flightliner
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That you really look forward to each year --?
....The Big One show,.GazzaThat you really look forward to each year --?
Two for me:
The annual Itchen trip
The PaSC fish-in (about time we found a Northern river to fish though, the Dam Flask's getting too easy I think six of us caught last time!)
Actually it was two, not counting colds.
The glorious 16th however was much more agreeable and involved locating, raking and pre-baiting a swim or swims. It did involve a 6 mile round trip walk from home to the Res' and back though.
Cross border foray, or was it actually the glorious 1st?
I had forgotten about the "Stolen Fortnight" mg:
A complete stolen closed season at Damflask near Sheffield. The then yorkshire water authority simply put a few thousand stockie trout in the place and "normal" fishing carried on as per usual---- as for the stockies-- they were all "stolen" in a fortnight
Derek, you were/are the man up there, just for the record , about what year did the pike start to show as when I fished it as a teenager I never saw one, nice perch yes but pike---- ?
Also, I once saw a foto of a massive brown trout, big kype, the works.
I understand it went fifteen or sixteen lbs on the scales, is this correct and was it an "accidental" capture by a pike angler.
Thanks for the info Derek, very interesting?Flight,
Like you, I never saw or heard any evidence of Pike in my younger years.
But then some time around 1969/70 a small group of ''four'' decided that those long journey's down to Norfolk were becoming tedious. And an effort should be made to seed a more local water for the mutual benefit during the coming years, ''voila'.
The big Brownie is ''legit'', but its capture was a fluke whilst dead baiting for Pike. It was though a magnificent specimen.
A complete stolen closed season at Damflask near Sheffield. The then yorkshire water authority simply put a few thousand stockie trout in the place and "normal" fishing carried on as per usual---- as for the stockies-- they were all "stolen" in a fortnight
Flight,
Like you, I never saw or heard any evidence of Pike in my younger years.
But then some time around 1969/70 a small group of ''four'' decided that those long journey's down to Norfolk were becoming tedious. And an effort should be made to seed a more local water for the mutual benefit during the coming years, ''voila'.
The big Brownie is ''legit'', but its capture was a fluke whilst dead baiting for Pike. It was though a magnificent specimen.