Catch of the day [Fishing]

[Giles]

Here some of his "Grade 1" dry flies....I have 100's of his "Grade 2's"....

[motojobobo]

Very, very cool handiwork.
Whoever gets into making them will fill up his home with all sorts of different stuff (strings, nylons, beads…..and on and on) to imitate the myriad insects flying around water bodies.

[Giles]

I dont tie much (mainly salt water flats flies), and I have got a shit load of stuff.....

[Mizmazzle]

@Giles wow! Those are quite lovely! A well tied dry fly is a work of art. Hell, I have framed paintings of them on the wall.

[Giles]

My typically Gosportian access to the foreshore....

[goosehd]

@Giles that’s sad and far too common. Our waterways around shopping centres are the same.

[Tago Mago]

@Giles not one of your bikes I guess

[Giles]

It's been built to access MoD (US = DoD) owned, and very restricted foreshore, the alternative is a 2 mile walk/scramble/wade. It is surprising stable.

When my mate got back to his bike after fishing, some local shits had slashed his tyres. I told him to add it to the "fast access pile"....

[goosehd]

@Giles misunderstood the purpose…our local shits have an affinity of pushing shopping carts (trolleys?) into the local waterways for no good reason. Thankfully, they are too busy doing so, to spend time on slashing tires.

[Giles]

@goosehd said in Catch of the day [Fishing]:

pushing shopping carts (trolleys?) into the local waterways

That's how they got there, it is the repurposing that I like......

[aksu]

Gear is a bit light for this kind of fishing

... but not the pants they are XHS!

[Giles]

That looks my kind of fishing....Target species?

[aksu]

@Giles Sea trout. I'm more used to fresh water fishing. Was nice, no trouts thought

[Giles]

Looks like good Bass territory. I saw a beaut of a sea trout jump about 5 meters from my rod tip whilst fishing for Bass last week....

[Giles]

Popped out for a quick 30 minutes at high tide today. Not massive, and no way of gauging its size in the photo, but a lovely fish. Put back to live another day....

[Sean94]

Just catching up with the thread and there’s been some awesome fish caught. @Mizmazzle you're living my dream fishing the locations you do for amazing species of trout!

My season was quieter than normal but I had some great fish when I did get out. The salmon was landed on a high bank and was released straight after the photo. It was a good year for them this year which makes a change.

[Mizmazzle]

@Sean94 holy smokes!! Looks like you’ve got into some hogs yourself!! Beautiful fish my man!!

[Sean94]

@Mizmazzle yeah all in all not a bad season. I didn’t get to fish much after mid June due to house renovations though. Our first born is due next March so I’ll probably fish even less next season.

Despite that I messaged Chris Barclay for one of his small stream specials.. 6’4” 3/4 blank rolled in Japan, Kineya hardware and a curly birch reel seat from Finland, guides etc from the states and built in NC by Chris. I might get to fish it in a couple years!

[Mizmazzle]

@Sean94 that is a thing of incredible beauty right there!! Hand it down to the kid one day too!! Congrats on the little tike coming your way!

[dinobarnesberlin]

Losing the big one
“ had it in the mouth and the kids walked in “