Trout Fishing?

[South hams hunter 8,837]

Wouldn't dairylea just break up?

[johnny boy68 11,725]

Wouldn't dairylea just break up?

Get 4 pieces of bread and thinly butter 2 pieces a bread then spread about 11/2 triangles on each piece of bread and stick together and cut the crusts off. Chuck them in the fridge until you go fishing then on the bank mould it into a ball and break off bits and mould round your hook.

[weasle 1,119]

Mepps spinners are deadly for trout, no matter where used

They fcuin are nearly had my eye out the other day pulling it out the tree

[weasle 1,119]

Went worming for wild brownies a couple of days ago with a mate who came up from Devon. We fished all the snaggy swims where no one else fishes, in two hours I had only two missed bites but my mate had two beautiful brownies each about 2 lb. He had to use a single swan shot to keep the worm trickling along the bottom to get a take, as soon as the bait was motionless there were no takes. Best times we find are between 8 and 10am before the sun is too high. We only take our limit and return any real big ones and never take any less than 10 inches. Hardly fished round here as it is difficult with all the overhanging trees and waist high nettles but that's the beauty of it (no wooden platforms here).

 

On the way back we pulled up the two crayfish traps and had twelve to take home. These were purged and boiled as we cooked the trout whole wrapped in foil with lots of fresh lemon, sea salt and black pepper. So trout followed by crayfish, lovely.

 

Chris

No one likes a show of go start your own thread

[Blue223 57]

 

Went worming for wild brownies a couple of days ago with a mate who came up from Devon. We fished all the snaggy swims where no one else fishes, in two hours I had only two missed bites but my mate had two beautiful brownies each about 2 lb. He had to use a single swan shot to keep the worm trickling along the bottom to get a take, as soon as the bait was motionless there were no takes. Best times we find are between 8 and 10am before the sun is too high. We only take our limit and return any real big ones and never take any less than 10 inches. Hardly fished round here as it is difficult with all the overhanging trees and waist high nettles but that's the beauty of it (no wooden platforms here).

 

On the way back we pulled up the two crayfish traps and had twelve to take home. These were purged and boiled as we cooked the trout whole wrapped in foil with lots of fresh lemon, sea salt and black pepper. So trout followed by crayfish, lovely.

 

Chris

No one likes a show of go start your own thread

 

lol

[weasle 1,119]

Spent a hour out yesterday,On a small river,water very clear,was interesting to see just how wild they are,even with my shadow behind me a false move would spook em.Found a pool with 3 or 4 trout,one a nice size,first time through with bubble and couple of nymps or what ever they all had a look but no bite,Then spent ages taking every fly i had through some passing right over them,They just ignored them

[nakednutt 58]

Can you get any decent sized minnows? We fish the minnow a lot up here for brownies. If you want big numbers then its what to use

[weasle 1,119]

After a bit of rain during sat night i went out yesterday morning,Nice bit if colour but river very low,Found a pool,with fast water running into it,First cast in ,a bite . Fell of half way in . Got another 4-5 bites using a bubble and worm,I was waiting till bubble went right under and was being pulled along missed every one using size 14 hooks to small or am i just sh*t.

Some one asked swears by minnows

[beam 130]

unlucky weasel, I would scrap the bubble and try trotting a bait through the run with either a stick or trotting float.

 

Using a bubble will put a lot of surface tension on your hook line, meaning the trout will feel the float as it tries to take the bait.

 

Fish the stick float to the desired depth with a team of split shots above your hook.

 

Minnows are deadly for trout, slowly spinned through a pool.

 

Also I'd use a size 8 for big trout

Edited April 22, 2014 by beam

[South hams hunter 8,837]

Silly qu perhaps but the minnows alive or dead?

[beam 130]

Silly qu perhaps but the minnows alive or dead?

Depending on the method being fished.

I fish the minnow behind a flicker spinner with the hook going though the bottom lip and out the head, But if fished using a float rig you would hook it through the back avoiding the spine as this will paralyze the minnow.

Edited April 22, 2014 by beam

[South hams hunter 8,837]

Ok if I was to use a few split shot with a hook about 6 inches below like I do with worm do I need em dead or alive please?

[beam 130]

Alive bud.

[South hams hunter 8,837]

Cheers, any suggested methods to catch em?

 

Can I legally take them where ever I find em?

[nothernlite 18,028]

Use to fish the diving minnow on a mount deadly for trout