Dave
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Post by Dave on Oct 9, 2010 12:05:17 GMT
You would think having the surname Roach I would be up to Olympic standards as far as swimming is concerned and would enjoy a really good fish supper. But nothing could be further from the truth and when I joined the Royal Navy aged just 15 years old I was put into the backward swimmers class as in truth I was at that age a non swimmer.
After some very cruel treatment in the swimming pool by some very vindictive instructors I did learn in the end to be able to swim forward just enough to pass the required tests that then allowed me to come out of the backward swimmers classes and pursue other after hour’s activities such as becoming a member of the bugle band.
I do often make a joke when someone tells me they go fishing and say to them I’m not to happy they are catching my cousins on some rusty old hook as I understand many people like to fish for Roach and I believe I’m right in saying there is even something called a Roach pole.
Fishing is not a pastime I have ever taken up and mostly due to not really having the time, but I can see the attraction of sitting beside a lovely river on a nice day and enjoying a relaxing sport where the thrill of the catch adds to the whole experience. Likewise I can see how much fun and excitement can be had say going out on a boat shark fishing and what this tells me is there are so many forms of fishing and each must offer something different from the other.
I did go fishing once off Hopes Nose with a friend who lent me a rod and I sat on a rock until I had to move due to the tide coming in and me being in danger of getting cut off. Four hours without catching one single fish and so I wound my line in for the last time and was shocked to see that as the hook had come through the water it had gone through the side of a real little tiddler and so I caught my one and only catch ever even if the poor fish had not taken the bate but got unlucky to get in the way of my hook.
So is fishing your thing? What type of fishing do you enjoy? and what was the biggest fish you ever caught?
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Post by stefano on Oct 9, 2010 14:20:47 GMT
So is fishing your thing? What type of fishing do you enjoy? and what was the biggest fish you ever caught? Not for me Dave as I just can't sit still for long enough! A pleasant walk along a river bank, canal, or lakeside is brilliant and there is no need to spoil it by dangling things in the water! Even watching local football I will normally do about twenty laps of the pitch during the course of the game. Mother says it's ADHD but I've told her I will probably grow out of it!  |
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Post by stuartB on Oct 9, 2010 20:01:50 GMT
I love fishing but rarely get the opportunity these days. i started fishing with my Dad, catching mainly mackerel. When I was in the RAF I had a bust up with the manager of the football team and refused to play anymore. Wednesday afternoons was sports afternoon, if you played a sport for the station. Having left the football team this left me in work, which was not pleasant. Desperate to find another sport, my good friend John suggested course fishing in matches. I had my doubts because being a sea fisherman at heart, I could not face tiddler bashing. how wrong could I be? I absolutely loved it and took to it like a duck too water. i was stationed at RAF West Drayton and I was shocked to see so many varied opportunites for fishing there were in a city as big as London. Each evening we would fish the Grand Union Canal in West Drayton. Weekends we would do various gravel pits around the area left behind after the construction of the M25. My favourite location was Denham village. What a lovely place (Cilla lives there I believe). The Swan pub is good for a pint aswell. We had access to a couple of lakes which back onto the road to Harefield Hospital. I caught my best ever fish there. It was a 5lb tench. what a beautiful fish, olive green with orange eyes. It took me an absolute age to land as I only had one and half pound breaking strain line. what a fantastic buzz. I got to fish some great locations around the country, here are some: The Severn at Shrewsbury - caught barbel The Trent - caught nothing ;D The Witham - eels and roach (sorry Davce) The Nene - bream Thames at Henley - all sorts Thames at Radley - bream Theale Pits at Reading - bream, perch i better stop before I bore you all too much. see Dave, I can manage more than 2 lines when the subject suits me.  |
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Post by aussie on Oct 10, 2010 11:49:54 GMT
Dave how the f*cken hell do you swim backwards anyway?
I love fishing but I can`t stand that fresh water business, must be sea fish like Bass. I only catch what I eat or it gets put back and I don`t think it`s right to haul a fish out of the water if you ain`t gunna eat it. That`s why I will only target some types of fish, every now and then you land something by mistake or fluke so it must be treated with care and put back with as little stress as possible to it. Bass, salmon (but only when it`s in the sea) and flat fish are target species for me, don`t like doggies (rock salmon) or mackerel or garr (smellies) so try not to hook them. Don`t understand why people will sit around a pond all day just to catch something 3 inches long and un-eddible and carp, oh my god they taste like muddy cardboard and are like dead wieghts to land so I don`t get that at all, still everyone to their own I suppose!
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Post by lambethgull on Oct 10, 2010 14:41:38 GMT
Dave how the f*cken hell do you swim backwards anyway? I love fishing but I can`t stand that fresh water business, must be sea fish like Bass. I only catch what I eat or it gets put back and I don`t think it`s right to haul a fish out of the water if you ain`t gunna eat it. That`s why I will only target some types of fish, every now and then you land something by mistake or fluke so it must be treated with care and put back with as little stress as possible to it. Bass, salmon (but only when it`s in the sea) and flat fish are target species for me, don`t like doggies (rock salmon) or mackerel or garr (smellies) so try not to hook them. Don`t understand why people will sit around a pond all day just to catch something 3 inches long and un-eddible and carp, oh my god they taste like muddy cardboard and are like dead wieghts to land so I don`t get that at all, still everyone to their own I suppose! I never had you down as the sensitive hippy-type, Aussie , but yours pretty much mirrors my fishing philosophy, although I am partial to a bit of mackerel. Fishing by the sea with the sea air, screaming gulls and wet salt-water ridden trainers cannot be bettered by any inland fishing experience in my opinion. I can see the attraction of fishing for trout in a Scottish loch or salmon fishing on the Spey and even the delights of a quiet stretch of the Severn or Trent, but gravel pits and canals hold almost zero attraction for me. My greatest fishing experience was when my brother and I as nippers landed a 3.5lb Wrasse off Babbacombe Pier with an orange crabline. Although I guess course fishermen might say that's why sea-fishing is the lesser sport  |
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Post by loyalgull on Oct 10, 2010 17:24:57 GMT
absolutely fishing mad me,have been all my life,i coarse and sea fish from boat and shore,by night and by day,now my kids fish as well.Its the most relaxing enjoyable hobby ever invented in my opinion.Whatever my worries and whatever my woes it all disappears when i fish.And i am never going to stop,until the grim reaper calls,infact i would be more than happy to pop my cloggs whilst fishing,what a brilliant way to go
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Post by Budleigh on Oct 11, 2010 18:55:41 GMT
What, like Robert Shaw?
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Post by merse on Oct 11, 2010 19:05:44 GMT
 Never understood the fascination with it really..................if I want a fish I go up the Chippy! Having said that, I did take up the invitation to grab hold of a rod the other month ~ and caught a mirror carp! I absolutley crapped myself when the rod started to bend and the line seemed to run out for miles and by the time I had reeled it in; I imagined a bloody great White Shark was going to be on the end of it. Not a bad little fish though and I knew what it was as I once had a pair of them in my old garden pond in Hackney. You can see a picture of it on my website, all covered in blood because I made a ricket of getting the hook out of it's mouth before I threw it back. I bet the silly bugger's been caught a hundred times before anyway as he didn't seem that arsed about the inconvenience! ;D
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Post by loyalgull on Oct 11, 2010 19:12:40 GMT
sorry budleigh but your jokes are running a bit fin ::)there isnt anything wrong with dying with your rod in your hand  |
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Post by Budleigh on Oct 15, 2010 9:21:07 GMT
A couple of pics of my old fishing exploits on the River Teign as a licensed salmon fisherman using seine nets from the back of a traditional seine boat. By law we can only fish two months of the year and even then the nets have to be out and back in from the water within five minutes, we are not allowed to hold them out in the river once they have been let out of the back of the boat. We fish at low tide and only have a limited time as once the tide starts to come in it becomes too difficult to hold the nets, let alone haul them in. So usually two shots is the most we get on each run. There are a limited amount of licensee's who are able to do this type of fishing on the Teign and often there can be more than one boat waiting to go at any particular point, so there is a 'hierachy' depending on who fished where, and when, on the previous shoot. Obviously it has been known to get a little 'fractious' if the boys (and girls) in the run before don't allow enough time for those waiting to get out! It's all good fun though... ps... I'm the one in the dark top. And I have a problem, I am highly allergic to fish, and salmon in particular, so can't go near one once caught! |
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Post by Rags on Oct 15, 2010 9:40:58 GMT
A couple of pics of my old fishing exploits on the River Teign as a licensed salmon fisherman ...
And I have a problem, I am highly allergic to fish, and salmon in particular, so can't go near one once caught! Shurely shome mishtake! |
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Post by Budleigh on Oct 15, 2010 13:40:07 GMT
Hard to believe that I could choose a hobby that entailed having nothing to do with the end product!
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Post by aussie on Oct 15, 2010 16:42:56 GMT
Hard to believe that I could choose a hobby that entailed having nothing to do with the end product! What are you talking about? You support Torquay for Christ sake! |
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Post by loyalgull on Oct 26, 2010 22:19:16 GMT
Hard to believe that I could choose a hobby that entailed having nothing to do with the end product! that is pretty true,but i stumbled across a fantastic bait by accident last weekend,tried a bit of the old chewing tobacco,i hooked 48 fish,some felt very big on the old rod,sadly i landed none of them as they all kept spitting the hook out  |
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