Catch of the day [Fishing]

[Giles]

Just sorting out some of my fly fishing gear. Found a few boxes of nymphs that a good friend tied decades ago. The only reason I got them was because he thought they were not good enough for his box

[goosehd]

@Giles If those were the rejected ones, I would love to see his acceptable ones

[Giles]

Exactly, his dry and wet flies are amazing too.....

[motojobobo]

Not a fisherman myself so amazed to see these handcrafted beauties. How long does it take an expert like to your friendo to make one of these? He must be 700 years old if he tied all those together, and they are only his rejects.

[Giles]

Probably 5-10 mins

[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....