Brave or foolish.

[Tagoat]

This one tickled me no end ......... fuikwhits:

Lowestoft drugs inquiry: Water scooter rescue pair charged

A vessel called for help after spotting the two get into difficulties in "rough" seas off Lowestoft.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[dartmoordog]

The day 1,000 young men died off a Devon beach

The official death toll was 749 men - far more than were killed on the storming of Utah beach on the real D-Day - but some believe that the real body count was 1,000 or more.

www.devonlive.com

Nearly a thousand - german e-boats I believe.

Yes, very tragic, very much part of our local history. Whole small towns and villages were evacuated to accommodate the thousands of American troops in preparation for D Day.

 

[User00035]

This one tickled me no end ......... fuikwhits:

Lowestoft drugs inquiry: Water scooter rescue pair charged

A vessel called for help after spotting the two get into difficulties in "rough" seas off Lowestoft.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ironic. Two ar$eholes whose business was wrecking lives get rescued while a thousand men died trying to defend freedom.

 

[tarponhead]

Mepps, they're called Mepps.

Please.

When you use them on a river you are mepping the river, that's the only time it loses the S.

They should only be cast upstream and are a waste of time on a bright day.

Not quite right - they catchcalll day long downstream as well as up - just depends on where you put them- and what you’re fishing for. Best perch spinner as well. I have a gift for getting them out of trees- should focus on not getting them in the tree in the first place... Serious shortage of mepps about at the moment.

 

[Fair Hill]

Not quite right - they catchcalll day long downstream as well as up - just depends on where you put them- and what you’re fishing for. Best perch spinner as well. I have a gift for getting them out of trees- should focus on not getting them in the tree in the first place... Serious shortage of mepps about at the moment.

Trout was the topic and that's what I was referring to, we'll agree to disagree.

 

[TomT3]

The day 1,000 young men died off a Devon beach

The official death toll was 749 men - far more than were killed on the storming of Utah beach on the real D-Day - but some believe that the real body count was 1,000 or more.

www.devonlive.com

Nearly a thousand - german e-boats I believe.

First time I’ve heard of that Kes- a very interesting read and sadly a very tragic Waste of life.
Thanks for sharing

 

[Dunwaters]

Your

I can't fly fish and I was on a motorbike so I took a five piece travelling Shakespeare spinning rod and a selection of various sized meps and salmon spoons, as recommended by Grahams of Inverness.

The big mep was catching the big trout. When I lost if and had to use a smaller one I never caught the bigger fish again.
Epic fighters on light gear.

You're just making it worse, dig up man, dig up.

 

[User00035]

Not quite right - they catchcalll day long downstream as well as up - just depends on where you put them- and what you’re fishing for. Best perch spinner as well. I have a gift for getting them out of trees- should focus on not getting them in the tree in the first place... Serious shortage of mepps about at the moment.

Well there's a nice one up an alder tree on the south bank of the Moriston. It's on the Ceannacroc estate about halfway between MacKenzie's grave and the confluence of the river Doe. Follow the forestry track over the bridge to the south bank of the Moriston and go just down stream of the hydro-electric outfall weir. There's a gravel bank there. Stand on that and look to your left and you should see it. There's a really tricky overhanging alder limb that gets in the way of lobbing it up towards the weir. Easily done. Do be careful. It's 35 miles to Grahams of Inverness to get another one.

And talking of gravel banks, that's where I caught all my best fish. There's a biggish one near MacKenzie's grave with a large patch of deep still water in the lea of it. And no trees. I didn't cast up or down but straight across that still patch and pulled the mepp just along the riffles on the edge. Got a hit nearly every time. Really dark, peaty water and when they saw the daylight they went ballistic, jumping, flipping, twisting, tail dancing. Lovely lively fish. Fabulous eating too.

 

[Alantoo]

Yes. Thanks for that CJ. It was indeed Hallsands I was thinking of. I remember (far too many years ago!) being taken there as a child & being told the story

No loss of life at Hallsands, so maybe you were conflating that with the 34 lost at Lynmouth...

Alan

 

[Tagoat]

No loss of life at Hallsands, so maybe you were conflating that with the 34 lost at Lynmouth...

Alan

Yes. It rather looks so. Thanks