[mark s]

oh,that didnt work

[Monolith]

BB, Lagers, great work!

As an aside did anybody see the photograph of the largest UK caught Wells catfish earlier this week? MONSTER! 

[fatneck]

Took the wife fishing for the first time last Thursday and she kicked my ass...

Her first ever fish...



Best fish of the session...



An average fish for the session...

[fatneck]

Had a lovely family holiday on Anglesey last week and managed to fit a bit of fishing in!

My first ever Smoothhound



Was particularly pleased with this as I waited it out on crab and used my little plugging rod. Awesome fight on light gear!

Had an evening at Cable Bay where I caught plenty of these...



and one of these babies...



An absolute monster for a Three Bearded Rockling and another first for me

Also caught plenty of mackerel. Good times!

[slackline]

Fishing for Trout by slack---line, on Flickr

At Laguna Jahuacocha, Mituraju in the background.

[fatneck]

Looks boss Slackers! Did you catch anything?

On a slightly less exotic note, I finally managed a tench from my local lake last night :-)



I look a little distressed as I'd asked a scally carper to take the photo on my iPhone...

[slackline]

No, I went for a walk up the valley to look at the glacier.  Our Arreiro (guy who guided our donkeys round) caught half a dozen small trout upto about 8cm, he should have walked up the valley with us as there were much larger ones in the upper lake.  They still tasted good lightly battered and shallow fried....


Frying by slack---line, on Flickr

[BB]

Trust a couple of poms to spend hours fishing for carp, 5 minutes away from the Pacific!

This is a mate landing a small one last weekend.

[BB]

A wobbegong shark I landed last night off the beach. First one I've had.

Probably went about 20lb


IMG-20121015-00011 by bbrowne72, on Flickr

[fatneck]

Brilliant stuff BB! That carp was in great condition, I assume no one really fishes for them? Do they get much bigger than that?

As winter sets in I've been mainly concentrating on putting together good bags of small fish which don't really make for exciting photos! However, I did catch this cracking Roach the other day...

[BB]

Brilliant stuff BB! That carp was in great condition, I assume no one really fishes for them? Do they get much bigger than that?

No, no one fishes for them. At least not as seriously as we have been. They grow to 20lb+ in there apparently. We've had them up to 16ish. They're all really long with big tails so they go hard.

Now the sea is starting to warm up, I'm changing my focus to kingfish. I had a metre plus kingy follow my lure in the harbour the other day. I was on 4lb braid to 6lb leader so it would have utterly smoked me, but it shows they're there.

Nice roach mate, we've been doing a similar thing and bagging up on small snapper. They fight like the devil, even though none of them are legal size. It passes the time while waiting for something bigger to come along.

[slackline]

one big fish! apparently an oar fish

http://imgur.com/kjr3g

[fatneck]

Amazing looking fish aren't they! Apparently there have been several washed up along the North East coast in recent years!

[Monolith]

First ever Barbel today. Only a yoof on the pole but fantastic sport at circa 1.5lb. Tough going on the match lake but managed two F1s, two skimmers and this bad boy. Slow to say the least but at least no blank and the challenge was welcome.

[BB]

Good work mono! Nice Barbel.

High tide at dusk tonight, so hopefully I should bag something. The water in Sydney is slowly warming up. 18 degrees and rising.

[fatneck]

Nice roach from Newsham by Fattneck, on Flickr


Winter Tench! by Fattneck, on Flickr

[lagerstarfish]

some nice shots here

[BB]

I hired a boat and took the old man out fishing on the harbour yesterday. Got a heap of flathead, snapper, Taylor and some whiting. Had a big dead bait out that got munched by something massive. Couldn't stop it on 30lb braid. I locked the drag on a shimano 6000 bait runner and it still kept taking line, even though i nearly got pulled over the side of the boat! Eventually, something gave and the 60lb leader snapped. Probably a big bull shark by the slow ponderous way it moved off. When I say big, I'm talking 500lb+. Probably didn't even know it was hooked. Scary what's swimming around in middle harbour!

[Richie Crouch]

This is brilliant:

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/4671599/You-cant-flog-tackle-like-that.html

[andy_e]

The "recommended stories" are bizarre. "We named our baby Hashtag" and "Jordan: I want a heated vibrator"

[Monolith]

Good link Ricky! The comments are almost as equally amusing if somewhat irritating.

BB, that's an insane tale! Have small Bull Sharks been caught in the area before?


It's winter now and all is pretty quiet on the River Aire. Not even breadpunch taking a stray dace or two.

The last productive session a month ago:

A decent sized perch



Small dace




I have no idea how something so small can eat something so big in comparison. A minnow.

[fatneck]

For Jim...



Been meaning to do that for ages

[fatneck]

Went fishing on Sunday and had a pesky heron for company all afternoon trying to steal fish off the hook! he actually made the session hard work as he trashed at least two rigs and almost ended up in my landing net on two occasions! At the end of the session I took the obligatory catch shot and as the heron started creeping closer, I thought I'd try and get a couple of shots of him. Now I failed to take into account that heron's can move very fast and that this was obviously one hungry heron...









Well I never!!!

[Richie Crouch]

Haha terrored!

Hope you got  , gunned him down and made a nice fish & heron pie?

[Monolith]

Peeyaaaaaaaaar scally! That's mental Si!