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Post by toneman on May 16, 2015 13:48:58 GMT
Fished the duo today with klinky thing and Lewis Hendrie killer shrimp on point .two o/s grayling to dropper.very exciting to see the take
M.
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Post by toneman on May 22, 2015 10:00:42 GMT
Well
I started fishing at 08.39. A minor time according to Solunar app with a rating of 3 out of 4 for the period ending 10.09.
I caught 8 fish,7 grayling & a brown trout! Well chuffed
Fishing first single black Bibio . Couple of strikes no hook ups.
Went to change rods and no rod in holder on jacket! Very expensive Fieldmaster lost! Turned round to see it floating! easily spotted by T/USA new Keeper floating prominently.
Then came the action.
Very special day with the river gods
M
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Post by custheyder on May 26, 2015 9:00:44 GMT
Lucky! ... Glad it didn't get away. Perhaps this is the use for spools that hasn't been mentioned before. Buoyancy aids for rod spotting!
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Post by toneman on Jul 12, 2015 20:40:46 GMT
Prospects for decent day. On station by 8.45.only to find day ticket holder + guide in preferred " under weir pool. Bothe well into double figures before they moved downstream. Not much afterwards !?
Returned to lower downstream at 16.45 to fish single dry. Onstream dry fly soft hackle. Four casts 4 fish! . Moved upstream, nothing. Fell badly breaking oni 1 top section! Rod was collapsed but not capped so tip came out & broken in fall . Pride & purse damaged again by my own stupidity! Ordered two this time cod I am bound to be dull enough to do it again!
M
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Post by flatsghost on Jul 13, 2015 8:10:29 GMT
Mark
You are having some bad luck lately with breakages! Hope it is only the pride that is damaged (other than the rod of course).
Take it easy chap
Glyn
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Post by toneman on Jul 13, 2015 9:15:11 GMT
Not looked too closely at "the body". Scared of what the ageing process is doing. Seriously though when I am catching fish I seem to be in a meditative state & normal care of both me & my rods seem to take second place. Mrs toneman not impressed either!
Thanks glyn
Waiting for replacements from Japan. Ordered two just to be sure I have a spare!
M
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Post by toneman on Jul 26, 2015 16:12:16 GMT
Fishing is a cruel mistress! River either unfishable or raining or both!
Finally river slowing & going down. Fished nearest deep pool with level line & nymph. Hooked the biggest wbt I've ever been privaleged to hook,only for it to break off just as it was coming to hand. There is the rub ! Big fish need a net. Where was mine ? Coiled neatly in my pocket cod I never? need it.
In the words of the anti war song " when will they(he) ever learn"
Now for dinner. Duck , which luckily Waitrose caught for me!
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Post by toneman on Jul 26, 2015 16:15:34 GMT
Ps flash back caddis from on stream guide was the (nearly)successful fly!
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Post by toneman on Aug 22, 2015 17:15:46 GMT
Two minor periods morning & early afternoon . Blanked this am better afternoon, wbt &grayling to ptn this was after some fun & games with decent grayling taking& spitting our a dry fly or was my strike too slow? Finally got him only to be broken off coming to hand!
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Post by toneman on Oct 9, 2015 12:00:25 GMT
With just a few days left of WBT on the tone help was needed at work so am starting an hour later. This coincided with a 3 fish lunar period so it had to be done! One rod out of action (more later) I set out wish duo on the masu & a JP special on Oni one bamboo. Nothing doing so in desperation tried JP special. A grayling kept looking & not taking then I saw a better fish heading off downstream. It took the fly & was a perfect WBT about 8-10" in full mating colours ! I wished her luck & then caught a decent grayling on the same fly of similar size at next pool. Almost perfect end! Arrived home to find spare section From t bum without the dreaded vat + collection fee added! Some days it's so much more than just fishing!
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Post by toneman on Oct 14, 2015 10:51:38 GMT
Last day tomorrow. Went to try out new section on Fieldmaster with single nymph. A couple of casts and see my level line ,tippet and fly drifting perfectly down stream. Only one problem Not attached to Lilian! Only got spools of tippet so carried on with 9' of heaviest + 3' lightweight +nymph. Interesting. No takes almost invisible and kept fishing! Most important
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Post by toneman on Oct 31, 2015 8:33:03 GMT
More to fishing.
Excuse the ramble. As I near retirement I find myself reflecting more. Life has always been about work and fitting pastimes as&lwhen. Five years ago I started fishing. Now my inner journey has been torturous. C of E ,outright rejection of organised "religious " activity,dabbling in meditation & more recently mindfulness. Get to the point I hear from all points of the compass! Today was set to be a washout due to rain & Autumn leaves. Day cancelled! Being a cussed bloke,took wife to work & started chucking a secret nymph in the now falling water. A large fish was suddenly airborne & not interested in my nymph. A further chuck just below the weir proved fruitless and the twenty minutes watching fish try to climb the weir. The " other"? Is amazing!
If anyone can 1.edit my slo-mo film to single frame images2.identify the species please pm me & I will email the file. Awesome!
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Post by toneman on Nov 17, 2015 13:32:49 GMT
Enforced lay due to middle ear deafness! Managed to catch last,finals episode of the big fish with Ben fogle. Second challenge was subsistence fishing on the Zambezi river. Many similarities to Tenkara. Comments about purist form of fishing.
M
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Post by flatsghost on Nov 19, 2015 10:04:11 GMT
Mark
I would have said that the similarity was to whip fishing rather than Tenkara. They were using bait and a float after all. Yes, a very simple and age old way of doing it and we have all done something similar. I guess it can be refreshing to strip away all of the trappings of modern fishing and everything that goes with it and step back and use a simplistic method such as they did. Much of the attraction of Tenkara to me is the absence of high tec.
As far as your footage of fish on the weir then do send me a clip as I would be happy to look at it.
Interested to know what 'mindfulness' is exactly!
Glyn
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Post by toneman on Nov 25, 2015 15:13:56 GMT
Frustrating infuriating calming sublime! All in a few days fishing. In dock because of middle ear blockage causing deafness in right ear together with dawn chorus & vertigo. Had to cancel long arranged trip to my nearest chalk stream! Then broke top two sections on my Fieldmaster rod( £ 55 + customs ) & then today river fishable,single John Pearson nymph and 4 fish! Well 3 & a greedy tiddler!
So now cuppa and more birdsong!
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