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Keith Hacking
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I went worming for salmon today,on the ribble nr clitheroe.
There's four of us all fishing together as its the first decent high water on the river for weeks.
And we were expecting a good run of fish after all this dry weather,any way starts fishing about half past three this afternoon,fished for a couple of hours nothing,then i get a good bite,strike and i'm into a salmon,it came to the top briefly and i saw it was a coloured fish and that i would be returning it.
So i played it hard and had it netted in about five minutes,as i removed the hook from it's jaw,the hook broke at the barb,so not wanting to distress the fish any more i left that bit in, and returned it, a fish of about ten pounds.
So i ties a new hook on and starts fishing again,second cast i hook another salmon but it fought a lot less than the first one,and i netted it in about a minute,
As i'm unhooking it,there in the other side of its mouth is the the bit of the other hook.
so this salmon was caught twice by the same person, and same method twice in the spate of ten minutes.
Now that must be unusual.
but its true in front of three witnesses.
I wont forget that fish,hope it spawns with out getting caught again.
There's four of us all fishing together as its the first decent high water on the river for weeks.
And we were expecting a good run of fish after all this dry weather,any way starts fishing about half past three this afternoon,fished for a couple of hours nothing,then i get a good bite,strike and i'm into a salmon,it came to the top briefly and i saw it was a coloured fish and that i would be returning it.
So i played it hard and had it netted in about five minutes,as i removed the hook from it's jaw,the hook broke at the barb,so not wanting to distress the fish any more i left that bit in, and returned it, a fish of about ten pounds.
So i ties a new hook on and starts fishing again,second cast i hook another salmon but it fought a lot less than the first one,and i netted it in about a minute,
As i'm unhooking it,there in the other side of its mouth is the the bit of the other hook.
so this salmon was caught twice by the same person, and same method twice in the spate of ten minutes.
Now that must be unusual.
but its true in front of three witnesses.
I wont forget that fish,hope it spawns with out getting caught again.