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i walked from aldershot to little frensham with skin tight neoprene diving trousers on as a youth ,i knew the place would be packed and these took a great deal of effort to get on so in my wisdom wore them under my trousers

anyway we did our diving looking for holes and obsticles where the fish lived (spotted some huge perch aa well as a pike dangling a spoon in its mouth)

but being litterally red raw i changed in the water and walked back wet ,not so keen nowadays i can assure you

 

strange i am sitting in the front garden and i can hear a very fain drum and red indibum singing but not in the direction of the film place at bourne woods ,must be hippies about

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You must be bonkers!

 

Shorts and a pair of Keen sandals are the way to go. If you are a wimp about a few stings and scratches, get a pair of zip off trousers.

Apparently, a swim and a paddle when you get to the peg disturbs the bottom and attracts the fish.

 

 

Ken, you've no chance of wading in my local river wearing a pair of sandles. It's so rocky your ankles would be destroyed in a very short time, along with your toes and shins. It's serious hyke to get there and on very steep banks and sandles would be totally out of place for the walk there.

I'm no wimp and I can guarantee you you really wouldn't like the amount of nettle stings and bramble scratches you'd get on the walk through the woods, plus all the horse fly bites and other insect bites you'd be sporting when you reache dthe swim. I think you may have got the wrong impression of me....co's a moan a bit lol.

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Keens are proper sandals.

 

I've used them for hiking and fishing for more than 10 years - and I'm only on my second pair.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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Tigger, you're ruining your image with all this sensible stuff, everyone thinks you're hard as nails and mad as a box of frogs! :D

 

Seriously though, there is a thread about wet wading on another forum I read - first thing I would care about is that the water is clean enough that Weil's is not a worry, second is horseflies, nettles, brambles and thistles. At the moment I won't fish the Thames without long trousers and long sleeve shirt just because of the effing horseflies. Don't know about anyone else, but horsefly bites for me are murder for weeks and weeks.

 

One of them got me on June 29 last year while I was cutting the grass. Immediately cleaned it, disinfected it, put antihistamine cream on it, took an antihistamine tablet and a couple of ibuprofen. Everything I could possibly do to minimise the damage.

 

Immediately after the bite:

 

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Next day:

 

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Three weeks later, still itchy as hell;

 

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Took a few months to clear up completely, but I've had them last over a year before. REALLY hate the little bastards.

 

I guess you could wet wade in lightweight hiking trousers and walking boots, though?

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You should try the sandflies in the Andamans. My mate reckoned that it looked like I'd ben shot, I had puss running down my leh into my shoes, it took over a year to heal and I still have a pit in my shinbone.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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Sounds horrific. Sure I'd come up a treat with those, I react badly to all insect bites. Didn't get anything worse than mossies in Thailand.

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I remember when I was a student at the Institute of Freshwater Ecology in the Lake District. We used to go swimming in the lakes in summer. We had a young lad there who worked in the hatchery, and one time as he came out of Coniston Water a cleg bit him in the middle of the chest. With the anticoagulant in the bite and his skin being wet from swimming, the amount of blood from a tiny little bite was just ridiculous. Looked like he'd been stabbed!

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They are unpleasant. I killed 4 or 5 lest time I was on the Severn.

)'m not sure which is worse, the big tan coloured horse flies or the much smaller black ones that are very obviously from the same genus.

My money is on the black ones but you only get them where the ricer is clean and well oxygenated.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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Many times have fished the Ord, Vagabond, mostly in the high 30s and a few times in the 40s. Carlton Stn, on the Lower Ord has, for some reason, higher temps than Kununurra.

 

42 C Keep River, Northern Territory, September 2013. Filleting a barramundi (31")

 

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Today, 2nd July, middle of the Australian winter and 27 C at my place... 18 C last night and that was :cold:

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Cheers, Bobj.

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They are unpleasant. I killed 4 or 5 lest time I was on the Severn.

)'m not sure which is worse, the big tan coloured horse flies or the much smaller black ones that are very obviously from the same genus.

My money is on the black ones but you only get them where the ricer is clean and well oxygenated.

 

The smaller black ones sound like Blackfly, Simuliidae, they seem to have been increasing in the UK in the past decade (at least going off anecdotal reports from anglers). The famous Blandford Fly is one of these. Had to chase a couple away yesterday evening before the lightning chased me away. They're sneakier, usually the first clue I've been bitten is a feeling like nettle stings wearing off on a hand, elbow or the back of my wrist while trotting, then when I look there's one settled down having a feast. Not been done by a cleg in a long time, I usually twig them at the point of landing and clobber them. Shorts and sandals on the Ribble this time of year would just leave you as an amuse bouche.

 

This is Tigger on arrival at the river http://www.dagospia.com/img/foto/11-2013/marlon-brando-colonnello-278502.jpg

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