Post by highplains on Apr 14, 2007 12:43:14 GMT
For years I drove almost 100 miles every weekend from the beginning of June until the end of October to get to my salmon fishing. This meant that I fished whatever conditions prevailed at the time. I fish the fly, worm and shrimp. Without getting into the difficulty associated with each of these methods I do have to say that anglers have been trying since the beginning of time to find that magic bait. So far they have not found it and the shrimp comes nowhere near.
No magic in the shrimp.
However I did spend a morning on a hot and sultry July day many years ago drowning a worm among a shoal of about 100 sea trout ranging in size from perhaps a pound to the high teens of pounds. My companion on that day suggested that the lead fish, a monster, may just have been a salmon and suggested I use a shrimp (dyed red if that matters).
A poor cast saw my shrimp land perhaps six feet in front of the head fish. It and its equally large and magnificent partner immediately started to swim toward the shrimp. My heart started to beat like a drum as the fish both got to within three inches of the prawn. Then, in the time it would take to clap your hands, the pool was empty. I never saw where the fish went. The river was gin clear and dead low but the pool emptied and the fish never returned. For this reason I never fish the shrimp on my own club beats, especially early season, just in case the shrimp has the same effect. I saw this happen once in twenty odd years fishing in gin clear conditions.
I believe all methods are acceptable and have their own place. It is the angler that gives the bait the poor reputation. May I remind you that the GP if tied properly is and was designed to imitate the shrimp.
If any angler is taking numbers of fish with a shrimp, he is a good angler, just as any angler catching numbers of fish on the fly he is a good angler. Strange they are talking of fish being taken on the shrimp in the river mouth. Is this jealousy on the part of those fishing higher up?
Prejudice is, in this case neither gentlemanly nor necessary.
Regards.
Highplains.
No magic in the shrimp.
However I did spend a morning on a hot and sultry July day many years ago drowning a worm among a shoal of about 100 sea trout ranging in size from perhaps a pound to the high teens of pounds. My companion on that day suggested that the lead fish, a monster, may just have been a salmon and suggested I use a shrimp (dyed red if that matters).
A poor cast saw my shrimp land perhaps six feet in front of the head fish. It and its equally large and magnificent partner immediately started to swim toward the shrimp. My heart started to beat like a drum as the fish both got to within three inches of the prawn. Then, in the time it would take to clap your hands, the pool was empty. I never saw where the fish went. The river was gin clear and dead low but the pool emptied and the fish never returned. For this reason I never fish the shrimp on my own club beats, especially early season, just in case the shrimp has the same effect. I saw this happen once in twenty odd years fishing in gin clear conditions.
I believe all methods are acceptable and have their own place. It is the angler that gives the bait the poor reputation. May I remind you that the GP if tied properly is and was designed to imitate the shrimp.
If any angler is taking numbers of fish with a shrimp, he is a good angler, just as any angler catching numbers of fish on the fly he is a good angler. Strange they are talking of fish being taken on the shrimp in the river mouth. Is this jealousy on the part of those fishing higher up?
Prejudice is, in this case neither gentlemanly nor necessary.
Regards.
Highplains.