No car

flightliner · Nov 8, 2015

My car is in the garage for a repair. It wont be ready untill teusday at the earliest, it cost me my day on the Trent last friday and in the meantime I,m feeling rather lost, unable to get around and fishing is almost out of the question----- How would you cope without yours???.

robtherake · Nov 9, 2015

Makes me feel like someone cut off my legs! Seriously, I don't mind too much, but the thought of using public service to get about makes me shudder. Taxis aren't that much more expensive these days, anyway.

As far as fishing's concerned, the only freshwater fishing within walking distance is the little beck that exits on Saltburn beach, where there are a few small trout to be had and nothing else. Shore fishing - compared to the cod-rich 70s - is a complete waste of time, as the local fishing boats almost come close enough for you to read their name with the naked eye - I've seen boats with nets out at an estimated 200yds from the beach.

hammer_jamie · Nov 9, 2015

I don't drive so I make do with the public transport, Have to if I want to fish!

wanderer · Nov 9, 2015

Fast car fanatic, got two high powered Volvos, super tuned, one ex police, they are like my pets, loved, couldnt be with out them.

Peter Jacobs · Nov 9, 2015

flightliner said:
How would you cope without yours???

I am pretty lucky in that I have Avon Springs just about 3 minutes in the car from my home, so even I could walk that, with sufficient stops in between . . . . .

http://www.fishingfly.co.uk/

As for not having a car?

No way, I keep one in Aberdeen where I work and have my own car at home for the weekends.

In addition to those I have my little MG that lives in the garage and only comes out in the Summer and only then if it is not raining . . . . .

seth49 · Nov 9, 2015

Lucky in one way, only live five minutes walk from the ribble.so could always get along there as I'm a member of the local club.
It's more game fishing in summer, but decent chub and grayling trotting in winter.
Could fish lower down river using my bus pass.
Bus pass is very handy, me and the wife have at least one day a week out with it.
Think the bus services are kept going by the passes, bet ninety per cent of users use one after ten o clock in the morning.
I'd struggle to get to the Stillwater fishery I joined this year, would need a car to get there.
Been fishing that twice a week since joining in April, would miss that a lot lovely place, really peaceful and quite, wish I'd found it years ago.

maggot_dangler · Nov 9, 2015

That would be a dang nightmare .

I dont walk good althou i try to keep going working , but walking with the fishing gear to even the closest canal only a matter of a few hundred yards is a non starter .

Had to give up the golf beacuse of the problems it was causing so car is essential .

The public transport around here is dire very poor bus service with best part of a mile to the first bus stop that takes me anywhere i want/need to go and then it is filthy and stinks full of the tribal invaders gob all over the place as well no wonder TB is making a comeback ..

PG ...

binka · Nov 9, 2015

john step · Nov 9, 2015

Not possible with all the junk I carry. However if I really had to I could walk to a club lake and maybe get an electric bike to one or two more with my multi piece travel rods.

barbelboi · Nov 9, 2015

Even with a free old bu66ers bus pass I probably only use it twice a year - to get home and then back to the garage when I take the car in for a service...................

robertroach · Nov 9, 2015

If my car is being repaired I always get a free loan car. Couldn't do without!

john step · Nov 9, 2015

robertroach said:
If my car is being repaired I always get a free loan car. Couldn't do without!

How very upmarket Rob

robertroach · Nov 9, 2015

It's only a Ford, John. No pretensions to be anything better, just that my garage offers a free loan car if you book it in well ahead.

lambert1 · Nov 9, 2015

Mine had to be scrapped a few weeks back and I really miss it. I have been lent a car by our mechanic friend, whilst he finds me another one (within a certain budget!) but it is very clean inside with multiple air fresheners and I doubt he would like it back smelling of wet fishy landing net or potent cheese paste! I have borrowed the wife's car once, but she moans about the smell of the landing net when it is hanging in the garage, so a successful trip for me might mean a red card when I got home. I am not one who changes cars regularly and had my previous one for 11 years and had got packing my fishing gear down to a fine art (it was a Nissan Micra). I am looking forward to having one that is mine again and that I can fill with my own familiar items

terry m · Nov 9, 2015

Not sure that I want to contemplate being without a car.

The downside of living in rural areas is the dreadful public transport.

barbelboi · Nov 9, 2015

lambert1 said:
Mine had to be scrapped a few weeks back and I really miss it. I have been lent a car by our mechanic friend, whilst he finds me another one (within a certain budget!) but it is very clean inside with multiple air fresheners and I doubt he would like it back smelling of wet fishy landing net or potent cheese paste! I have borrowed the wife's car once, but she moans about the smell of the landing net when it is hanging in the garage, so a successful trip for me might mean a red card when I got home. I am not one who changes cars regularly and had my previous one for 11 years and had got packing my fishing gear down to a fine art (it was a Nissan Micra). I am looking forward to having one that is mine again and that I can fill with my own familiar items

I've had one of these for many years - although I mainly fish rivers traveling light the stink bag is left in the car for the net and mat during transit. Never a smelly car, and since I retired my wife and I share the same car..........

qtaran111 · Nov 9, 2015

I don't own a car and do all my fishing via public transport and Shanks's Pony.

I sometimes envy the car drivers and the amount of gear (****) it allows you to take and the freedom to explore more out of the way places, but having no car does mean you have to get creative.

First is the research to seek out stretches of rivers, canals or stillwaters within manageable walking distance of the nearest station and then the hardest part: cutting down the gear to the bear essentials. This is probably the hardest part and I still take too way much.

Here's my gear packed from a few weeks ago:

Rod bag with float & feeder rods (with reels attached) and landing net handle inside plus carp rod, landing net & mat strapped to outside. Then my rucksack carries seat, rod pod, scales, catapult, bite alarms, terminal tackle and bait. Oh yeah and a cheese sandwich and a kitkat

peytr · Nov 9, 2015

Had to look up the meaning of "shanks pony" thereby proving the educational value of this forum

Anyhow: I'm working on an easy way of transporting light fishing gear on my bicycle. Yesterday I had a bicycle tour with the girlfriend and it struck me how many nice fishing sites I can easily reach by bike, as opposed to car (jams, parking etc). I have the luck to have an endless number of fishing waters in a radius of 5 to 10 km.

So yesterday made a plan for a crate on the bike and a rod holder to transport a spinning or fly rod.

robertroach · Nov 10, 2015

Well done Qtaran for getting all that stuff so neatly packed away. How do you get a seat in that rucksack?
I end up with a mountain of stuff in the boot and a huge heavy load to carry to my swim. I keep thinking I will cut down the amount of stuff, but I always end up with rods, umbrella, keepnet, chair and loads of other stuff in a rucksack.

qtaran111 · Nov 10, 2015

Good question

The seat is this one Shakespeare Mobile which is sturdier than it looks and just about fits but does reduce the amount of bait and tackle I can fit. Might need a new solution...

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