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Sad but true. I have taught all my kids to floatfish first. As with one other poster I taught my first to cast at home. My first child seemed to have a knack and went straight to rod and line, the other three have initially started with whips. My eldest son has been carping with me and even though he has bagged carp to 18lb his pod, bivy, etc etc remain dormant as he decided flyfishing was for him. (see the fly forum). But he still helps out with the others, one of who is autistic. Cheers

Sad but true. I have taught all my kids to floatfish first. As with one other poster I taught my first to cast at home. My first child seemed to have a knack and went straight to rod and line, the other three have initially started with whips. My eldest son has been carping with me and even though he has bagged carp to 18lb his pod, bivy, etc etc remain dormant as he decided flyfishing was for him. (see the fly forum). But he still helps out with the others, one of who is autistic. Cheers

Which is also the second reason why I have my alarms and reciever turned right down and I blank alot.

When using wonderwire I prefer a granny knot. For seven strand I crimp and do not use and shrink tube. Cheers

thinking about it as appauling as using a radio controlled boat armed with cam, and sonar, to take your baits to the right spot. Here is to the happy medium.

Sounds like one for the retro angling brigade, , to split cane and centre pins and such new fangled technologies, these folks have really gone back to the basics of where the sport began. Trust the hooks were made of whale bone or antler.

Have actually done this and the results were not ideal, not withstanding all the video footage you obtain which really, really wish you had not. I even used the remote to switch on the cam as I headed towards the rods to strike. Camera was new at the time and I was playing with it....well because I could really. Results were very poor as I filmed to tape and then transfered the still to memory card. Due to the way the image is recorded the still is of poor quality unless light levels are high. However I would expect, having experimented with the family holiday videos, to get better results if capturing the still from the video once on the PC. But the novelty has worn off and I stick to the digital still camera now using self timer, however these can be poor and give blurred images if used in the dark with flash and you and your prize are not absolutely motionless. Its horses for courses, video cams seem to take relatively poor stills and my still camera takes relatively poor video. What really annoyed me was that given I have a digital camcorder and a digital still camera I could not merge the two videos, one taken from the ground and the other taken from in the car on a roller coaster, on a PC from the same manufacturer and the manufactures support team confirmed this. Probably obvious to technical folks into this sort of thing, but I like plug and play so i left it there.

Nice one.

I believe, or was told more accurately by my German friend, that the German policy of having to kill the capture, of whatever species, was revoked due to issues of enforcement. I return around 90% of the game fish I catch when in Germany. Would I kill fish, yes and I do, but not very often, the odd one, maybe two a year, trout and pike are killed for the table where fishery rules permit. I have returned all my salmon since 1998 when I last killed a gilse. But if killing was mandatory and enforcement real I would fish for table, but I would not go fishing very often and certainly would not fill my freezer with perch, trout and pike just so I could go bankside. The lakes my wife fishes now have only one of the three lakes where the rainbows must be killed.

She enjoyed each equally, variety is the spice of life so they say

A lovely morning for it too. My wife will be back at her local lake tomorrow hoping for some nice rainbows, different to last week, but she enjoys it. Not my cup of tea but I take the concepts of fishing for stocked fish one stage further, I am doing a two night carp session at the weekend. Not a chance of wild fish near here either, until June 16th when the pike and chub can be targeted in the rivers once again.

Limited experience as I use normal nylon for the mainline and braid or maxima clear for the hook lengths. However I never fish with anything other than tapered copolymer for fly fishing, point strength anything from 2lb for small trout to 16.5lb for salmon. I have total faith in the leaders and have not been let down yet. I use fluoro carbon for saltwater/pike fly leader but have never hook anything large enough to really test them, although smash takes from high single figure pike have tested them to a degree. I use Riverge Grandmax plus a wire trace for pike.

Looks great. Must try it on one of my 3 or 4 trips north of the boarder each year, needs advanced planning so I can get in the Gym for 12 months first. Well done to all who heaved those cracking fish up from the depths.

Well we have not been on-line as we have been fishing in the highlands Salmon were not obliging but the brown trout were, an excellent week with a good stamp of wild fish for all three of us. But the fly forum is generally quiet, for reasons that are not clear and hope are mot linked to demographic profile of the branch.

Can be very entertaining waiting for mid night on the 15th, fish rolling and crashing everywhere. The lake boiling....then 00:00:01....stillness and quiet..... Best entertainment I ever saw was when the EA turned up and checked everyones license at 23:55, I kid you not. Very sporting of them really not wait until 00:00:01, mind there are no fish in the lake after midnight ....

Thanks. I could not remember how i sorted it last time.

Stuff it !

Hi, my son has just bagged a nice one. Grrrrrr If he does that in Scotland next week he is getting left there. I have already suffered him catching two grilse when he was nine whilst I blanked.

I use good old seven strand and Wonderwire (I have stock of this but believe its no longer available) I prefer the latter for Budgie flinging and lure casting as it does not hinge. Use seven strand for trolling. Use a mixture for normal deadbaiting.

Yes one of those trips I guess, a bit like my carping trip to france I posted. The good thing is we do get to laugh about them in the end. However specific to gamefishing. In 1993 to celebrate my 30th some friends from work and my brother and I went to Scotland fishing. Armed with trout fly rods and spinning gear. Anyway after picking up a home printed local guide we end up salmon fishing with lures on the wednesday on day tickets. Our first ever attempt. I lost a fish at the net and then landed an 18lb fresh run fish. My fiend lost one and landed a 10lb 2oz and our other friend landed a 7lb 10oz fish. We eventually got home and wished the whole of the following year of our lives away waiting to go the following year, as we had a exclusive let this time for the full 6 day week !!!! We drove our friends and nearest and dearest crazy by talking about the trip non stop for 12 months. So the great day came and we arrived to be told. A) the weekly freshet was not happening until September due to the dam having a problem, and b)the hydro generator was also out of action so the estuary was like a canal. To top that it was clear blue skies and blisteringly hot. We caught nothing, unless you count 4 escapee rainbows out of clunes bay on Loch lochy. We saw nothing. We swore alot and planned equisite torchures for the landlord for not telling us, as these problems had existed since the begining of the year. We thrashed the 3.5 miles of river to foam in the heat and by Thursday were near collapse.... Never has a bunch of anglers gone home so p*ssed off. Many trips and fish later, we often laugh about this, well once four pints to good at least. Anyway fingers crossed as we depart tomorrow to fish, wife, eldest lad and I.

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