Most Memorable Days Fishing

As the title says what is your most memorable days fishing.

Now i have had a few some were I caught loads of fish and others where i have fallen in the water,

But the most memorable has to be fishing O Brains Bridge up by the dam my god what a day I was out fishing with my old man and we were only a peg apart so within talking distance, it was a trip we had planned for a while. now when we arrived at the bridge it was pouring down with rain and the water was running fast and dirty so our hopes were not to high of catching anything and for the first couple of hours we didn’t, we met up for a cup of tea(it has to be tea when fishing)had a chat about throwing in the towel, we had decided as always just one more cast but when i got back to my peg my rod was gone I called for my dad to come down saying there was no way someone could of nicked it we would have seen them then my dad said look there’s your reel in the water looking closer I could also see the rod i was already soaked with the rain so against my dad's judgment I walked in to get the rod he pissed himself laughing at me but i was determined to get my fishing rod back and getting even wetter was not going to make a huge difference so I waded up to my waist got the rod and low and behold the fish was still on the line thinking it was a Pike i reeled it in under the assumption the line was going to break but it didn’t and to my amazement there was a huge bronze bream landed it placed it in the keep net that day turned into my biggest catch ending in just over the tonne mark my old man ended in the high doubles.

What a great day depressing weather fear of loosing fishing gear soaked through having a great laugh and a personal best catch,

hi david

cool story! a great read

my most memorable days, some are nothing special
but stick out as v. enjoyable sessions...

beating the former world champion next peg at a match
(truth be known it was a dismal day and i caught 1 tiny roach
and he blanked but i was still chuffed)

winning the first match i ever fished
i pulled the "flyer" and won by 9lbs
and going on to win the winter league

doing a big net of big hybrids on Ramor many years ago
i was only starting out in the whole match fishing thing and was made up

catching a wee trout on the dry fly on the dodder last year
having just taken up the fly (ive had loads since but it was a bit special)

ive had a couple of great memorable days on commercials (even though it aint that hard)
had 19 rainbows on dry fly at lough aisling on a light river rod, great crack,
catching 5-8lb carp off the surface at oaklands, rare crack
and fishing gaulmoylestown on the pole for the first time years ago
i did a huge bag and never had a scrap like it on the pole before

cheers

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a good memory i have is with the eldest fishing down the dodder and i was getting a pain with him getting tangled or getting snagged and breaking his line, so i said "come on down river and we get a better place for you to cast". it was no better down there so i said "come on we head home" but on the way i said "come on we go back to the first spot", i casted, he casted and as he reeled his in he caught his old line and low and behold a brown trout was caught on the end of it.

my most memorable day fishing was 1980ish when we were coming in from a few miles off bray head against a strong tide, in a rickety glorified rowing boat whose engine kept cutting out. we reckoned we were gonners and one of the lads was roaring out "our fathers" and telling us to inform his wife that he loved her, if anyone of us made it.
even against the roaring sea the smell of shite was overpowering. and i even considered swimming for shore at one stage.

Catching my first fish from the shore( a small eel) after about a year of trying, I was only a young lad and still rember running down the quay in dungarvan showing it off

Or winning the world shore angling championships in South Africa last November.

There has been a lot of work put in between the two.

upthedeise wrote:

Or winning the world shore angling championships in South Africa last November.

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well done jp. its good to have a world champ on the forum.

fishing in s. africa sounds fantastic. i was reading that the water and currents were very cold there and this brings in huge shoals of fish.

derek wrote:

upthedeise wrote:

Or winning the world shore angling championships in South Africa last November.

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well done jp. its good to have a world champ on the forum.

fishing in s. africa sounds fantastic. i was reading that the water and currents were very cold there and this brings in huge shoals of fish.

Thanks Derek.

It was the culmination of years of hard work.

We fished a place called Langebaan on the west coast. It is basically a massive shallow lagoon. The water temperature in the lagoon an be as much as 22C,much warmer than the surrounding cold water.
The main fish we were targeting were guitar sharks which were between 1kg and 5 kg for the most part.
We came up with a way of catching them 3 at a time(we were told this was impossible )So we were catch up to 30 fish an hour. There were also a few eagle rays up to 40kg, blue ray(amazing looking fish) up to 30 kg, gurnard, st josephs fish,catfish, dogfish and a few others.