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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 06 11:52 am Post subject:
im going fishing in a few mins

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 06 5:42 pm Post subject:
got one .yum.

dpack

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Posted: Sun May 07, 06 8:23 pm Post subject:
im going on holiday . i will have to plant more trees .umm yes , a few things to do , including get a good deal for early june . passport renewal is my prime objective . all filled in but not processed or returned . oh well i aint been to liverpool since 1980 . day trip i spose . not very downsizer but im excited , i have stayed away but i cant remember the last time i had a holiday

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Sun May 07, 06 8:31 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

not very downsizer but im excited , i have stayed away but i cant remember the last time i had a holiday

Where did you decide to go in the end ?
Hope you have an excellent time.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Sun May 07, 06 9:17 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

passport renewal is my prime objective . all filled in but not processed or returned

. oh well i aint been to liverpool since 1980 . day trip i spose

You need a passport to go to Liverpool?

Have a good trip.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Sun May 07, 06 9:29 pm Post subject:
this ended up posted in the wrong place but .....

dpack

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Posted: Sun May 07, 06 9:41 pm Post subject:
grayling will be in season when i get back hope that clears things up

Gus

Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Posts: 38
Location: scottish borders

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 06 10:33 am Post subject:

The prime time for Grayling fishing fast approaches! Because they are (incorrectly) classified as a 'coarse' fish, the season differs to that imposed on trout and salmon fishing. This provides those of us who eat what we catch with a welcome window of opportunity to add wild fish to our diet throughout the colder months of early spring.

Grayling are opportunistic feeders, and their diet closely matches that of the trout. However, the underslung mouth and 'rubbery' lips of this animal are clues to where it sources most of its food - the bottom of the river. Undoubtedly, the single most succesful method of fishing for grayling is flyfishing with heavily weighted flies trundled along the riverbed. This method was developed to a very high degree by Polish and Czech anglers over the past three decades, but in recent years has been adopted by UK anglers with similar degrees of success.

In the UK, the best areas are Wales (particularly the Dee and Severn catchment areas) and Yorkshire. Southern Scotland is also becoming noted for the quality of grayling fishing. Check local tackle shops for permission - grayling permits are normally the cheapest ones available.

As far as eating them goes, they're pretty much like any other animal on whose flesh we feed - some like them, others don't. They do have a distinctive taste, and are biologically very similar to trout. Caught in their prime in their favoured habitat (clean, fast flowing rivers) grayling can be a tasty dish indeed! Some people reckon they taste slightly of cucumber, or herbs - indeed the latin name 'Thymallus thymallus' suggests a hint of thyme flavouring!

Keep the cookery simple - butter salt and pepper are the only adornments required for baked or grilled grayling.

You're very unlikely to find these on a fishmongers slab, so have a go at catching them yourself- nothing like a crisp January afternoon on the riverbank to develop an appetite!

Silas

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 6848
Location: Staffordshire

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 06 10:44 am Post subject:
My favourite 'coarse' fish is perch, by about 100miles! Grayling second and trout third! Pike is so boney as to be uneatable carp tastes of mud and roach is pretty horrible.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 06 10:58 am Post subject:
I love grayling - to catch and eat. Quite bony though so it's always worth filleting the very meaty flesh out once they're cooked.\ Gorgeous with a gooseberry jelly/sauce of some sort, a nice crisp green salad and some new potatoes. Mmmmmm...

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 06 3:26 pm Post subject:
Mi Silas I agree , theres very little that beats a fillet of Perch especially cooked over a fire outside your tent in the Lake District. You all forgot to mention the wonderful eel !

Silas

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 6848
Location: Staffordshire

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 06 3:28 pm Post subject:

bodger wrote:

Mi Silas I agree , theres very little that beats a fillet of Perch especially cooked over a fire outside your tent in the Lake District.

You all forgot to mention the wonderful eel !

How do you know about my tent in the lake district?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 06 3:31 pm Post subject:
char are ok im looking forward to greylings ,there is a spot not far where they hang out

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 06 3:37 pm Post subject:
Theres a smashing little camp site in Patterdale where you can camp and eat your own caught brown trout,perch and eels. No grayling there though d pack.

fish (the other one)

Joined: 24 Dec 2006
Posts: 319

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 06 2:58 pm Post subject:

i think they taste great especially from a chalke stream,i love to catch grayling,my biggest being 1lb 4oz but boy do they fight! when they get downstream and use that huge fin its like trying to pull a bin bag up stream! i tried many different flies but settled for a Yorkshire fly called a Terry's terror,it had a red and yellow floss tail peathingy hurl body with gold rib topped with a red game hackle.the wet fly version was the same just tied with hens hackle.by far the best fishing for old thymallus thymallus is on the Avon above the piscatorial society's water at west amesbury,near stonehenge,a crisp February morning 8 am with the frost still hard on the ground,finishing by 11am in time to get an all day breccy at friar Tuck's greasy spoon!!!!

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