Angling (and fish joke) thread

[Jaydog]

For all things fishing related

[Carrick Dave]

Excellent. Do you tie your own flies Jaydog?

[Muppet the Cat]

[Jaydog]

Excellent. Do you tie your own flies Jaydog?

I used to Dave many years ago and it’s something I’d like to get back in to. Tbh I need to upgrade my fishing gear.
Never fished in Ireland but you have top class fishing in river, lake & sea. So how’s the trout fishing atm?

[The Subhuman]

[Jaydog]

I may have to retract the fish joke from the thread title

[Musicman1965]

Used to go fishing many years ago. Sitting on my basket with an umbrella, flask of tea and a few sarnies.
Marvelous days, no mobile phones, just you the water and the potential big fish to tell your friends about using the hands and arms scale to show how big it wasn't.
When I watched the T.V series Mortimer and Whitehouse it shows how good friends can go fishing and have right laugh at the same time.

[BlackHillsPaul]

Nice little Black Hills Brook Trout!

[JoeDenver]

Daughter’s first brookie…caught at Rocky Mountain National Park

Decent bow 4 weeks ago on the South Platte (17-18” and 5” or so wide)

14” brown on a 3wt in super skinny water

[JoeDenver]

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Nice little Black Hills Brook Trout!

Need to get up to the Hills for some fly fishing. But Wyoming’s phenomenal waters on the way might be a distraction…

[BlackHillsPaul]

Need to get up to the Hills for some fly fishing. But Wyoming’s phenomenal waters on the way might be a distraction…

Wyoming could be a distraction for sure Joe. But if you like fishing small stream the Black Hills is hard to beat. Not to mention our many easily accessible lakes that are stocked with (Mostly Rainbow) Trout.

P.S. I had to edit my pic before uploading it to get it right. Had to rotate it sideways and then it uploaded correctly. Weird!!

[Kennyb41]

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Nice little Black Hills Brook Trout!

What you aiming to catch with that Paul ?

[Kennyb41]

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Daughter’s first brookie…caught at Rocky Mountain National Park (not sure if mods know how to rotate the photo)

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Decent bow 4 weeks ago on the South Platte (17-18”)

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14” brown on a 3wt in super skinny water (not sure if mods know how to rotate the photo)

It's made a bloody mess of your Squash racquet, was it worth it ?

[Carrick Dave]

I used to Dave many years ago and it’s something I’d like to get back in to. Tbh I need to upgrade my fishing gear.
Never fished in Ireland but you have top class fishing in river, lake & sea. So how’s the trout fishing atm?

It’s been good Jaydog, the Dollaghan season’s over now so back to stocked lakes for the winter.

Hoping to do more salmon fishing next year, it’s always been trout for me but I’m getting the itch.

[Jaydog]

It’s been good Jaydog, the Dollaghan season’s over now so back to stocked lakes for the winter.

Hoping to do more salmon fishing next year, it’s always been trout for me but I’m getting the itch.

Had to look Dollaghan up.
Had a great time fishing for wild brownies in North Uist this summer. Would love to go back and fish the sea pools for sea trout and also if you catch the tide right as it enters some sea lochs the pollack on the fly is great sport. Plus good eating.

[JoeDenver]

It's made a bloody mess of your Squash racquet, was it worth it ?

that’s a good one. I’m going to use racquet in the future to refer to fishnets. I’ll let you know if I get some puzzled looks.

[Jaydog]

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Daughter’s first brookie…caught at Rocky Mountain National Park (not sure if mods know how to rotate the photo)

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Decent bow 4 weeks ago on the South Platte (17-18”)

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14” brown on a 3wt in super skinny water (not sure if mods know how to rotate the photo)

Great stuff Joe. Get them started young. Wonderful hobby for youngsters.
With the pics if you screenshot the photo then post it’ll be right way round.

[Jaydog]

that’s a good one. I’m going to use racquet in the future to refer to fishnets. I’ll let you know if I get some puzzled looks.

This will get you some looks for sure

[JoeDenver]

Great stuff Joe. Get them started young. Wonderful hobby for youngsters.
With the pics if you screenshot the photo then post it’ll be right way round.

Thanks Jaydog, I’ve updated my post using the same strategy and that appears to have worked out. Regarding the kids, I’ve actually been working with the daughter casting 3wt and 4wt rods and she is coming along nicely. Accuracy and consistency are still off at times, but that will come. She can get it right around half the time…10 and 2 (which often gets simplified to 10 and 1 to avoid overcompensating on the back cast).

She also thinks wearing waders and standing/walking around in the water is the greatest thing…and who doesn’t love a happy kid

England is on the bucket list for sure. What are your most common rods that you use? I’m mainly a dry fly fisherman for trout and so have grown partial to my fiberglass 4wt. We have lots of big waters in the Rockies and can get up to using 6wt rods at times. I imagine 4wt rods are ideal. And more nymphing (so longer rods), I presume?

Also, look up “drewloooknfishy” on YouTube. That goes for everyone here with a fishing itch. You’re welcome

[Kennyb41]

that’s a good one. I’m going to use racquet in the future to refer to fishnets. I’ll let you know if I get some puzzled looks.

We sometimes refer to fishnets here as 'tights'.

And yeah you'd definitely get some puzzled looks, and possibly some advances.