Bluemoon Angling Thread
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Newman Noggs
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Great shot. I'd have annoyed the Mrs by going out to watch "for 10 minutes"...
Didsbury Dave
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Midweek Severn update. After I posted on Monday I went downstream to a new area and fished the evening for 5 barbel. I was up at dawn yesterday and did the whole damn day in that barbel swim, in hot sunshine, losing a few fish then landing 4 barbel and a chub, best barbel was 9-13. I played with a worm for half a dozen perch, the first of which was lunged at by a pike. A big salmon was leaping repeatedly including once about four feet away. Was this the one that beat me up? My mate had a barbel, a chub and some big perch to 1-8.
This morning another dawn start and we went our lure fishing. I had four pike to 9lb and 3 perch, my mate also had four pike. Been back for a bacon butty and some work emails and now I’m back out barbel fishing and sunbathing, fishing right through to the match which we are watching with a curry and some beers.
This morning another dawn start and we went our lure fishing. I had four pike to 9lb and 3 perch, my mate also had four pike. Been back for a bacon butty and some work emails and now I’m back out barbel fishing and sunbathing, fishing right through to the match which we are watching with a curry and some beers.
Newman Noggs
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Perfect day (if we win) !
Mr.Banks
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New season of Whitehouse and Mortimer starting on the 9th :-)
antspider
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That looks lovely :)
Didsbury Dave
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Final Severn update. Had 2 barbel on Wednesday afternoon but I had to quit early due to sunburn, lack of liquid and desire for chippy tea and beer before the City match. Up early again on Thursday for just an hour’s lure fishing before a concerted last day blast at the Barbel. We had more pike fun: a big one was following and nudging his lure so I came down from the next swim, chucked my wobble bait out and hooked it first cast. As we pissed ourselves laughing it tailwalked and threw the hook.
That afternoon my mate went home so I settled down for a last barbel session and had six of them. So I ended one of my best ever fishing holidays with 22 barbel (lots of 8s and 9s but none over 10lb), 10+ pike to 13lb, lots of chub and perch and half a big eel. And possibly the only salmon I will ever hook in my life, lost, forever.
That afternoon my mate went home so I settled down for a last barbel session and had six of them. So I ended one of my best ever fishing holidays with 22 barbel (lots of 8s and 9s but none over 10lb), 10+ pike to 13lb, lots of chub and perch and half a big eel. And possibly the only salmon I will ever hook in my life, lost, forever.
As you know my strange penchant for fly fishing after the silver tourist requires me to wade a step down the pool after every cast.
Etiquette, dear boy! :)
I ain't right in the head me.
Anyways, I had a session on my mates pool yesterday. Caught loads of tench and roach.
Piss easy this fishing for fish that are actually there! ;)
Saddleworth2
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So, it’s been a while since I was out because of water temperatures etc it I decided to take a trip to Coldingham.
good day was had. Caught double figures but the funniest thing happened. Never seen anything like it.
when it gets hot, the owners switch on an aerator which cools and oxygenates the water. A byproduct of this is that fish are attracted to it so it’s always worth having a bash for an hour watching the dafties chase stripped flies across the surface.
so third cast line went solid and this decent blue trout shot out of the water about 20 yards away like a bloody missile. Now leaping trout are not that rare but I have never seen one jump as high as this. Genuinely it must have been 6,7 feet in the air.….. And it continued to jump three or four more times until it calmed down a bit and I thought it was ready to come to the net.
Wrong. It was quite close in now and I could see it about four feet down still moving ‘with intent’. As I put the net in the water ready to draw it in I saw the tail blur in movement and it came out of the water about six feet from the boat six feet in the air and landed square in the middle of the boat. If I had been fishing with a partner it would have knocked his head off.
first time I have used a landing net inside the boat. Scooped it up and put it back in the water to recover. It did and as I let it go, it’s tail went again and kicked up enough water which I got full in the face.
Must have been all the bubbles from the aerator….
good day was had. Caught double figures but the funniest thing happened. Never seen anything like it.
when it gets hot, the owners switch on an aerator which cools and oxygenates the water. A byproduct of this is that fish are attracted to it so it’s always worth having a bash for an hour watching the dafties chase stripped flies across the surface.
so third cast line went solid and this decent blue trout shot out of the water about 20 yards away like a bloody missile. Now leaping trout are not that rare but I have never seen one jump as high as this. Genuinely it must have been 6,7 feet in the air.….. And it continued to jump three or four more times until it calmed down a bit and I thought it was ready to come to the net.
Wrong. It was quite close in now and I could see it about four feet down still moving ‘with intent’. As I put the net in the water ready to draw it in I saw the tail blur in movement and it came out of the water about six feet from the boat six feet in the air and landed square in the middle of the boat. If I had been fishing with a partner it would have knocked his head off.
first time I have used a landing net inside the boat. Scooped it up and put it back in the water to recover. It did and as I let it go, it’s tail went again and kicked up enough water which I got full in the face.
Must have been all the bubbles from the aerator….