Bluemoon Angling Thread

[Didsbury Dave]

Nothing to report from the lure trips this week. I had a short session on The Nidd in an attempt to catch a barbel on the float. Things got off to a bad start when I had forgotten my catapult. You really can’t bait properly by hand using hemp and caster which was the approach. In any case; the casters were stripped every cast by tiddlers. I gave up on that pretty quickly and reverted to a classic single rod pellet approach.

Action started straight away. Within minutes I’d had a big one only to find my scales had gone flat. Bloody electric scales have done this to me more than once. I’d say it was 9lb which is massive for this river. Had another barbel and lost another two. A very pleasant afternoon in lovely scenery.

 

[middlewichblue]

I’m a member of Prince Albert Angling Society, a big fishing club based from Macclesfield. They have a superb stretch of about 2 miles. I’ve had a few trips down here now and fished it lots of times. It’s excellent and not heavily fished. But there are loads of day ticket stretches on the Wye that are good too. You can book them online easily. It really is a lovely river.

There are loads of accommodation options. We are staying in a pub/hotel in Ross on Wye which is about £100 per night. But there are campsites, cheaper places, cottages, whatever you want really. What are you thinking? You can even bivvy up in certain areas.

It’s a cracking stretch of river and and holds some really good fish, worth the PAAS membership money just for that stretch of water!

 

[its grim up north]

3 of us just back from 3 days on the Warwickshire Avon. Fished Marlcliff, Fladbury Weir and Barton lengths. Poor fishing, one Bream about 4lb on feeder but mostly small dace and chublets to stick or waggler, nothing bigger than 8oz. The river is in desperate need of fresh water. Although the water was quite deep 4 to 6 feet you could see the botton right across, and the sunshine doesn't help. It was the first time we'd been there but good digs in Alcester and good access and parking for the pegs made us want to go back., hopefully when there is plenty of colour in. Off to the Brigenorth areas of the Severn back end of September, fingers crossed.

 

[PragueBlue]

Nothing to report from the lure trips this week. I had a short session on The Nidd in an attempt to catch a barbel on the float. Things got off to a bad start when I had forgotten my catapult. You really can’t bait properly by hand using hemp and caster which was the approach. In any case; the casters were stripped every cast by tiddlers. I gave up on that pretty quickly and reverted to a classic single rod pellet approach.

Action started straight away. Within minutes I’d had a big one only to find my scales had gone flat. Bloody electric scales have done this to me more than once. I’d say it was 9lb which is massive for this river. Had another barbel and lost another two. A very pleasant afternoon in lovely scenery.

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What stretch of the Nidd were you on?

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Well done on you're fishing trips, nice barbel pics DD. I was due to go on my first trip last week but i pulled my back pulling my super heavy Nash Wide Boy bedchair and 5 season sleeping back out of my shed. My back is still too painful at moment to go anywhere.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

What stretch of the Nidd were you on?

Cowthorpe.

 

[PragueBlue]

Cowthorpe.

Lovely stretch that. I used to fish it quite often. Plenty of barbel and chub and assorted silvers. Reminds me of my favourite stretch at Tockwith.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Lovely stretch that. I used to fish it quite often. Plenty of barbel and chub and assorted silvers. Reminds me of my favourite stretch at Tockwith.

Yes, it’s a lovely stretch and very prolific. I had the whole stretch to myself yesterday which was lovely. It’s good for trying different methods because it’s small and intimate and there are numbers of fish. I scale down my tackle a bit to make it more fun which results in some right tugs of war as they dive for the far back trees and snags.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

A couple of short lure trips last week with little happening. One bumped jack is all I can remember. Friday afternoon I went to a half empty local reservoir with my pike rod and a big Salmo slider jerkbait. Fairly quickly I landed a nice pike and it was a bit of a nightmare. The mat was on a sloping bank and the middle trebles had impaled themselves , all three hooks, right into its gills from the outside. I couldn't chin it because of the trebles . Total unhooking nightmare, I had to perform surgery on this pike which at one point jumped back in the lake and I had to land it again. At one point I went to to cut the hooks off but my wire cutters were rusted up.

I eventually managed to unhook it without significant damage and the pike went back ok but it was a reminder of how delicate these fish are and, I'm going to be honest, how dangerous treble hooks are. On a less experienced angler this would have been a dead pike. I've never killed one yet but this was the messiest situation I've been in. I sometimes think that trebles should be banned or I should stop using them.

On Friday I go to The River Severn for a week. We've got a cottage on the bank of the river which is literally next door to a fantastic pub, Heaven.

 

[Newman Noggs]

I sometimes think that trebles should be banned or I should stop using them.

What you describe is the reason I don't pike fish although I caught one on a pellet last week on the Severn which was obviously, easy to unhook. The question I'd ask you is, what is the alternative to using trebles and how effective is it ?