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- Jan 30, 2008
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Exactly.........so need to ease myself back in gently. Was always pools fodder at the best of times [emoji23][emoji23]
I feel your pain
Regards
DF
Exactly.........so need to ease myself back in gently. Was always pools fodder at the best of times [emoji23][emoji23]
Anyone planning on getting out for a bit of socially-distanced fishing then ? Going to rejoin my most local club after what must be a 5 year break (lovely lake 10 mins walk from the house),.
Hassocks and District?
I'm going to let it settle a bit (and warm up) Dying to get my carp stuff out but will wait.
Anyone planning on getting out for a bit of socially-distanced fishing then ? Going to rejoin my most local club after what must be a 5 year break (lovely lake 10 mins walk from the house), and try a bit of lure fishing on the coast I think and see how things go.....................
I had a pop with the Bass lures at dawn today, no joy though. Where do you think you want to try lure fishing ? I ask because Brighton along to Littlehampton way is suffering the annual May Rot, an algal bloom which discolours and deoxygenates the inshore waters rendering it fairly useless until it clears.
Thanks - hadn't given it that much thought yet..........how far along the coast will that be an issue - presumably all of it ? I haven't tried lure fishing locally at all so it'll be a bit experimental anyway. Needs to warm up a bit before I'll do any carp stalking too - v chilly breeze today.
It usually starts thinning out by Bognor way. I fished Selsey this morning at dawn and the water clarity was fine.... no fish though Doh ! It should be mostly gone when the next Spring tides come and wash it away, about 10 days time.
Edit : Forgot to add, Brighton Marina open for fishing from 9am Thursday, within the limits/rules of social distancing etc. Probably going to have to limit the numbers though !
Thanks - useful. I can equally easily go East of Brighton from here too so may go that way. TBH after so long not fishing (apart from a few sessions on holidays) I'd just be happy to wet a line - seeing a fish would be a bonus ! Every time I've been to the Marina in Spring/Summer seems to have been mobbed with people trying to take home hundredweights of mackerel in binbags and huge buckets - I'd rather catch them singly on light gear than factory-fish them on feathers.
I'm with you on that. Sadly they allow this slaughter to go on year after year, if I want some mackerel for smoking and freezing I try to get there early morning and once I get a builders bucketful, about 30-40, then I'm off home to get them filleted and brined. Either that or I use small metal lures and have some fun and take maybe a dozen for souseing or just filleting and grilling.
That’s a smashing post veg. I reckon you have become the Jack Hargreaves of NSC. I mean that in a nice way.
34 carp today for a weight of just over 100lb luncheon meat and banded pellet doing the Buisness, also queues to get into monks fishery in Kent this morning , the biggest participated sport in the country is back !
Regards
DF
34 carp today for a weight of just over 100lb luncheon meat and banded pellet doing the Buisness, also queues to get into monks fishery in Kent this morning , the biggest participated sport in the country is back !
Regards
DF