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 Paul Boote |
Whatever you do, get out fishing NOW, |
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Posts: 4341 (18/10/06 15:48) |
for the barbs are going POTTY! Just back from a very brief trip, to two very much second-string waters run by two different clubs - water that I don't know well, too.
Did the ever so slightly non-standard stuff that I usually do - 10-10 & 7-14! Get out and at them, guys, before this weather cools. |
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Mark ONeill |
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Posts: 1301 (18/10/06 16:19) |
Paul, ive been reading the reports, just itching to get out!! its going to be great!! (i sincerely hope)!!!
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dr barbus |
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Posts: 1567 (18/10/06 19:37) |
Paul
You may have a point.... The weather forecast had the first cold snap due this coming weekend but that was at the beginning of the week. The weather forecast has now changed. The change in Atlantic Lows (see metcheck) has got more wild, rainy weather rolling in as we speak - wind, rain and thunder - eek - are you wet in the South West yet? Now if we had some clues to what weather forecast those Barbel were using...... - Dr Barbus That which is everybodys business is nobodys business.
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johngp |
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Posts: 610 (18/10/06 20:07) |
DR BARBUS we are still dry and river very low we are dancing round the stones and the fires chanting but nowt yet
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 4341 (18/10/06 21:17) |
The rivers of the South East aren't exactly sweeping Barratt and other, more salubrious Exec. Homes into the Channel, John. But, my word, if you look for barbelly spots, then try a bait in them...
The barbs stocking up now, laying in their larder for the winter, even the ones that have been pounded, even caught, all summer long. Zebadee said ... for I'm off out again tomorrow morning. |
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Paul Boote |
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Posts: 4341 (22/10/06 17:01) |
P. Boote Esq: "...for much of the coming week ... with all this rain ... just going outside, and may be some time..."
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Billybarb |
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Posts: 124 (22/10/06 19:42) |
Paul zip up the tent when you go its cold out
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Slip59 |
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Posts: 419 (22/10/06 21:46) |
Stay out there mate!
Don't know what its like down South but just back from my river and I'd swear every fish in the river was on the feed. Foot up, hint of chocolate, mild and drizzly - it doesn't get any better! Only my second ever brace from the rock 'ard river! |
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Paul Boote |
I have returned, but only until early tomorrow | ||
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Posts: 4341 (23/10/06 21:14) |
Fascinating day. Much learned about a river and its fish from someone I met on the riverbank; plus had the shortest, fattest barbel (9-9) that I have ever seen, a veritable "barrel with fins" that I thought was a Common (bronze flash in coloured water) until it surfaced, kited briefly in midstream, showed me a short, high, triangular flag of a dorsal, before belting off on a run downstream.
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Slip59 |
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Posts: 419 (24/10/06 09:05) |
Lucky man - glad I got out Sunday because Sunday evening was as good as it gets barbel weather-wise, but Monday morning dawned cold and clear and it's staying that way. The leaves are tumbling from the trees, the sun is low in the morning sky and the windows are a misty mystery. Time to turn my thoughts to grayling until the next set of westerlies come rolling in.
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