Sheepy

Cheers, regestered on the fly forum and had pirate recomended from there too. May well have to track him down.

Hi all. Happy new year Just a quick question, has anyone got any recomendations for a fly line (WF7 intermediate or slow sink) at around the 20/25 quid mark. Cheers. Sheepy.

Being pedantic here but you do not need to have wading boots, fishing waders or a fishing vest. I havnt got any of those items and still manage to go fly fishing.

After enjoying a couple of outings fly fishing this year I would like to have a bash at tying my own flies. Would a kit with all the materials and tools be a good idea for a beginner, allowing me to upgrade the hardware later if i enjoy it? I would probably have about £50 to spend initialy and would be tying flys for small reservoir and lake work. Cheers for any advice. Sheepy.

I think thats the kicker. It makes more money if the fishery intensivly rears stock fish to chuck in their waters and then charge a premium for folks to knock them on the head (they taste awful too so why do it?). Fish handling will always be an issue but people can learn. All of the fish we returned swam off happily after being held in the water and gently moved to get the water flowing over their gills, only letting go when they had enough strength to swim off under their own steam. Guess another factor that helped was that each pond had a source of running water entering it helping oxygen levels. Some of the places you see are no more than a muddy puddle and very unsuitable for trout.

The other weekend i had a top weekend fishing in Derbyshire on some small clear lakes. The day tickets were cheap and the fish cracking sport. Also i got a new pb at 5lb, which as a seldom fly fisherman i was very happy with. I only took one fish for the pot returning all others as the place had a catch and release policy. However looking for similar places to fish around Leicestershire i find that a lot places do not alow catch and release and have a fixed bag and statements such as all fish of a legal size must be knocked on the head. Add to this the fact that they charge a lot for this privalige in a lot of cases it would be cheaper to travel camp and include the petrol than fish localy. Besides i dont eat trout very often and dont want to kill a fish just because of fishery rules. So is there any reason for not practicing catch and release? Bit of a ramble there, sorry. Sheepy.

Cheers to both of you. Have placed an order

Im after a good site to get flies off the net. I have used flies online before and they have been very good but the site isnt functional until the 16th. In the meantime anyone got any sugestions.

A good article with info and links here. http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=398

Cheers to all who offered advice. Sadly due to wind rain and family i hardly got any fishing in. All i managed were some scholl bass on freelined bread in Shamrock quay. In response to Dave i must have missed the Leicester threads, although having sadly not wetted a line there yet this year i would not be in a position of authority to comment anyway. Finaly sorry to all if i was a bit harsh previously. Sheepy.

Cheers Grant for the reply, as for the rest of you lot who viewed and are on the south coast you are a right lot of unhelpful misserable buggers. Over on the coarse and fly forums everyone is always very helpful and free with advice. Whats the matter scared i might catch something?

Cheers, have read the above. The lightes line im likely to be fishing with is 6lb so the plan is to lift any mackerel out hand line style when close in and use forceps to unhook (im fishing barbless) without touching the fish.

43 views and no advice. Its unlike fishermen to hold back when given the chance to give their views P.S Im not after stripping the place bare of all sea life, just a distraction for a couple of hours whilst on a family holliday. I promise all fish will be put back (well maybe a couple of mackerel for the bbq).

Im going to be down on the south coast next week, staying in the marina at Cowes (as well as Shamrock Quay and Bucklers Hard). Im hoping to pick up some mullet around the marinas but has anyone got any sugestions for places to catch mackerel or bass from the shore with my spinning set up. Cheers.

Surely waders are already full of air, as well as legs ?

Nice

Well you never know, would be pointless to ruin her first trip in case some bailiff wanted to prove a point.

I wasnt checked. However i did get one as friday was payday

Took the little one fishing on Saturday. She loved it and much to her mothers disgust realy enjoyed chucking the maggots in. We only went for an hour and fished about 2 foot out from the towpath. We did however get 3 Gudgeon, 4 or 5 small perch and to my supprise a roach that must have been near the lb mark. Top quality entertainment

Poaching was great fun when I was a kid, as was scrumping for apples and plums and sneeking into peoples (large) back gardens for conkers. One spot we found was a road bridge over the entry stream to lake owned by the local rich bloke. The bridge was clearly viasble from the house and the road was fairly busy. However lots of people stopped there to feed the ducks and swans. There were also some very big rainbow trout which used to feed on the bread as well and we realy wanted to catch one. However we realised this was no place for skill so we knotted together a few legnths of bailer twine together and attached an old tractor wheel nut to the end to get it down quick. To this we added about 2 foot of the thickest mono we could find and a size 8 hook. The plan was to cycle to the bridge and pretend to feed the ducks etc and when the trout came in one of us threw a load of bread far away from the fish giving us enough time to drop out bit down to the waiting trout. This worked a treat and on the first attempt we hooked a monster (probably about 2 lbs but we were kids) which was unceremoniously hauled out bashed on the head, into the plastic bag and we cyled off thinking we were ace. We took it home and cooked it with garlic butter. It tasted like shite

I suspect rain may stop play, which will also scupper the second plan of working in the garden with TMS on. With any luck i will be able to teach her when we go sailing and there wont be any licence issues

To be honest im not going to pay 3.50 to spend half an hour fishing. Not when A: I will be getting a full licence later in the year which wont actualy run for a year anyway (another issue but one that winds me up). B: If you work it out you are paying £3.50 for roughly 7 pence worth licence time (based on one year). So sod it im going to take my chances if the weather is nice enough. I hope that the little one will get the hang of it quickly and not want to let go anyway

Cheers all. I will be getting myself a licence later in the year but im a bit skint this month and will be spending 2 weeks in june bobbing around the coast of england and france in a small boat and will get my fishing fix then. So no need to get a licence as I can quite happily wait until July when the cash wont be a problem.

Fair point. I havnt had my licence checked yet in however many years. It would be nice to take her out this weekend if the weather ever takes up. Hows it going with you? Peatling and Mill farm fishing well?

Just to clarify in case i wasnt clear i wont have another rod out. It will just be the one i am teaching my daughter with.