Fishing

Agree with all of this, mate. And that’s a cracking brownie.

Lovely fish! Which dry / which river? Is that the stocked one you often fish?

I am off to Scotland a week today and got a couple of days on the Tay. If spinning, I don't want to use a barbed triple on flying C type lures with the fish going back. I want to get a set of pliers to chop the third hook off. Would pliers cut it (no pun intended)? Just looking on Amazon

Can't you replace the hooks with barbless singles?

Been away in France, fishing a massive lake. Caught a few roach and hooked into something that felt very heavy. Playing it carefully as only on relatively light gear and the hook pulled off. Most annoying thing is I didn't tie it on as my dad set the rod up before we arrived. More annoying is I plumbed the swims we've been fishing properly today and they are only about 30" deep! No wonder we're hardly catching anything. Had assumed my dad did it already when he set the rods up 😬

Anyway. Have now paddled out in a kayak to a spot I've seen fish showing, baited up at lunch time ready for return from the beach when I'll bait again and get some hooks into some water deeper than a puddle! 🤞

Yep, my bit of the Darent, dry detached body Mayfly (later left in a bush). As previously recommended, simply work the treble on the flying C around the split ring and replace it with a barbless single lure hook, go a bit bigger than the treble.

In today's news from the syndicate lake; four fish in four drops on the pole, perch 1:9, bream 8:7, tench 7:8, rudd 2:2. I'm pretty sure the rudd is a PB and have never seen or heard of anything near this size in the lake (there are 50 acres of it).

@Arducius, we await pics of the leviathan when you land it, carp or cat! Ps, to tie on a hook a five turn grinner or a palomar are the only acceptable knots.

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Not on the flying Cs I have

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Snip the eye of the treble with the Park Tool cable cutters you have from when you were a cyclist, add a split ring THEN add a lure single!

I still cycle thank you very much! Good shout. Gonna pop into John Norris on my way up so I'll grab some. I don't have decent cable cutters and don't want to mess up my current ones. Amazon pliers I think

Nip round here before you go, got plenty of pliers. There’s an angling centre in fishponds as I discovered on the w/e next to the B&M home stores which I’m sure will do big single barbless hooks

No cable cutters and call yourself a cyclist? Actually, I envy you as I strongly suspect I'm an ex-cyclist (neurosurgery nor very eagerly awaited), 10 bikes likely up for sale. The endless time to fish is the silver lining!

Nice rudd!

Sadly only a small carp so far. Nothing showing in our part of the lake. Went for a kayak earlier and loads of carp in the pads in areas with zero access to the bank. Not sure stalking a big carp off the top from a kayak would do much more than take you on a tour of the lake or straight into the nearest snag!

Just do it, the results should be hilarious for anyone watching from the bank! I've had an upper 20 pike tow me 100 yards in a 12' fibreglass boat...

Tomorrow's expedition is taking the evil granddaughter to the syndicate lake to hopefully catch a tench. Snacks and drinks ready prepared, your prayers for avoiding a blank gladly accepted.

I have cable cutters just don't have park tool budget and don't think they'd do a hook!
Sorry to hear that :( build the best & most chilled pub bike you can at least!

Got that already, a rigid Cannondale M600 MTB with road chainset and tyres and SPDs!

Blank conclusively avoided, behold Maia the evil granddaughter with her catch. All I did was casting and landing net duties, tench to 7:3 and bream to 7:5.

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Hello hive mind of LFGSS.

I’m after a rod, please can someone recommend something suitable. My daughter wants to “do fishing” on holiday. So I’m after something small and packable for a spot of dangling a line in the sea and possibly (accidentally) landing the odd mackerel.

I’ve got my old Daiwa 1000c reel (a beautiful jewel of a thing) so something inexpensive to nail that on to. I was thinking a light 6ft ish carp/spinning rod, 4 piece. Any thoughts/recommendations welcome please.

Thanks.

Can't offer any particularly good advice myself but hope you have fun. Probably don't want to leave it this late and risk not having one, but often cheap fishing stuff for sale on Facebook marketplace on the coast.

I have a really cheap 2 piece Shimano FX spinning rod which is light and nifty to cast

The other thing I've noticed with sea anglers is they are often using the rod to lift the fish out the water (due to fishing off rocks etc) so probably don't want something too light

I have a couple of telescoping roads which are pretty handy for taking away, as they pack up very small, and ideal for spot of casual fishing - trotting a worm down a river or spinning for mackerel.

I had a telescopic rod as a kid. It jammed and wouldn’t telescope down and it’s put me off.

I spotted this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224262924617?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20240315134233%26meid%3Dff2596972a404302b385ec5afa998aee%26pid%3D102056%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26itm%3D224262924617%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DWatchlistVariantWithMLR%26brand%3DNGT&_trksid=p4375194.c102056.m47999&_trkparms=parentrq%3A3652c23a1900acf322e87d39ffff3c2a%7Cpageci%3A145047b5-2f1c-11ef-829a-3afae6a05e37%7Ciid%3A1%7Cvlpname%3Avlp_homepage

Seems the ideal size. Any thoughts? Trotting a worm down a river and some spinning for mackerel is pretty much what I’d be looking to do.

Just took a stroll along my local canal. This section is fed by lots of springs and with all the rain we've had over winter and recently it's gone crystal clear. So many fish in there! Spotted a decent sized bream, some chunky roach, gudgeon, perch and loads of small silvers - the pole fisherman's dream!

Amie fly fish - Youtoob - she's good.

1) How it started last night

2) How it started this morning 🤣

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Noooo! Please make it stop!

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Had a carp on the mat, the hook had pulled through its mouth so I was trying to cut the braid off so I could pull it through and away and the bastard fish started thrashing around on the mat like an absolute nutter and bam, hook was in 😂

Hospital numbed it with shit loads of local anaesthetic injections (not fun) and used a ring cutting tool to cut both ends off and pull it out. Tetanus shot and strong antibiotics.

Broke the Radial head of my right elbow four weeks ago tripping over a kerb. I'm no longer allowed out alone 😬🙄

First day of the summer hols and my 7 year old wanted to go fishing. Dug out my old tat that’s almost 40 years old, dug out some worms from the compost and we went to the local stream. It’s filled from a huge lake at the nature reseve half a mile away. When it floods fish get washed out over the weir, down steam and get stranded in this pool (you can sort of make some out in the top right of the bottom pic). It’s full of huge carp that were sticking to the bank under the trees. We stayed clear of them as my kit would have just surrendered.

After an hour and a half we had a happy child having landed 10 fish including 2 perch, some roach, gudgeon and other assorted tiddlers.

I’ve ordered an NGT Travelmaster as it is so compact and can be snuck away also new line. She’s desperate to go back. I’ve never known her to be so still.

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