Bluemoon Angling Thread

i remember Ian Heaps walking through "Ringway" arrivals in his waders, been fishing for England iirc, you could see his path by the number of passengers looking round for the source of the smell. Must have been worse on the plane, probably needed defumigating. The Ashurst's maggot farm took some beating....
 
bellbuzzer said:
i remember Ian Heaps walking through "Ringway" arrivals in his waders, been fishing for England iirc, you could see his path by the number of passengers looking round for the source of the smell. Must have been worse on the plane, probably needed defumigating. The Ashurst's maggot farm took some beating....
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maggots have a unique parfum.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Maggot boxes forgotten from last summer are pretty tasty too especially if you forgot to empty them.
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I can remember as a young un I had a maggot bag which I would hang on the back of my bedroom door. Unfortunately someone turned the door handle and the bag fell on the floor where the squirmy little bastards made good their escape. Had a bluebottle problem for bloody weeks after.

I had a pal who's party trick was to store maggots in his gob :-0

Great bait though. I used to perch in a tree and drip feed maggots to shoals of Grayling, Dace and Chub and the occasional Barbel until the water was boiling with feeding fish and then free line a size 18 with a couple of maggots and watch them studiously ignore it. Bloody great fun.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I can remember as a young un I had a maggot bag which I would hang on the back of my bedroom door. Unfortunately someone turned the door handle and the bag fell on the floor where the squirmy little bastards made good their escape. Had a bluebottle problem for bloody weeks after.

I had a pal who's party trick was to store maggots in his gob :-0

Great bait though. I used to perch in a tree and drip feed maggots to shoals of Grayling, Dace and Chub and the occasional Barbel until the water was boiling with feeding fish and then free line a size 18 with a couple of maggots and watch them studiously ignore it. Bloody great fun.
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I like it when the salmon flies come out and you shake the long grass on the bank. They all fall out and the feeding frenzy begins
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I can remember as a young un I had a maggot bag which I would hang on the back of my bedroom door. Unfortunately someone turned the door handle and the bag fell on the floor where the squirmy little bastards made good their escape. Had a bluebottle problem for bloody weeks after.

I had a pal who's party trick was to store maggots in his gob :-0

Great bait though. I used to perch in a tree and drip feed maggots to shoals of Grayling, Dace and Chub and the occasional Barbel until the water was boiling with feeding fish and then free line a size 18 with a couple of maggots and watch them studiously ignore it. Bloody great fun.
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Haha. I’ve had loads of maggot spillages through the years. Plenty in the car. Even this winter I dumped a box of casters in the garden. A few weeks later the house started to fill with flies. Our back garden is south facing and has white walls. When I looked outside the wall was full of flies. It took me ages to work out was going on: our wall was catching the winter sun and warming so the hatched flies were being attracted to that. As they wandered around they were finding little cracks under windows etc to crawl through to the warm house.

I once took a girl from the office on a business meeting and she had to keep the window open to let the flies escape as we drove too. Another time the entire cellar floor was full of dead ones. Done it loads of times.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Haha. I’ve had loads of maggot spillages through the years. Plenty in the car. Even this winter I dumped a box of casters in the garden. A few weeks later the house started to fill with flies. Our back garden is south facing and has white walls. When I looked outside the wall was full of flies. It took me ages to work out was going on: our wall was catching the winter sun and warming so the hatched flies were being attracted to that. As they wandered around they were finding little cracks under windows etc to crawl through to the warm house.

I once took a girl from the office on a business meeting and she had to keep the window open to let the flies escape as we drove too. Another time the entire cellar floor was full of dead ones. Done it loads of times.
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Brilliant.
one of my earliest fishing memories was buying a bait box + maggots in a tackle shop in Richmond in Yorkshire. I must have been about 12. Down to the Swale, tackled up and opened the box to have my first confrontation with maggots. The box had been overfilled and the contents literally pulsing up and down. I very nearly brought my lunch up. Took me the first season to come to terms with them.
 
By the way, quick advert to my fishing pals on here: my film is almost done. It’s called “Lockdown: an urban angling adventure” and I’ve edited most of it apart from the voiceover. It’s taken absolutely ages just to find and download the relevant footage from the hours and hours Ive shot and I’ve had to make it in two parts. I’ve got two 2lb perch for the second part but am still plugging away to try to get a three for the ultimate “Money shot”.
 
idahoblues said:
I like it when the salmon flies come out and you shake the long grass on the bank. They all fall out and the feeding frenzy begins
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I think what drew me to fishing as a child was seeing trout feeding from a bridge overlooking the river. Just being able to see into that underwater world and seeing the beauty of the fishes movement….

just talking about feeding frenzies, I was on the Lake of Menteith for the first time this season on Saturday, flat calm and an enormous hatch of tiny black buzzers. The place erupted. Feeding fish all round the boat, fins, tails, noses……Could we replicate what they were feeding on and catch them? Could we fuck. So frustrating. I tried everything and threw my smallest blackest creations at them and other than a couple of half hearted inspections, nothing.
that’s why it’s called fishing and not catching.

I finished the day with three all caught on boobies. Including this one of around 5lb
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bellbuzzer said:
i remember Ian Heaps walking through "Ringway" arrivals in his waders, been fishing for England iirc, you could see his path by the number of passengers looking round for the source of the smell. Must have been worse on the plane, probably needed defumigating. The Ashurst's maggot farm took some beating....
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Bloody hell, that's a coincidence, I was thinking about Ian Heaps just today. I was getting tweaks and knocks on the tip which I was missing which I was pretty certain were skimmers. Then I remembered his advice on a video I had years ago to "sit on your hands" until the tip goes round properly when you are bream fishing. Worked a treat as it happens.
 
Incidentally, after the collapse of my trip to Colombia due to the pandemic, we've now booked to go to the island of Alphonse in the Seychelles next February.

Apart from learning how to cast a fly properly I now have to learn how to "double haul" apparently.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Bloody hell, that's a coincidence, I was thinking about Ian Heaps just today. I was getting tweaks and knocks on the tip which I was missing which I was pretty certain were skimmers. Then I remembered his advice on a video I had years ago to "sit on your hands" until the tip goes round properly when you are bream fishing. Worked a treat as it happens.
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I remember that advice too, strangely. It’s because a shoal of bream will give you line bites all the time. Took me years of frustration to get my head around that and I’m pretty sure it was Ian Heaps’ advice which did it.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Incidentally, after the collapse of my trip to Colombia due to the pandemic, we've now booked to go to the island of Alphonse in the Seychelles next February.

Apart from learning how to cast a fly properly I now have to learn how to "double haul" apparently.
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Will you be able to fly fish for bonefish? Now that looks fun.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Will you be able to fly fish for bonefish? Now that looks fun.
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That's what we'll be doing. My mate has been 3 times and reckons the bone fish are relatively essy to catch. The real challenge is catching Giant Trevally. I would be very excited but, in view of what happened to our Columbia trip, I'm trying not to get my hopes up.
 
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