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Hello All
Here in Wales we are allowed to go fishing provided we fish locally, (deemed as 5 miles or less or the closest suitable venue). I went out last Saturday, saw 1 sea trout jump, but caught none. Anybody else been able to get out?
Cheers
Aled
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Not as yet, places are open, pre-booking only. I am at the mo happy to wait, let the trout get fatter ;)
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Have made it out down the river in late evening for trout. Very challenging in low water and warm temperatures, but have managed two or three nice brownies up to about a pound on small dry flies.
Had an amazing experience on Monday evening when I was fishing about 9pm. Saw a duck with a couple of largeish ducklings further up the pool, then they came charging down towards and past me, clearly spooked by something....being chased by two otters which also noised up a salmon of about 9-10lb which came out the water about 5 yards in front of me. The otters didn't see me until they were almost on me, and one did a swift about turn a couple of yards away. Never seen anything like it. Surprised also to see a salmon as I didn't think we'd had enough water for it to get up. There was a very small spate about 3 weeks ago, and it must have made it up on that.
Funnily enough the trout fishing went right off after that lot!
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It has been a strange year, for obvious reasons. In February i made the decision not to renew my carp syndicate due to a number of reasons and decided to go back to match fishing for the year - in hindsight i am glad, the best time on my syndicate is late march to early june, so would have missed that anyway.
However the matches didn't start well once we were allowed to fish them - had a poor result in the first one, dead last in the next two, but it was nice just to get out fishing again. Made up for it this weekend though with a match on Saturday and Sunday, coming 2nd and 1st respectively. Had 38lb 6oz of skimmers and carp on the Sat, and 55lb 6oz of the same on the Sunday from one venue i had never seen before, and the other it has been a few years since i fished there.
I also had a nice day on the river pleasure fishing on the 16th, managing to catch around 35 - 40lb of bream, roach and perch, plus a big eel around 2lb
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Been out a few times, caught no sea trout but I've seen a few. Best pal has had 2, both returned. Hope to take my children this weekend.
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Aled
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Plenty of water up here now! Too much maybe.....
It's been an encouraging start for some of the west coast rivers. One that I fish (strictly speaking a tributary of a south coast one) has had about a dozen salmon in the last week, and my other one, a bit nearer, had 4 fish last week to only 2 rods fishing. Some nice double figure fish too. I've been restricted by car issues, but that will be resolved tomorrow, so will be back out again! It's blooming freezing today for July though, more like October or November....
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Quite a few salmon turning up here in Wales as well, although I haven't had one...yet! Plan to make some time to go out this week.
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Aled
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So, due to the ongoing issues with invisible germs I have kept the rods packed up. :(
However... I am planning a trip to theee..... Darkside :blush:
Yep, where we keep our caravan locked up and have it put on the pitch onsite they have two carp ponds, my mate phoned (also has a van on site) to say he has bought a year ticket for when the woman either drink to much or go shopping etc, so I bought one too. Dug all my old specimen eel gear out, cleaned up, bought some new line and next week as we are at the van for a good few days will give the carp bashing a go.
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Lovely stuff Aidy. Worzel caught a crucian carp on a cockle this week. You have to laugh :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Lovely stuff Aidy. Worzel caught a crucian carp on a cockle this week. You have to laugh :lol: :lol: :lol:
A cockle??? Weird fish them carp!
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Yep, my idea. We had some left over in the fridge so I suggested he try them. My son got some perch on a cockle too. :wacko:
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Yep, my idea. We had some left over in the fridge so I suggested he try them. My son got some perch on a cockle too. :wacko:
Crucians are one of my childhood favourites , expect they eat more shellfish (pond snails and mussels) than we know !
My best bag of canal fish (Bream Carp,Tench and Roach) i caught on an out of date catering tin of baked beans with the sauce washed off ! :)
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So, due to the ongoing issues with invisible germs I have kept the rods packed up. :(
However... I am planning a trip to theee..... Darkside :blush:
Have a lovely time :D
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So, due to the ongoing issues with invisible germs I have kept the rods packed up. :(
However... I am planning a trip to theee..... Darkside :blush:
Have a lovely time :D
:lol: :lol: Should of said the other Dark Side (Carp fishing not counties)
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The monsoon season up here may be challenging for gardening, but it's been a great few weeks for salmon fishing....
I've had 4 and lost a couple. All fresh fish in great nick between 5lb and 8lb. Some rivers getting their best July run for a long time up here. I kept the one with the wading stick beside it for smoking. Rest went back. Rivers are now too big after 2 inches of rain yesterday and flooding in places. Humid and drizzly today, good for nothing except potato blight I fear.....
Tight lines wherever you are.
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Lovely fish, Mark!
What a privilege to fish a salmon river.
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Lovely fish, Mark!
What a privilege to fish a salmon river.
Thanks. It's quite a 'democratic' sport up here on most rivers and beats. I have three rivers I fish fairly regularly. One is five minutes walk from my house on local club water, which costs all of £60 a season. It's a bit of a jungle on the banks at times, and can get quite busy in the more accessible bits, but can always find a quieter bit.
I pay a bit more for the second one, which is about 45 miles away, but still pretty good value and only 14 of us in the syndicate with about 7 miles of water in the glorious Galloway hills. We can take a guest and sell day tickets for one beat too.
My 'Rolls Royce' fishing is in a syndicate where we co own the fishing on a couple of miles of the River Doon about twenty miles away from me. We have a full time keeper there for the season, so it's not as cheap, but very well maintained and the fishing can be superb I've had 3 salmon over 20lb on it in recent years. Overall, it costs me about the same as a season ticket at a big football club, or membership of a good golf club.
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Worzel’s mother’s family come from south west Scotland. We had quite a few holidays (often moist) up there.
He was hooked on fishing as a wee boy when his aunty bought him a wee rod an took him to the local river where he caught a mackerel :lol: :lol: :lol: No prizes for guessing how it got on his hook. All the fishermen on the bank admired his fish and told him what a clever wee man he was.
More than the fish was hooked that day.
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Back from the caravan and first visit to the carp pits.
Three visits of around 2-3 hours and thirty three carp landed, it was at times like fishing for mackeral!
One good thing tho, they battled and are in top condition.
Biggest was just short of 10lbs and nearly all caught on floating bread.
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Back from the caravan and first visit to the carp pits.
Three visits of around 2-3 hours and thirty three carp landed, it was at times like fishing for mackeral!
One good thing tho, they battled and are in top condition.
Biggest was just short of 10lbs and nearly all caught on floating bread.
Probably the most fun way to catch carp ! :)
Not a fan of boilies and bolt rigs .
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Boilies etc banned. May jave sesh this coming weekend as our mates are at their van so will nip and see and have a couple of hours fishing.
Just tied some flies, floating bread flie and floating sweetcorn flies ;)
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Well done on those of you who have caught. I've struggled this year. Managed 1 sea trout of 3lb, and several brown up to 1.5lb (kept one it had lovely red flesh).
Been trying for salmon, haven't even seen one yet.
Here are my children with my niece and nephew enjoying a bit of fishing over the summer.
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Aled
apologies uploaded the picture twice!
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Spot the angler !
Eyes for the fish only ! :)
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Not a particularly good season this year, 2 sea trout only, and no salmon. Tried quite hard with the double hander for a salmon but no luck! Lost a bit of my usual passion this year due to C19. Hope i get a bit more motivation next season.
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Aled