Fishing alone

John McLaren · Aug 8, 2005

I agree wholeheartedly with Barry Rickards, fishing alone is often a very pleasurable experience but so too are those occasions when you fish with a companion or two. On many occasions I have travelled with one or two companions and then we have seen little of each other for most of the day - so we experience a bit of both - the fellowship and chat and the peace and solitude.

Bryan Baron 2 · Aug 8, 2005

Agree John. Why if you travel together do you have to fish side by side unless teaching somebody. The swims will not all be perfect so move to a good swim and meet up every now and then when say you are resting the swim for a chat.

Baz · Aug 8, 2005

Same as you Bryan.
Travel together to keep costs down, but for goodness sake give each other elbow room.

Simon Kelshaw · Aug 9, 2005

Just on the fly part, mate of mine had his fly gear out on a coarse lake a few weeks back, bait banded a doggie bickie and gave it a throw about

excuse the quality my camera was at max zoom, so we didnt fish on top of each other too hehe

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Si

Simon Kelshaw · Aug 9, 2005

I guess not, see if links work

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Sam Morris · Aug 9, 2005

I love fishing with my dad, but when he is at work i have to fish alone which is disappointing. i could go with my friends, but being only 15 alot my friends who fish are "chavs" and therefore Pi*s about all the time and i really want to get the stereotype away from kids fishing as a bad thing because i want to fish seriously. I'm always up for a laugh obviously but i do want to respect other anglers and most of all the fish.

david bruce 1 · Aug 10, 2005

I sometimes fish a local carp pool (easy fishing - I use it as a boost to my confidence after a blank spell on the more desirable rivers and it's so easy it's fun to experiment)
The fish take floating bread very readily so I tried tying an all white square fly and using that but although they would look at it they wouldn't take it. Add a piece of bread on the hook and hey presto. I have also noticed they willnot take plastic imitation bread presented on float tackle but are almost always strong takers on bread itself.
I have also tried a very small spinner, without success, but again tip it with bread and a slow retrieve and bingo.
They do seem to like their daily bread.

Douglas Arnold · Aug 11, 2005

Perhaps then I am a very lucky man indeed, for I have the best of all opportunities for companions or solitude. My whole family fish. When we go fishing, the wife joins in, and beats me sometimes. The boys, though novices, are keen to learn the sport. they will be going on the Fishing Magic junior teach in this month. Perhaps you will meet us all there if you are attending. We are blessed at Plymouth and District AC with lakes on private estates and three clay pits on Dartmoor. we often see herons and haries, kingfishers and this year a cukoo. wow, whaat a sport.

Corky · Aug 15, 2005

I used to be Secretary of the Kestrel Specimen Group. One of our members, Roy Lewis captured the Pike record. Sadly he has moved to New Zealand (where, he tells me, the fishing is fantastic and not just for trout. Very good tench fishing but I digress).

I currently fish alone. I enjoy it and feel that you are more pro-active. However the partnership that I enjoyed with another group member was very productive as we geed each other up and kept going when things were tough.

There's two sides and both are good.

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