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The Fishing Thread

I used to love float fishing for mackerel off Roker Pier when I was a kid. You'd catch loads more mackey bashing with feathers but watching your float disappear and then striking into a fish was always more exciting for me.
Me Da caught a three and a half pounder off the end of the Rat House Pier in the 70's, I caught a three pounder the same time. They were the biggest mackerel I've ever seen.
 

These commercials have the kids spoilt today , lucky sods. Took my 11yr old grandkid to a private club lake am a member of on thursday , its stocked like a commercial.
Only fished for 3 1/2 hrs , after 11 x carp up to 7lb , an F1 and a few roach, he turned around and said " action is a bit slow , fish are not really having a go today grandad " :rolleyes:
You have had over 40lb son , I replied , back in the day when I travelled all over fishing matches on rivers , I'd be lucky to catch that much all season . :lol::lol:
 
SAFCTEES said:
It's expensive up there now. Or Is that just the general cost these days?
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£15 quid for 4 hrs.
That includes a quid for the tagged fish and a fish to take home...not bad imo.
Tuono said:
I used to love float fishing for mackerel off Roker Pier when I was a kid. You'd catch loads more mackey bashing with feathers but watching your float disappear and then striking into a fish was always more exciting for me.
Me Da caught a three and a half pounder off the end of the Rat House Pier in the 70's, I caught a three pounder the same time. They were the biggest mackerel I've ever seen.
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Big mackerel that mind.
 
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Not necessarilly fishing related but seems that the Tees has been decimated.

Everything in and around the area is dead. Theyve dredged the tees and and stirred up a load of old chemicals ( cyanide and pyranide supposedly ) and its killed everything in sight.

No crabs,fish, lobsters, seaweed, seals. Anything. Been totally wiped out and the local agencies are trying to say its because of algae bloom.

They think people are thick
 
ontap said:
These commercials have the kids spoilt today , lucky sods. Took my 11yr old grandkid to a private club lake am a member of on thursday , its stocked like a commercial.
Only fished for 3 1/2 hrs , after 11 x carp up to 7lb , an F1 and a few roach, he turned around and said " action is a bit slow , fish are not really having a go today grandad " :rolleyes:
You have had over 40lb son , I replied , back in the day when I travelled all over fishing matches on rivers , I'd be lucky to catch that much all season . :lol::lol:
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These match lakes do my head in. 2/300lb of fish to win matches!!! I know lads who piss themselves rather than leave the peg (for £80 in winnings).
I love matches but only on mixed ponds/lakes.
 
Big Jeff said:
Or fishing a river for bloody eels.

Spending a fortune on peelers and stupid hooks to catch some riggling snots that ruin your rigs.

No thanks.
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Thats the beauty of commercials , you can draw a crap peg and still catch 50lb.I love it. Back in the day I would be fishing team matches all ower , remember catching 5 tommy ruffe on joker in a winer league semi on the trafford canal in manchester and thinking wow that was a good day , duh.
 
ontap said:
Thats the beauty of commercials , you can draw a crap peg and still catch 50lb.I love it. Back in the day I would be fishing team matches all ower , remember catching 5 tommy ruffe on joker in a winer league semi on the trafford canal in manchester and thinking wow that was a good day , duh.
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Two reservoirs a few miles from me, Clattercote and Boddington.
Match Anglers as far as Sheffield come and “bag up” particularly Boddington with 300lb weights.
Detest the fishing, bait goes in and it’s like piranhas boiling on the surface. So much bait going in the Carp have piled on the lbs.

Just not my type of fishing. Will drive miles and fish the rivers on the feeder, stick or waggler.
The rivers are deserted now and the commercials packed out. A fisherman on each peg. That would be my worst nightmare.
Rolling back the years.
Just as the sun was setting, just see it in the corner, completely wiped out and the rod tip slams around. Like a train heading up the sand bar for the tree roots.
A Thames beauty.

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A shadow of its former glory.
Swim and stretch ruined substituted for electricity generation.
The flow reduced, the gravel spawning grounds lack oxygen and silted.
Wrong, completely wrong.
Best days of my life dreaming of the Town whilst fishing in paradise.

Look at that green. Just stunning.
@Jon Dough - You would get this.
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Always just a hobby for me, never good enough to fish big events.
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Big events attract people.
Just you, nature and fishing.
Escape everyone and everything ......... that’s the fishing I love.
 
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Swindon On Tour said:
Two reservoirs a few miles from me, Clattercote and Boddington.
Match Anglers as far as Sheffield come and “bag up” particularly Boddington with 300lb weights.
Detest the fishing, bait goes in and it’s like piranhas boiling on the surface. So much bait going in the Carp have piled on the lbs.

Just not my type of fishing. Will drive miles and fish the rivers on the feeder, stick or waggler.
The rivers are deserted now and the commercials packed out. A fisherman on each peg. That would be my worst nightmare.
Rolling back the years.
Just as the sun was setting, just see it in the corner, completely wiped out and the rod tip slams around. Like a train heading up the sand bar for the tree roots.
A Thames beauty.

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A shadow of its former glory.
Swim and stretch ruined substituted for electricity generation.
The flow reduced, the gravel spawning grounds lack oxygen and silted.
Wrong, completely wrong.
Best days of my life dreaming of the Town whilst fishing in paradise.

Look at that green. Just stunning.
@Jon Dough - You would get this.


Big events attract people.
Just you, nature and fishing.
Escape everyone and everything ......... that’s the fishing I love.
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I’ve had some nice carp from the Thames.

My mate had a record
 
Black_Cat said:
I remember fishing Fatfield Pond in the 80s and caught mostly nowt! Several years later I was introduced to fishing on the end of Roker Pier and I caught loads of Whitey's, Cod, etc.
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Viaduct steps when I was a bairn left hand side under the tree high tide crumb ground and maggot. Lovely trout or eel. After that was Motoway bridge. Flatties wall good memories
 
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