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Post by stump on Nov 24, 2009 20:28:55 GMT
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Post by gerryatric on Nov 26, 2009 8:49:52 GMT
Cracking fish Craig.What sort of weights would you say they were ? Thanks for posting these pictures, shows me what they look like!
BR
Gerry
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Post by kingfisher on Nov 26, 2009 9:09:19 GMT
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Post by stump on Nov 26, 2009 23:30:15 GMT
Gerry,most of them are in the 2-4lb bracket,,the staler cock fish was just about a double and the bigger hen fish was around 6lb,,,the Fowey fish are superb fighters and as the rivers fairly small its very exilerating playing the fish and the Fowey is a very enchating place to fish,i've seen some huge fish in the Fowey maybe knocking 15lb+and lost a few big fish in early May..i was lucky enough to land a Double figured fish from the Fowey on one of my annual trips  ..tried for nearly an hour to revive the fish but to no avail :-[it is in the rod room at Wainsford on the Fowey in a lovely glass case.. Fowey Double..  stump... |
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Post by perthshirefisher on Nov 26, 2009 23:49:18 GMT
Cracking fish stump,and intresting reading again.
I bet seeing that cracker up there in the case with your name under it put's a wee smile on your face.
Although you did try to get it back,but it live's on as it were.
Graet stuff:).
PF.
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Post by EV4 on Dec 15, 2009 23:15:10 GMT
Outstanding pictures! I envy you. I have only fished the Towy once at Llandeilo. I would love to have another go on it. It was years ago when the Game Fair was at Port Talbot that I got a night on it. The temperature was 30c that year at the fair. When I got the offer of a night on the Towy I thought brilliant Sea Trout and a nice cool night. Fat chance! We where stripped to the waist at midnight sweat rolling down our backs. The river was full of fish. The sound of them splashing in the dark was like half bricks where being thrown in every few minutes. I only managed one fish of 3lbs. Compared to the fish that where jumping that was a tiddler. A return match would be good. You obviously know your stuff. The Towy doesn't give up it's good Sewin easily.  |
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Post by stump on Dec 21, 2009 20:12:26 GMT
Ev4,,,im lucky to have fished the towy for 10 years plus now,and i've stuck to just a couple of beats and have been able to notice changes each season,also i've made some great friends who have fished the river for years and years and are full of valuable information,,,i made a change in lines a few seasons ago from the tradional full floater to a intermediate ghost tip that has paid dividends for me,,,(only use a full floater with a jambo these days)im one for a biggish fly to invoke a take and am lucky to have a friend who ties some of the best seatrout flies and patterns(confidence is everything ).... cracking fish takers....    i've also come to like my late night sunk line fishing with big tubes etc,taking better quality fish in the early hours when the air temp has dropped and things seem to have gone very quite... second half tubes...  stump... |
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Post by EV4 on Dec 22, 2009 10:22:06 GMT
Super looking flies Stump. We tend to use less colourful patterns up here. Any colour you care to choose..... as long as it is black! Border Esk, Annan. Even the lower Tweed Sea trout seem to be happy to take a black fly. The pattern is not critical. Black hair wing on a silver body. Singles to tubes. The secret as you say is in the presentation. I too find an intermediat or slow sink line the main line to use depending on flow. It always seems logical to me to put the fly where the fish has to expend the least energy to take the fly. A reluctant fish is more likely to have a go at a fly invading its territory than one sailing by way over its head. That's the theory anyway.... ;D Ev4,,,im lucky to have fished the towy for 10 years plus now,and i've stuck to just a couple of beats and have been able to notice changes each season,also i've made some great friends who have fished the river for years and years and are full of valuable information,,,i made a change in lines a few seasons ago from the tradional full floater to a intermediate ghost tip that has paid dividends for me,,,(only use a full floater with a jambo these days)im one for a biggish fly to invoke a take and am lucky to have a friend who ties some of the best seatrout flies and patterns(confidence is everything ).... cracking fish takers.... i've also come to like my late night sunk line fishing with big tubes etc,taking better quality fish in the early hours when the air temp has dropped and things seem to have gone very quite... second half tubes... stump... |
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Post by stump on Aug 3, 2010 19:14:03 GMT
Had a nice fish off the Towy,not the freshest but still very welcome and put up hell of an account of itself,,,i should think it would have gone 12lb as it was a very thick/deep fish,its a new PB for me,caught on a 1" teal and blue waddington..  going back...  stump... |
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Post by madkeen on Aug 3, 2010 19:21:04 GMT
Nice trout Craig must have been some scrap |
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Post by ballingall512 on Aug 3, 2010 22:18:49 GMT
That's a cracker. Well done on the Pb. and great to see it swim off |
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Post by Dusty Miller on Aug 4, 2010 7:51:22 GMT
Beauty. Well done.
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Post by greenbanks on Aug 4, 2010 12:28:54 GMT
Enjoyable thread Stump and thanks for posting the images and information. Tight Lines Ken
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Post by mo on Aug 4, 2010 21:31:46 GMT
A cracking fish Craig ;D, making me feel homesick  |
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Post by sewinfly on Aug 5, 2010 9:26:30 GMT
Well done stump great fish.
sewinfly...........
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..tried for nearly an hour to revive the fish but to no avail :-[it is in the rod room at Wainsford on the Fowey in a lovely glass case..
