View from your swim part 2

[neil r 2,040]

23 minutes ago, Borr said:

Yep I have to be more aware these days the levels have a slippery step down to where you want to fish a lot of the time and sometimes a foot of bank before you'd be upto your neck in it. Lol, always aware if I can't work I'm knackered. Canal is easy on that front rivers are a different beast..

Normally the ribble has shallow margins but this particular stretch on this side is deep and coupled with the steep sides and mud it’s pretty bad . It was about 10-12ft off the rod top and couple of years ago about 100 yards downstream another member wasn’t so lucky and he went in and drowned . 

[Borr 8,838]

6 minutes ago, neil r said:

Normally the ribble has shallow margins but this particular stretch on this side is deep and coupled with the steep sides and mud it’s pretty bad . It was about 10-12ft off the rod top and couple of years ago about 100 yards downstream another member wasn’t so lucky and he went in and drowned . 

Yep not good , my father fished the Kennet before I was born I think , and a bull came over so he made his way up a tree while the bull got stuck into knocking bait boxes over , the branch snapped and in he went, but a young fit fella is a different thing. My mother ended up in a river in winter in France in her seventies , luckily got out but it's luck. We can all be guilty of being a bit blasè around water at times but rivers , seas reservoirs pose the biggest risk. One of the reasons my kids can chose what sport they like outside of swimming which is compulsory. A funny one , lad I knew got bet he couldn't swim a lake in Wales , so got lubed up in goose fat in winter and did it for £100 got a bit tangled in weed but made it , the lad that bet him decided that he'd win his money back crossing the river isk in full flood , needless to say he went down that river as fast as the rest could run , hit a tree lost his false teeth and the lads gave him £50 for the teeth he never made the other bank...

[Bendigo 1,750]

3 hours ago, neil r said:

Normally the ribble has shallow margins but this particular stretch on this side is deep and coupled with the steep sides and mud it’s pretty bad . It was about 10-12ft off the rod top and couple of years ago about 100 yards downstream another member wasn’t so lucky and he went in and drowned . 

On the Ribble with his new lure rod.... unfortunately the bend in his rod was a snag....with his £15 new lure attached

Moved up to the Calder and had a few grayling 

[Bangersanmash 6,769]

16 minutes ago, Bendigo said:

On the Ribble with his new lure rod.... unfortunately the bend in his rod was a snag....with his £15 new lure attached

Moved up to the Calder and had a few grayling 

Did you manage to save his lure. Clean water if greyling are staying about. 

[neil r 2,040]

7 hours ago, Bendigo said:

On the Ribble with his new lure rod.... unfortunately the bend in his rod was a snag....with his £15 new lure attached

Moved up to the Calder and had a few grayling 

The ribble is a snag pit and the Calder’s not much better in places . I like the Calder and I think it’s better for grayling than the ribble , there’s some good ones in there aswell . 

[neil r 2,040]

We definitely get a bit too complacent around water . Ive waded in places I shouldn’t have and fished off steep slippy banks and after you’ve done you think i shouldn’t have done that but then you go and do it again . 
This place in the pictures is down near whistling sands and it’s a lot steeper and higher than it looks . We climbed down the sharp rock edge of the bit on the right carrying all the gear to fish off the very point because it was the only way down . If we’d have slipped to the left it was straight off and to the right it was down the cliff bouncing off the sharp rocks 

10 hours ago, Borr said:

Yep not good , my father fished the Kennet before I was born I think , and a bull came over so he made his way up a tree while the bull got stuck into knocking bait boxes over , the branch snapped and in he went, but a young fit fella is a different thing. My mother ended up in a river in winter in France in her seventies , luckily got out but it's luck. We can all be guilty of being a bit blasè around water at times but rivers , seas reservoirs pose the biggest risk. One of the reasons my kids can chose what sport they like outside of swimming which is compulsory. A funny one , lad I knew got bet he couldn't swim a lake in Wales , so got lubed up in goose fat in winter and did it for £100 got a bit tangled in weed but made it , the lad that bet him decided that he'd win his money back crossing the river isk in full flood , needless to say he went down that river as fast as the rest could run , hit a tree lost his false teeth and the lads gave him £50 for the teeth he never made the other bank...