have a couple of rods.
I have salmon fished the Tweed lots and the Till a couple of times for sea trout, but never the Whiteadder.

It’s small but very pretty in parts. Tight lines mate.