harry
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Post by harry on Sept 6, 2015 15:39:00 GMT
Yeh good day.Always entertaining with rushy organiseing.cheers rushy and eddie
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Post by nige_LS7 on Sept 7, 2015 7:29:41 GMT
By the way about the same number of people fished a West Riding match at Hammerton yesterday (about 10 cars were there) and only one barbel was caught. They have a nice little stretch there, but when you compare it with the wonders of our Nidd empire ...
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Post by madchestercarper on Sept 7, 2015 11:53:16 GMT
Thanks for organizing Rushy, and thanks to all for making me feel welcome, a top bunch of lads (and lass)! Alas my search goes on, but I will catch one some day! ?
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Post by caretaker on Sept 8, 2015 8:38:33 GMT
I have been following the antics of all the lads on the website for a few months now and was hoping to be able to post a picture of me with a massive barbel but alas it hasn’t been a good season so far. Blanked at Skip Bridge, Hammerton Mill,Topcliffe &,Skipton on Swale. Had a session a couple of weeks ago after you guys did a sterling job cutting back all the bankside vegetation at Hammerton, after a couple of hours the only thing landed was a chublet- didn’t even register a bite on the rod end and only discovered it was on when I wound in to check that a sneaky barbell had’t sucked the meat off the hair rig. Was really looking forward to meeting the regulars for the 5th September barbel match on the Nidd and was getting really excited about pitting my piscatorial skills learnt over a lifetime of watching You Tube and checked the calendar. Disaster- week away with the wife and two dogs at Keswick in the Lake District and won’t be getting home til mid afternoon on Saturday by which time most of the action will be over and the lads heading off for a pint. Never mind me thinks next best thing is to put the pike rod in the car and have a few relaxing sessions on a boat out on Winderemere. Wrong.
Days spent getting up late, walking dogs and strolling through just about every shopping street north of Kendal. Mind you I didn’t protest too much at £12 an hour to hire a boat and £8 for a days permit to almost guarantee yet another blank thought the money was better spent on some new cushion gel insert trainers. But then-. “ Let ‘s just pop into this jewellery shop ,it’s our anniversary soon” says the wife for the seventh time in less than an hour. “ What about this necklace” quick mental calculation No, that’s at least sixty tins of garlic spam & a few kilos of hemp. I did suggest going back on Friday night so I could fish the match, whilst waiting for her answer my palms were sweating more than a Greek Finance Minister sitting a maths ‘O’ level . “ But it’s our time together can’t you go another time’ That’ll be a no then I take it ?
Fast forward to Sunday, nice warm day spend the morning together,then I take a look at all the website &photo’s of the guys fishing and tales from the river bank.My little fishing brain is now on overtime knowing that there’s a shed full of bait gone in all along the section from the bridge, the guys will be having a rest and I’ll have the pick of the pegs so here’s my big opportunity. Can’t fail to catch today. My heart is racing as I pop in the garage and make up some new rigs and hook lengths. Just wait til that double figure bronze beauty is in the net and all the wait is finally worth it.
“ Right I think I’ll have a couple of hours at Skip Bridge this evening, haven’t been for ages and I did miss the match” says I. Look over at the trouble and strife who gives me a look that would turn milk sour. Silent pause…… “ Well I tell you what why don’t you come along, it’s better than sitting in alone watching F Xactor, it’s a nice venue, out in the country side with lovely scenery “ No way in a million years is she going to say yes. “ Yes okay then that’ll be nice I’ll go and get my welies on” Doohhhhh.
Get to Skip Bridge and park up. Get the tackle out and head off across the first field, me carrying most of the tackle her ladyship with my best chair. Get over to the railway bridge,fight my way over the fence and through the balsam. Didn’t like the pegs so decide to go back over to the stretch upstream from the bridge. “ Don’t get too close to that horse and it’s foal it might bite you “ she says not understanding that I have walked over hundreds of fields in a long fishing career and been chased down by bullocks, surrounded by angry cows, fallen into stinging nettles, lost my way in the dark etc and still here to fish another day. Get to the fence and climb over knowing that just wasted twenty minutes fishing time. Advice my beloved to stay quiet and speak no louder than a whisper so as not to scare away the lurking shoals of barbell and chub. I go down the near vertical bank first,struggling to stay upright and now help her indoors to bring the well cushioned comfortable chair with arm supports to a level bit of mud. Put on my bait dropper and feed in some bits of meat mixed with hemp. Can’t fail this I only watched it recently on the Last Cast video starring Robert De Niro Rush and he caught a cracking barbel within ten minutes. “ I’m getting cold and I’m thirsty” comes the voice from beside me now taken up residence in my comfortable chair. Haven’t even got a baited hook in the water at this point.
Eventually get fishing paying attention to the rod end waiting for a wrap around any second. Wrong. Go downstream a bit and feed a second peg just like the Last Cast director advised. Get back to first peg and see that wife has rod out of the water. I ask “ Did you get a bite” she replies “ No I’m bored so thought I’d wind it in “ I distinctly remember Rushy saying once it’s in leave it undistrurbed. I re bait and settle down on the padded unhooking mat with reeds all around my face anticipating a huge bite any time soon. Five minutes later there it is- “ This is so boring I want to go now, nothing’s happening’ she says. “ Shush, you have to be patient the fish will come over the feed I’ve put in and then gobble up the bait on the hook, when that rod end goes round all hell will break loose, you haven’t had an adrenalin rush like this since we won £25 on the Lotto last year” Half an hour later “ My fingers have gone blue, I want to go home now” Right.
Trying to get back up the bank took longer than the actual time spent fishing. Of course being a gentleman I sent the wife up first. “ I can’t get any further” “ Well put your knee down and pull yourself up” “ I’m not getting these jeans muddy” Eventually we manage to get to the top of the bank her hair now ruined by the attention of the balsam and thistles all around. Climbing over the fence I here a scream the like of which I’ve not heard since watching those Hammer House of Horror films in the 1970's. Being the caring soul I am I ask “ Whats the matter now ?” she replies “ I’v got my Fallujah caught on the barbed wire “ Dropping my prized possessions- carbon fibre two piece rod and recently re spooled baitrunner into the grass I run over to put downward pressure on the offending barbed wire to enable my loved one to retrieve herself from the entanglement. I can’t record here what she said but you can probably guess. Next it’s my turn and I get away with just ripping the knee of my cargo pants. Never like them anyway.
So a quick drive home and the conversation went something along the lines of “ If you think I’m ever going fishing with you again you can forget it, I’ve never been so bored in all my life, it’s four hours of my life I’ll never get back” and I reply “ Okay dear I’m sorry you haven’t enjoyed it, I’ll just have to go with the Leeds lads next time”
Pass me the Savlon love !
Takecare
Caretaker
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Post by rushy on Sept 8, 2015 13:57:14 GMT
Caretaker , why have you waited months to join us . . . You are a perfect Forum member . . . Absolutely brilliant post , had me in stitches Love the subtle bit about the chair "with arms " and winding the rod in cos "she was bored " . . Fantastic . Welcome to the forum bud and hope you become a regular Got to go , tackle to get loaded in the car and favourite peg to get to before Mortia or Deano get there
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Post by mortia on Sept 9, 2015 6:55:01 GMT
Favourite blanking peg that should read ....................
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Post by caretaker on Sept 9, 2015 11:55:43 GMT
Thanks Dave for the welcome. Will post when I have caught a fish,...err on second thoughts that may be some time if anything like present form is anything to go by. My shift work means I can fish some afternoons/evenings every alternate week. Sundays are out as it's together time with 'er indoors and it's impossible to get a Home Office pass.
caretaker
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deanos
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Post by deanos on Sept 9, 2015 13:33:16 GMT
My work patterns fall roughly the same, I try to get a Tuesday eve (depends on work load)but fish Friday eve's come what may. Course, being single helps! :-) You could try Dave's excuse! "Just poping for a bottle of milk love (6 pm)....hello love, what a wait at the corner shop, just ran out of milk when it was my turn, so waited till it came in (11 pm) this lad thinks on his feet! :-)))))
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Post by patterdalewilson on Sept 9, 2015 14:37:54 GMT
Mmmm single jobless and dogless and I'd be a sad but one constantly on the bank chappie, unlike the odd Saturday fisherman I now am.
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deanos
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Post by deanos on Sept 9, 2015 15:09:11 GMT
As long as I can make it onto the bank at least once a week I am happy (twice...VERY HAPPY). Working "mainstream" and running my own business makes me walk a very fine line between challenge and meltdown :-)))
When I get onto the river bank, it never loses its magic, gives me the peace of mind to take on the challenges again! :-)
In the future I hope to be able to fish more, the plan will be half my angling time going after the biggest barbel I can catch around these parts (blanking a lot! :-) the second half, fishing with the great people whom I have met on the forum, and still blanking a lot! :-))))
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Post by johnboy66 on Sept 9, 2015 23:12:07 GMT
My work patterns fall roughly the same, I try to get a Tuesday eve (depends on work load)but fish Friday eve's come what may. Course, being single helps! :-) You could try Dave's excuse! "Just poping for a bottle of milk love (6 pm)....hello love, what a wait at the corner shop, just ran out of milk when it was my turn, so waited till it came in (11 pm) this lad thinks on his feet! :-)))))
Haha Deano "BOTTLE OF MILK" do they do Bottles anymore lol
"CORNER SHOPS" conveniences stores now mate get with it your as bad as that bloody Rushy lol
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