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  1. Fuzzy

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    No danger of washing off that wave, it looks like you could stay on it all day! Found it on p100 of the Scottish White Water guidebook which recommends putting in where the B885 Portree to Bracadale road crosses the river and getting off at Skeabost Bridge Hotel but judging by the lack of videos on YouTube I'm guessing that it's not regularly paddled.
     
    #275 Fuzzy, Oct 11, 2018
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    Hey! Don't come paddling across my fishing spot m8 :laughing: oct 16Th onwards it's all yours.
     
    #276 Skyebantam, Oct 11, 2018
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    Kept falling through the holes in the net!
     
    #287 Skyebantam, Jun 21, 2019
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    Must have been a poor day for fishing everywhere yesterday Craven
    8 hrs for one carp pretty decent tho at 17lb
    Can't compete with your sightings but spotted an otter and a mink
     
    #305 Bantamsteve, Sep 22, 2019
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  5. Bantamsteve

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    Nice one Skye
    Carp still feeding nicely so far in local lake so not tried yet
    Got sorted with all the gear and been watching pike chase the
    roach in the canal opposite but that's as far as I have got
    Won't be long till I give it a go tho
    As you say well done to offside I bet he is still washing the slime off
    his hands with his match winning large bag of Bream
     
    #320 Bantamsteve, Nov 14, 2019
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  6. SelbyFan

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    Fished the Wharfe at Tadcaster today only one small Chub.

    Had six last Sat'd'y
     
    #323 SelbyFan, Jan 11, 2020
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    I take it there are no pike on Skye?

    I went to Wharfe at Tadcaster again, two landed Chub, lost one, both 2 1/2 (ish) lbs, nice fish.

    Good luck tomorrow.
     
    #334 SelbyFan, Jan 18, 2020
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    Have a bit of Parlour Pool action, The Royalty Fishery.

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    #339 Skyebantam, Apr 5, 2021
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    In these strange times, you can always count on the soothing sounds of a babbling burn (unfortunately no sounds)

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    #340 Skyebantam, May 18, 2022
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    Looks like a nice roach to me as @Skyebantam@Skyebantam says doubt very much it's a perch/roach hybrid it would be a lot darker
    If it is a hybrid it's more likely to be bream/roach
    Nice specimen tho
     
    #347 Bantamsteve, May 25, 2022
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    These roach seem a bit promiscuous to me. Sh#g owt with gills.
     
    #348 ahar964, May 28, 2022
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    Yes they're really spawny
     
    #349 Chippy, Jun 3, 2022
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    I only caught one today as well. C5B50608-28AF-4507-B33C-E60E7A998913.jpeg
     
    #354 bailiff bridge bantam, Jun 18, 2022
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    Yes, my mistake. I was still thinking about the huge bream that got away. Landing net wasn't close enough to hand as I was trying to haul it in. Actually bent my size 14 hook straight.
     
    #356 Craven Cottager, Jun 18, 2022
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    One of the better wild trout from last night about 10” on a ginked up Loch Ordie. My lad got two at once when I was rowing us back up wind and he was holding the rod and dangling the flies behind the boat, right old tussle and rigmarole to net them both :laughing:

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    #359 Skyebantam, Jun 19, 2022
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    Sounds great. match style anglers usually smash the session carpers off the water, and tbf a lot of match fishing centres around carp, though i think rivers and canals are having a resurgence it’s not all commercial lakes.

    I guess the session carpers come into their own with their well thought out rigs on really tough gravel pits and stuff like that. Yrs ago they did a carp vrs match and the carpers caught nowt and the match lot caught carp on their delicate gear. They do that kind of thing more regularly now, even on TV it used to be you’d only hear about it in the Angling Times or Mail. Each to their own, any dog can have its day and there’s merit in all styles. I love pike fishing in winter fishing, static and getting the bivvy up. It’s variety, fly fishing you are constantly on the move, sometimes you just need a good old sit down :laughing:
     
    #363 Skyebantam, Jun 23, 2022
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    The lakes I refer to (5) are old Claypits full of the usual fare but the silver fish , especially roach and rudd which are in stunning condition. Yes they have a healthy head of carp but all 5 lakes are also stocked with barbel up to 10lb!! They breed their own fish in another series of ponds. Stunning fishing, for me £5 a day! The carp and match style anglers all get on well!
     
    #365 Kevin1954, Jun 23, 2022
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    Wild last night on Loch Fada. Plenty of brown trout, nothing big, though I had one that was decent come short. Got a nice rainbow though which was unexpected, pulled my arm off!

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    #366 Skyebantam, Jun 23, 2022
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    #372 Skyebantam, Jun 28, 2022
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    My best fish of the day.
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    #389 Craven Cottager, Jul 9, 2022
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