Bluemoon Angling Thread

I am off to fish a beat on the Wye tomorrow that once recorded two salmon caught in a day.. one of 42lb and the other of 51lb!

Unfortunately the year was 1914.

Guess last seasons total for the beat?
 
snorky said:
I am off to fish a beat on the Wye tomorrow that once recorded two salmon caught in a day.. one of 42lb and the other of 51lb!

Unfortunately the year was 1914.

Guess last seasons total for the beat?
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So a bloke that can't swim is going to spend the day in a river in chest waders, fishing for salmon that are not there? Good luck snorks.
 
idahoblues said:
I just signed my crew up to build a few more small cabins on a small Island between Kodiak and Afognak, heading up middle of May. I helped build the main lodge fifteen odd years ago, it’s just a fishing lodge at the moment but they’re going to expand into a Hunting Lodge and be open more of the year
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if you're not careful, you will end up with a t.v. series, every other bugger that works in Alaska has....Bush pilots, 'airy-arsed big-riggers, dog-mushers, train-crew, loggers, entire dynasties of scandinavian immigrants, sustenance hunter-gatherers, saquatch seekers, guides, even border-guards and drug enforcement wonks. There must be something about the place, no doubt, but
a night that lasts six months, and blood-thirsty mosquitos, keeps it off my "must go back list". The Innuits dont need factor 50, Everyone else does. If catching a Chinook salmon, or "baggin" a grizzly/caribou/lynx/wolverine is what drives people to visit, there is no better place imo. Just not for this city "boy". Keep us posted.
 
Just happened to drive across the river yesterday ( I was working) and noticed this fella doing a bit of fishing

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Newman Noggs said:
Daft question I suspect, but did you get anything ?
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Not a touch, but it's a lovely stretch.
The ghillie said they had over a dozen double figure barbel last season for the coarse anglers amongst us.

I saw a 14lb salmon caught today on my usual beat, and I thought I was in for a second...
Turned out to be a 5lb bloody chub!
 
snorky said:
Not a touch, but it's a lovely stretch.
The ghillie said they had over a dozen double figure barbel last season for the coarse anglers amongst us.

I saw a 14lb salmon caught today on my usual beat, and I thought I was in for a second...
Turned out to be a 5lb bloody chub!
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Nice chub !!! At least the salmon is an encouraging sign.
 
snorky said:
Not a touch, but it's a lovely stretch.
The ghillie said they had over a dozen double figure barbel last season for the coarse anglers amongst us.

I saw a 14lb salmon caught today on my usual beat, and I thought I was in for a second...
Turned out to be a 5lb bloody chub!
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Close season for chub you wrong un .
 
Grabbed a couple of hours this evening with the lobworms. Fished a new little spot I’ve found where the river flows into the canal. It flows so I fish a combination of the lift float and old fashioned stret pegging, so the bait just holds bottom and a fish picks up the bottom shot when it sucks in the worm.

bumped a good fish early on then missed a couple of sail away bites then it went quiet. I moved right out into the current and bagged a lovely fat perch of 2lb 3oz.548A09AA-66B1-4A58-98DF-D2CE1683D793.jpeg
 
There's trouble brewing in the Noggs household. I've been out a lot lately, nothing exceptional just easy local waters fishing for roach and skimmers, basically fishing for bites.

Anyway, my girlfriend who, like most women, has been blessed with an oversensitive nose has been able to tell when I've been catching bream and has started to complain that I still smell of bream even after I've showered and made myself generally fragrant. So today, I decided to teach her a lesson and I liberally dosed my groundbait with halibut oil. Let's see her complain about the bream today !
 
Newman Noggs said:
There's trouble brewing in the Noggs household. I've been out a lot lately, nothing exceptional just easy local waters fishing for roach and skimmers, basically fishing for bites.

Anyway, my girlfriend who, like most women, has been blessed with an oversensitive nose has been able to tell when I've been catching bream and has started to complain that I still smell of bream even after I've showered and made myself generally fragrant. So today, I decided to teach her a lesson and I liberally dosed my groundbait with halibut oil. Let's see her complain about the bream today !
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30 years ago we used to go to Ireland to fish for bream. As the week went on, especially when it was hot, the stench in the car from bream slime on the keep nets was eye watering.

My Mrs also complains of the smell of halibut pellets when I get back from barbel fishing. All my fleeces are ingrained in it.

Angling is a smorgasbord of aromas.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
30 years ago we used to go to Ireland to fish for bream. As the week went on, especially when it was hot, the stench in the car from bream slime on the keep nets was eye watering.

My Mrs also complains of the smell of halibut pellets when I get back from barbel fishing. All my fleeces are ingrained in it.

Angling is a smorgasbord of aromas.
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Fly fishing is whiff free. The only risk is if you kill fish and some of the fish juice spills into the boot of your car. That can get a little smelly.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Fly fishing is whiff free. The only risk is if you kill fish and some of the fish juice spills into the boot of your car. That can get a little smelly.
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Lure fishing is clean too, until you land a pike. They stink as bad as bream.

I forgot to tell you the name of my fly fishing tutor. Hang on a minute. I’ll ask my mate.
 
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