A days fishing

[Dick Dastardly]

Leons recentthread gave me the idea for this-

 

If for one day you could fish any water you wanted where would that be,what would you fish for,and why?

[Tony 1]

Do I have to choose If I had the choice it would be a couple of very exclusive stretches of the river Test, long trotting for Big Grayling no hope of that I am afraid I love getting in the river amongst the fish I love all aspects of fishing but this would be a dream come true.

[chesters1]

if i had a time machine i would go to beachborough pond near folkestone ,i went there as a spotty "yoof" fishing for its wild carp ,i used to go home to hawkinge from work ,pick up my tackle and get the taxi there on a friday night i would walk home late sunday or on occasions walk to work with tackle monday morning (i must have reeked ) good days

sadly i visited it about 10 years ago ,it was now private (cinque ports AC used to have it) and was now a fluff chucker pond ,i wonder where the carp went

 

[ 16. November 2003, 01:54 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]

[kendo]

Yeah a time machine would be great,as my fave would be an old farm pond I fished when about 14 or so me and my mates used to get big catches of of pure crucians on nothing more than bread paste,no permit,no rod licence,simple gear,ah I can still see the mist rising from the water as we eargerly tackled up,the biggest if I remember was 2lbs but what memories.

[Jeremiah T. Bagwell]

I would probably choose Lake El Salto in Mexico. I would fish for Largemouth bass. The reason I would choose this lake is because of the large population of trophy sized bass. LOL Plus the weather is a lot warmer there right now.

 

JT Bagwell

[Chris Plumb]

I'm with Tony C - though I'd probably substitute Frome for Test...

 

 

Chris

[Peter Waller]

I'm quite content with Norfolk Broads. My worry is where I go fishing when I head off down-stairs. Imagine eternity with no fishing, that would be hell!!

[Paul_D]

My old school mate and I are planning (one day) to return to the River Weser in Minden, Germany to re-trace boyhood steps and see if it's still as easy to catch 2lb plus Roach. I've never come close to one that size in England mind.

[Dick Dastardly]

Long time since I fished the Wesser to Paul.The area I fished the most was around Hameln.Never had a 2lb roach there but remember in its hey day catching several 200lb + catches of roach averaging 1lb and not even winning my section.Had a bit of a bad spell in the late 80's due to salt pollution.

 

[ 17. November 2003, 11:48 AM: Message edited by: BUDGIE ]

[Paul_D]

It's an amazing river isn't it Budgie? Icebergs in Winter are indelibly etched in my mind. I never fished it at Hameln, as I said it was mostly around the Minden area. There is (was?) a glass factory in the town centre which used to pump out hot water attracting all manner of very big fish, particularly Carp. Many was the time you hooked into one in the eddies resulting from the anti erosion groins which surged unstoppably into the main river....I dread to think what size these beasties were. Happy days.