Bluemoon Angling Thread

its grim up north said:
Hello buddy, question for you. Do you have a BAA card and do you or have you ever fished the Lower Avon between the M5 road bridge and Tewkesbury.
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Yes, I have a BAA card but haven't fished any of their waters yet. I joined because they have a stretch of the Avon between two stretches belonging to Leamington Anglers at Wasperton near Warwick. I'll get round to it one of these days.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Yes, I have a BAA card but haven't fished any of their waters yet. I joined because they have a stretch of the Avon between two stretches belonging to Leamington Anglers at Wasperton near Warwick. I'll get round to it one of these days.
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Right, your a long way off. My daughter lives in Bristol, so I'm up and down the M5 regularly. I'm going down Friday and diverting off to have a few hours on the Bredon length. Its directly upstream from the M5 and looks very much like the Weaver.
 
Right then. 3 trips to the nene and an unimaginable amount of effort and money spent on prebaiting and no result. So Friday morning I am off to my annual trip to a rutland lodge with my own private lake (only one swim on the whole lake, at the access to my lodge). 7 nights with not having to pack up after fishing. Bliss. It may be mainly carp, but some huge perch as well and indeed could be classed as almost a "small commercial" I guess, but just so looking forward to the relaxation and no work for a week.
 
Off to the Teme this afternoon after grayling.

Off to the Wye tomorrow... Do I fish for non existent salmon, or catch loads of barbel and chub?
 
Newman Noggs said:
There were quite a few salmon crashing about when we were down there last week.
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I am guessing they are stale resident fish waiting for water to travel mate.
In my experience you can show them every fly in the box and until they are running again they won't look at anything.
At least you have seen some down there though... talking to our gillie last night and he hasn't seen one for 6 weeks!
 
snorky said:
I am guessing they are stale resident fish waiting for water to travel mate.
In my experience you can show them every fly in the box and until they are running again they won't look at anything.
At least you have seen some down there though... talking to our gillie last night and he hasn't seen one for 6 weeks!
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Exactly what my salmon-fishing mate said about them. Just between us, he did run a fly over them without success. But we did see quite a few clearly. If you heard a splash, you could look at the spot where they came up and often they'd leap again seconds later in the same place giving you a clear view.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Exactly what my salmon-fishing mate said about them. Just between us, he did run a fly over them without success. But we did see quite a few clearly. If you heard a splash, you could look at the spot where they came up and often they'd leap again seconds later in the same place giving you a clear view.
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Yep mate, sounds typical resident behaviour, that repeating sideways sploshing is a giveaway.
If they were top and tailing when entering a pool it would be a different kettle of frogs!

Tbh I don't get s lot of fun out of catching the barbel out of our beat... only us salmon boys can fish for them till October 17th , and its a bit of a doddle!
 
snorky said:
Yep mate, sounds typical resident behaviour, that repeating sideways sploshing is a giveaway.
If they were top and tailing when entering a pool it would be a different kettle of frogs!

Tbh I don't get s lot of fun out of catching the barbel out of our beat... only us salmon boys can fish for them till October 17th , and its a bit of a doddle!
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Bit of a doddle? Piece of piss mate. I had 12 in an hour in the baking sun from your beat!
 
This is Noggsy's safe space. Safe from anything resembling a fish. The swim I made the other day.
You'd be embarrassed for me if you could see my antics today not least of which is forgetting my hooks. So I'm reduced to using a rusty size 10, scratched from the bottom of my box, with maggot. Now it's raining and guess what I didn't bring.....20220630_135541.jpg
 
Well, Coldingham was on fire today. The loch is so clear now you would think it would make dry fly difficult. Well yes and no. It wasn’t easy, the trick was in the presentation. if you could see any trace of your leader so could the trout and all you would get was a half hearted swirl at the fly. So a lot of time spent on degreasing leaders and making sure there was no shine or reflection. Putting a tiny buzzer between the dries helped sink the leader so that there were no tell tail silouette In the water film.

get it right though and the sport was frantic. Landed 10, lost 6 to smash takes and double hook ups. Most fish took a daddy but a very small black f fly also worked.

brilliant day.
 
Just had a belting day on our club water with my youngest lad. Last 3 or 4 times fishing for carp on separate pegs we've both blanked and not had chance for a chat, so today I said sod it, got half a pint of maggots . Both on a double peg together, little float rods out. Pulled out 26 fish each, mostly perch. I had a few roach and a lovely small carp. Got some carribean food from across the road for tea and cracked on until about 9:00 pm. Top day bonding with my son who has just finished his GCSE'S. I'm knackered and happy.
 
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Couple of baby moose showed up today
 
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