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Iggle Piggle

Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Posts: 55
Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 09 9:33 pm Post subject: Trout Season
Hello folks, After what seems like a long winter, the Trout season open tomorrow (well in Scotland anyway) Anyone got any trips planned?, my local river was the colour of chocolate today so doesn't look like I will be out , mind you I don't think the insects are awake either, it's hardly spring like up here yet

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 09 10:02 pm Post subject:
I'd love to go. We've got some of the best fishings rivers around here...and I still haven't been.

mihto

Joined: 03 Feb 2008
Posts: 3273
Location: West coast of Norway

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 09 10:15 pm Post subject:
Too early here. The lakes are still frozen and there is very little water in the rivers/brooks. If spring is early the fishing may start in mid-April. We have no legal season for trout, but standing in 5 C and rain is not my idea of a good time.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 09 6:05 am Post subject:
I'm not a big fan of trout but you have reminded me it will soon be mackerel season down here.

woody guthrie

Joined: 28 Jan 2009
Posts: 209
Location: Cork, Ireland

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 09 12:06 pm Post subject:
Managed to get out for a couple hours on the River Sullane just a short walk from the house. Very cold, no fly life hatching, so just tried some weighted nymphs hitting the usual pools but not a touch. Great to be out and looking forward to those big hatches and summer evenings when it doesn't get dark until late evening. One from last season.

mihto

Joined: 03 Feb 2008
Posts: 3273
Location: West coast of Norway

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 09 12:26 pm Post subject:
Anyone use worms for trout? runs away quickly

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 09 12:27 pm Post subject:

mihto wrote:

Anyone use worms for trout? *runs away quickly*

Wash your mouth out with carbolic soap.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 09 12:28 pm Post subject:

mihto wrote:

Anyone use worms for trout?

Only people who actually want to catch them.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 09 12:31 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

mihto wrote:

Anyone use worms for trout?

Only people who actually want to catch them.

Peasant...

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 09 12:32 pm Post subject:
Well fed peasant though.

mihto

Joined: 03 Feb 2008
Posts: 3273
Location: West coast of Norway

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 09 12:40 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Well fed peasant though.

I have been called worse...but not by Norwegians.

Most of us have a particularly down-to -earth way of thinking about fishing. Sure it is a fabulous sport but food gathering comes into it as well. I spend my whole summer fishing and the rest of the year I eat the result. Today is Fried Trout Day. Catch and relase is not for the likes of me

I will not bore you with Fabulous Fishing Stories, only say that Norway is not a bad place for those of you who like walking in the mountains for days without meeting a single soul, and who can handle frying fresh trout on the embers of a dying fire.

woody guthrie

Joined: 28 Jan 2009
Posts: 209
Location: Cork, Ireland

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 09 1:07 pm Post subject:

I don't have a problem with bait fisherman, I just enjoy the fly fishing more and if was purely about getting as many fish out of the water as possible there are even more efficient methods of doing that than worms.

It is any method on the river I fish mostly and we all seem to rub along okay fly, bait and spinning. The biggest problem is probably the taking of undersize fish in great numbers by people who don't really care about the long term effects.

The fact that some people see themselves as better than bait fisherman because they use artificial flies is ridiculous and I don't go along with it. We do enjoy a lot of free access in Ireland to some great rivers that in the UK would cost you a fortune so those elitist attitudes are less of a problem.

Iggle Piggle

Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Posts: 55
Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 09 5:32 pm Post subject:

woody guthrie wrote:

Managed to get out for a couple hours on

Nice wild fish Woody, I was out today at my local stream and there were plenty of fish rising to a nice hatch of Olives, nice and warm today.....alas I had no rod with me as was out with the Bambino !

One from Last year

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 09 7:00 am Post subject:

I've just forked out £70.00 for my local fishing club licence which gives me two rivers and a lake to go at this season and then had to spend the same again for my salmon and sea trout licence.
I'm not going to get anything like a £140 s worth of fish but I'm hoping for many pleasurable evenings thrashing the water and scaring the other wildlife with my attempts at setting an artificial fly gently and seductivley on the surface of the water.

Thomas8

Joined: 25 Mar 2009
Posts: 82
Location: West country

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 09 12:50 pm Post subject:
Oh memories of last year. Hot smoked Trout from local reservoir Delicious i can tell you Over a bed of fresh rosemary sticks, oak and hay

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