Trout tickling?

[John Gryphon]

Obviously there's a few of us that are poachers at heart!

food on the table types.

 

[VSS]

Only been successful at it once, despite many attempts as a child.
Inspired by Arthur Ransome's book "Picts and Martyrs" (one of the Swallows & Amazons adventures), and others.

Might just have to give it another go next time I'm a suitable place. Much more fun than thrashing the water with a rod and line!

 

[Feugh]

My Grandfather described to me how to guddle for trout and I’ve used the technique several times. I learnt in the burn which is close to the house I grew up in, and forty years ago it was full of minnows, stickleback and brown trout. Then a business upstream had a chemical spill and they all disappeared.
I learned which rocks the trout would lie under or against, tickle their belly and then either slip a finger in the gills or just throw them up onto the bank.
I also caught a salmon using a rabbit snare in Alaska once, but that’s another story…..

 

[camodog]

I was taught how to 'tickle' trout by my late father on the upper reaches of the Clwyd, above Ruthin, Nth Wales. This was 55 + years ago. My father was in a syndicate near Clocaenog at the time. The Clwyd (IIRC) or tributary thereof, ran in the valley below the shoot.
Mum and Dad would take us kids down there on a Summers day. Dad would take me down to the river and we'd attempt to 'tickle out' a trout or two. If this failed to 'produce', then out came the little Browning semi-auto..! That did 'the trick' ! Happy days indeed, and alas, I feel the last generation fortunate enough to indulge in such 'endevours' !
I have attempted it occasionally since, however numbers of wild brownies and streams holding them are now far fewer.

 

[kripton]

Have done it with trout and salmon but with the salmon you grip the tail rather than the gills.

 

[Confidis]

Pro tip . Bread in your hand .

 

[kripton]

Have done it with trout and salmon but with the salmon you grip the tail rather than the gills.

Sorry should have said "the wrist" rather than the tail.
Once tailed a a salmon from under a rock on a small river to show an unhappy fisherman that there were salmon in the river despite his claims to the contrary - salmon then returned and, yes, not held up by the tail as this can cause spinal damage.

 

[Mickeydredd]

Used to do it in the local burns as a teenager. It’s a very successful way to catch trout

 

[rafael fach]

I have caught more sewin than I can recall never caught one on a rod started when below 10 years old still do occasionally at 64

 

[User00047]

Tickle them? no
We used to just net the whole river. Caught loads of trout.