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Post by Speyducer on Nov 4, 2007 11:36:13 GMT
I have been fishing since I was 5 years old, and that wasn't yesterday by a long chalk!
I was first taken fishing by my father, who took me pike fishing on the great Ouse, and I was just four! I don't remember that trip specifically, but it has instilled in me the sense of the outdoors, given me a passion for fishing of all sorts, and left me with the same drive to pass on that passion to my own family, and others.
Who firstly got you into fishing? - yes...for any sort of fish!
Mike
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hornet
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Post by hornet on Nov 4, 2007 12:51:29 GMT
I started when i was about 7 years old and went sea fishing during a holiday at Anstruther. Fished off the Pier everyday catching codling and coal fish along with heeps of crabs. I remember nicking a chromed peacock ornament and breaking off the feathers that were shaped perfectly for spinning blades ;D. Funnily enough nobody noticed it was missing. When i think back i could be a millionaire with my own tackle brand  . Ah those were the day's. Caravan holidays. ;D Salmon fishing came late after the footie, golf and of course wimmen. I regret not picking up a fly rod when i was a laddie. Cheers Hornet |
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Post by fruity on Nov 4, 2007 13:02:45 GMT
Father. He knew much less than me, and I knew nothing!
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Post by G Ritchie on Nov 4, 2007 17:11:06 GMT
It was my father who first took me fishing at the age of 6 back in 1971. He bought me a 6ft solid fibreglass Shakespeare spinning rod, a Roddy fixed spool reel and some Mepps spinners and I remember catching 3 Saithe (Coalfish) first time out off the local pier.
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Post by builnacraig on Nov 4, 2007 17:29:19 GMT
My grandfather. First fish was a trout caught on the trolled fly in Lochindorb when I was about six.
Even then I was a skilled angler! Anyone who has fished Lochindorb will know how hard it is to tempt its wary residents!
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Post by G Ritchie on Nov 4, 2007 17:31:19 GMT
Anyone who has fished Lochindorb will know how hard it is to tempt its wary residents! ;D |
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Post by tweedsider on Nov 4, 2007 18:02:14 GMT
The banks of the local burn must have held some facination to me from an early age but I was 12 years old before my first threequarter pound trout fell to the one step up garden cane rod, a relic from a previous sea side holiday. My first proper fishing trip was with a Addie school chums father to Lennel on the Tweed under the power lines. The stream is but a shadow of its former self since the gas pipleine went through there. Anyway Addie was a wet fly fisher of the old school and expert to boot. There was a warning for you *4@/ing laddies to stay away from the stream, where a few minutes later Addie was playing a silver fresh mid-March whitling. Was I not impressed, the wet proffessor which was the successful fly had a permanent residency on my cast for many a year after.
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Post by tweedsider on Nov 4, 2007 19:36:00 GMT
Anyone who has fished Lochindorb will know how hard it is to tempt its wary residents! ;D[/quote Hello Graham I have had an interst in Lochindorb since reading the Maurice Walsh novels as a youth, There was a reprint of , "When I go Fishing" in the 50th anniversary reprint of T & S by Walsh. Although this is a salmon forum how about giving us an insight into the trout angling on Lochindorb Tweedsider |
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Post by G Ritchie on Nov 4, 2007 19:45:49 GMT
It is a very scenic loch although a bit exposed up there on the moors. The fish tend to be on the small side, averaging less than 1/2lb but are very numerous. I haven't fished it for a few years but I used to regularly catch between 20 and 50 a day and it was not uncommon to catch two at once. The fish are good fighters for their size though and it is well worth having a cast if you are in the area. Watch out for the skerries though, you cant see them in the peat stained water and you can come to a crunching halt right in the middle of the loch as you are motoring along.
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Post by tweedsider on Nov 4, 2007 20:00:26 GMT
Thanks Graham, had a visit Sept 06 when at Forres but did not fish Lochindorb.
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Post by builnacraig on Nov 4, 2007 20:14:52 GMT
[/quote
Although this is a salmon forum how about giving us an insight into the trout angling on Lochindorb
Tweedsider[/quote]
I was brought up at Lochindorb where my father was the keeper, and his grandfather before him. As Graham says it is a renown beginners loch with lots of sporty wee fish. It is possible to catch a pounder but not every day. To catch over 100 was nothing out of the ordinary, in fact it was usually the marker set at the start of the day.
During my fathers time he used to set traps in the spawning burns in an effort to reduce the stock, and hopefully increase the average size. We left there when I was eight but I can still see the traps in the burns, they would be full of trout in the morning. The trout went to a fish farm near Nairn? so that they could get the brown trout eggs. I am sure that the efforts to increase the average size didn't work.
There were so many trout that they were boiled up to provide feed for the dogs (the dogs also got boiled black back gull eggs when they were in season!).
In theory salmon can get into the loch as it drains into a tributary of the findhorn. There were a few stories of huge fish which were normally lost, they may have been salmon.
It is well worth a trip to the loch, but as Graham says don't pick a day with too strong a wind. I fished there again last year and we would have caught 100 but we were blown off after lunch when the score was 54 (all returned nowadays of course).
Builnacraig
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Post by iainjay on Nov 4, 2007 22:36:31 GMT
Like Graham, it was catching saithe off Millport pier when I was about 7 or 8.My dad would come along as it started to get dark otherwise I would have stayed on all night.
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Post by hornet on Nov 4, 2007 23:01:50 GMT
Hello Iain, Did you ever fish Weymss Bay where the Ferry docks. My old man had to bring down my tea as i would not leave either.  Fine memories. I haven't been down that side of the country for years. I also used to fish off Girvan. I remember the huge shoals of mullet that were only feet from the shore line, plus the harbour used to be stuffed with them. Cheers Hornet |
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Post by iainjay on Nov 5, 2007 14:15:05 GMT
Hornet
When I was about 16 or 17, it was the height of the cod fishing at the Gantocks,between Weymss Bay and Gourock.I seem to remember the British record being broken twice in the one year. Thought once I was in with a shout of the record only to find I'd hooked two..both 19lbs.
It was a few years previous to that when I first saw a bloke fishing the fly for salmon.I was at BB camp at Pitlochry and standing on the suspension footbridge and saw this guy landing a beautiful silver fish from what I now know to be Portnacraig. I remember telling myself that one day I'm going to have a go at that. Took long enough!!
Cheers
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Post by charliethompson on Nov 5, 2007 21:15:22 GMT
My Dad - East Durham beaches in the 70's winters, golden days for Cod. Summers falling asleep in the cuddy of his Orkney Longliner. He would have loved the fly fishing if he hadn't died too young and I have little doubt he would have poured his soul into it like he did most things - He would have been chasing the Salmon so it's only right I start having a go for the two of us.
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Post by neptune on Nov 5, 2007 21:34:19 GMT
6 years old my dad took me on the tweed with him he was fly fishing & i had a little spinning rod with a worm on it
i quickly lost intrest as 6yr olds do & wanted a shot o the fly rod
i stood next to my pa watching how to cast. a few catches of the bank later i got the flee in the water
my dad was showing me again when i decided to go to his other side OUCH the flee caught me just above the eye, still got the scar now
so you could say thats when i got "hooked"
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