fisketips
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Who's there? I'm looking for great Fish!
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Post by fisketips on Apr 2, 2006 5:37:57 GMT -5
Yesterday I was fishing for sea trout, and got a weird catch. A mussel grabbed the bend of the hook on my shrimp fly  Anyone here had an experience like this?  |
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Post by Sewinbasher on Apr 2, 2006 6:16:35 GMT -5
It is (or was) not unusual to catch a freshwater swan mussel whilst fishing on the Wye. The fly would be the least likely bait and I have caught them more often on baits whilst coarse fishing where the mussel has closed over a worm or similar bait.
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Post by gregmason on Apr 4, 2006 11:19:07 GMT -5
Last year I fished the Vrynwy river for brownies using a beetle fly from our club fly swap... Wasn't having much luck and started to think it wasn't a good enough imitation - so checked the fly only to find a real beetle clasped around it... from behind... doing what comes naturally. Sucker! ;D
GREG
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rusty
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Post by rusty on Apr 21, 2006 5:53:28 GMT -5
I gave some flies to a guy I used to work with and when he returned from his holiday he complained that he had only caught an eel with the flies!
The only time I have heard of an eel on fly.
rusty
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Post by tuniwes on Apr 21, 2006 15:00:02 GMT -5
I gave some flies to a guy I used to work with and when he returned from his holiday he complained that he had only caught an eel with the flies! The only time I have heard of an eel on fly. rusty I have taken eels on 2 occassions both times hooked fair and square on a 2" deep sunk snake fly whilst after sea trout. |
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Post by ArcticFoxFly on Apr 22, 2006 13:24:13 GMT -5
Whilst fishing for sea trout using a small spinner on spinning tackle, I caught a few crabs!! So weird!!!!
....ArcticFox....
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Post by riffler on Apr 24, 2006 14:55:47 GMT -5
I have caught about 6 cockles using a small Toby, in much the same manner as your mussel.
I guess the treble was dragging and the shell closed on it on feeling a touch.
Either that or Snettisham beach has a strain of particularly mean cockles.
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Post by richarda on Apr 27, 2006 16:09:01 GMT -5
I remember catching an eel on a sea trout fly on the Annan many years ago. It made a right mess of the fly.
Richard
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Post by Sewinbasher on Apr 27, 2006 16:42:21 GMT -5
I was fishing the Monnow a few years ago and could hear a fish rising repeatedly on the far side but couldn't spot the rise. I crossed the river to see if I could locate and get a fly to the fish and eventually found an eel of about 12" lying on a weedbed rising to the hatching midges as nice as you like with noisy sucking takes that left hardly any disturbance. It refused mine though!
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