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  1. Hi Guys, I haven't been on here for many years, ( I was known back in the day as Norrie ) .....but was told about Daves passing by Elton....geez, the end of an era...what a lovely, lovely guy...I had the pleasure of fishing with him many times at Lochaline, where he and his wife Paula supplied many varying foods for our end of day feasts....one that sticks in my mind is Wild Boar sausages, and for dessert , strawberries dipped in melted chocolate ...awesome food. We also fished at Lymington along with John Becker, and Paul Compton...( Do they know of Daves passing?? ) I remember one trip out of Lymington, when a baby Thresher shark followed Daves bait right out the water and up the side of the boat...exciting that was... So, I suppose it comes to us all, but it was a real shock when I heard about Dave...he seemed to be invincible....just kept going on and on, in his Ford mobile home...I for one, will miss him, but will certainly have fond memories of the time I spent with him.. Att is a wee photo of Dave, Paul Compton and half of John Becker, Lymington 2006...at dinner in the Mayfair...Happy Times indeed..:) RIP Dave...
    5 points
  2. We have a poster on here who lives on another planet and is brain dead, he might be able to help.
    5 points
  3. Reviving another old thread - had this 1lb 1oz beauty yesterday on a canalised stretch of Kennet at Thatcham!
    4 points
  4. So sad to report that my beloved Dave, known to you as Vagabond has died. He left to fish another world on 3rd May. I'm thinking he is out there hunting that 2lb roach. He enjoyed the friendships he made through Anglers Net and was still reading your posts until very recently. We often remembered the Anglers Net gatherings at Wingham and the bass fishing trips out of Lymington and Weymouth. My best wishes to you all and thank you for giving Dave so much entertainment with your many posts.
    4 points
  5. I had several hours trotting for barbel yesterday, but not a sniff of a barbel! Maybe the sudden overnight frosts and with the river only just dropping down after being in flood had put the dampers on me catching a barbel. Anyhow, I did catch 5 decent chub of about 3 1/2 to 4lb , several roach of around a pound, small roach, dace and chublets....no barbel though! Had another couple of hours after chub today. There was a horrible strong downstream wind but the temps were up from 9 degrees yesterday to 14 degrees today. I did ok today and had quite a few chub, no monsters, but all of them were around 2 1/2 to 4lb and really fought hard. A couple of pictures from the day....
    4 points
  6. A Kiwi and an Australian go to a pastry shop. The Kiwi whisks three cookies into his pocket with lightning speed. The baker doesn’t notice. The Kiwi says to the Australian: "You see how clever we are? You’ll never beat that!" The Australian says to the Kiwi: "Watch this, an Australian is always cleverer than a Kiwi." He says to the baker, "Give me a cookie, I can show you a magic trick!" The baker gives him the cookie which the Australian promptly eats. Then he says to the baker: "Give me another cookie for my magic trick." The baker is getting suspicious but he gives it to him. He eats this one too. Then he says again: "Give me one more cookie..." The baker is getting angry now but gives him one anyway. The Australian eats this one too. Now the baker is really mad, and he yells: "And where is your famous magic trick?" The Australian says: "Look in the Kiwi’s pocket!"
    4 points
  7. A week ago today I had a ride down to the river seven for a day for a change of scenery, it was really nice, but unfortunately was a little to high for me to wade in my thigh waders. It was dropping off and was carrying colour but still looked good. I stood at the waters edge, or just in it and cast out into the middle or towards the opposite bank. I had roach, dace and some small chub, then dropped on a shoal of very nice chub and had 14 virtually one after the other. My spider senses told me that I was due a barbel amongst those chub, but my friend had to get off and I wasn't sure of my way back to the main roads and left with him. It turned out my phone took my the exact way he took me so I could have stayed after all....darn it! I had planned on another ride down today but the river was way above last weeks level and so I stayed local. I'm hoping to get back down there asap as I enjoyed the change. I had a couple of hours out trotting on a falling river today, the river was heavily coloured with what looked like sewage again!...so not a tanning from peat which often comes down from one of the tributaries that comes from peat, it was tiny brown particles which looked like mashed up bog roll and shyte! Anyhow, the river never fishes well when this stuff is coming down, I saw no sign of a barbel but managed a few decent chub, roach and dace. It was quite precarious wading out around 40yds on a rocky river with no visibiity so I only took one chub back to the bank for a photo when going back to re fill my bait pouch....
    4 points
  8. I am old but despise bookface and titter. They are like self checkouts in supermarkets imho
    3 points
  9. Last....hang on , it was sunday last week not saturday , the river was a couple of feet up and I had to don my chesties in order to get out to the area i'm usually able to reach in my thigh waders. I'd forotton how much of a hasstle it is when you want a slash and your wearing chest waders! The water felt cold and to be honest I wasn't expecting much, so I was surprised to hook something solid after only a few trotts through. I won't harp on about how I got a piece of wood shaving in my eye after cattying out the first pouch of maggots, or how I had to walk back to the car and try to swill my eye out with half a small bottle of water that had been in the car since june!, or the rain, the downstream wind,etc etc. Anyhow, within a couple of hours (that includes the time it took to walk back to the car etc, oh, and re-tie my hook after it hooked a large twig on one of my fist casts) I did ok and had six barbel and some xxl dace as a by product, several pic's from the session....
    3 points
  10. I've fished for the last two saturdays in a row, week before last I caught five small barbel and some chub... .
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  11. Had a few hours on Sunday evening on our clubs Estate Lake after Carp; but it was unusually quiet as there are usually a few anglers there on a Sunday evening but there were no other anglers there. Perhaps there hasn’t been many Carp coming out recently I thought; although my son had a mirror of just over 27lb only last week plus we both had Carp between 11lb and 17b last week so it can’t be all that bad. Anyway I set up my two rods in the swim below. Unfortunately I was right and it didn’t seem to be fishing well, however just before I started to pack up as the light started to fade after resigning myself to having a blank (which is fairly rare for this lake) one of my alarms finally sprang into life and a Carp in the very low teens was the result. I will be back on my favourite stream after Barbel next week and onwards so I will be giving the estate lake a miss for a while Keith
    3 points
  12. I had to abort my trotting for barbel today due to conditions of the river, but rather than miss out on a days fishing I visited another venue and targeted chub instead. These chub fight really hard and are difficult to stop from getting into the bankside vegetation. Because of this I used a hardy marksman supero 11ft avon rod and it was perfect for the job. Here's a couple of pic's from some of the swims I dropped into....
    3 points
  13. The Wife's let me have our 3rd (smallest) bedroom for a Mancave/Tackle room. She also bought me some storage shelving, a bit like "Dexion" but Aluminium or Tin Plate?? off eBay (or Amazon) one of them anyway. They hold plenty of weight & quite cheap. You get 2 units in the box & I highly recommend them. I'll add a photo a bit later.
    3 points
  14. I also have separate tackle bags and rod quivers containing rods and tackle items for the different types of fishing that I usually do the most; and each tackle bag has everything I think that I will need; which means having several duplicate items in each of the different bags. However my fishing den had so much other stuff that had accumulated over the years; especially equipment and tackle items and other stuff that I hadn’t used for a long time like my old match tackle and associated bits; and my sea fishing stuff; and my fly fishing stuff; and lots of rods that I hadn’t used for quite a few years but would still get to use them at some time or other; plus all of my older reels that I kept for old times sake etc. and this stuff seemed to be everywhere and getting in the way Now I’ve sorted it all out I have much more space and I now know where everything is and exactly what I have and where to find it. Keith
    3 points
  15. I managed to get a couple of hours trotting on saturday afternoon (just gone). The river was a little up on my previous session and had a colour of peat to it. I think the peat colour comes in from one of the tributaries a few miles upstream, thankfully it wasn't that horrible brown sawdust looking mess which is obviously particles of sewage! I only fished two swims that day, in the first swim if I fished more central in the river I would get a bite a cast, either a dace or roach, if I cast closer to the opposite bank I would normally have a much better chance of catching chub and barbel. Anyhow, I caught lots of roach and dace, but not a hint of a chub or barbel which were my target species so I moved downstream to another swim. I had to wade out about 45 yards across seriously slippy rocks and then cast about another 30yds to reach the sweet spot of this swim, which was close to the opposite bank and was quite fast in comparison to the swim i'd just fished previously. I had a decent chub first trott through, maybe about 3 pounds, then I had a number of chublets and a few dace. After about half an hour I struck into a more solid critter which turned out to be a small barble of about 3lb. Shortly after that I had another barbel which was about the same size as the forst one. I remembered I had no food left in the freezer for my Manueli piranha and decided to catch a few small roach and dace to take home for it. I really don't like doing it but the piranha has to eat. What was unusual was when I gutted the dace they were full of roe ! Possibly this warm spell has kicked them off but I do think they will have been spawning throughout the summer. If conditions are right I don't see why they wouldn't just keep breeding, as fish do in aquariums. I didn't bother taking any pic's, it was a long wade back to the bank on those awfully slippy rocks and for such small fish it wasn't worth the trouble.
    3 points
  16. Unfortunately due to medical problems I am restricted to nearby, places with lots of cover (colostomy arranged for Wednesday hopefully that spots the cause) so stuck with fishless river .But think about it I go through the motions () and blank more than most .Fishing to me is being outside ,catching fish is far down the list .
    3 points
  17. I spent yesterday trying to hunt down a stunted trout, I couldn't find one! I must have walked about 6 miles yesterday, through long grass and nettles, balsam, stick bob bushes etc etc and was propper nackered at the end of it. I visited two stretches catching fish on both, first tott on the first length and I had a roach that I reckon (without weighing it) would be a good 2lb, then another exactly the same! After that I had a few decent chub, chublets and dace, and a single small barbel. You wouldn't believe it, on the next length I had another of those roach, virtualy identicle, they must have followed me . I also had a good few decent chub, chublets and lots of dace with a few being quite large, as far as dace go. Not a hint of a barbel on the second stretch, strange as it used to be lifting with barbel on that stretch. Only a few years back I had 43 barbel, some large chub, chublets, dace, and trout on one swim, and yesterday not one barbel and only a couple of decent chub and some dace, quite depressing to be honest.
    3 points
  18. I fished on sunday, target species was chub, mission accomplished.... I had a dabble on the river today...30 degrees and blazing sun! Luckily for me I know of a spot that's shaded by a huge steep banking covered in large trees. Anyhow, I fished the swim from 1.30pm to 3.30pm theis afternoon, packing up just before the sun came round and fried me! I was lucky and had a good few dace, chublets, a few decent chub and 6 or 7 barbel, I lost count . The barbel weren't big, but a barbel is a barbel and they all fought hard for their size....
    3 points
  19. I had a session on the river last friday, the river was up a meter and the wind was howling! I had a good country mile walk to get to my intended fishing spot and I had to fish off the bank, no wading due to the extra water going through. Things weren't ideal and I spent most of my time crashing through undergrowth trying to get to fishable spots on the bank. Anyhow, I caught a lot of roach and dace before having my fill of 'em. I don't normally visit the river on a weekend, but because I had several pints of maggots turning and a pack of sweetcorn de frosted in the fridge I decided to go fishing on saturday just gone. The river was still up but had dropped off from the previous day so I could just about wade out on my tip toes lol. This was a different stretch than yesterday and more chance of a barbel. Anyhow, I had a lot of very nice roach up to around a pound and a lot of huge dace. I also caught a few chub and 18 little barbel ranging in size from the one in the picture to about 3lb in weight. I was stood about 40 yards out in the river so released all the fish there appart from the one in the picture which i'd taken back to the bank with me when I had to go back to refill my bait pouch. It was an unusual session catching so many little barbel like that, that'a the most little ones i've ever caught in one session.
    3 points
  20. I wasn't realy in the mood for fishing today, but since the weather was nice and the river had dropped to a fishable level, plus I have a load of maggots shrivelling up in the fridge I decided to force myself out for a couple of hours trotting. As usual I wore my thigh waders and at times when wading out or back to shore I was literally on my tip toes as the water was lapping the very tops of my waders. Now and then I felt a cool sensation on my legs as the water came over the lip of my waders. The fishing wasn't up to much at all and all I caught was a load of roach to about 10 ounces, a few chub of about a pound to a pound and a half and one average barbel. I fished from 12pm to 2pm before i'd had enough. The sudden dissapearence of the sun behind a cloud made me look up and see a huge bank of dark angry clouds coming over me which made me quicken my steps to the motor. I'd drove half way home before the rain started, it's still hamerring down now and forecast to carry on overnight and possibly tomorrow ! Here's the only barbel of the session...
    3 points
  21. I managed to get out yesterday, main reason was to try out a new rod I got a few weeks back. The weather forecast predicted a high of 21 degrees, cloudy and showers so I thought that didn't sound to bad. The river was a nice height but was heavily coloured with what looked like brown sawdust, obviously the sewage companies taking advantage of the flush of water from the recent rains. They prolly thought it would go unnoticed or people would assume it was run off . Anyhow, I had a chub of about 3 1/2lb first trott, followed by some similar sized chub, chubletts and dace. I had an angler just above me rolling meat,another one just below me legering with two rods, then two more just below him both using two rods each. The one below me was there when I arrived, but the rest arrived just moments after me! I go fishing for solitude and to get away from people unless they are my friends of course, so I decided to go back to the car and head off to another stretch of river on my other clubs book. I had that stretch all to myself , the fishing was similar to the previous stretch but I got a couple of small barbel. I only fished just over an hour in each spot and am sure I would have had a good chance to catch some better fish if I had stayed, but I couldn't cope with the heat as the temp's had risen higher than the forecast prediction, there was no showers and the sky was clear. On top of the hot weather my ankle was giving me grief so I left it at that and went home. https://postimg.cc/ns6dnqKv https://postimg.cc/VSSGyKtf
    3 points
  22. I'll be encouraging my Granddaughter's boyfriend to join the forum - Keegan is just turned 21 & has already caught Carp up to 14 & 1/2 Lb. Not bad for a lad with no previous fishing background. His Boss (a carpet fitter) asked him if he fancied a bit of Fishing - It just went on from there!! He's bought some gear now & my mate is giving him a very nice seatbox + I've got some stuff for him. He calls me Grandad, he's a great kid. We all went to Croatia a couple of weeks ago & thoroughly enjoyed it.
    3 points
  23. Why anyone would rather use FB etc than a propper angling forum like this one beats me too Ian. NB: Thanks for helping to sort my problem with the forum Ian As you can see Elton has sorted it now. Keith
    3 points
  24. Your prolly right Ken, although I don't get why anyone would rather use FB etc than a propper angling forum like this one.
    3 points
  25. Shame he didn't write any more books - I feel sure Dave had MANY more stories to tell. A quick google reveals that Angling Vagabond is still widely available from all good bookshops (& Amazon!). Worth picking up a copy if you haven't read it. This is what I said about it at the time.... https://www.anglersnet.co.uk/reviews/book-and-media-reviews/angling_vagabond_dave_park/
    3 points
  26. I am sorry to hear that .Another Anglers Net hero gone .No doubt he's already on his list of heaven fish to catch .He will be missed .I had the honour of him visiting here once he was a very nice chap if only more were like him .
    3 points
  27. Awful news to hear A top fella who will be missed. My deepest condolences to you and your family.
    3 points
  28. Down on the Broads we have had the usual saltwater surges driving the fish off the main rivers. The salt also sours the water and the fish go off the feed. However, if you know where to look the fish will hold up away from the salt, they will also get hungry! A good time to be out fishing but success is not guaranteed, at least not on the Waveney. My neighbour went out for the day, just one fish, a three-pound roach, jammy sod!
    2 points
  29. Have you still got your huge collection of reels Chesters? Was it intrepid reels ?
    2 points
  30. I have dexion shelving in my shed (the gkids call it my shop) very strong but due to the weight on it (mostly many flavours of fizzy drinks cans ((bubblegum flavour is the favourite this month )) it's sagged trapping my tool box . I don't keep tackle outside (safe area but I don't take chances) so live in the loft but my intrepid collection lives in the bedroom (Mrs loves waking up to see them .......not!) In my corner and my pc desk is my work bench so the Mrs punishes me by "tidying" everytime I play on it (usually when I'm in the shed hunting for some special tool to fix something Something going on in the shed all was fine yesterday but for some reason the window now has the most spider web I have ever seen I think a family has moved in on, I have to spray round the cameras tomorrow (anyone with CCTV will know the problem ) so they will get a bit aswell . The buggers have acreas all round the house but they just love annoying me ,i dont bother them in the fields why do they find the need to dangle on my cameras setting off the motion sensing I had to shut the gate so the foxes didn't do it now it's bloody spiders at least the door bell is left alone so it gives its little beep when someone creeps up the garden .Once winter comes things improve. I have put a brace on the back stretch of dexion but I cannot do the front edge or the drawers won't slide out I may have to screw wood to it obviously the 3/4" thick shelves are to bendy. My son bought some off some shopping channel pretty simple to instal but badly designed ,you bash the horizontal bits into the uprights with a mallet but it's only supported with a little tab that's pressed out that locates into a slot .it seems ok but I wouldn't trust it with any real weight on it unlike dexion and it's bolts and braces . PS my Mrs would "tidy" the **** out of your mancave ,you wouldn't find a bloody thing
    2 points
  31. Last night my son and I had a couple of hours at one of the clubs match pools which the club had converted to a fishery from cress beds back in the early 1930s. We both fished the waggler and took maggots and sweetcorn with some small feed pellets. We were hoping for some Tench and Crucians plus some smallish Carp (up to the high singles) however it turned out to be Bream, Bream and even more Bream; mostly from around a pound up to a couple of pounds in weight with a few of around 12oz; and by the time we packed up; (when we couldn’t see our floats); we were absolutely caked in horrible snotty slime. Im not a great lover of snotties however I did have one Carp plus one Tench so it wasn’t a complete failure re my targets. One thing that happened while I was setting up; I got my line wrapped around and under my reel spool so I removed the spool and started to untangle my line when I felt my line start to straighten and my rod start to bend where I’d accidentally hooked a smallish Carp or a Tench on my ‘bare hook’ at half depth (I’d not even plumbed up yet); and I had to frantically try to untangle my line; reassemble my reel and then try to start playing it in, however by the time I had tightened up after untangling and reassembling my reel it had weeded itself solid so I had to eventually pull for a break. Keith
    2 points
  32. You may be more at home with drop shotting than me; however I had the same problem when I bought a fox rage dropshotting rod and the associated tackle & lures and started drop shotting on the canal. I tried close up to moored barges and all along the near shelf and tight up to a lock; and I used different sizes and coloured dropshot lures as well; however not a touch. The next time I tried I started to vary the amount of rod tip movements and the speed of my twitching and I also learned that not all takes are as savage as you often get when your spinning with a mepps; and the fish can often just take the drop shot lure without even moving off; and so to look out for the tiny plucks; and I started to get the odd perch. Im still learning and each time I try drop shotting I seem to improve a little; but I’ve still got a lot to learn as far as drop shotting is concerned. None of my fishing friends go drop shotting so I’m having to learn all on my own without anyone to tell me what I’m doing wrong, but I’ll get there eventually as long as I keep improving a bit each time that I go drop shotting. Keith
    2 points
  33. Hooray! It works fine now, I can now create and answer posts. Thank you for sorting my problem Elton; and also thanks to Ian for letting Elton know Keith
    2 points
  34. And you can't arrange it like you want! me I like minimalism it wants the opposite and continually bombards you with more. Who wants to see peoples tea as their highlight of their life
    2 points
  35. No not boring in the slightest, not for me anyhow. Please keep posting your reports, and I hope you figure out the photos so we can see.
    2 points
  36. My sincerest condolences to you on losing Dave, he was an asset to Anglers Net & Indeed a credit to yourself & family. He will be sadly missed on here. R.I.P. & god bless.
    2 points
  37. Swerve to Euros all you like. The Pound is worth more against the Euro now than it was for most of the four years prior to Brexit. The historical lowest value of the pound against the Euro was in January 2009 - long before Brexit. As for your claims about "The music industry", it's not an industry statement at all. What you have provided is an article from two years ago based on a self-selecting poll of musicians that was taken during Covid lockdown, with full travel restrictions in place. Dig a little deeper, and it turns out that the poll was actually published in April 2021, and even the original source report doesn't give any information about the number of people who actually responded. Call me a cynic if you will, but I smell bullshittery. https://www.ism.org/images/files/The-impact-of-the-Brexit-Trade-deal-on-music-businesses.pdf
    2 points
  38. Clod you've been doing it since 2016 have fun continuing to do so! Why do people continue to encourage the troll and expecting HIM to change from being a troll "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results."
    2 points
  39. He makes outlandish claims fuelled by hatred of somethings he doesn't understand and when challenged doesn't even try and debate. He just comes back from another angle with more rubbish. So much anger. So much stupidity. All in one person.
    2 points
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