Handlines And Night Lines

[darrren 414]

Just doing a bit of research about old methods and interested in the handlines. What methods did they use? End tackle, bait? How do they know where the fish are on the river? Where are the night lines set and how? Interesting to learn about methods now gone ?.

[South hams hunter 8,814]

Night lines are easy. Any pool on a river jut drop a size 10/12 hook baited with worm or minnow. Few small split shot to keep it under on 10lb fluorocarbon.

[jok 3,035]

So you want to become a poacher ffs. There's guys on here will sort you out pal. Get on the big fellas with an aluminium tray, a kleek and a good torch. That gets the blood boiling. Ask W Katchum. Lol.

[jok 3,035]

WK. I'm thinking of letting on how it was done back when but I reckon these young lads would not believe a word. What do you think?. Jok.

[darrren 414]

I do have a handline, as a visual aid in my research. I got the book ways of the old poacher. That's how income across it. Just wonder what parts of rivers they set them on. Isit really s simple as a worm on a hook? I'd be interested in knowing how it was done back in the day by you guys just for my notes. Pm is fine mind haha. Also locating fish on some of the small rivers and streams, seem to shallow and fast in places but then you have small deep pools and no way of knowing of anything is in there.

[Arry 18,498]

Fishing with rabbit wires next. Lol.

 

Cheers Arry

[Wullz 408]

get oot and learn, same as we all had to! It's more fun that way.....

[darrren 414]

I intend to ?. Cheers guys.

[mackem 23,662]

Theres a warrener DVD showing night lines,cant remember the name,ways of the old poacher or something?But we are in the 21'st century new methods and times move on,theres ways of getting fish from a water in 5 minutes nowadays.

[Daniel cain 42,798]

Be careful pal-get caught and you be paying a big fine and getting a good slap for it...been stopped at night when legally fishing my club waters by the ea and they got the thermal camera with them.leave it to the history books and the dirty eastern Europeans .atb dc

[darrren 414]

I seen it on the warreners DVD. My missus old man said about the thermal cameras. Do they really sit out at night with them?

[tatsblisters 7,915]

A bit of catapult elastic from the peg to the line if theirs big pike in the water.lol

[micky 3,325]

Years ago I used to lamp at a place called Nassington , to reach the fields the Rabbits were in you had to cross a stream that fed the Nene via stepping stones , one morning coming back in the light there was an Eel on a line of hooks that had been strung across he stream also a long time ago I saw a cat hanging off of a tree that hung across a river called the Wreake in Leicestershire , my mate who was a very keen Fisherman told me that it was baiting a swim with the Maggots that fell from it as it decomposed.

[jackthelad 1,855]

Be careful pal-get caught and you be paying a big fine and getting a good slap for it...been stopped at night when legally fishing my club waters by the ea and they got the thermal camera with them.leave it to the history books and the dirty eastern Europeans .atb dc

[neil cooney 10,415]

When I hear of handlines I think of the 5 foot long 20 lbs plus Conger my father caught in Wicklow harbour when I was young and which my granny cooked.

Dad was big into beach casting at the time but the hand line he caught the conger on was a builders line with a 4 foot wire trace on the end which had a swivel every foot.

A large hook and a lump of mackerel as bait.