Aled 506 Posted December 30, 2024 Report Share Posted December 30, 2024 Some cracking pictures, and locations. I get it big time, i love waiting for dark on a favourite sea trout pool, wildfowling or rough shooting with my dog Celt. 13 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,892 Posted December 30, 2024 Report Share Posted December 30, 2024 1 hour ago, Aled said: i love waiting for dark on a favourite sea trout pool I used to love that,moreso when you could actually hear salmon jumping and knew fish were on the move. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eastcoast 4,160 Posted December 31, 2024 Report Share Posted December 31, 2024 The mountains, fields and streams is the cliche, I would add derelict neglected industrial wastelands. Those were/are the places that I've always been happiest in. I used to think that it was because I was out in pursuit of game, and it was/is. But not until I stopped going the those place that I realised that it was not so much the hunting that I missed but the places themselves. Ironically these days areas of outstanding natural beauty are fairly easily accessible, the neglected industrial wastelands seem to have gone and those were the places that were the happiest places to hunt. With curs and mongrels 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 30,217 Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 All a bit depressing really but ive found this my solemn place of comfort over the last 6 months....i used to be the type who hated being on my own and always wanted people around but now i just cant wait to get to my little bench,sit and just let the hours go by with my 4 legged pal until im falling about pissed and the ol woman has to come and pick us up Proper sad case im turning into ! 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,892 Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 On 30/12/2024 at 19:38, eastcoast said: derelict neglected industrial wastelands. Done those as a kid,rabbits and rats were hard earned with a pack of neighbourhood mutts.i walked a pylon trail on the edge of town a few weeks back,turkey,raccoon and rabbit tracks everywhere,just the sort of place a kid with a few dogs could get a few runs. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 13,136 Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 Nothing better 16 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BobDown 818 Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 Scramble egg and Saluki power 5 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eastcoast 4,160 Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 On 10/01/2025 at 01:19, mackem said: Done those as a kid,rabbits and rats were hard earned with a pack of neighbourhood mutts.i walked a pylon trail on the edge of town a few weeks back,turkey,raccoon and rabbit tracks everywhere,just the sort of place a kid with a few dogs could get a few runs. I think it was a good grounding for terrier and lurcher lads. The little game that was still around were truly a case of survival of the fittest. Required dogs with good noses and great drive to have any success in those areas of vast overgrown bramble and gorse for little reward. And you cannot train that into a dog, they need to have it in them. You cannot force dogs to do that type of work, they need to love doing it. Taking good numbers on beautiful land in places such as the Scottish Borders or Northumberland is piece of piss in comparison 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 28,699 Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 Were I live is lovely I’ve traveled here for over 40 years for fishing walking and hunting now I have it all on my doorstep 12 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,892 Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 18 minutes ago, eastcoast said: Taking good numbers on beautiful land in places such as the Scottish Borders or Northumberland is piece of piss in comparison It was actually,if we got two or three rabbits with the pack,maybe a hare around Penshaw we had had a great day,once we started going up to Caithness a hundred and odd over two days was fantastic to get numbers but the excitement wasn't the same. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Goly 664 Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 9 minutes ago, mackem said: It was actually,if we got two or three rabbits with the pack,maybe a hare around Penshaw we had had a great day,once we started going up to Caithness a hundred and odd over two days was fantastic to get numbers but the excitement wasn't the same. You could get a tonne up Grassington years ago, I've heard off an old man from work that the numbers aren't the same anymore up on the Dales. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NEWKID 27,228 Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 On 10/01/2025 at 00:33, gnasher16 said: All a bit depressing really but ive found this my solemn place of comfort over the last 6 months....i used to be the type who hated being on my own and always wanted people around but now i just cant wait to get to my little bench,sit and just let the hours go by with my 4 legged pal until im falling about pissed and the ol woman has to come and pick us up Proper sad case im turning into ! A lot of sadness in that post mate, keep your chin up. 4 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tatsblisters 10,001 Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 We ratchet about with our pack of mongrels and terriersas kid's on wasteland that the Parkgate retail shopping centre now sits on and rabbits caught were hard earned from railway sidings and piles of rubble. First time I went up the Dale's in my 30s ferretting was like shelling peas and digging rabbits out when the ferret had killed in was as easy as digging blueberries out of a bowl of porridge. though noware near the fun of rabbiting on these places as a kid. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 26,892 Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 23 minutes ago, Goly said: You could get a tonne up Grassington years ago, I've heard off an old man from work that the numbers aren't the same anymore up on the Dales. Theres a book written by an old railway worker on poaching rabbits in that area I think? 10 minutes ago, tatsblisters said: We ratchet about with our pack of mongrels and terriersas kid's on wasteland that the Parkgate retail shopping centre now sits on and rabbits caught were hard earned from railway sidings and piles of rubble. First time I went up the Dale's in my 30s ferretting was like shelling peas and digging rabbits out when the ferret had killed in was as easy as digging blueberries out of a bowl of porridge. though noware near the fun of rabbiting on these places as a kid. I knocked about with some mancunians,as soon as Malham became well known thanks to gary hosker we ferreted around there,big numbers of rabbits. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eastcoast 4,160 Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 On 10/01/2025 at 00:33, gnasher16 said: All a bit depressing really but ive found this my solemn place of comfort over the last 6 months....i used to be the type who hated being on my own and always wanted people around but now i just cant wait to get to my little bench,sit and just let the hours go by with my 4 legged pal until im falling about pissed and the ol woman has to come and pick us up Proper sad case im turning into ! Cracking looking dog. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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