acw
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Post by acw on Sept 21, 2007 12:01:03 GMT
Hmmm ,think the dusk thru dawn bit is ott . Most of my seatrout have been caught in daylight on a drifting boat ,would not dream of fishing Currane or similar in a decent wave and near darkness !
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salmo
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Post by salmo on Sept 21, 2007 16:15:05 GMT
ACW,
I took the note about only accessing the sea trout board between dusk and dawn out of the header.
salmo
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acw
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Post by acw on Sept 22, 2007 5:30:10 GMT
ACW, I took the note about only accessing the sea trout board between dusk and dawn out of the header. salmo No worries ,I know i am in a minority when it comes to seatrout fishing I do like the after dark stuff ,just do better on the lakes !
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salmondan
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Post by salmondan on Sept 23, 2007 22:02:51 GMT
I do like the after dark stuff , Scares the life out of me. Proper dark, middle of nowhere, bizarre noises (sheep actually cough and it sounds like a human cough ). Thanks but, no thanks, I'll stick to daytime fishing.
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Post by Silver Stoat on Sept 23, 2007 23:46:02 GMT
Scares the life out of me. Proper dark, middle of nowhere, bizarre noises (sheep actually cough and it sounds like a human cough ). Thanks but, no thanks, I'll stick to daytime fishing. You do get used to it. I used to feel the same but once you got hooked on these weird and wonderful fish you have to get out there and do it. The sheep cough is definitely the one thing that raised the hairs on my neck in the early days but even now, after years of fishing alone at night, I can still have the odd wobbly moment. Not so long ago, on a night when the mist was rising from the fields blotting out a crescent moon, I was fishing a very narrow section of a small pool and was miles away concentrating on the pull of the current on the line when I noticed what appeared to be a strange pale apparition floating above the opposite high bank. As the mist swirled the thing first faded and then faintly glowed giving the impression it was moving toward me across the river as it drifted silently to and fro. I could feel the coolness of the breeze on my forehead and suddenly realised I was sweating and the skin of my scalp was tight and tingling. Just at the point when my hand moved toward the reel handle prior to making a sharp exit, the mist momentarily cleared and there, staring intently across at me was ................. a cow. The reason it had appeared to be floating, when viewed though the thick mist, was simply that the top half of it's body was predominately white but it's legs and belly were black. A silly and laughable incident in retrospect yet it's hard, under those circumstances, to control and rationalise the instinctive fear of the the dark we inherit from our early ancestors. But as I said, you do get used to it .................... mostly. Dave.
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conwyrod
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Post by conwyrod on Sept 24, 2007 18:19:20 GMT
That story made me laugh Dave. ;D
Like you, I'm now fairly hardened to night fishing. Can't say I've ever seen anything that gave me the frights, but I've heard some very strange and spooky noises in my time.
And as you say, the hairs on my neck have stood up at least once this season!
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Post by salmonking on Sept 24, 2007 21:42:05 GMT
Can recall a story a few year back from my mate, fishing the till on the nightshift on upper tindal at the burnmouth if anyone knows it,,,wading deep in the pitch black,the night silent until an otter surfaced about two yards in front,i recall him saying he just about turned and almost swam for the bank,he didn't think otter at that presice moment in time,but certainly crapped himself,,,,the mind does race in the middle of the night though, i always try tell myself,,,,"what's here at night that's not here during the day,",,never seems to work
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Post by clydebuilt on Sept 25, 2007 0:09:30 GMT
Slightly off topic but night fishing & things that have made you jump, see below... I was fishing a spate river one night in my local estate when unknown to me, a prominant Royal was a guest at the "big hoose". Its a private water an no permits are available but that never used to stop me being young and daftish!! (especially when the seatrout were running!!) Anyway,I was being careful, ears alert as ever & it was pitch black. Then I heard a twig break and suddenly there was a cough, then an torch in my eyes with 3 guys in the black gear, MP5's round their necks with throat mic's and infrared gadgetry standing round me. Jesus, I nearly jumped out my skin!!! The blacked out faces staring at me as the rod nearly shaking out my hands!!! A quick grilling ie name, address, background check & a rather gruff "p1SS off " saw me run like the clappers out of the estate as fast as my legs could carry me. (face as white as a sheet too!!) I didnt bother tackling the river for a while until I was certain no "guests" were at the estate. I wil never forget the initial shock though, I can laugh about it now but at the time................. Clydebuilt
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Post by hornet on Sept 25, 2007 22:26:47 GMT
Clydebuilt, ;D If that had been me i would have bricked it too. Hornet
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Post by Speyducer on Sept 25, 2007 22:56:42 GMT
I used to do a lot of night fly fishing too, but although you do hear all sorts of odd noises, you don't get many Royals and their SAS-trained bodyguards downstream of Bonhill on the Leven ;D ;D
Mike
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Post by clydebuilt on Sept 25, 2007 23:46:55 GMT
... you don't get many Royals and their SAS-trained bodyguards downstream of Bonhill on the Leven ;D ;D Mike Mike, There certainly is an ex-SAS (and "SAS - Are you tough enough?" instructor TV celebrity) now working as a bailiff on the Leven. Not as many nets out down the estuarys and no-one spinning in the Bonhill pool anymore when he's about ;D ;D Cheers CB
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severnfisher
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Post by severnfisher on Sept 27, 2007 8:00:29 GMT
'There's nothing here at night , that isn't here during the day'. I try to tell myself that, and it usually works, but there is one stretch where it doesn't. It is adjacent to the boundary of a safari park
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Post by sinkingtip on Oct 3, 2007 16:42:50 GMT
If ye REALLY want to "keech yer breeks" then the Downiepark beat of the South Esk is the place to be. They have a pool called (wait for it) ........ The Graveyard. The graveyard itself is a single tomb mausoleum, going by appearances at least 200 years old, dilapidated, overgrown and "neath a spreading chestnut tree". Wrought iron railings - gate of its hinges ...........the lot ! No road to it - just sits about 200 yds back from the river in the middle of a rough haugh. Forget Hammer movies - this is something else. Fished that water for close on 25 years and I still give it a wide berth at night - not sure who's in there and don't want to ask !.........otherwise .........night fishing ? - piece of p**s and nothing to get het up about. If personal safety is your main concern then, I believe, Moc Morgan has recently brought out his own range of baseball bats for the dedicated night time S/T fisher.
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Post by tweedsider on Oct 5, 2007 7:50:51 GMT
Returning with a mate, to our car having fished the evening trout rise almost into mid summer darkness, our route took us from the fairly light riverside into darkened woodland. Up a steep path and alongside a wall of a country graveyard. This wall was just high enough to see over and THERE among the white tombstones an eerie light flickered back and forth. Now the people to be beware of in this world are those who are not lying in a coutry graveyard, but those still around. Yes for a minute the hairs stood up on the back of the neck, bloody glad I was not alone or would still be running yet. A closer look and subsequent enquiry revealed the boatman from the beat we had just fished gathering worms for his fisher on the morrow.
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Post by neptune on Oct 6, 2007 11:00:09 GMT
BATS you know they are after your flees but when you dont see them untill they are at your face it still makes you let out a little girlie scream or is that just me another thing is fellow anglers, when your in the river, total silence & complete darkness dreaming of that big take then out of nowhere "ANY LUCK YET" that allways gets me ;D
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lamson
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Post by lamson on Oct 6, 2007 11:09:46 GMT
No sea trout season is complete without a bat or two.
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conwyrod
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Post by conwyrod on Oct 6, 2007 11:43:01 GMT
Aye, and I managed one on my very first cast this season! Fortunately, that was my tally for the season.
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Post by neptune on Oct 6, 2007 12:09:07 GMT
thats not the tight lines your after
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Post by mikeyny on Dec 17, 2007 2:28:26 GMT
I have only fished once the whole night through and the dusk take lasted longer but the dawn take was much more violent . Had 2 average 2 lbs each at dawn and had 6 or 7 the night before all 3/4 lb and they went back safely
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Post by ducktip1 on Dec 31, 2007 17:50:00 GMT
I think fishing in the dark gets less hair raising, when after years of freaking out on a dark riverbank on your own, you realise the screams in the wood's next to you, is a Vixen calling her cubs and not something of cloven hoof.
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