Fish Wild - April 2007 Online
The April edition of Fish Wild is now online.
I particulary like Mike Connors article on what makes somebody an angler.
What many people completely fail to understand is that the number or size of fish is basically irrelevant to a true angler. Indeed, a true angler will quite happily spend hours trying to catch minnows, or even just watching a fish!
Get the full article here.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Spent a couple of hours on the water today,trotting small worms in the tree-pool,and landed two brown trout.The first was a good fish-nudging the pound mark,and the other was a typically sized half pounder.It was bitterly cold though-and did not see any flies coming off the water!
March 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Good Grief Charlie - yur a brave Kelvinator right enough, it was bitter today. A trout of around a pound is a fine trout though - was it in good condition ?
March 21st, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Yes! it was plump.It has obviously been feeding well in the mild weather we had recently-come april/may it should be much larger.Also spent a half hour watching the sparrowhawk starting her nest-very intrerestng!
March 21st, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Sounds like a lovely day Charlie, great news about the sparrowhawk !
By the way, you email addy is still bouncing back - the yahoo one !
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:52 am
Here’s the new one-hope that works.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 pm
P.S-read that dudes article-most of it would make you want to top yourself,but i can totally relate to paragraph 16-and he’s bang on!you can only achieve this sense if you are in tune with your surroundings-and not enough anglers know this,and therefore do not develop it-and catch fewer fish as a direct result of this.He was unfair on put and take fisheries though-they can be important for bringing newcomers to the sport,and offer the novice a good chance to learn how to cast the fly and play a fish-and not clutter up his river!
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Also on the subject of wildlife-are there any otters in your stretch?ther has been a breeding pair down here for a few years now,and they have been doing very well(mabey thats why the sea trout dont hang about).
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Charlie,
“most of it would make you want to top yourself”
You old cynic you
Its funny you should say that about the otters - I know there is a breding pair down in the city and I have always found that a bit odd - it is the one place you would expect them not to hang around much - I would expect to see some evidence up past gasrscube and further to the Junction pool but have never seen any evidence of any. I am sure there must be some up there though.
Seen planty of voles though
March 22nd, 2007 at 5:28 pm
The otters are extremely shy down here-you’ve got to be on the river very early/late to have any chance of a sighting-they’re most active at night!