stories !

[frankie 2010 1]

just wondering if anybody got any good times or bad times that have happend on the bank over the years ????gotta be a few tales to tell !!??

["Earth!" 503]

Remember a good few years ago riding a bike along our canal mid winter and see a mate fishing.i put the brakes on as i got up to him,went to put my foot on the ground only for the ground not to be there,"SPLASH",i went straight in! feck it was cold,even colder the 2 mile ride back home!!!

 

Another,i was fly fishing a day ticket lake,there was a fishing rising a long way out so as i was about to send the fly on its way,something hit me in the side of the head.i dropped the rod expecting it to be some twat thats just thrown a stone but there was no one around me other than fellow fisherman.

with that,i picked the rod up and started to retrieve the line only for the leader to lead to my head..

yep,the bang on the head was my fly which had embedded itself in my ear lobe,good and proper too.

[frankie 2010 1]

Nice one earth !!!!

[niall_b73 41]

********** THIS IS NOT MY STORY *********

this is a story from another member on another fishing site.

 

" Just Returned after a week in Monaghan

Hi All,

I have just returned after a week's fishing in County Monaghan,this was after a 6 year absence, I thought it may be of interest to you all to share my thoughts/views on the week itself.

Firstly having done some research on here and some other sites I had lowered my expectations of the fishing weights I would catch since my last visit in 2004. I fished 3 different waters and we averaged about 50lb of fish each every day, which I have to say I was extremely pleased with, apart from one fish all fish were in pristine condition, during the week we had a mixture of superb roach, some very large hybrids and some decent bream between 5 and 6lb in weight, and four pike the biggest weighing 8lb. After speaking with two other groups of English anglers that week, one group who concentrated on fishing white and black island and concra wood on Muckno and another group who we met on the ferry back who had fished at Killashandra as they had done for the same week for the last 20 years. we realised how good our results had been, the group of 6 anglers who fished Muckno all week had a mixture of blanks and weights of 15lb, the biggest individual weight being 45lb for the week, the other group of 3 anglers who fished at Killashandra blanked all week apart from a couple of days were they shared 5 or 6 fish between them, they were of the opinion that they would not be returning and were looking at Holland next year !!

What we found was very different from my last visit.... on my arrival the first two anglers we bumped into at Concra were EE's !! and I must say the acces to Concra needs to be resolved and I know that Dick Caprice is tackling this and I wish him well the golf club have a lot to answer for and those greens on the lake edge are a real cause for concern, I also noted that the sign for Toome Point has now gone and upon checking found that the gate looks permanently fortified and no access to Toome available, after having had some of my very best sport on this stretch I am greatly saddened at this loss.

On our first day we fished white island at Muckno, the fishing was poor a couple of fish only but more to the point was the circus of 4-5 minivans full of beer swilling BBQing music blasting EE's who kept trying to borrow bait etc, the last straw being a football floating into our swims followed by several large stones/rocks in an attempt to push it back into shore.... it was clear they were there for the night etc so we decided not to fish there again.

The following day we fished a water just outside Shercock on the Shercock-Kingscourt road we had reasonable sport, but we were amazed how much rubbish there was and spent 30 mins clearing two swims and filled two bin bags with rubbish, fortunately later in the day we met the warden|bailliff who apologised for the state of things (clearly not his fault) and he explained the problems they were having with regards to patrolling waters, poaching and netting as well as EE's in general, he mentioned having removed 14 skip fulls of rubbish from white island earlier in the year !!! He kindly put us on to a couple of waters one very near to where we were staying and these turned out to be trumps and gave quality sport with bites and fish all day with bream to 6lb. it was an un-named/signposted water and the swims were clean it is obviously difficult to access with a five hundred metre walk and no boat access sort of makes poaching on any scale difficult...thankfully...if you wish to know were this water is please message me and after checking I will let you know its location.

We spent one or two days checking out other waters and talking to locals at Monalty, NaGlack, Ervey, Avaghon and Bally Hoe, the story was the same were ever we went poaching,littering, anti social and violent behaviour. in fact the single irish bivvied up angler from Cork at BallyHoe 2 was very grateful for our appearance as when we arrived he was being eyed up by four very suspicious and furtive looking EE's, we indicated we were staying and shortly afterwards they buggered off.....we had an interesting chat and what is becoming clear is that irish anglers are fighting back if only in a small way ( its very clear the authorities are doing nothing) by creating an underground network of information of where to fish etc, this is very good but it would be helpful if we visiting anglers knew how to tap into this, I have found that people on this site can and have been extremely helpful, and when chatting to local irish fishermen they were happy to share information once they realised we were genuine responsible anglers and TO ALL THOSE LOCAL IRISH ANGLERS I WOULD LIKE TO SAY...MANY MANY THANKS.

What I also noticed was the lack of visiting anglers, apart from the english lads across the road at Ballytrain we saw no other english anglers all week and no german, dutch or italian anglers either, and only one set of english anglers who we met on the ferry back. Also I noticed the how run down Castleblayney appeared with many closed shops and far fewer bars it seems the local economy is suffering due to the lack of anglers and how the authorities can believe there is no problem with the fishing outstounds me, it seems there is money to be had in golf, but while visiting anglers may not pay for fishing, they provide business for the traditional B&B's and S|C and spend lots of money in the local vacinity in the shops and bars that money is now not being spent and its does show.

I do not believe that the major fishing competitions being held will help the current situation, other than hopefully to organise the poor state of affairs and maybe that is not a bad thing, but competitions do not reflect the true meaning of fishing in Ireland and the vast majority of visiting anglers are pleasure fishermen and pleasure anglers are the mainstay for the local economy.

I noticed that there is a call on this site to form a formal and authorised committee and I am glad that the Polish Maniaks have come on board, I also believe it should have representation from the english pleasure angler as these in the past have been the mainstay of the visiting anglers to Ireland. I wish you well with forming this committee/group and hope it has a large active membership as well as committee members, as I believe membership will be the key to the success of this group and we should give them our whole hearted support even if that means putting our hands in our pockets as well as lending our support in other ways, the FUTURE of fishing in Ireland is down to us, lets not let it down.

In summing up I was saddened by the state of affairs during my visit, but I am not apathetic, during my previous visits I have made and developed an affinity with fishing in Ireland and its not just about the fish, its about the people the country itself. the craiq whatever you wish to call it, I will not be going elsewhere next year I will be returning to Ireland....Fishing in Ireland has given me so much....its time for me to give something back....I am now taking my 24 year old son, this was his first visit and he did'nt hesitate in wanting to return.... as he himself said...."its more than fishing this dad"

THAT SAID IT ALL TO ME"

 

 

 

 

niall_b73

[welsh power 16]

********** THIS IS NOT MY STORY *********

this is a story from another member on another fishing site.

 

" Just Returned after a week in Monaghan

Hi All,

I have just returned after a week's fishing in County Monaghan,this was after a 6 year absence, I thought it may be of interest to you all to share my thoughts/views on the week itself.

Firstly having done some research on here and some other sites I had lowered my expectations of the fishing weights I would catch since my last visit in 2004. I fished 3 different waters and we averaged about 50lb of fish each every day, which I have to say I was extremely pleased with, apart from one fish all fish were in pristine condition, during the week we had a mixture of superb roach, some very large hybrids and some decent bream between 5 and 6lb in weight, and four pike the biggest weighing 8lb. After speaking with two other groups of English anglers that week, one group who concentrated on fishing white and black island and concra wood on Muckno and another group who we met on the ferry back who had fished at Killashandra as they had done for the same week for the last 20 years. we realised how good our results had been, the group of 6 anglers who fished Muckno all week had a mixture of blanks and weights of 15lb, the biggest individual weight being 45lb for the week, the other group of 3 anglers who fished at Killashandra blanked all week apart from a couple of days were they shared 5 or 6 fish between them, they were of the opinion that they would not be returning and were looking at Holland next year !!

What we found was very different from my last visit.... on my arrival the first two anglers we bumped into at Concra were EE's !! and I must say the acces to Concra needs to be resolved and I know that Dick Caprice is tackling this and I wish him well the golf club have a lot to answer for and those greens on the lake edge are a real cause for concern, I also noted that the sign for Toome Point has now gone and upon checking found that the gate looks permanently fortified and no access to Toome available, after having had some of my very best sport on this stretch I am greatly saddened at this loss.

On our first day we fished white island at Muckno, the fishing was poor a couple of fish only but more to the point was the circus of 4-5 minivans full of beer swilling BBQing music blasting EE's who kept trying to borrow bait etc, the last straw being a football floating into our swims followed by several large stones/rocks in an attempt to push it back into shore.... it was clear they were there for the night etc so we decided not to fish there again.

The following day we fished a water just outside Shercock on the Shercock-Kingscourt road we had reasonable sport, but we were amazed how much rubbish there was and spent 30 mins clearing two swims and filled two bin bags with rubbish, fortunately later in the day we met the warden|bailliff who apologised for the state of things (clearly not his fault) and he explained the problems they were having with regards to patrolling waters, poaching and netting as well as EE's in general, he mentioned having removed 14 skip fulls of rubbish from white island earlier in the year !!! He kindly put us on to a couple of waters one very near to where we were staying and these turned out to be trumps and gave quality sport with bites and fish all day with bream to 6lb. it was an un-named/signposted water and the swims were clean it is obviously difficult to access with a five hundred metre walk and no boat access sort of makes poaching on any scale difficult...thankfully...if you wish to know were this water is please message me and after checking I will let you know its location.

We spent one or two days checking out other waters and talking to locals at Monalty, NaGlack, Ervey, Avaghon and Bally Hoe, the story was the same were ever we went poaching,littering, anti social and violent behaviour. in fact the single irish bivvied up angler from Cork at BallyHoe 2 was very grateful for our appearance as when we arrived he was being eyed up by four very suspicious and furtive looking EE's, we indicated we were staying and shortly afterwards they buggered off.....we had an interesting chat and what is becoming clear is that irish anglers are fighting back if only in a small way ( its very clear the authorities are doing nothing) by creating an underground network of information of where to fish etc, this is very good but it would be helpful if we visiting anglers knew how to tap into this, I have found that people on this site can and have been extremely helpful, and when chatting to local irish fishermen they were happy to share information once they realised we were genuine responsible anglers and TO ALL THOSE LOCAL IRISH ANGLERS I WOULD LIKE TO SAY...MANY MANY THANKS.

What I also noticed was the lack of visiting anglers, apart from the english lads across the road at Ballytrain we saw no other english anglers all week and no german, dutch or italian anglers either, and only one set of english anglers who we met on the ferry back. Also I noticed the how run down Castleblayney appeared with many closed shops and far fewer bars it seems the local economy is suffering due to the lack of anglers and how the authorities can believe there is no problem with the fishing outstounds me, it seems there is money to be had in golf, but while visiting anglers may not pay for fishing, they provide business for the traditional B&B's and S|C and spend lots of money in the local vacinity in the shops and bars that money is now not being spent and its does show.

I do not believe that the major fishing competitions being held will help the current situation, other than hopefully to organise the poor state of affairs and maybe that is not a bad thing, but competitions do not reflect the true meaning of fishing in Ireland and the vast majority of visiting anglers are pleasure fishermen and pleasure anglers are the mainstay for the local economy.

I noticed that there is a call on this site to form a formal and authorised committee and I am glad that the Polish Maniaks have come on board, I also believe it should have representation from the english pleasure angler as these in the past have been the mainstay of the visiting anglers to Ireland. I wish you well with forming this committee/group and hope it has a large active membership as well as committee members, as I believe membership will be the key to the success of this group and we should give them our whole hearted support even if that means putting our hands in our pockets as well as lending our support in other ways, the FUTURE of fishing in Ireland is down to us, lets not let it down.

In summing up I was saddened by the state of affairs during my visit, but I am not apathetic, during my previous visits I have made and developed an affinity with fishing in Ireland and its not just about the fish, its about the people the country itself. the craiq whatever you wish to call it, I will not be going elsewhere next year I will be returning to Ireland....Fishing in Ireland has given me so much....its time for me to give something back....I am now taking my 24 year old son, this was his first visit and he did'nt hesitate in wanting to return.... as he himself said...."its more than fishing this dad"

THAT SAID IT ALL TO ME"

 

 

 

 

niall_b73

good old boy lol i went fly fishing with my old man 4 the first time when i was 11 an id say i had the biggist fish of the day when i tryed 2 cast i felt a big tug on the line an a screm i only had my dad in the ear lol but wat can i say you win some and you lose soom

[CO CHISE 330]

ive afew but one that sticks in my head is, i was out pike fishing and ide just landed a 14lb er, whist it was on the bank ide rapped my hand round the 18" trace to un hook it and the f****r flipped over, well the trace was like a cheese slicer and nearly took my fingers of, it cut straight through my hand and nail on my little finger and nearly ripped it of, the pain was un real and there was claret every where there were a lesson learn t that day i tell you, but ive a good few good uns to make up for it