All Round Anglers!

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Ron 'The Hat' Clay AMIMechE (SA) MIFE (SA) (ACA)

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The way I see it these days, there are so few all round anglers.

In the 50s and 60s, many anglers were skilled at all the angling disciplines. For example, when I was in my late teens, I could fish for anything put in front of me; OK not perhaps to the great skills and ability of a specialist, but I could catch any fish, including trout on the fly, roach on the float, pike on livebait, deadbait and spinner, chub on the leger and cod from the shore.

In addition I could tie my own flies, make my own rods, weave my own nets and even make my own spinners.

I know that Graham and a few more on this website are very able all rounders, but my feeling is that many are not.

My simple question is this, how many of you can with reasonable capability, fishfor all the species of coarse, game and sea fish, using a modicum ofall the basic skills required?
 
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Sean Meeghan

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Me! Me!

But how may people under 40 can?

And I've caught a Salmon on a Drennan Puddle Chucker!

Thought it was a bream!!!!

Until it woke up!
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay AMIMechE (SA) MIFE (SA) (ACA)

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Oh I know that you can Sean.
 
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i can fly fish (to a fashion ,as some will know ,but in my defence i'mself taught)

been sea fishing (in a boat) and fished from off a pier) and can cast a multiplier (just about well) not done beachcasting or fished for mullet yet

have and do fish for all coarse fish ,wether its totting a river , pike fishing (dead/live baiting) spinning with lures,ledgering for barbel,carp whatever ,i can float fish.Cast a centrepin in a veriety of ways,freeline ,i can even polefish if needed.

But I am the abitual jake-of-all-trades master of none ,some disiplines i'm quite good at others mearly average ,my worst is probably fly-fishing I keep promicing to myself to do more and improve (hopefully become at least more consistant with my casting)

i like to keep up with new methods as well of old ones ,not just the mechanic's of them but the knowledge to go with it .
 
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will spencer

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i can put my hand up and say not me.however if you fancy instructing myself in the art offly fishing ron then i will be a step closer.
 
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Maggot

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My mates and I are always commenting about this; it seems that today there are a lot of young anglers that are juststartingoff buying (or being bought)a pair of Carp rods, Carp reelsand buzzers and bedchairs then after they havecaught a few carp they think that they are the Bees Knees; but if you gave them alighter rod and said go catch me a niceChub or Barbel or quality Roach or Ruddthey wouldnt have a clue where to start.

However;if they get enjoyment out of it why not?

I personally think that they are missing a lot of enjoymentwhich may result in some of them leaving the sport eventually, which is a shame.
 
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Ron old chap

I like to think of myself as an old roung coarse angler - never fly fished but would like to try - same with sea fishing - the chance is there but i'm drawn back to coarse.

i float fishmostly - love it , but I dead bait and live bait , spin , quiver tip and ledger- also fish for bites as well as target fish,so I wpuld class myself as an old round coarse angler who will sit and fish maggot for tiddlers all day one day then spin for pike then next thenfish for chub on bread another.

Tally Ho
 
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I would like to think i am an all rounder Ron, i know i haven't been fishing long but i have had a go at almost every kind of fishing, and that is in the past twelve months. I like the fact that i can pick and choose how i'd like to fish that particular day.

I would find fishing boring if i had to sit behind bite alarms and wait for the fish to find my bait. Since i found River fishing i hardly ever go to a commercial now.
 
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I like to think I am (or more realistically, was). I'm 53 now but back in my formative angling years I used to regularly fish all year round on our rivers, lakes, local shoreline and out on the boat. Being brought up in the Christchurch area and under the guidance of some damn fine anglers in the shape of my Uncles gave me a very wide range of fishing experiences.

We would breed our own bait (maggot & worm, turning our own casters), dig our own lug and rag, tie our own flies and lures, create our own floats etc etc.

I concentrated mainly on the freshwater side of things but regularly fished off the local beaches for Bass and occassionally in the boat feathering for Mackerel or trying for the bigger stuff. I eventually got really stuck into fly fishing, starting with chucking big tandem black lure creations at the stockies at Chew Valley and eventually into the finer arts of the local chalk streams.

Never quite made it as a Salmon angler, had a couple but hooked and landed more whilst trotting the Avon with a big balsa!!

This weekend, I'll be relying on my "angling instincts" as I chase Catfish seriously for the first time. That promises to be an experience to remember (catch or not!).
 
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Wolfman Woody

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Never have had much luck with trout on the fly, but trout on a spinner - ah!

Caught many sea species as well from boats, Blackpool North pier and beaches of North Wales. As for coarse, I'm as happy as a sand boy catching little roach or bleak or gudgeon from a back stream as I am catching carp from behind the buzzers or barbel on the touch ledger. With my rod in my hand, I'm never happier.
 
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Fred Bonney

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I've done a bit of everything,still do a bit of some of it.
 
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I used to enjoy my river fly fishing, almost as much as surface fishing for chub with crust/flake on fast flowing rivers.

I've had salmon from the Bann in N Ireland, big roach, graylingand dace from the Tweed, cod from boats off Bridlington, trout on worm from the small streams of the Isle of Man, pike and bream from Scottish lochs and mullet from the French Riviera, I never really got into carp fishing though. God, I even went through the match fishing phase.Trouble is I fall over very easily these days so most of my fishing is done seated, usuallyin the nearest swimto the car park.

I too used to enjoy building rods; there area few I built still being used to this day.

I'm still an 'all round' angler, but in a different way Ron /forum/smilies/wink_smiley.gif

Maggot is right, a lot of youngsters start with carp and have known/know nothing else.

A young lad in my club had only been fishing for about two years, was influenced by the carp anglers, had a few good fish up to 26lb then packed in fishing.
 
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Terry D

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I'm getting there. I'm an all round coarse angler, dabbled in sea fishing have the fly fishing kit but have never used it yet. Soon will though.
 
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The Monk

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I think it was the growth of the single specie group that killed the all rounder, I`ve always had an appeaciation of all round angling but have learned towards carp for many years, with the odd few years spent for barbel, chub, perch, pike, eels and on the fly
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay AMIMechE (SA) MIFE (SA) (ACA)

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Strangely enough mate, the specimen hunting scene was kick started by an all round angler - Walker of course. Although he became famous for his carp fishing, he was never a carp specialist as such. Often when they visited Redmire and found it unfishable due to weed, they would toddle off the the nearby River Wye and catch chub, roach, dace and shad.

What gets me are the people who are blind to other species and other methods of fishing. It seems to be common amongst many anglers to knock other styles and methods of fishing. For example those who call fly fishing - "Fluff Chucking", either don't understand it or can't do it. When I returned from South Africa I noticed how pole fishing was so popular. And I also heard many anglers knocking it.

But I decided to study it rather than knock it. This resulted in my acquisition of a pole and also making some nice catches with it. Today I am well aware of the advantages of pole fishing, especially for big roach. So was old ****; he would have loved the modern poles I am sure, having been brought up fishing the Lee with a bored out tonkin pole.
 
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The Monk

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life is very short, specialising in one specie uses up a lot of your valuable time and you do miss out on other species, but then again you do become reasonbably efficient at catching your specialist specie and its all down to what gives you the most pleasure of course which is what angling is all about
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay AMIMechE (SA) MIFE (SA) (ACA)

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Let me give you an example. There have been many occasions on this website when anglers have asked if they can find barbel fishing in Cornwall or carp fishing in Scotland or Wales.

Who on earth wants to go barbel or carp fishing in these areas when there is superb game fishing or sea angling available at modest cost, and in some cases, no cost at all?

Chaps there is nothing more fascinating than learning a new style of fishing, no matter how old you are.It's like pioneering and discovering something new, all over again. I have forgotten how many times I have seen an angler catch his first trout on a fly. You should see his/her face. Within a short period, many of these people have become fly fishing fanatics!!
 
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I reckon I could hold my own in most angling situations, the only form of angling I've never tried is pole fishing and thats because I got out of course fishing before that method became popular in this country, you're right though to many anglers specialise.
 
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