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Post by Clinton Cool on Jul 30, 2017 19:29:59 GMT
I'm just back from Kelso, 2 days fly fishing on the Tweed and Teviot, near their junction. It was funny to watch the rich guys paying a thousand quid a day to fish the junction pool, their loud mouthed gillies instructing them where to cast their crude spinners. For me it was the 12 quid a week brown trout and grayling ticket. The grayling have struggled through cormorant predation but a quiet approach with 'wee' flies rather than huge garish patterns gave me sea trout of 2 1/2 and 4 1/4 pounds. Yes, you can catch sea trout during the day. You could see the disgust on the faces of the 'salmon fishers' and their gillies in the hut opposite where I caught them. Bloody upstart from England on the cheapskate ticket catching their 'fesh'.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 30, 2017 20:25:47 GMT
I used to go fishing when I was a nipper, back in the 1960s.  |
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Post by thebfg on Jul 30, 2017 21:38:59 GMT
Strangely doggies are one of the few fish I'll happily handle.
We catch loads down here.
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Post by faffer on Jul 31, 2017 18:22:29 GMT
Strangely doggies are one of the few fish I'll happily handle. We catch loads down here. why is that then ? Only reason i can think of is the way they curl around and shred your arm if not held properly, but if grabbed behind the head/gills and tail then they are easy. I love them, always help out on a bad session. I a now looking forard to my next sea session, yes as i am always so busy this will be 56 weeks from now as yesterday we all booked a family holiday ( again ) to lanzarote. My firsts session abroad  i will be getting a new travel rod, good excuse for a new rod lol. And all i know is off the rocks with a big bread flake and bubble float, just as my gramps told me to many may years ago, he loved it. |
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Post by patty on Jul 31, 2017 19:25:28 GMT
I used to go fishing when I was a nipper, back in the 1960s. Those sort of fish I can deal with |
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Post by thebfg on Jul 31, 2017 21:03:31 GMT
Strangely doggies are one of the few fish I'll happily handle. We catch loads down here. why is that then ? Only reason i can think of is the way they curl around and shred your arm if not held properly, but if grabbed behind the head/gills and tail then they are easy. The twisting around your arm scares my mate. They come out of the sea feeling almost dry. I have fished all my life and have only on the last few years started handling fish. I can't explain it really. |
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i will be getting a new travel rod, good excuse for a new rod lol. And all i know is off the rocks with a big bread flake and bubble float, just as my gramps told me to many may years ago, he loved it. 
