Any fishing enthusiasts?

Your very lucky, i have a penchant for bass, boats and kayaks!
I import a lot of my rod components from the States, so hoping for a post-brexit trade deal that saves me a few quid!


pat its a lifestyle thing rather than a way to become rich!

I dropped out of the corporate system 10 years ago and decided that i would try and make a living from my passion. Long story short i am poor (ish) and happy rather than affluent and miserable, and although it brings its own stresses having to watch the pennies I wouldnt swap it for a 100k job working a 9-5 someone else.

Every rod i build i fall in love with, its an extension of my pride if you get what i mean, and i count myself lucky that i spend most of my life doing something i love.

(a new car and a holiday would be nice though ...lol!)

Good stuff Marty, it doesn't get any better than creating something you have a passion for and being happy in life.
sod the car and the holiday !.
Well maybe not, as I have a cruise and a new car on the way in the summer.:D:D
 
Your very lucky, i have a penchant for bass, boats and kayaks!

I do a fair amount of bass fishing, and there are several lakes nearby where largemouth are abundant. Minnesota is not an area where bass grow as big as in the southern US, so 2-3 pounders are the norm for a nice bass around here. Something 5-6 pounds would be a really nice fish for most of the lakes we fish. 2-3 pounds isn't a very big bass, but they are a blast with light tackle from a kayak. They aren't a fish I care to eat, so they are all catch and release.

We have more Northern Pike than we know what to do with, and I do fish for a lot of them, especially trolling in new, unfamiliar water. They are also an easy meal, but I mostly only care to eat them if they are caught early in the year, when the water is cold. The smaller ones are fantastic for pickling, and also explains my user name. Pickled Northern is a snacking staple food in the winter for me. [emoji1]

Crappies are my favorite eating fish, with walleyes being a close second, and I am fortunate to have a couple of crappie puddles close by that have very poor landings, and one pretty much needs a four wheel drive to get a small boat launched. I fish that one a lot, both with the boat and the kayak.

We have a lot of small lakes with no boat access where the kayak (or canoe if you care to drag one) is the only way to fish it. They get almost zero fishing pressure, so if one is willing to put in the effort of a little portaging, you are almost guaranteed a successful outing. Weather is the only thing that can screw a guy up.
 
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Fishing club? Membership openings? Privilege to fish?

American ignorance here, but I don't understand.
The right to fish on a riparian, or river bank that was on private property, was sold to fishing clubs hundreds of years ago. You may own a house that backs onto a river, but you don't have the legal right to fish from that bank. That right was sold long ago. This is England. Someone owns every inch of the island -- usually the Crown.
 
Hi all,

I am a full-time custom rodbuilder and a keen angling enthusiast.
Always interested in a natter about anything piscatorial related, anybody else ?

Marty
One of many hobbies!
I'm mainly a small stillwater flyfisher (4#, 5#, 6#) using dries and nymphs (tie my own too). Some nice waters in NW England close to where I live - Bankhouse, Fylde and Barnsfold my regulars. Also head up to lake district frequently for fell walking and fishing. Friend of mine has a boat on Windermere and love the summer jerkbait fishing for the Pike there too.
Rod wise I love my Winston BIIX and Scott G Series.
mark
 
The right to fish on a riparian, or river bank that was on private property, was sold to fishing clubs hundreds of years ago. You may own a house that backs onto a river, but you don't have the legal right to fish from that bank. That right was sold long ago. This is England. Someone owns every inch of the island -- usually the Crown.

Oh wow. I had no idea.
 
Aye ..... Same here oop North ........... You can't just drop a line in any stretch of water here, without having to first go and find who controls the water and what their day tickets / rules run to. There's never a bloody hut or such to go and pay at ........ so you need to make sure your day is planned (and payed for) beforehand :)
 
The right to fish on a riparian, or river bank that was on private property, was sold to fishing clubs hundreds of years ago. You may own a house that backs onto a river, but you don't have the legal right to fish from that bank. That right was sold long ago. This is England. Someone owns every inch of the island -- usually the Crown.

Riparian rights are not the same as fishing rights. The fishing rights may have been separately sold to someone else by the previous owner, possibly an angling club but not necessarily. I really don't see the problem with that. Allocating a value to fishing rights gives the owner of them an incentive to maintain the riverine environment, which is a good thing. In our tiny, overcrowded island, unregulated fishing and letting people do what they like quickly turns waterways into dead, open sewers. We saw this happen years ago to many rivers. Sport fishing, along with better environmental laws, has been a major factor in rivers, like the Thames, recovering remarkably over the past few decades.
 
Riparian rights are not the same as fishing rights. The fishing rights may have been separately sold to someone else by the previous owner, possibly an angling club but not necessarily. I really don't see the problem with that. Allocating a value to fishing rights gives the owner of them an incentive to maintain the riverine environment, which is a good thing. In our tiny, overcrowded island, unregulated fishing and letting people do what they like quickly turns waterways into dead, open sewers. We saw this happen years ago to many rivers. Sport fishing, along with better environmental laws, has been a major factor in rivers, like the Thames, recovering remarkably over the past few decades.

I'm not questioning the value of a cultural prerogative, I was only trying to explain to our American members why you just can't plop down and throw a line in the river. In America, where there are plenty of rivers, the riparian and the water in the river belong to the public, not the landowner. There are such things as water rights for agriculture, but most of them were allotted on a first-come, first-served basis 150 years ago.
 
Coarse Angler here. Used the match fish for my Dad's work club as a youngster but getting up at silly o'clock soon lost its novelty when I discovered lager and girls.

Still have a dabble at a local private lake I'm a member of.

I can happily sit there all day pulling out 1lb Roach and Perch. I work with some Carp Anglers, but lobbing a baited hook out then going to sleep in a tent til the fish hook themselves is about as far removed from my idea of fishing as it's possible to get.

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Coarse Angler here. Used the match fish for my Dad's work club as a youngster but getting up at silly o'clock soon lost its novelty when I discovered lager and girls.

Still have a dabble at a local private lake I'm a member of.

I can happily sit there all day pulling out 1lb Roach and Perch. I work with some Carp Anglers, but lobbing a baited hook out then going to sleep in a tent til the fish hook themselves is about as far removed from my idea of fishing as it's possible to get.

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Yeah, the whole Carp thing is a bit of a headscratcher to me as well. I was near a Carp lake in Devon once and a couple of carp anglers rocked up in a van towing a trailer with all their kit. Tent, campbed, chairs, half a dozen rods with stands to put them on (let's face it, who needs the hassle of actually holding the rod eh?), chests of tackle and bait, stove, portable telly, food and booze. I felt quite undergunned with my single fly rod and small sling pack...
 
Yeah, the whole Carp thing is a bit of a headscratcher to me as well.

Don't get it myself, either ....... If I wanted to hook and haul fish in like that, I'd tie the line to my bumper and tow them out :D

Besides ...... I have much more fun pulling the bigger fish in with my old Drennan IM8 Super Feeder. It's still a strong rod, but at least there's some sport to it.
 
Don't get it myself, either ....... If I wanted to hook and haul fish in like that, I'd tie the line to my bumper and tow them out :D

Besides ...... I have much more fun pulling the bigger fish in with my old Drennan IM8 Super Feeder. It's still a strong rod, but at least there's some sport to it.

Carpy guy here, problem with them is it can take you days to catch just a few, hence the long term setup with the gear (bivvies, bedchairs, rod pods etc etc)
Last trip in October 4 of us went to France for a weeks fishing on a private lake and caught the grand total of 15 fish between us for 6 days solid fishing.

Lemme know when you wanna hold 3 rods for 22 hours a day for 6 days and not take anything to rest them on :)

PS, Hi OP, where do you hail from?
 
Carpy guy here, problem with them is it can take you days to catch just a few, hence the long term setup with the gear (bivvies, bedchairs, rod pods etc etc)
Last trip in October 4 of us went to France for a weeks fishing on a private lake and caught the grand total of 15 fish between us for 6 days solid fishing.

Lemme know when you wanna hold 3 rods for 22 hours a day for 6 days and not take anything to rest them on :)

PS, Hi OP, where do you hail from?

Sounds like serious beer drinking type fishing. We do most of that type of fishing from a fish house on the ice.
 
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