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Opening day trotting session

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The start of a new coarse fishing season on the river toaday and I managed to get out for a couple ogf hours trotting :). First trott produced a spotty trout that looked close to 2lb, third trott produced a nice barbel of about 7lb so it looked promising. At the end of the session I finnished up with five barbel and five trout so it was a decent short opening day session. A few pic's from the session...

 

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Nice start Tigger.

 

Last week I had a couple of days with my mate Cliff (who did the illustrations for "Angling Vagabond") on the Wye after a Welsh salmon (have had salmon from England, Scotland and Ireland and wanted to complete the set)

 

No Salmon for either of us, but I found I can still execute a Spey Roll at age 81, although I had to have ten minutes rest and some nitroglycerine about every half-hour or so.

 

A "celebrity" angler was also on the water, not fishing, but preparing to start barbel fishing at midnight on Monday night. I think trotting was the last thing on his mind as the amount of groundbaiting with great balls of stodge was awesome ! The barrage started Sunday morning, and was still going on when we left on Monday. The amount of tackle unloaded from his people carrier was equally impressive, as was the row of rodrests set up in the best barbel swim on Sunday. I did wonder how sensible it might be to fish four rods on a fast-flowing river - especially as barbel takes here are of the "wrap around " type.

 

A lot of effort was going in, so I hope some barbel came out,

 

 

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A cracking way to start the season.

Stephen

 

Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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Nice opening day catch, and pictures Ian. :thumbs:

Do you think it's a sign of things to come, and you'll have another barbel bonanza, like last year?

 

John.

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

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Thank's for the comments gent's :).

 

 

Nice opening day catch, and pictures Ian. :thumbs:

Do you think it's a sign of things to come, and you'll have another barbel bonanza, like last year?

 

John.

 

 

I did ok last year John but it was the year before when I had a serious (for me at least) red letter year for numbers of barbel.

You never really know how it'll go as the season progresses do you...I suppose there's quite a few things that can make or break the season, some of them being the weather, the fish themselves and obviously how much time you can get on the bank or in my case stood in the river :lol: . I'd like to spread my wings a little this year if I can and visit a few more rivers on my clubs books.

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The ever inspiring Tigger thread :)

 

Great opening session to kick things off!

 

Not finished my reel yet but I strapped my okuma to my new Grey's 13' specimen float rod and spent a few hours trotting maggots last night and had around 30 fish a good mixture of dace chub and trout

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