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Post by Willie Gunn on Oct 5, 2007 7:53:26 GMT
"after a days work I can drive down and catch 20 - 30 salmon before it gets dark" ... Do you live by a fish farm? If not a fish farm, please give location and booking details. Pacifics not real salmon.
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Post by fruity on Oct 5, 2007 8:03:25 GMT
Silly me, my level of thinking only extends to Atlantic Salmon and only wanders when I get onto the subject of biology or theoretical matters etc.
Will stay in the UK and stick with Atlantic Salmon.
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Tyne Andrew
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Post by Tyne Andrew on Oct 5, 2007 8:43:04 GMT
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Post by Tyne Angler on Oct 5, 2007 9:24:42 GMT
Andrew, were they awake when they made this catch?
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Post by salmo on Oct 5, 2007 10:03:06 GMT
"after a days work I can drive down and catch 20 - 30 salmon before it gets dark" ... Do you live by a fish farm? If not a fish farm, please give location and booking details. Pacifics not real salmon. WG, The pacific salmon is a char but they still fight like the blazes. If you hook hold of a 30lb king you would know all about it. salmo
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Post by fruity on Oct 5, 2007 10:27:30 GMT
Whatever kind of salmon they are, keeping an accurate daily record must be hard when you are catching 20 to 30. Even if you had a ghillie/gillie/guide between a couple of anglers I can imagine them having a difficult time of things, and losing a few pounds running up and down the beat, trying to record and land the various fish.
Fortunately we have small cameras and phones with cameras so we can take a photo with the time and date etc, the real trouble is either finding the time to take a photo between landing and returning the fish, or having some sort of scale in the background to act as a measuring stick. Someone mentioned that they had a wading stick with a measurement scale upon it which is a good idea and this can be left in the background. I have to admit to carrying a tape measure and take the extra few seconds to measure anything over about 15Ib.
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Post by conwyrod on Oct 5, 2007 12:26:33 GMT
after fishing scotland for2 years, i am happy to be back to my local fishing were after a days work i can drive down and catch 20 - 30 salmon before it gets dark, i had a great time and most likely return, although the 0 fish spring days took a little getting used too. gary It must be absolutely awful Gary................................knowing that you are going to catch 20 - 30 salmon every time you go fishing. We Brits are made of sterner stuff, we like a challenge. ;D
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Post by fruity on Oct 5, 2007 12:37:16 GMT
It would be alright if it happened every few years but I wouldn't like it to happen too often, I think it would be terrible going from 20/30 fish caught to quite a few blanks or the odd fish here and there (which, unless I am just unfortunate, is more typical of the average angler).
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Post by G Ritchie on Oct 5, 2007 12:39:30 GMT
You have actually hit the nail on the head there John. I have been to Alaska, it was a novelty to catch so many fish for the first few days and then it quickly wore off. You weren't worried if you lost a fish because you knew you would hook another within a few casts. One pool I fished I hooked 7 fish and landed 6 of them in my first 7 consecutive casts, only having to leave as the tide had turned and I would have been cut off if I stayed. Wonderful area, with stunning scenery and really nice people. I would definitely recommend trying it once but would try something more challenging next time.
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Post by fruity on Oct 5, 2007 12:50:22 GMT
Like three days fishing a variety of waters for different fish, and then a few days hunting. Still, as a one off catch resulting in holding the record on your favourite beat, that is something I could handle.
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conwyrod
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Post by conwyrod on Oct 5, 2007 12:55:16 GMT
I can see what you mean Graham, but yes, it would be nice to experience it once!
Reminds me of when I first started fly fishing for rainbows, about 30 years ago. I used to catch the odd one or two, but there were quite a few blanks as well. In my second season I had an afternoon on Fewston reservoir in Yorkshire and I caught 25 -30 trout in about 3 hours!!
All caught from a corner of the dam on an orange Whisky Fly lure. I would guess the fish had been stocked that morning, and hadn't dispersed.
Have to admit the first 10 or so were exciting to catch, but after that it got rather tedious. Predictable, and no real skill needed.
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Post by tweedsider on Oct 5, 2007 17:42:36 GMT
An inept but enthusiastic chalk stream dry fly fishermen died and awoke in ideal surroundings. The banks of a beatiful stream, an overcast sky with a warm air from the SW, his gillie was waiting, we had better assume she was a gorgeous young well endowed lady. "Good morning Sir" says she , "I have your rod assembled its the height of the mayfly season and I have tied an exact copy of the hatching fly on your cast", this was before leaders. "Now Sir, there is a three pounder lying in a very difficult lie behind that willow bush." Our man draws off the required amount of line, he cannot see the fish but his cast bends dropping the fly over the fish. The rings of as rise appear from behind the bush, up with a rod a hrd fighting threepounder played to the net. "There's another Sir". Another skilled cast another fish. Then another, and another. "O hell", says the angler, you are right says the gillie who has now grown cloven hooves and horns, this is hell where you catch every fish you try for.
It needs to be a challenge
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Post by Roobarb on Oct 6, 2007 8:56:39 GMT
I think if he were around to read this a Mr Naylor might have something to say!
I know of a catch of 24 to one rod on the Fowey (in the '80's I think). The Exe used to give double figure days to one rod in the '90's but those days seem to be gone now, although I know of 6 in a morning two weeks ago on fly.
Andy
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