conwyrod
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Post by conwyrod on May 6, 2009 17:52:30 GMT
The weather seems to have been unusually windy this spring, and I see gales are forecast overnight and tomorrow.
I'm always disappointed to arrive on the river in perfect conditions......................except for a gusty wind which always seems to be blowing in the most difficult direction, from a casting point of view.
I've learnt from experience that lightweight rods and lines are pretty useless in such conditions and now reach for the cannon - a 15' B&W and a 10/11/12 windcutter or 10/11 shooting head. Not pretty, but at least the line ends up downstream, somewhere. ;D
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Post by goosander on May 9, 2009 19:59:53 GMT
The last few years it is getting windier later and later into the season. My men all used to have a good suntan by the end of April now its June. There has definatly been a change in the weather in my working life the spring is much colder than it used to be and a good bit later
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Post by Willie Gunn on May 9, 2009 20:42:51 GMT
Gab's o May
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Post by sinkingtip on May 10, 2009 15:15:05 GMT
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conwyrod
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Post by conwyrod on May 10, 2009 15:56:25 GMT
Bullet Stanes = hailstones, a touch of cockney rhyming slang! ;D
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Post by sinkingtip on May 10, 2009 17:36:21 GMT
Bullet Stanes = hailstones, a touch of cockney rhyming slang! ;D Almost but not quite.
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Post by Roobarb on May 10, 2009 19:49:05 GMT
Indeed it does. I thought you were all making it up as you went along, that you were all in fact "Doon the Dee on a digestive". Interesting that you have so many words for grim weather, being tired and generally miserable On the subject of cockney rhyming slang I have a question. What is the cockney rhyming slang for cockney rhyming slang? Bloody hell I need a spate Andy
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fredo
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Post by fredo on May 10, 2009 19:50:21 GMT
You are a southerner.
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Post by G Ritchie on May 10, 2009 20:39:17 GMT
The Gab o May is a north east of Scotland name for the stormy period that occurs usually about the second week of May. These regular stormy periods were first described by Alexander Buchan the father of modern meteorology. He found by studying the weather patterns over a large number of years that there was a fairly regular pattern of cold stormy periods. The fishing communities of the north east of Scotland gave some of these periods names, the Gab o May is Buchans third cold spell, which generally occurred around about the second week of May. The second cold spell occurred about the middle of March and is called the Teuchat storm up here (Teuchat is the Scots word for Lapwing and is pronounced chew-het). The first cold spell occurs around about Valentines day, I cant remember the local name for that one.
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Post by duggierev on May 10, 2009 21:05:19 GMT
May, either - "In like a Lion oot like a Lamb" - or - "In like a Lamb oot like a Lion"
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conwyrod
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Post by conwyrod on May 10, 2009 21:12:14 GMT
You can tell it's a quiet season, as here we are talking about the weather. I fellow rod on the Tweed the other week commented, over lunch in the hut, that everyone was making conversation about fish seen rather than fish hooked.
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Post by sinkingtip on May 10, 2009 21:12:58 GMT
You are a southerner. S'pose. Duggie - here in the lowlands it was always "Merch month - in like a lion, oot like a lamb" - not May.
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Post by duggierev on May 10, 2009 21:17:59 GMT
Aye sinktip, yir richt enuch.
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Post by Willie Gunn on May 10, 2009 21:18:59 GMT
Ne'er cast a clout till May be out But are we talking the month of May or the Hawthorn.
South of Grantown certainly a southener.
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Post by sinkingtip on May 10, 2009 21:22:29 GMT
"I thought you were all making it up as you went along, that you were all in fact Doon the Dee on a digestive".
...... or up the Tay in a tansad - a forerunner of the perambulator.
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Post by duggierev on May 10, 2009 21:24:16 GMT
Teuchats - I remember many years ago when I was a sprog, my father used to come home with inside of his cape full of Teuchats eggs, (while harrowing) hard boiled wee a drappy salt, perfect treat.
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Post by sinkingtip on May 10, 2009 21:39:30 GMT
Ne'er cast a clout till May be out But are we talking the month of May or the Hawthorn. No doubt about it Malcolm it's the Hawthorn or, as we southerners call it, the Hawthorn. Click the below link for further enlightenment people. www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/till-may-is-out.html
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Post by sinkingtip on May 10, 2009 21:47:42 GMT
Teuchats - I remember many years ago when I was a sprog, my father used to come home with inside of his cape full of Teuchats eggs, (while harrowing) hard boiled wee a drappy salt, perfect treat. I prefer my Teuchit egg soft boiled preferably with oatcake soldiers although a Scarfie or Grey Willie egg takes some beating.
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Post by dunkeld on May 11, 2009 8:16:59 GMT
Can vouch for windy weather, whilst down in the sheltered valley the light wind that was forecast by the Met Ofiice was spot on, however, when up at our moorland loch at 260m high and the wind was light to start off with, it gained strength as the day went on. Late afternoon the wind really got up and swung right round to the North (from a Westerly direction) and was giving us white horses on the waves. Not pleasant fishing conditions, what with the sun out most of the time and fish feeling a bit sick no doubt with the recent stormy conditions Oh well theres always good old June
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Post by sinkingtip on May 16, 2009 11:04:43 GMT
C'mon John - get a grip, this should be ower here and not ower there. Let's keep a tidy hoose now ;D
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