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 8,839]

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 1,752]

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 6,773]

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...

 

[Bendigo 1,752]

9 hours ago, Bangersanmash said:

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

No unfortunately not

[Daniel cain 50,427]

Myself and a few mates have been in the 'drink' a few times over the years...you need your wits about you when around any water ,still or fast moving,that's why it's always a good idea when the weather is naughty,not to go out on your own...if you do then ,make sure someone knows where you are...

A decent 3/4 m net handle is worth it's weight in gold,save you over stretching a terrier spike and a good length of rope,to get up and down slippery banks on the river.....when I'm fishing from rock marks on my own,I always have my drop net,fishing on the beaches at night,I always have a lantern/lamp sat on  my box further up the beach,just incase the fog/mist comes in behind me as the tide chases you back up