WHEN A PLAN DOESN'T COME TOGETHER

[Eddie]

Yesterday the rivers had plenty of water in and no doubt chocolate brown and I wish I could have been out fishing.
Today I was determined to get out and have a go before the flush through was history! Arrived to find about 6in of extra water and the dreaded tea colour. Nevermind full of enthusiasm I will catch barbel.
Six hours later fishing garlic meat and boilie over pellets not so much as a tap on the end of the rod! Missed the boat me thinks, yesterday was the day to be fishing!
But hang on, is that right? I've just had an afternoon and into dark session that I've really enjoyed. Peace and quiet no, squirrels fighting and dropping acorns, Jays screaming, Herons making that weird noise, crows, seagulls and all manner of smaller birds, even the kingfishers were scrapping. Anyway when darkness fell it went quiet and misty, just an odd owl. But it's been a really nice afternoon to be on the riverbank and I don't often fish into dark, but I did it on my own tonight and have had one of the most enjoyable sessions of the season and I didn't even get a bite!
Don't intend making a habit of blankig, but it happens and if all blanks are like this, I can live with it!

Eddie.

[patterdalewilson]

Next time Eddie, next time.
There's more to fishing than catching fish is my mantra.

[johnboy66]

couldn't of put it better myself Eddie but I do like the singing of the birds in the background

[rushy]

Oct 9, 2015 22:56:47 GMT johnboy66 said:

couldn't of put it better myself Eddie but I do like the singing of the birds in the background

Slightly off at a tangent . . . My most memorable bird seen whilst fishing was a Goldcrest at Moor Monkton Pools . . . . Only the second time I've ever seen one . . Little beauties

[paulyboy]

I think image correct in saying smallest bird in Britain

[paulyboy]

Don't no where that image came from can't get one on when I need one

[johnboy66]

Lovely bird still yet to see 1 also not seen a firecrest yet either, in the last 4 years I have taken over 150 photographs of different birds don't think that's bad going.

[gcb]

I used to see goldcrests every year

I used to live in chapeltown behind the old rugby league headquarters - they loved the hedges round there. Firecrests are more common down south I believe.

[nige_LS7]

had first Nidd session in about a month yesterday (after hammering it for the 6 weeks following the working party). What a waste of time. Where the hell was all that water (and scummy foam) still coming from when it hadn't rained for 3 days??

The treacherous banks and debris suggested that it had obviously been about eight or nine foot up just 48 hours earlier (backing up from the Ouse maybe?? When i saw the morning reading was down to about 2 foot up on summer level I thought it was going to be down nicely again by the afternoon .... but it wasn't.

When we arrived at Skip Bridge in mid-afternoon we met a fella who said it was fishing OK, he and someone else had had a barbel each, but we didn't have a nibble between us either there or at Hammerton, not even any tiddlers nibbling me worms when I tried a bunch of them and a maggot feeder for the last hour just below the Mill.

[gcb]

I'm sure it's no consolation Nige but I blanked on the Ure when pike fishing with all that big scummy foam coming through. But it was a lovely sunny day remember - so not all bad !

[Eddie]

Foambergs that must have been the problem!makes you wonder what's going in to the rivers!

Eddie.

[gcb]

That is the reason I volunteered to be trained up to be able to check and provide data to the EA on invertebrate numbers whose populations are the first to signify if there are any pollution issues in our rivers. Please let me know if anyone would like to be involved in this vital work.