Stick Float Fishing

[bill88 6]

Heres a couple of pics showing why stick float fishing on the Avon during your Christmas holiday isnt always a good idea.Pics were taken yesterday at 3.15.

 

 

[kingfisher 0]

Heres a couple of pics showing why stick float fishing on the Avon during your Christmas holiday isnt always a good idea.Pics were taken yesterday at 3.15.

 

 

i take it you didnt get a bite then?

[Shooter08 0]

Yeah Frost Bite ?

[bill88 6]

Heres a couple of pics showing why stick float fishing on the Avon during your Christmas holiday isnt always a good idea.Pics were taken yesterday at 3.15.

 

 

i take it you didnt get a bite then?

 

Plenty of bites and lots of small chub and roach,better fish start showing in the late afternoon which is when the line started icing in the rings and just as luck would have it i had no glycerine with me.

[kingfisher 0]

ive been out in some cold weather but ive never had ice form on my rod before!

[Guest MIST NET]

Only ever had it happen once,when i was fishing at naburn locks..i caught 13 superb looking roach before i finally packed up due to ice..

[Malt 379]

Never had that problem, the sea don't freeze....

[wife 1]

Heres a couple of pics showing why stick float fishing on the Avon during your Christmas holiday isnt always a good idea.Pics were taken yesterday at 3.15.

 

 

it been a while since i had that happen, i can remember landing fish and 2 minutes later going to pick the landing net up and it was frozen in the shape i put it down, braver man than me mate fishing when it that cold, still caught some fish, good on you

[bill88 6]

Never had that problem, the sea don't freeze....

 

Mal i have some pics somewhere from a beach fishing trip to Withernsea on the east coast.Line was freezing to the rings and all the bait we dug and pumped that day was frozen solid.I even ended up rescuing a Guilliemot ! I sometimes think us fishermen are mental,we go fishing in the worst of weather and lets be honest a lot of us go and freeze on a bank/beach somewhere knowing we are unlikely to catch

[kingfisher 0]

Never had that problem, the sea don't freeze....

 

Mal i have some pics somewhere from a beach fishing trip to Withernsea on the east coast.Line was freezing to the rings and all the bait we dug and pumped that day was frozen solid.I even ended up rescuing a Guilliemot ! I sometimes think us fishermen are mental,we go fishing in the worst of weather and lets be honest a lot of us go and freeze on a bank/beach somewhere knowing we are unlikely to catch

too true

[Sonny Brindle 2]

Had a day's grayling fishing last week, and it was bitter. Ice forming in the rings, and fussy fish meant continual changing of size 16/18 flies with numb fingers.

 

Had a couple of fish though, one little one and a cracking personal best of 1.5 pounds.

 

Got this shot of the little 'un on my phone.

 

[fin and fur 2]

i used to fish a small trout lake that sat in a deep secluded valley many years ago when the sun went down over the trees in winter the temperature would fall dramatically and the flyline would usually freeze to the rod rings which would make for some, how shall i say, exciting sport when a trout ran with the fly, reckon we will see a harsh winter this year, the local weatherman was talking of this being the coldest winter for the last 12 years, roll on spring

[T78 4]

i remember when i was a kid,fishing on the ouse in winter and the river was frozen from the bank to about ten foot out! had to break a channel before fishing and it still refroze as the day went on!