Archaic angling practice

[Peter Sharpe]

Weighing more than one fish at a time, especially in a wire basket.

[terry t shirt]

but my outdated thing is real lakes ( not mud puddles eg borough hill daventry)

 

 

 

thats not even big enough to class as a puddle

[poledark]

I thought everyone was saying they were outdated and wrong????

 

Den

[Vagabond]

half bale FS reels (I bet not many remember them

 

Not only remember, still have and (sometimes) use one! Bought two of them in the mid-fifties, converted the other one to full bale.

 

The claw pickup version has outlasted my later three Mitchell 300s, which have genuinely worn out, but with 40-50 years use I'm not complaining.

[bluerinse]

those old pike boards, were you had a bright coulred disk (on one side) that floated that you supended a livebait under and let it float free across a lake, when you had a pike the disk fliped over to show the bright side. you rowed out and pulled it in, these were set out early evening and recovered the next morning. I never have used them by the way.

 

Pike in knotted keep nets

Keep Nets full of barble on the river seven

Eels on baited mouse traps!

spring balance stright into the gills

gold fish as live baits

 

I am sure there are many more

[gozzer]

gold fish as live baits

 

Why Goldfish???

 

John.

[bluerinse]

Why Goldfish???

 

John.

 

John I never used them, I have seen them used though in the 70's (by a very well know pike fisherman of the time and others), why? No idea I presume because they stood out.

 

All the above practises were not carried out by me but have been observed at some point in the past.

The topic I believe is about old practises no longer used.

[gozzer]

John I never used them, I have seen them used though in the 70's (by a very well know pike fisherman of the time and others), why? No idea I presume because they stood out.

 

All the above practises were not carried out by me but have been observed at some point in the past.

The topic I believe is about old practises no longer used.

 

 

I just wonder why goldfish as opposed to any other fish.

 

I have used them by the way, they were deadly on one water we used to fish.

 

John.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Once upon a time, I used to kill every eel that took my bait and I wasn't alone. Eels used to be right up there with midges, regarded as nothing more than an absolute nuisance. Now I find them quite fascinating, even if they are completely daft.

[Andy Macfarlane]

I just wonder why goldfish as opposed to any other fish.

 

John.

 

Because they're patently obvious, due to their complete lack of subtlety....like firetiger patterned lures.