Cycle Chat Fishing Club.

[Mireystock]

Are there any other anglers out there ? Out this weekend, or out on the bike instead ?

 

[13 rider]

I used to be a mad keen match angler and fished every weekend with out fail both club matches and big opens including nationals . But over the last few years as more and more matches are on man made fisheries I lost my mojo and now I only fish my local club matches .I been in the club over 30 years and we don't fish in the winter Not been out since early Nov first match April . But basically nowadays I rather be riding my bike

 

[Bobby Mhor]

I occasionally cast a graceful fly line across the water

 

[Markymark]

I've only caught one fish in my life. I was about 10 with my uncle. It must have been around 5lb. I pulled it in. I went to the car to get something and when I got back my uncle had cut the fish in half and was using it as bait!!

My memory is somewhat faded but either he was fishing for sharks else my recollection of it being 5lb is not entirely accurate.

 

[Mireystock]

13rider, like you, it's certainly less of a faff to get out on your bike than to sort out your gear and sit by the water for a few hours. The last six months or so I've got into lure fishing for perch, as I can grab a rod and a few lures and have an hours fishing if I get finished at work early or whatever.

In fact I've just come in from an hour on a local pool, which was still partially iced up. I had a very small perch on the drop-shot (very welcome though !)

 

[13 rider]

My claim to fame is a guy from Leicester called Dave Wesson won the world championship for Australia in the early nineties .While he was reigning champ I drew next to him on a canal match in Leicester and beat him his 4.5 oz was not enough to beat my massive 6 oz it was a hard match

 

[Hugh Manatee]

I occasionally cast a graceful fly line across the water

I occasionally cast a splashy bird's nest of fly line into the water. 2016 sucked in so many ways one of which being it was my first year I didn't manage to hook and land a trout. I am currently deciding whether or not to renew my license. I still tie though:

 

[mark st1]

I used to and enjoyed it used to visit some of the many day ticket waters around here. Carp fishing (mainly camping) but it was a social mates beers cooking fry ups on a couple of gas stoves away for 2-3 nights a couple of times a month even catching the occasional fish now and again . I was the lake record holder for a brief time at this place...

http://www.sandhurstlake.co.uk/

One of my favourite lakes ever fished. Good times good memories.

 

[numbnuts]

Beach and kayak fishing here, also saltwater fly fishing, did a spell of course fishing a few years back.

 

[Poacher]

Paging @tincaman !

I bought a licence last year for the first time in about 20 years so that I could have a last fishing session or two with a friend I'd known for about 50 years, who was dying from cancer. I haven't fished since he passed away, but may take it up again in time.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Checking in.

Yep, I would be one of those, but very seldom in the UK, having started bonefishing about 20 years ago (only about an hour and a half in the last 5 years...)

Random photos here, if anyone's interested: http://s306.photobucket.com/user/bonefishblues/library/Fishing misc?sort=3&page=1

 

[Bobby Mhor]

I occasionally cast a splashy bird's nest of fly line into the water. 2016 sucked in so many ways one of which being it was my first year I didn't manage to hook and land a trout. I am currently deciding whether or not to renew my license. I still tie though:
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I fish a very small, shallow river, brown trout are small, grayling and even salmon are present in late season(so far up the river they are out of condition).
It's the hunt, nothing caught it is still an enjoyable day out.

The fact also you tie your own flies makes it more satisfying, I haven't tied a fly in a few years and still have plenty in my boxes.
Keep in there, natural looking flies like the Hare's Ear are more fun than some of these ridiculous gaudy things that pass for flies on still waters, mind you they work

I've sea fished from a very young age, coarse (nothing like running a float down a small river), I was heavily into pike fishing and used to run the PAAS website etc. I've only recently returned but only to river/burn fishing for the troot.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Thanks @Bobby Mhor I know I'm a bad angler. I tie flies for my friend Bob and he says they never fail. He's always sending me photos of some leviathan escapee rainbow he has caught from his local river. Or a lovely brown in the act of being released.

Even the bloke up the road who is a complete beginner. He tied on a Clan Chief I had only given him for a laugh. Six good trout that caught. I had to buy some more small red hackles. At the moment I'm tying Bob some March Browns and Hawthorn flies.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

For most of the last 35 years I've mainly fly-fished, including fishing for, and managing the England Loch Style Team during the noughties.

Back in the 1970s as a teenager I used to coarse fish for tench in the Ashton Keynes area of the Cotswold Water Park.

I've had an almost total break from fishing for the last couple of years apart from a few grayling days on the Welsh Dee, as most of my spare time has been consumed by cycling.

I did pick up a split cane Richard Walker Mk.IV Avon on eBay a few weeks ago as I quite fancy doing a little laid-back tench fishing this summer. I have a collection of early Mitchell reels and so will probably go quite retro. Quill float, lift method etc.

The idea of sitting back in a comfy chair with coffee and cigar watching a float quite appeals to me as I get older.

I'm still planning a four week fly fishing trip to Montana next year though.

Graham

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I've fishing in Montana, amazing place - we based ourselves in Bozeman and fished the Spring Creeks