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Post by dbl on Apr 3, 2017 11:40:14 GMT
Tsk, tsk, fighting over the scraps. Now for natural beauty and great rivers you need to live in a principality... (Wye, Usk, Severn, Dee etc)
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Post by mspaddler on Apr 15, 2017 15:20:42 GMT
I promise I won't boast about Yorkshire, mention Wales or anywhere other than the fishing Yorkshire Calder, I'm sure there is good fishing elsewhere, Montana for instance :-) So a couple of days on Calder Tributaries one day in Huddersfield and the other way up on the Moors in Last of the Summer Wine country. I'm still finding it slower than last year with very little rising even though there have been some good hatches. The Holme is tight and right now quite low so it was straight Tenkara fishing with short rods, TUSA's Rhodo & ESO's little rod. Ended up with just 3 fish for four hours fishing, I'll be back when there is a little more water and finish the rest of the stretch on the Slaithwaite ticket.
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Post by mspaddler on Apr 15, 2017 15:29:59 GMT
A nice WBT one of the 3 caught on my Last of the Summer Wine outing. This one and the others were caught on the same kebari, not the prettiest in the world but one I tied myself so good enough!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2017 20:58:56 GMT
I promise I won't boast about Yorkshire, mention Wales or anywhere other than the fishing Yorkshire Calder, I'm sure there is good fishing elsewhere, Montana for instance :-) Brian i always enjoy reading your reports wherever they are from in the UK but Montana would be good too.👍 David
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Post by mspaddler on Apr 20, 2017 8:48:44 GMT
An afternoon on probably my favourite Tributary of the Yorkshire Calder. I had a good session although very slow to start, wanting to be pure Tenkara but the Kebari just wasn't doing it for me so I swapped to a small nymph under a Elk hair caddis. There was an intermittent hatch of various insects but very little rising although I did manage to pick up a couple on the caddis. Ironically the best fish of the day did rise but it ignored the caddis and took the underslung nymph.
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Post by mspaddler on Apr 20, 2017 8:55:04 GMT
For some reason the forum is only allowing me to add one photo to each post even though I substantially compress the photos. So here is my best effort from Yesterday, caught using a TUSA Rhodo with 7 ft level line and a size 16 red necked pheasant tail nymph under a size 12 elk hair caddis.
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Post by mspaddler on Oct 20, 2017 19:04:20 GMT
In the interest to keeping the forum alive herewith the tale of today or really just 3 hours in Huddersfield, W Yorks. Due to the short time available I kept my fishing to about 500m of the River Holme in the city. Fish were rising all over the river but to what I had and still have no idea! Anyway after the first grayling on a pink head nymph I switched to size 18 Griffiths Gnat and fooled several grayling all about 8 or 9 inches long no bigger and no smaller so I guess next year we should have a healthy supply of 12+ inch beauties. I continued up stream picking off the occasional grayling and a similar number of trout all on drys but the last few for fun I switched to a size 18 Royal Coachman and the Yorkshire fish were just as happy to have a go at that American fly. I must say for every grayling I landed (about 10) I or the fish missed one and also a similar number of look and reject or miss the fly. Rods for the day were old school 12 foot Iwana and Try 360 which I managed to get the tipset stuck retrieving the line out of a tree following a missed strike. Notwithstanding the stuck tip, all in all a good session on a post industrial river.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 20:11:30 GMT
A good report. Thank you for sharing. I hope you managed to get the tip on your Try 360 unstuck OK.
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Post by dbl on Oct 21, 2017 8:47:25 GMT
Freeing a stuck tip set. A tip (sorry) from JP of Discover Tenkara is to use a grippy cloth like those used to grip tight jam jar lids. Easy to carry in a pocket.
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Post by mspaddler on Dec 20, 2017 12:27:47 GMT
Freeing a stuck tip set. A tip (sorry) from JP of Discover Tenkara is to use a grippy cloth like those used to grip tight jam jar lids. Easy to carry in a pocket. Thanks, I usually do carry the grippy cloth but this tip wouldn't cooperate. My go to method (which also worked in this case) is Dr Ishigaki rubber band solution. See the video on this link from Tenkara USA: www.tenkarausa.com/freeing-stuck-segments/
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Post by mspaddler on Feb 1, 2018 10:00:51 GMT
Well it has been a tough January here in Yorkshire. It's been weeks since I have fished the main river. The levels have been higher than my comfort zone. However, diligent daily searching of the river levels sites on Friday produced a window of opportunity on one of the Calder's tributaries. Having said that, the level was higher than I had fished it previously but I thought it was worth ago, cabin fever having long ago kicked in! What a good decision! It was a little tricky wading but with judicious use of my new wading staff from The Stickman of Helmsley I had a great 3 hour session, over 20 hooked and 10 Grayling to hand. Interestingly on this stretch of river I usually pick up about even numbers of WBT to Grayling but not on this occasion only 2 trout to hand and none lost to 'long distance release'.
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