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    Local wildlife

    in General Discussion

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    2 hours ago, Andy135 said:

    I've heard of some shoots where you're fined if you shoot one, and fined if one gets up but you don't shoot at it. 🤣

    I was part of a syndicate shoot a few yrs ago and that was pretty much the rule there too

    We had a couple of guinea fowl that were £40 IIRC

    Not really hard to miss either, they were like a fat basket ball flying over you

    Gold in those hills

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    Posted · Edited by jonnyswamp

    I was always digging up old bottles, clay pipes etc from the old Victorian/Edwardian tips near me (also bullets and the odd shell from an old firing range that dates back to the Boer war)

    10 yr old me would've pissed my pants at finding that

    Actually 52 yr old me probably still would

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    Are you sure it's not a tooth

    New season's resolutions?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 3/16/2022 at 10:18 PM, GPSguru said:

    Just sounds like a confidence issue, I was the same back in 2015/16.

    If I had been on the boat with you, I would have fished SPJ right through, and I can pretty much guarantee that my jig would be Blue Silver, or Blue pink (Blue white jigs are hard to come by)

     

    Yes I agree, I should've stayed on spj all day and persevered given the small tide

    Come on then... who's out at the weekend?

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

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    No fishing for me for the foreseeable either, daughter no2 has bought a house and has decided the layout of the rooms upstairs need altering

    Been knocking down black ash blockwork and coming home looking like Al Johnson

    Busy in work for the next couple of weeks, so no mooching off to go fishing midweek either by the looks

    Never mind, once she's gone there's just one left to go, but she's dug in like an Alabama tick and unlikely to be flying the nest anytime soon

    New season's resolutions?

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    Not the first time, but certainly no expert, more an enthusiastic learner

    I switched to spj on slack water and for about an hour or so after, there wasn't much coming up apart from pout and whiting on bait at that time

    When the tide picked up I went back to lures 

    Probably a combination of technique, type of lure, no tide and lack of fish

    New season's resolutions?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 3/13/2022 at 6:38 PM, jonnyswamp said:

    A decent fish on my spj set up, I'm out of Brixham  tomorrow and tides are small so.......

    Not much to report, a poor trip with some anglers not getting anything worth taking home

    I ended the day with 4 Pollock, 2 around 3-4lb, 1 that was 7 maybe 8lb and one around 10-12lb all on a blue and white 6" sidewinder (plus a dozen or more Pout)

    Tried the spj kit for an hour or so and only picked up a small Whiting, though there were some good 3 and 4lbers came up on baited feathers/muppets over slack

    Don't know the final tally, but only around 15 Pollock I believe

    Quite a few of the wrecks we visited were netted, the drawback of small tides I suppose

     

    SPJ set up for wrecking.

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

    Posted

    On 3/4/2022 at 8:07 PM, Saintly Fish said:

    @jonnyswamp if I use my Nomura Kanji spinning rod coupled with a Maxel rage 25, do you think that'll do? 
    I don't go wrecking often so don't want to be spending a fortune. 
     

    Do they do them Left hand wind?

    The reel I bought was LH, can't help much with your rod as I'm a SPJ novice myself and haven't heard/seen a Kanji sorry

    But I believe, as with all types of fishing, if you fish with a bit of confidence you'll do OK no matter what you use

    SPJ set up for wrecking.

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

    Posted

    On 3/4/2022 at 8:07 PM, Saintly Fish said:

    @jonnyswamp if I use my Nomura Kanji spinning rod coupled with a Maxel rage 25, do you think that'll do? 
    I don't go wrecking often so don't want to be spending a fortune. 
     

    Do they do them Left hand wind?

    The reel I bought was LH, can't help much with your rod as I'm a SPJ novice myself and haven't heard/seen a Kanji sorry

    But I believe, as with all types of fishing, if you fish with a bit of confidence you'll do OK no matter what you use

    SPJ set up for wrecking.

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

    Posted

    On 3/4/2022 at 8:07 PM, Saintly Fish said:

    @jonnyswamp if I use my Nomura Kanji spinning rod coupled with a Maxel rage 25, do you think that'll do? 
    I don't go wrecking often so don't want to be spending a fortune. 
     

    Do they do them Left hand wind?

    The reel I bought was LH, can't help much with your rod as I'm a SPJ novice myself and haven't heard/seen a Kanji sorry

    But I believe, as with all types of fishing, if you fish with a bit of confidence you'll do OK no matter what you use

    SPJ set up for wrecking.

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

    Posted

    On 3/4/2022 at 8:07 PM, Saintly Fish said:

    @jonnyswamp if I use my Nomura Kanji spinning rod coupled with a Maxel rage 25, do you think that'll do? 
    I don't go wrecking often so don't want to be spending a fortune. 
     

    Do they do them Left hand wind?

    The reel I bought was LH, can't help much with your rod as I'm a SPJ novice myself and haven't heard/seen a Kanji sorry

    But I believe, as with all types of fishing, if you fish with a bit of confidence you'll do OK no matter what you use

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