flightliner
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That you really look forward to each year --?
Any angling event---
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chefster
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....The Big One show,.Gazza
itsfishingnotcatching
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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!)
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!)
terry m
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October 1st.
I used to look forward to the Big One, but it has become very sameish year on year so I rarely attend these days.
I used to look forward to the Big One, but it has become very sameish year on year so I rarely attend these days.
nicepix
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Two for me:
The annual Itchen trip
The PaSC fish-in (about time we found a Northern river to fish though, the Dam
Actually it was two, not counting colds.
itsfishingnotcatching
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binka
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I've often fancied The Big One event but the distance is a knock out for me, didn't there used to be something along similar lines held at the NEC in the 90's?
Other than that I've enjoyed a few guest speaker evenings with well known anglers over more recent years and like Terry the traditional start of the pike fishing season is always eagerly awaited along with June 16th for the rivers.
Other than that I've enjoyed a few guest speaker evenings with well known anglers over more recent years and like Terry the traditional start of the pike fishing season is always eagerly awaited along with June 16th for the rivers.
lambert1
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I went to The Big One the year before last and enjoyed it, but I am very new to all this and it was astonishing to see so much gear under one roof! Making my mind up as to what to get was not easy! As I was between jobs last year, I had to give it a miss. I will probably go this year though, but will stick to a budget! It is a hell of a trek for you Steve I appreciate and it is a shame that there is not something nearer to you. If there is something that appeals to the Tackle Tart in you:wh however, that is a show special or whatever just drop me a pm and I will gladly pick it up for you.
sam vimes
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I can't think of one, unless Bobco bank holiday sales count!
I did thoroughly enjoy the one tackle (and guns) trade show I managed to attend. My tackle dealer mate just wanted some company for the drive down. I'd happily go again if I ever got another invite. Unfortunately, he doesn't attend them on a particularly regular basis.
Most of the other regular angling events are too far away for me to be remotely interested in attending regularly. These days, it's got to be something exceedingly good, angling or otherwise, to persuade me to travel more than about fifty miles.
I did thoroughly enjoy the one tackle (and guns) trade show I managed to attend. My tackle dealer mate just wanted some company for the drive down. I'd happily go again if I ever got another invite. Unfortunately, he doesn't attend them on a particularly regular basis.
Most of the other regular angling events are too far away for me to be remotely interested in attending regularly. These days, it's got to be something exceedingly good, angling or otherwise, to persuade me to travel more than about fifty miles.
nicepix
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In the 'olden days' it was always two events; the opening of the trout season which was variable, and June 16th for the coarse season.
The trout season usually opened around April 1st give or take a week and involved catching the mill bus out of Barnsley at 5:30am to Penistone and then walking about a mile and a half up the hill to Scout Dyke Reservoir. Not fly-fishing in those days; worm on the hook and pouch loads of maggots catapulted in to attract the trout. One year it coincided with Easter and was so cold we spent most of the day in the wooden fishing hut.
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.
The trout season usually opened around April 1st give or take a week and involved catching the mill bus out of Barnsley at 5:30am to Penistone and then walking about a mile and a half up the hill to Scout Dyke Reservoir. Not fly-fishing in those days; worm on the hook and pouch loads of maggots catapulted in to attract the trout. One year it coincided with Easter and was so cold we spent most of the day in the wooden fishing hut.
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.
sam vimes
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Cross border foray, or was it actually the glorious 1st?
The 16th has never meant a great deal to me. In my youth it was the 1st in Yorkshire/Northumbria. Even then it didn't mean a great deal as I could, quite legally, be fishing the local rivers for trout. Then they abolished the closed season on stillwaters and nicked our "stolen fortnight"(which never made any sense) back. The bye law allowing me to fish for trout with worms was left intact though.
nicepix
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Cross border foray, or was it actually the glorious 1st?
I had forgotten about the "Stolen Fortnight"
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flightliner
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I had forgotten about the "Stolen Fortnight"
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 Gibson
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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
And at an alarming rate Flight, I have never seen the like. Between those fishmongers and the pike I'm suprised it took as long as a fortnight. Graham the head ranger used to give me a call the evening prior to stocking saying ' thought you may want to watch your babies 'pike' feed nine thirty tommorow.
flightliner
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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.
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.
Derek Gibson
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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.
flightliner
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Thanks for the info Derek, very interesting?
Did you know of the other big Brownie from nearby Morehall- taken in the late seventies/ early eighties, not as big as thhe flask fish- 11/12 lbs if I remember , Taken on a fly, a plaster cast was made of it in the plastering department of Shirecliffe college, a real beast that I suspect broke me off a few weeks earlier when I was fishing the place near the old yachting moorings when the water was at a very low summer level.
I took one of 8-13 a year or so ago on fly but it was only a shadow of that Morehall fish
nicepix
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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
We held a junior match up there during the coarse close season. It was to be decided on numbers of fish caught seeing as though keepnets weren't allowed. Let's just say it was a draw, all of us
Same the next two years
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Did you ever fish Underbank Derek? There were some crackers in there. Surprising how those upland waters produced big pike.