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The Fishing Thread

Swindon On Tour said:
Always remember fishing my favourite stretch on the Thames for Barbel.
Back of a weir and a sign before entering the backwater, “no boats.” It is a private stretch of water.
Caught a couple and optimistic to catch a few more.

…..next minute this complete twat starts paddling up in a canoe. It’s not a wide stretch and straight over the baited area.
I’m generally a placid bloke but I gave him some verbals.
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Been fishing 50 years, starting on Seaham's piers and the chems/blast beaches. I've never cast into rivers apart from estuary flattie bashing. However, I nearly lost my zziplex bullet off Brixham breakwater to one of them git big rowing boats with about a dozen twats on.
 

Red said:
Each to their on mate.

There's more to life than being in the company of other human beings.

As far as Sea Angling goes (as that's all I do), they take time to learn about how different tides effect different marks. Does that mark fish better on the flood or the ebb, over high or low water. And then on what size tide. And then there's bait. You can have the most expensive gear in the world, but if your bait is crap, or it's the wrong bait, you'll not catch half as much.

That's just a small sample of knowledge, you could literally write a book. Personally, I learnt bucket loads fishing the opens in Northumberland and SW Scotland in my late teens/early 20's, watching good anglers.
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I’m of the opinion that some people can turn fish away and some can attract them like the lynx effect.
I’ve fished alongside too anglers who are pulling out fish and everyone around them are blanking.
I fished devils point in Plymouth a good few years ago and 2 lads were walloping the pollack on the float at high tide with nobody else getting a sniff, same baits, same bit of water. Very strange. I had a similar thing at Rathouse corner many years ago with a bloke turning up and taking 1/2 a dozen fish in the rocks around towards the yacht basin. Nobody else got so much as a bite. Id never seen a fish caught in those rocks and have never since.
Amnorrageordie said:
Been fishing 50 years, starting on Seaham's piers and the chems/blast beaches. I've never cast into rivers apart from estuary flattie bashing. However, I nearly lost my zziplex bullet off Brixham breakwater to one of them git big rowing boats with about a dozen twats on.
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Gig.
They have gigs up in Sunderland too
 
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cornish mackem said:
I’m of the opinion that some people can turn fish away and some can attract them like the lynx effect.
I’ve fished alongside too anglers who are pulling out fish and everyone around them are blanking.
I fished devils point in Plymouth a good few years ago and 2 lads were walloping the pollack on the float at high tide with nobody else getting a sniff, same baits, same bit of water. Very strange. I had a similar thing at Rathouse corner many years ago with a bloke turning up and taking 1/2 a dozen fish in the rocks around towards the yacht basin. Nobody else got so much as a bite. Id never seen a fish caught in those rocks and have never since.

Gig.
They have gigs up in Sunderland too
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A gig big rowing boat then? :D
 
Amnorrageordie said:
Best kept secret at etive. I used to drive my older x trail along the beach from the left of here at low tide. Non stop spurs.
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tonyfromalnwick said:
Ardchattan Priory.
Great fishing mark...easy access, straight into deep water. And the scenery is stunning.
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Flat coat retriever?
beverly macca said:
5 hours iirc for us. Mind stunning drive.
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We went on a week away with Sunderland SA in the mid /late 80s. We stayed in Helensburgh and fished a few marks up on the lochs and even as a teenager I was blown away by the scenery. Listening to the rut on the opposite side to where we were fishing on loch long stays with me to this day. It was something I’d never heard in Roker with the only rutting I’d heard was out the back of dirty Dixon’s
 
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Flat coat retriever?

We went on a week away with Sunderland SA in the mid /late 80s. We stayed in Helensburgh and fished a few marks up on the lochs and even as a teenager I was blown away by the scenery. Listening to the rut on the opposite side to where we were fishing on loch long stays with me to this day. It was something I’d never heard in Roker with the only rutting I’d heard was out the back of dirty Dixon’s
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Black lab, but not sure as he was rescued by the missus's ex off an alcoholic druggie outside a pub. Was a lovely dog. He'd run to the shoreline to watch for caught fish coming in, then plodge to watch them swim off.d79d6d37-0b72-464c-b2ec-52b819213536-1_all_5555.jpg
 

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