Nostalgia & Fishing memories !

[matttttt]

POLEPOT said:

laughs longest

........and still doesn't get it?

[POLEPOT]

never mind

[royst]

I had one of those whicker baskets. I used to wash it with a hose pipe to shrink the whicker, to stop it rocking from side to side.
A bloke turned up to one of our matches with one, and some wag shouted 'when are you going to let the pigeons out mate' ;D ;D.

[cormarent]

my friend james hudson (15) was carp fishing, he cast out a rod and put it on his alarms not realising he had a line clip on, a fish picked up the bait and the line hit the clip taking the rod in,,,,,hahahahah (he didnt get it back)

[rugby13s]

my earlist fishing memory i was about 4 or 5 possibly smaller. i remember sitting on the muddy bank of the white river in indianapolis(houses there now)mom was getting sunfish on worms dad got some bass and some carp big as i was on "wheaties dough" i had fun just playing in the mud and mom let me reel in a tiny little fish.still remember it to this day over 35 years later.Take a kid fishing you both will be glad you did!

[FatMaggot]

5 and fresh to the game, brown polo neck jumper, checkered trousers with a plastic rod and reel, small stool sat next to me Dad who was sat on a wicker bascket which I later inherited when he got his new wicker basket (think it was the diawa cross weave 2). catching small roach while my Dad pulled out some monster chub from the trent.......aaaahhh them were the days... a happy day until i stood on one of his rods and what was beautiful turned into the homer chasing Bart scenario... i think you get the picture..

Still fish with me da and keep buying him new rods etc. as the guilt runs deep.... ;D

[Larry Teepot]

River Blythe..

my first memory's of fishing.41 years ago...catching a midland red to Coleshill walking down that hill and all the way to Dukes bridge...the old man carrying all the gear...cant recall if i caught any thing but that place will always be a Mecca for me i often go back at watch the chub from the top of the bridge...maybe its a sign I'm getting bleeding old... thats life

[Brian G]

Larryteepot, been there done that mate, I can even go back a little further than you, and recently done the old nostagia trip I dont think it has changed at all in over 50 years, mind you how we used to swim there amazes me as it dont seem that deep.

[Larry Teepot]

Blythe

its had the level lowered to stop flooding in its early reaches. dont ask me how i dont do rocket science ....were you ever in the Sheldon club that ran it in those days?....was anybody?

[Brian G]

Larry, I was not in the Sheldon club but knew one or two that were names that spring to mind we are Jim Devey, Bert Atkins, Ray Daniels, and Alan Newman.

[Gary]

larryteepot said:

River Blythe..

my first memory's of fishing.41 years ago...catching a midland red

Bloody hell larry. . .that was some catch. ;D ;D ;D

[andy222]

What line and what size hook where you using mate? ;D ;D ;D

[echoromeo]

larryteepot said:

River Blythe..

my first memory's of fishing.41 years ago...catching a midland red to Coleshill walking down that hill and all the way to Dukes bridge...the old man carrying all the gear...cant recall if i caught any thing but that place will always be a Mecca for me i often go back at watch the chub from the top of the bridge...maybe its a sign I'm getting bleeding old... thats life

I used to fish the stretch at the bottom of Maxtoke lane hill with my dad in the late 60's early 70's, between the bridge and the cottage, the bend by the cottage had the deeper water. The one bus was the same one I later had to catch to senior school, I think, it was the 168 then? It went all the way up the school for the school run but terminated in Parkfield road by Coleshill Parochial school the rest of the time. I think the other bus was the 161 going one way and the 171 going the other (Water Orton or Marston Green)

[Larry Teepot]

Seems I amused Mr Plant and Andy222,,,,, lol not hard to do as i recall....but i must not upset to many people just yet... ;D ok yes it was the same bus.also fished that bomb hole by the road, golden days no doubt about that..but can anybody remember drinking tea at the top os the hill,,Stan Smiths i belive ,never understand why he never picked me for the England Squad

[waspgrub]

anybody remember Spratts hempseed at 1/6d a box that was proper hemp, you could bury a size 14 model perfect in the stuff ! and did anyone ever catch a fish on a Plastifol artificial maggot ?