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Eating wild caught fish is good for my health, reduces food miles and keeps me fit trying to catch them........it's my choice to do it, not yours to stop me!

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Come on Nick what, when, who and how please. :D How deep was the take as there was a lot of line out. And what size. Your fly reel, whats the set up re the drag, anti reverse? And it's a left hooker.

 

Totally jealous, missed that one, bu@@er.

 

 

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Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Hi Barry.

 

Three of the Wanglers (Mark, Luke and myself) were out with Andy Alsop of Whitewater Charters, out of Milford Haven on his current (temporary boat) "Misty Blue". We had a total of 22 blues up to 136lb.

 

The rod is a TFO, Lefty Kreh Bluewater 13-15 wt, the reel a 14wt Orvis Vortex, no anti reverse (it's a man's reel :P ) with a single plate drag system. Line was 100yds of 30lb mono, on top of which was 500yds of 50lb Power Pro. The fly line was a Rio Leviathan 600grain sinking line. The rubbing leader was 12' of 300lb mono with a 300lb "Aussie" superslim swivel and snaplink with a 350lb multistrand wire biting leader of 5'. The fly was a homemade tube fly of 'streamer' pattern in orange and white of about 10" long. The hook was an 8/0 Tiemco TMC600SP fine wire.

 

The fish was seen swimming down the starboard side so I lobbed the fly in and let line out as quickly as possible. 30 seconds gives you about 20' depth. The idea was to strip it back in to approximately 10' which was the depth that the sharks seemed to be at near the boat....I didn't get a chance to strip! With about 150' of line out the fish hit the fly like a train and took about 80-100 yards of line off in one go. I retrieved quite a bit but it took two or three more shorter runs before the video started. The first one was a flier though and really had me grinning...sheer adrenaline!

 

Next time it's got to be a 100lb plus fish!!

Eating wild caught fish is good for my health, reduces food miles and keeps me fit trying to catch them........it's my choice to do it, not yours to stop me!

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cheers Nick reason i asked, in the vid you relyed on the clutch of the reel while using two hands pumping the rod, single plate clutch appeared to be doing a fab job holding onto line and the shark only managed to win a bit when it was close to the boat.

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Yes Barry, a great clutch, I was only on about 1/3 -1/2 drag, the reason for two hands was that I had already boated 5 Blues up to 125lb and my arms were feeling a little tired...I ended up with 9, 3 of which were over the ton!

 

I took two over the ton on my homemade multiplier, so I had a very satisfying day...ache like buggery today though :rolleyes:

 

Fantastic!

 

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Cheers Steve!

Eating wild caught fish is good for my health, reduces food miles and keeps me fit trying to catch them........it's my choice to do it, not yours to stop me!

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Only just seen this.

 

Well done Nick, :thumbs:

 

More than my arms would be aching after that lot! :D

 

What weight was that one then?

 

John.

Angling is more than just catching fish, if it wasn't it would just be called 'catching'......... John

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Only just seen this.

 

Well done Nick, :thumbs:

 

More than my arms would be aching after that lot! :D

 

What weight was that one then?

 

John.

Thanks John, the skipper estimated 45-50 but I think it was a little smaller (35-40?). They are much chunkier in the body and tail than tope though so difficult to say...and a hell of a lot stronger and more difficult to hold!

 

All I know is that it was a hell of a buzz. I had a smaller one next cast, about 25-30lb which came in much easier.

 

Having said that I did a bit of Googling and a (Table 2 page 10) snout to fork length of 5' equates to 48lb. Freezing the film at 6:50 and that fish isn't far off 5'!

 

Still a Blue Shark and still my biggest fish on fly though :D

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This was my biggest at 125lb!

 

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Eating wild caught fish is good for my health, reduces food miles and keeps me fit trying to catch them........it's my choice to do it, not yours to stop me!

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Have only just seen this - I don't visit the sea thread as often as I should

 

Excellent stuff Nick - well done indeed.

 

 

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