Timsbury

[Steve Walker]

If that was aimed at me then I do apologise. Didn't know so I'll remove it if anyone disapproves.

 

Ah, doesn't bother me, just thinking we might get into trouble.

[Rusty]

If that was aimed at me then I do apologise. Didn't know so I'll remove it if anyone disapproves.

 

No disapproval here Blockhead, a cracking fish and thinking about how things are developing at Timsbury probably very welcome publicity. The fish don't mind the photos, it's the autographs they find difficult.

Edited November 30, 2009 by Rusty

[Steve Walker]

I would guess that they are funny about the game fish being photographed because we were fishing in the closed season and deliberately targeting the trout is illegal - I've seen people on a fly fishing forum get wound up about grayling anglers photographing out of season trout. Like I said, though, I don't personally have a problem with it, it isn't as if we ate them!

[Anderoo]

I would guess that they are funny about the game fish being photographed because we were fishing in the closed season and deliberately targeting the trout is illegal - I've seen people on a fly fishing forum get wound up about grayling anglers photographing out of season trout. Like I said, though, I don't personally have a problem with it, it isn't as if we ate them!

 

I expect it's just to do with keeping them out of the water for longer for a photo.

 

As we're talking about trout, any idea why places like Timsbury stock rainbows? For a river famous for its big, wild, native brown trout it seems odd to stick stockie rainbows in. I don't like catching them on coarse gear so I can't imagine the fly anglers (who pay a small fortune to fish there in the trout season) being very pleased with them?

[poledark]

I must admit that I am a bit puzzled about all the out of season fish you guys report. I get the distinct impresion that if it weren't for them then most of the anglers blank. A couple of the reports even mention "saved me from blanking"

 

Remarks like "cracking fish etc" are surely out of place?

 

Same thing seems to happen every year.

 

Den

Edited December 1, 2009 by poledark

[Blockhead]

I expect it's just to do with keeping them out of the water for longer for a photo.

 

As we're talking about trout, any idea why places like Timsbury stock rainbows? For a river famous for its big, wild, native brown trout it seems odd to stick stockie rainbows in. I don't like catching them on coarse gear so I can't imagine the fly anglers (who pay a small fortune to fish there in the trout season) being very pleased with them?

 

Anderoo, can you explain to a bit of a novice what you mean by this please. PM me if you like. Thanks.

[Tony U]

I must admit that I am a bit puzzled about all the out of season fish you guys report. I get the distinct impresion that if it weren't for them then most of the anglers blank. A couple of the reports even mention "saved me from blanking"

 

Remarks like "cracking fish etc" are surely out of place?

 

Same thing seems to happen every year.

 

Den

 

 

Den

I had four proper Trout on Sunday, but to be fair these are the first I have had out of Timsbury in four years. It's not always about Trout.

 

 

It's usually about Minnows :)

Tony

Edited December 1, 2009 by Tony U

[Anderoo]

Anderoo, can you explain to a bit of a novice what you mean by this please. PM me if you like. Thanks.

 

It's just that every cheap put and take trout lake in the country has rainbows stuck in as they're cheap and sterile. The Test and similar rivers are famous for their wild native brown trout (rainbows are from the US and find it extremely difficult to breed here). If I paid good money to fly fish the Test I would be very disappointed to catch rainbows, I'd want proper brownies.

 

Den, it's still possible to admire a fish that you didn't mean to catch. There are so many trout in the Test you can't not catch them.

[Chris Plumb]

I suspect the rainbow's are there to stop the 'corporate-once-a-year-fluff-chuckers' from blanking! One beat of the Kennet I fish as a rainbows only rule for 'keepers' - all natural browns have to be returned (and all rainbows have to be kept)! But I agree - still don't like seeing them in rivers like the Test and Kennet - never had one from the Itchen - thankfully!

 

 

C.

Edited December 1, 2009 by Chris Plumb

[Steve Walker]

Stocking rainbows does seem a bit odd to me, especially since (illogically to my mind) there is a closed season for rainbows in rivers.

 

Closed seasons on mixed catch and release fisheries don't make much sense, really, do they? When the only difference between closed and open season is that during the closed season you are allowed to use far more effective methods but not to photograph the fish - I bet more Timsbury trout are caught on maggot by coarse anglers than are caught on fly by trout anglers!