bigdunny

Just got one of the piccys back from the 8lb Thornie from Etive. bit o grass sticking to it sorry [ 28. September 2005, 03:07 PM: Message edited by: bigdunny ]

Just back from Etive, was up at a WSF meet, we went up past the quarry and fished along at the tree, baited up about 1800hrs and fired out mackerel/squid baits, wasn't long before the Whiting started to appear, these were around the 12 oz size, noticed a good pull on one of the rods, bent into it and pumped up a nice Codling of about 2.5lb, darkness had set in by this time so the ever faithful doggies put in an appearance after this I finally done it got my first Thornback, been after a Thornie for years As the night progressed so did the Spurdogs we were getting them up to 5lb, things quietened down for a spell then the Thornbacks came on again with a vengeance, at one point we were hitting them every cast ( not bad for someone who until this outing had never caught one )again things went quiet, then Spurs came on again for a bit. as it got light the bites tailed off, then the BLOODY MIDGES started there Kamikaze attack, so it was time to head home. ended up catching 11 Thornback 8 Spurdog 6 Whiting 3 LSD 1 Codling [ 26. September 2005, 10:29 AM: Message edited by: bigdunny ]

Heading for Etive tomorrow, meeting up with a crowd from WSF forum, fishing sat night sunday afternoon....well thats the plan anyway, more than likely be a run into Oban on sat night (hic)

hey sam, maybe the gill netters got em all

<<<<<<<<<<<<< Grabs rods and heads for Auchmitie beach

Ditto Ian , sry m8 cant make it I am b/sfift mon wont be able to get time off....apart from the fact its a 2 hour drive

very interesting reading Leon I liked the facts about gill nets !!

nice 1 Davy nip across to Rosyth for me then m8 jk honest

is that sam as in cox

Gillies, dont know why you deleted the piccy m8...there was nothing wrong with it, like tuggs mentioned you would have put the fish to good use, im sure the pensioners - folk round about you would appreciate the fish that you past on to them. keep the piccys coming m8

Hi Ian fantastic pictures, only thing I can criticize is the tails of the fish, they dont seem quite right ? apart from that they are truly wonderful....got a question for you, have you ever considered doing wildlife as in deer/stags on the hill, I know for a fact that pictures of deer from respected arstist sell like hotcakes. hope this helps john

bloody hell glad to see he was ok

lmao nice 1 Autumn nearly P'd meself thr

nice 1 Gillies yer wan lucky man , still on my want to catch list is a haddie maybe 1 day I will get 1,

What a brilliant post fastD nice piccys, keep em coming m8

Sam I read your post with interest, dont think its macky that should get out more.... no disrespect, but its you who should get out more, I have never seen such bias towards commercials, in your eyes they can do no wrong, yes we as anglers dont do ourselfs any favours at times, but according to you and your post commercials cabn do no wrong, they dont catch undersized fish, inshore trawlers arnt to blame for decimating fisheries, myself and Davy Holt are still waiting on your reply about the clyde still showing no sign of recovery, and the inshore trawlers being blacked out and fishing the lochs at night, or about the thread on handling mackeral, where it was proven that commercial boats ditched 0000's of tonnes of mackeral that wasnt wanted. Then we have new news just in the last couple of days about 60 odd spurdog that was ditched by commercilas down south and washed up on a beach, I could go on and on. I know anglers aint saints sam But neither are commercials by a long shot !! [ 12. September 2005, 08:11 PM: Message edited by: bigdunny ]

hey sam m8...I thought commercial fishermen never done anything naughty lmao .....there was me thinking it was all us bad evil anglers that were to blame for the mass death's of undersized fish [ 12. September 2005, 06:04 PM: Message edited by: bigdunny ]

lmao I love this guy...Clarkson at his best

Weymouth Angling Centre has a good supply of fresh and frozen bait m8

Longannet is still producing Bass on a small toby peter, there a bit on the small side though, but you never know...allways the chance o a decent 1 I tried up at Kincardine for flatties on friday, it was crap not a bite for 5 hours...least it was a nice day

lol nice 1 chesters joking aside, I have tried hermits off and on over the years, havnt caught a thing on the buggers :confused: I have seen loads inside the bellies of Cod when ive cleaned em, I just cant catch a bloody thing when I use em ????? dunno what im doing wrong with them. john

Belter o a fish, jammy sod nice 1 bud john

hmmnnn now what would that be Norrie oh yeah I know.....only the ones I got had a big red T on em

lol norrie m8....seen as the weather was so crap on sunday an I wisnae gonna fish, you wouldnt have stood a chance o keeping up with me on the drive doon the road.....did I no tell ya...man on a mission or what had an all day session to go to in me boozer, made it 2

what colour is its coat happydude ? if its all black keep it for me I could do with tying some new bass lures