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[drof46]

Very Informative report

Very Informative report

An excellent report, I agree.

Although it has little relevance to the original thread which was 'The futility of shore fishing around OUR coastline in the Summer.

I'm already 'sold' on the necessity of 'travelling' well outside our area to make sea fishing worthwhile or, indeed targeting freshwater species

Tight lines,

Drof

 

[pollacks]

Love my sea fishing but a trout on fly line is somethimg else.mackeral on light gear come close. At least with trout you know someting is there especially if you see them in the water.

 

[mick dunn]

One day i was up the Derwent struggling to catch trout when a couple of kindly lads offered some advice. Using a floating line and without any wading one of the lads cast the line out. It had one black floating buzzer on a long leader. The lad whose name i forget was telling me to let the slight breeze work the buzzer over the water. I was watching the bzzer when wham like an exocet out of the water up came a big Rainbow and took the buzzer. It jleapt right out of the water and fought like hell before being brought in. I have never seen anything like this before and it was fantastic. I have yet to have a take like this but will be working on it this season.

 

[drof46]

One day i was up the Derwent struggling to catch trout when a couple of kindly lads offered some advice. Using a floating line and without any wading one of the lads cast the line out. It had one black floating buzzer on a long leader. The lad whose name i forget was telling me to let the slight breeze work the buzzer over the water. I was watching the bzzer when wham like an exocet out of the water up came a big Rainbow and took the buzzer. It jleapt right out of the water and fought like hell before being brought in. I have never seen anything like this before and it was fantastic. I have yet to have a take like this but will be working on it this season.

Aye, I know exactly what you mean, Mick, you rarely get the 'visual' thing when sea fishing.

It's also worthwhile watching the Martins swooping and dipping over the surface, it's a sure sign that buzzers are hatching. Just hoy a team of various coloured buzzer patterns out and wait for 'the tug'.

Great fun.

Drof

 

[drof46]

An excellent report, I agree.

Although it has little relevance to the original thread which was 'The futility of shore fishing around OUR coastline in the Summer.

I'm already 'sold' on the necessity of 'travelling' well outside our area to make sea fishing worthwhile or, indeed targeting freshwater species

Tight lines,

Drof

Fishing in Norway is very good as well!

Cheeors,

Drof

 

[harry barker]

An excellent report, I agree.

Although it has little relevance to the original thread which was 'The futility of shore fishing around OUR coastline in the Summer.

I'm already 'sold' on the necessity of 'travelling' well outside our area to make sea fishing worthwhile or, indeed targeting freshwater species

Tight lines,

Drof

My post wasn't referring to your original thread,it was replying to MICKCAVE83
hence my attached QUOTE.MICKCAVE.
It seems to me you enjoy controversy on these forums as you can clearly see from some of the replies you have received on this thread.
But I will agree Norway is also worth a travel to as well as is other parts of the world.

 

[paulthespark]

it really has come to something when sea anglers have to fish ponds during the summer months because of the lack of fish in the north sea, where did it all go wrong ,I'll tell you when, when ted heath handed over all our fishing rights to the Europeans and any one else who wants to dredge up as much sea life as they can in their nets, do you honestly believe the Spanish or Russian trawlers give a toss about [quotas] that they should abide to whilst fishing in our waters, i don't think so, only way to change things is to put a 200 mile limit around our coast and set up marine reserves where even our trawlers can't fish, i know it's radical but sometimes radical problems need radical solutions.

 

[drof46]

Good point Paul, but in comparative terms our 'local' summer fishing has always been pants, it's just that the excessive commercial activity around U.K. waters has exacerbated the problem.

AND it's not all 'foreign boats' doing the damage (although they play a major part), OUR grasping, greedy 'Trawlermen' have pillaged our waters for decades to such a point that it could be irreparable a la Novo Scotia and Newfoundland.

At least a couple of the Northern Irish 'stars' of the T.V. series 'Trawlermen'
are serving time and faced with a colossal fine for crimes related to the landing of 'Black Fish' and some of our commercial brethren from within our area have been successfully prosecuted for exceeding quotas (and understaffed as the inspection authorities are these can only be the tip of the iceberg)

It stinks.

Cheers,

Drof

 

[treeboa]

it really has come to something when sea anglers have to fish ponds

is it really a case of have too ?? i actually enjoy and look forward to it, especially once march arrives. always have done, the fact i rarely eat any fish i catch helps, i have read here people demoaning pollack and wrasse, try taking them on light gear, a heavy float rod and a slider float-suddenly a whole new world opens up, even the small bass taken on a very light beachcaster.heavy spinning rod with a small amount of lead is totally different, fishing into not so clean areas -down the side of the rock skeers places were the bass hunt and ambush, they are there if you look-if not you would not read about people catching them, sometimes by mistake .
the much vaunted bass marks around the country are not a fish a chuck, there are some areas that are but they in the main require you to have a boat, one thing i learnt over years fishing for the silver bars was they are quite often under your feet or in shallow water, especially off the back of sand banks, i have often stood waist deep in water and fished side on so i could get behind some rocks
if fishing for the pot is your reason to fish then yes i can understand the thread, as i have said i dont fish for the pot

 

[Codcodcod!]

Fishings about Enjoyment. If u enjoy a type of fishing then u'll do it no matter what anybody else says.