Autumn is on its way

Derek Gibson · Aug 20, 2016

My most favourite time of the year, this is when I really begin to get fired up. Hopefully the sweltering days are behind us, and both man and beast become more active.

There is a sweetness about Autumn it seems to me, cleaner air, and the wonderful colours of the countryside. Wasn't it ''Keats'' who wrote,''Autumn, season of mellow fruitfulness'', and he was right. I'm sure it will be for us anglers. I hope you share my love for this time of year, it certainly has magic.

Bob Hornegold · Aug 20, 2016

Derek

Perch Time.

Brilliant.

Bob

trotter2 · Aug 20, 2016

I agree probably the best time to be out and about on the river bank.
Soon be grayling fishing again.

mikench · Aug 20, 2016

It feels like it up here; wet and windy! Doubt I will wet a line today!

thecrow · Aug 20, 2016

By far the best season for the angler, its my favourite season. No more looking into a river and being able to see every stone no more sweating it out in sun that you know is to bright and warm to be fishing in.

Fish know its Autumn and that winters next as do other none fishy creatures, its their chance to stock up for hard times ahead, its also a chance for those sweaty sessions to be forgotten and optimism to be renewed.

Peter Jacobs · Aug 20, 2016

That quote was most definitely John Keats¹

The Autumn is my favourite time of the year, the earlier dusk leads to much better roach fishing, and even if the fish are not coming out to play, then the sights, the sounds and the smells of the autumn are a good enough reason to be out on the river anyway.

¹ Sadly Keats died when in Rome and he is buried there. I've seen his grave and it (under)states quite simply, "A Young English Poet"

mikench · Aug 20, 2016

I like Keats but I also like Paul Verlaine a French poet. Here is one of his best, most celebrated and my favourite; you can enjoy the sheer poetry of the words even if you do not speak French!

Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l'automne
Blessent mon cœur
D'une langueur
Monotone.
Tout suffocant
Et blême, quand
Sonne l'heure,
Je me souviens
Des jours anciens
Et je pleure;
Et je m'en vais
Au vent mauvais
Qui m'emporte
Deçà, delà,
Pareil à la
Feuille morte.

Thought for the day

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Aug 20, 2016

Thing is it will soon be Christmas and winter

mikench · Aug 20, 2016

..... That is the downside

. Mind you I will have an interesting Christmas present list for Santa, with tackle to the fore!

greenie62 · Aug 20, 2016

Last week - I commented, on another weather thread on FM, that up here it still felt like May. Now we're told that next week it's Autumn.

That means we're currently enjoying Summer - 2 Days of blistering Sun then High winds and rain - about normal there then!

mg:

john step · Aug 20, 2016

There is a particular water I like to fish for perch in Autumn. There are other good fish in it but I'll be blowed if I can stand the biting horse flies that are in epidemic numbers until the cooler weather.

Perch challenge again this winter???

barbelboi · Aug 20, 2016

Being mostly on running water my favorite time of year is Autumn 'til the close season - looking forward to geting a bit of colour and flow in the gin clear, slow moving rivers....................

tigger · Aug 20, 2016

Lord Paul of Sheffield said:
Thing is it will soon be Christmas and winter

In'it...ffs lifes to short to keep wanting the seasons to pass!
Spring and summer are my favourite times of year for fishing...no big jackets, knumb fingers, frozen line in the guides etc etc.

Autum is nice but the colder months are too close behind for my liking, plus all those bartseward leaves floating downstream cockin' me grayling fishing up...oh, and who gives a monkeys about poncy poets :w

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Jeezus...we'll all be ballet dancing down the river banks next LOL.

Graham Elliott 1 · Aug 20, 2016

If history is anything to go by, winter will arrive on the Lower Itchen Fishing Magic Fish In day!

One of the biggest advantages of Autumn is the fact you can get a couple of hours into dark and still get to the pub for a pint.

binka · Aug 20, 2016

I like Autumn but with the slight apprehension that it directly precedes winter.

Very much a time for fish going on the rampage to fatten up, one thing that really lights my fire (if you will excuse the pun) is when I'm anywhere near occupied boats and they have their solid fuel burners going.

A real old fashioned and homely smell which drifts me away to my childhood.

Or is that just the whiff of weed coming from an open window?

S-Kippy · Aug 20, 2016

Rivers full of leaf and muddy banks. Not enough daylight for after work scrambles. I hate Autumn !

peterjg · Aug 21, 2016

Autumn - a great time for roach fishing - also spring, summer and winter!

steve2 · Aug 21, 2016

With summer pike fishing banned on many of the waters I fish I can at last get the pike gear out.
Alway find it strange that on the 31st of August I can't pike fish on the 1st September I can, Same fish just a different day.

soft plastic · Aug 21, 2016

I shall be in Ireland for the last two weeks of October. The bass will be snapping up anything they can to help them get through the winter... hopefully my lure will be included!

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nogoodboyo · Aug 21, 2016

There's nothing like an an angler when it comes to wishing their life away.
It'll soon be Autumn winter or whatever.
Make the most of it.
One day it'll be be taken away.

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