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 Graham Elliott |
9.8 dive |
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Posts: 4258 (18/09/02 22:40) |
I had caught 1 barbel and 6 chub up to 5lb.
It was 9.45pm. The rod took off and I dived after it and caught it in mid air. The fish snapped off. The mud went up to my ears with my headfirst dive. Soaked I went home. Phone is kaput. So am I. Graham |
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Lyn the barbel catcher |
wet! | ||
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Posts: 366 (18/09/02 23:04) |
Look on the bright side, at least you didn't blank
  Hope you're OK. Put the phone in the airing cupboard for the night, you never know it may dry it out. lyn |
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Silk |
Wet | ||
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Posts: 1238 (18/09/02 23:49) |
And don't forget to remove the streamer weed first
Silk |
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David 58 |
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Posts: 32 (18/09/02 23:52) |
Spectacular effort Graham,but where did you
lose marks? Did your floppy hat come off? |
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keitht2 |
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Posts: 579 (19/09/02 07:25) |
It's his age you know.
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Highland Friar |
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Posts: 1181 (19/09/02 07:47) |
Its true, even the best fall in! And I thought it was just us mortals.
Unlucky Graham, the mud sinks something awful dont it. Nick |
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paul4barbus |
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Posts: 4250 (19/09/02 07:50)
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Serves you right at your age - stick to daylight fishing.
Better still, get a reel that gives line and the rod will not fly.............. ..........now there's a thought  paul |
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Simon |
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Posts: 398 (19/09/02 07:55) |
Hope it was on pellet, mate, or I won't hear the end of it!
Simon |
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Stewart Bloor |
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Posts: 778 (19/09/02 08:02) |
Not that I delight in other people's misfortune; but it is rather comforting to know that I am not alone in this sort of thing
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paul4barbus |
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Posts: 4250 (19/09/02 08:10)
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Come on now Stewart, maximum delight can be shared by all
As long as he is all right then it is OK to Did Jane let you back in the house Graham, smelling llike that? Should have had to have a hose-down on the decking. paul |
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Andy Davies |
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Posts: 2995 (19/09/02 09:47)
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I did that a few weeks back, was just about to weigh a fish and, fell in - fish getting away at the same time!
p.s. Dropped my phone to the bottom of the Wye on the fishin - took it apart as much as possible and left to dry, and now its as right as rain. Andy |
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Andy Thatcher |
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Posts: 6442 (19/09/02 10:16)
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I'm still laughing about that one Andy !
From very far away though Cheers
Andy
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Neil HD |
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Posts: 1668 (19/09/02 10:22) |
Phew Graham
Nice one chap. Time I did it was Tenching last Summer. Putting rod rest in and leaned out too far slipped up to my neck in water!!!!! Funny though sounds like you were out Tuesday night, which I was as well. Had three and all of them nearly took the rod in. Must be the Moon................... Cheers Neil |
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bgit |
Things that go sploosh in the night. | ||
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Posts: 4660 (19/09/02 10:28)
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Sorry to hear of your misadventure Graham and Andy, but must admit to having trouble suppressing the occasional smile in attempt to picture the events.
A particular 'dive' happened many years ago when river pike fishing, the banks were high, slopey, frost solid with a sprinkling of ice around the margins. Bite, bent rod and attempt to make my way down slope - Skeetex boots, no flex to the soles and slid ungracefully into the river - up to my waist in cold water and ooze. Landed the 15 pound pike and then had trouble getting back up the bank. Cold ooze, smelling more foul as it's temperature came up - went home in car in my underpants. Smell took weeks to get out of car..... Cheers Bob |
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Graham Elliott |
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Posts: 4258 (19/09/02 10:59) |
Thanks Guys. I was really miffed about losing the fish.
To put a bit of meat on the tale. I was on the Kennet with Ian and the King. Ian had lost a goodie and I was plagued by chub. Then I started to get slower 6inch pulls and I thought "Bream", especially as the Breamstar was with us It was dark of course, so as I planned to leave shortly I didn't add an isotope to the tip. You can see it if it's a real bite can't you? As normal the rod handle was on my chair, next to my leg. When I say it took off. Like Concorde. One minute it was in the rest the next, it was in midair. Years of cricket meant the natural reaction was to leap forward to try and catch it. I did, brilliantly, but head first landed in the mud and slime. Line everywere, snapped off round my legs and I hauled myself out. Stink.not half. Dick gave me a towel to wipe the mud off my face and didn't laugh at all (saved it till I left ?) If you passed my house a nude man with deposited clothes on the front step would have shocked you. The lesson is. Braid is very responsive to bites! Hold the handle! The phone is dead but amazed that the sim card held all my nums etc. and transfered to new phone/same number. Graham |
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BARBULE |
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Posts: 4460 (19/09/02 15:25) |
Get a bloody bait runner!!!! Paul4 might sell you 1 of his he hasn't got a clue how to use them ,had them on top of the rod on Tuesday
Any photos????? Big Mike
Bad days fishing better than a good day at work! RSSG Membership Secretary |
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Graham Elliott |
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Posts: 4258 (19/09/02 16:05) |
Yes Mike. I was using one, but there was also a big snag not too far away. At the pace of that fish it would have been in the snag before my hand had moved.
I have a report of your partners Trent excursion. No wonder you didn't catch with that handicap. (Paul that is!) |
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BARBULE |
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Posts: 4460 (19/09/02 17:03) |
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 Big Mike
Bad days fishing better than a good day at work! RSSG Membership Secretary |
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Dick |
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Posts: 2423 (22/09/02 10:43) |
Hi All
Ive been off line a while, not that anyone missed me ( he said fishing for complements ! ) Well, Mr Elliott's face plant in the gungy silt of the Kennet, truly an memorable event for the old memoirs ! He says I was polite and did not laugh...... er discrete is more to the point, it was dark, a fortunate veil. The building laughter pressure, exploded several fillings, but I kept it in. We did laugh later, and still are. The poor guy, picture his silted matted hair, like that of a Labrador having run a muddy track, it goes all spiky. The wet, fetid rivulets of sludge trickling down his face, sparkling in my torch light. Signed, pictures £ 5-00 a time, for charity of course ! ........ I wish !! I revisited the scene, and there in the silt a lone print, bringing to mind those fossilised footprints, documentaries show from pre-history. Except with the characteristic Elliott flare for aptness, he left a perfect face print, and there to the left were he rolled over, the Elliott butt mark. All this talk lately of personal swims, now heres a man who likes to show his hot spots, and come to that, spots not so hot ( the butt mark ) Well done Graham, taken like a man, a spectacular Christening to the strange world of night fishing, long may it last, and may your fruits be BIG partner. Cheers Dick |
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