GRAYLING BASH...TIMSBURY MANOR...NOV 12th

[GlennB]

i just feel i should let everyone know that i don't think glenns ever actually caught a fish, but we all live in hope

 

you can hitch a lift with me if you like glenn

 

Delighted to accept the offer of a lift, Jeeps.

 

Think I should squash this ugly rumour about my catching abilities tho ...

 

 

Ha !

 

 

[jeepster]

i stand corrected!

[Leon Roskilly]

I fished Timsbury yesterday

 

 

Having fished there previously when it's been cold, wet and windy......... no really cold, really wet and really windy, when I was invited along for an October trip, it seemed that a day fishing Timsbury when the leaves are still on the trees, the river running clean and in warm gentle October sunshine was a dream come true.

 

 

As the day approached, the weather forecast just got worse, heavy rain and gales for much of the day.

 

 

When I was collected from Kent at 6am, it was a still morning and dry.

 

Two miles down the road and the first raindrops fell on the windscreen

 

And it just got worse, confirming my fear that we'd be unpacking our gear in an unrelenting downpour, trudging down to the river to set up brollys in a howling gale, threading line through the rod rings as the rain hammered on the brolley.

 

I was quite looking forward to it!

 

 

Well the weather did become really atrocious as we drove down the M3, fast moving cloud coming in at tree top height from the east, and sheets of rain and spray.

 

But as the sky began to lighten, I noticed that the clouds had started to come from the West, indicating that we were now in the sourthern sector of the depression, and then they started to break up. The front had passed.

 

By the time we got there, the sky was blue, albeit some nasty looking cloud still hanging around, and the wind had died away completely.

 

Well it did get a bit windy, now and again, but just gusting stuff that passed by, and we did get some light showers, but the nasty stuff was going passed just to the east of us and we were just clipping the edge.

 

We all caught grayling, rainbows and browies, oh! and minnows

 

The intersting bit was that the fish weren't in the deep part of the main river (thoughthe minnows were), but mostly in the shallows, just a foot deep. Very often you couldn't see fish, but they were there, as a dipping float followed by lots of splashing indicated

 

 

The fast carrier was also full of obliging trout and grayling.

 

Turned out nice after all

 

 

Tight Lines - leon

[Graeme B]

Gerry

 

I'd be up for it if there's a place available.

 

Cheers

 

Graeme

[argyll]

Thanks Graeme no problem.

[Andrew Burgess]

A all out fishing match between Jeepster and Glenn B? That would be intresting to see!

Edited October 22, 2005 by Andrew Burgess

[jeepster]

it'll end in tears!

[argyll]

If he's wearing that hat on the day, it could end in a fight

[Tony U]

Gerry

If there are still places Sue and I would like to come along, we were just thinking of booking up independently any way

Edited October 22, 2005 by Tony U

[argyll]

Thats Tony + 1 confirmed.

 

All Timsbury Manor beats are now booked out exclusively to Anglers Net for the 12th November, so we have the fishery entirely to ourselves. Still places available.