Fishing plans for 2007

[The Flying Tench]

Matt, you should seriously look at France. Two years ago I lost a fish that must have gone 8lb from a little river running into lake Anasey. I lost it because I hadn't got a net and it was to big to get my hand accross its shoulders. Not only was it a monster, it was the smallest of a pair of fish that had me ditching the lures in favour of whatever I could cobble together from the bits of tackle I had with me.

Sounds fantastic. Whereabouts is Anasey? Was the fishing generally good, or was it just the chub?

[The Flying Tench]

Well, I'm planning to be off to The Andaman Islands in January followed by chasing Barramundi and Jacks in Goa and another inland excursion after the Mahseer.

When I get back to the UK, I want to try to really make the most of the early season river fishing because I missed so much of it this year following my eye surgery, I particularly want to get the fly rods out for the pike, chub and barbel on the middle Severn.

 

Ken, I've been thinking about this and it sounds fascinating fishing. I do hope you let us know how you get on.

 

I'm particularly intigued by the fly fishing for barbel - presumably imitating minnows? Down here on the Kennet a lot of people only bother with barbel after dusk, but presumably any kind of lure fishing is in daylight. If someone gave me, and I suspect most of us, a fly rod on the bank of the Severn I wouldn't even know where to start - so I hope we can have a thread on this next summer.

 

Good luck on your overseas trip, also!

[Ken L]

I'm particularly intigued by the fly fishing for barbel - presumably imitating minnows?

Erm, no. I made up half a dozen "flies" last winter from a string of translusent brown beads covered in epoxy and threaded/bonded to a hook shank. They look for all the world like a caster and I was planning on feeding hemp and casters and then droping a "fly" into the take zone on a flourocarbon leader and a little #5 weight rod. I would have done it this year but my UK fishing got severely restricted for various reasons.

 

With luck, I will fish the Andermans, Goa and the Cauvery on the forthcomming trip and will try to keep a tread on hear updated with most of what I get up to.

I admit to getting rather exited about the Anderman Islands. I'll be meating up with a Danish mate out there and we intend to do some serious fishing.

 

"Whereabouts is Anasey?" 45*47'30.38" N 6*13'37.46" E.

I only took the rod out once and lost my only fish but it really was a beast. Locals mainly troll for pike and trout from th lake itself for the table.

Edited December 13, 2006 by Ken L