In reply to Post #15
No it was the big one , its called freddi and always comes out at 3 pm a bloke said to someone the other day in Tesco, other stores are available
No it was the big one , its called freddi and always comes out at 3 pm a bloke said to someone the other day in Tesco, other stores are available
This has the potential to be a nice interesting thread,only three replies so far..
C'mon...get tapping..!
It doesn't have to be a novel..keep it short n sweet
C'mon...get tapping..!
It doesn't have to be a novel..keep it short n sweet
In reply to Post #17
This has the potential to be a nice interesting thread
I was hoping that some funny stories would come flooding in
This has the potential to be a nice interesting thread
I was hoping that some funny stories would come flooding in
In reply to Post #18
I was hoping that some funny stories would come flooding in
Mid 70's on a small lake in Hampshire. Fishing with my then girlfriend after carp that went to upper doubles, no more. Casting to an island using Hap dogfood as bait (stunning stuff). Rods were 11ft s/u Sportex blanks, reels were Mitchell 300's. indicators were rings of foil. I'd had a couple of fish and then my girlfriend asks if she can have a go. I tell her the next fish she can bring in but I will get it away from the island first.
A while later the indicator lifts to the rod and another fish is on. I think it was a low double (most of them were). I get it away from the island and hand her the rod instructing her to keep the rod up and don't reel when the fish is pulling. She then proceeds to just wind away and the carp came in like a skimmer, sliding over the surface and straight into the net. She hands the rod back to me and says "It's not THAT exciting is it?"
Hrmmph.
I was hoping that some funny stories would come flooding in
Mid 70's on a small lake in Hampshire. Fishing with my then girlfriend after carp that went to upper doubles, no more. Casting to an island using Hap dogfood as bait (stunning stuff). Rods were 11ft s/u Sportex blanks, reels were Mitchell 300's. indicators were rings of foil. I'd had a couple of fish and then my girlfriend asks if she can have a go. I tell her the next fish she can bring in but I will get it away from the island first.
A while later the indicator lifts to the rod and another fish is on. I think it was a low double (most of them were). I get it away from the island and hand her the rod instructing her to keep the rod up and don't reel when the fish is pulling. She then proceeds to just wind away and the carp came in like a skimmer, sliding over the surface and straight into the net. She hands the rod back to me and says "It's not THAT exciting is it?"
Hrmmph.
"It doesn't have to be a novel..keep it short n sweet"
My first venture fishing with the old man in the mid to late 70's was on the river Wye I caught a John West pinkie and a chublet, it rained.
My first venture fishing with the old man in the mid to late 70's was on the river Wye I caught a John West pinkie and a chublet, it rained.
In reply to Post #20
"It doesn't have to be a novel.keep it short n sweet
My first venture fishing with the old man in the late 70's maybe early 80's so i was 10 maybe 11 and had been pestering him to take me night fishing. We duly ended up at Little Frensham off the dam wall. I remember watching a starlight my Dad added to my float into darkness, then waking up in the back seat of the car as dawn was breaking. I think i may have caught a perch or 2
Life was simpler then, since been back to the lake but pike fished it .
"It doesn't have to be a novel.keep it short n sweet
My first venture fishing with the old man in the late 70's maybe early 80's so i was 10 maybe 11 and had been pestering him to take me night fishing. We duly ended up at Little Frensham off the dam wall. I remember watching a starlight my Dad added to my float into darkness, then waking up in the back seat of the car as dawn was breaking. I think i may have caught a perch or 2
Life was simpler then, since been back to the lake but pike fished it .
I started fishing as soon as I was able to hold a rod my dad who was a wicked wife beating child beating **** went fishing every weekend mainly trotting the tidal stretch at Teddington
and I HAD to go didnt matter if I wanted to or not
well like all things eventually I got hooked lol
and when I got to around 12 years old and had a bicycle I used to fish the Thames at Sunbury catching perch roach etc then around a year later found a spot in front of the open air swimming pool where if you cast a bunch of lob worms and a drilled bullet lead you would catch Barbel you would lose your rod if you didnt hold it all the time the takes were like nothing I had encountered before and the scrap was amazing
when I got to 16 I was working on a building site and got chatting to a brick layer His name was Bill and lived near the winning post Twickenham I never knew his last name and often think of him
and was obviously looking back one of the pioneers of Carp fishing he and his wife went Every weekend and fished Farnham Anglings Cut Mill pond (( not the similar sounding Cuttle mill )))
I told him about all these Barbel I had been catching and from the look on his face I could see he didnt believe me
this pissed me off but luckily I had one picture taken by some bloke with his Kodak box camera that was passing by and a few weeks later after the film was developed he found me fishing the same spot and gave me it
so I took it to work and showed it to him his attitude changed completely I could see he was impressed and a soon after he said as my wife is now to heavily pregnant I cant come with me anymore
you can use all her gear and come carp fishing this weekend if you want ! !!!!
that was the start of my Carp fishing ( 1962) we set up using Free lined spud a foil loop on the line and a half penny on the open spool with an enamel plate underneath no bedchairs in those days just sit up and beg chair with a wood pole brolly jammed down the side a blanket and bit of canvas over the legs
well sods law in the early hours it roared off the line hissing as it wizzed thru the foil
and being used to playing the hard fighting barbel I managed to land it big smile !
but I had never seen such a big fish !! people came from the other side of the lake to see it I was on cloud nine and and the start of my journey
and by the early 70s caught loads of carp and had joined the BCSG and was completely fanatical for the next 50 odd years
and I HAD to go didnt matter if I wanted to or not
well like all things eventually I got hooked lol
and when I got to around 12 years old and had a bicycle I used to fish the Thames at Sunbury catching perch roach etc then around a year later found a spot in front of the open air swimming pool where if you cast a bunch of lob worms and a drilled bullet lead you would catch Barbel you would lose your rod if you didnt hold it all the time the takes were like nothing I had encountered before and the scrap was amazing
when I got to 16 I was working on a building site and got chatting to a brick layer His name was Bill and lived near the winning post Twickenham I never knew his last name and often think of him
and was obviously looking back one of the pioneers of Carp fishing he and his wife went Every weekend and fished Farnham Anglings Cut Mill pond (( not the similar sounding Cuttle mill )))
I told him about all these Barbel I had been catching and from the look on his face I could see he didnt believe me
this pissed me off but luckily I had one picture taken by some bloke with his Kodak box camera that was passing by and a few weeks later after the film was developed he found me fishing the same spot and gave me it
so I took it to work and showed it to him his attitude changed completely I could see he was impressed and a soon after he said as my wife is now to heavily pregnant I cant come with me anymore
you can use all her gear and come carp fishing this weekend if you want ! !!!!
that was the start of my Carp fishing ( 1962) we set up using Free lined spud a foil loop on the line and a half penny on the open spool with an enamel plate underneath no bedchairs in those days just sit up and beg chair with a wood pole brolly jammed down the side a blanket and bit of canvas over the legs
well sods law in the early hours it roared off the line hissing as it wizzed thru the foil
and being used to playing the hard fighting barbel I managed to land it big smile !
but I had never seen such a big fish !! people came from the other side of the lake to see it I was on cloud nine and and the start of my journey
and by the early 70s caught loads of carp and had joined the BCSG and was completely fanatical for the next 50 odd years
Carp fishing did not exist before Korda. They invented it. Before Danny slipped and banged his head on the toilet and imagined Carp fishing, there was only trout and sea angling.
Great Scot
Great Scot
In reply to Post #19
Reminds me of a time with my wife, we had a caravan in
Billing Aquadrome, used to go there every weekend for a
short break, one summer we had a couple of weeks there
and part way through we went up to Cuttle Mill for a few
days, things were going ok, me fishing her reading books
and strolling down to the barn now and then, at one point
I had to go to the toilet, right, I said, if the alarm sounds
and the bobbin lifts pick up the rod and wind the handle,
just keep a bend in the rod and you'll be fine, so, off I go
when I get back the bobbin was hanging down and the rod
was in the rests, "what happened", oh, the alarm made
lots of noise and the thingy shot up and hit the rod, "yes
yes" then what? "I did what you told me" "AND" there was
something pulling the rod, "then what" it pulled hard so
I put the rod down, I picked up the rod and wound in....
yeah you know it, nothing, it could have been a 30 or not.
Reminds me of a time with my wife, we had a caravan in
Billing Aquadrome, used to go there every weekend for a
short break, one summer we had a couple of weeks there
and part way through we went up to Cuttle Mill for a few
days, things were going ok, me fishing her reading books
and strolling down to the barn now and then, at one point
I had to go to the toilet, right, I said, if the alarm sounds
and the bobbin lifts pick up the rod and wind the handle,
just keep a bend in the rod and you'll be fine, so, off I go
when I get back the bobbin was hanging down and the rod
was in the rests, "what happened", oh, the alarm made
lots of noise and the thingy shot up and hit the rod, "yes
yes" then what? "I did what you told me" "AND" there was
something pulling the rod, "then what" it pulled hard so
I put the rod down, I picked up the rod and wound in....
yeah you know it, nothing, it could have been a 30 or not.
In reply to Post #20
My god, theres a book somewhere there
My god, theres a book somewhere there
In reply to Post #25
its all copied to a word doc, keep it up, maybe some most embarrassing moments....like
fishing the opposite end to the house at Cuttle Mill
fish showing at the house end, me....nothing not a tap,
getting really pi**ed off, cast to the far margin, plop,
lovely, nothing happening for a while so wound in
FFS I wiped out 4 anglers lines = 8 to be precise,
I apologised to all the guys, 1 was so mad I had
to buy him some new line (well I didn't really....but
I would not be writing this if I hadn't), if any of you
guys were the ones....it was bloody funny (afterwards)
its all copied to a word doc, keep it up, maybe some most embarrassing moments....like
fishing the opposite end to the house at Cuttle Mill
fish showing at the house end, me....nothing not a tap,
getting really pi**ed off, cast to the far margin, plop,
lovely, nothing happening for a while so wound in
FFS I wiped out 4 anglers lines = 8 to be precise,
I apologised to all the guys, 1 was so mad I had
to buy him some new line (well I didn't really....but
I would not be writing this if I hadn't), if any of you
guys were the ones....it was bloody funny (afterwards)
In reply to Post #26
I was fishing Cut mill pond farnham one winter late 60s and I was a bit shocked when it started to get dark to see ice forming at the edge !
in those days I used 2 camping sleeping bags one inside the other a 44 ozs and a 38ozs with a blanket and canvas over the top
I woke up in the morning grabbed my gallon water bottle for a brew and found it was solid ice !!
and at that point I saw a dog running down the lake and realised it had completely frozen over and dog walkers were highly amused as they walked past
you cannot imagine what a plonker I felt
I was fishing Cut mill pond farnham one winter late 60s and I was a bit shocked when it started to get dark to see ice forming at the edge !
in those days I used 2 camping sleeping bags one inside the other a 44 ozs and a 38ozs with a blanket and canvas over the top
I woke up in the morning grabbed my gallon water bottle for a brew and found it was solid ice !!
and at that point I saw a dog running down the lake and realised it had completely frozen over and dog walkers were highly amused as they walked past
you cannot imagine what a plonker I felt
Its called Waterside these days,but a good while ago it was known as lakeview Bodmin..nr Lanivet.
It was new and well publicised and attacted some well known and famous anglers of that time
I used to fish it after work,and at one stage tried to catch at that point the biggest stocked common in Kernow,..
Angling times,was always doing a feature on the place,it was heralded as the new Anglers Paradise.
So.
After work as I said ,I rock up in my jet black Volvo 360 glt,worth a few quid these days and set up ..
Across the pool I notice a figure,and he was fishing the margins and island,using 8 single rods,each alarm had a mini pewter carp on it..apparently he was doing a feature for AT,and to my right,was a small Welsh guy,who seemed a reasonable angler and started to catch well on the waggle..
The Welsh guy,hooked a big carp,landed it and started to shout at me all excited like,a little bit pompous I thought,wanted to use my scales it turned out..I didn't much like his attitude to be fair and ignored him..
Turned out the Welsh chap was Ian Heaps,and I'd turned him down to use my Avons.(..world match champion..!
The other guy,equally famous was Gerry Savage..lol
It was new and well publicised and attacted some well known and famous anglers of that time
I used to fish it after work,and at one stage tried to catch at that point the biggest stocked common in Kernow,..
Angling times,was always doing a feature on the place,it was heralded as the new Anglers Paradise.
So.
After work as I said ,I rock up in my jet black Volvo 360 glt,worth a few quid these days and set up ..
Across the pool I notice a figure,and he was fishing the margins and island,using 8 single rods,each alarm had a mini pewter carp on it..apparently he was doing a feature for AT,and to my right,was a small Welsh guy,who seemed a reasonable angler and started to catch well on the waggle..
The Welsh guy,hooked a big carp,landed it and started to shout at me all excited like,a little bit pompous I thought,wanted to use my scales it turned out..I didn't much like his attitude to be fair and ignored him..
Turned out the Welsh chap was Ian Heaps,and I'd turned him down to use my Avons.(..world match champion..!
The other guy,equally famous was Gerry Savage..lol
In reply to Post #27
Similar thing happened to me at Cuttmill (Tarn Pond) albeit mid to late 90's, i was fishing the car park side 2 away from the "bog swim" I was under a brolly and at about 2 maybe 3 in the morning I had a slow steady run, yep the lake was icing over, as its in a valley it freezes fairly quickly.
Similar thing happened to me at Cuttmill (Tarn Pond) albeit mid to late 90's, i was fishing the car park side 2 away from the "bog swim" I was under a brolly and at about 2 maybe 3 in the morning I had a slow steady run, yep the lake was icing over, as its in a valley it freezes fairly quickly.
In reply to Post #28
It was probably about 10 years ago after a two week trip at Rainbow in the dead of winter I was going into the showers for a spruce up prior to going home and Tim P was coming out of the shower in his birthday suit, just by the fact it was unavoidable it was the biggest cock I've ever glanced in my lifetime, it was nearly down to the knee he wouldn't of looked out of place in a donkey sanctuary.
It was probably about 10 years ago after a two week trip at Rainbow in the dead of winter I was going into the showers for a spruce up prior to going home and Tim P was coming out of the shower in his birthday suit, just by the fact it was unavoidable it was the biggest cock I've ever glanced in my lifetime, it was nearly down to the knee he wouldn't of looked out of place in a donkey sanctuary.