Postcard from Splash

[splash]

Reasonable numbers of school bluefin and bonito showing of Chatham and down by RI. Even better, the guide I'm fishing with next week up in Maine has been getting a good number of surface shots at bluefin in the 70-100lb class Got the Tibor Pacific spooled up with 600yds of 65lb gelspun for these guys. Hope my ticker holds out

cheers

Splash

[Sloggi]

Mmm, start with a size 9 Cascade and go a size smaller if you don't get any offers...

[dangler]

.......and whack it out and let it come round!

Mike

[castlikeaghille]

splash said:

Reasonable numbers of school bluefin and bonito showing of Chatham and down by RI. Even better, the guide I'm fishing with next week up in Maine has been getting a good number of surface shots at bluefin in the 70-100lb class Got the Tibor Pacific spooled up with 600yds of 65lb gelspun for these guys. Hope my ticker holds out

cheers

Splash

You there chappy, I say you there. How dare you sully this forum with chat about your holiday and photographs of sea fish phah! This is a salmon fishing forum and there shall be no banter, only serious discussion about matters that I shall personally decide are serious enough to discuss especially now I have appointed myself in charge. I shall have you thrown into the Tower when you return - I am very well connected with the Queen you know. Moderator, moderator remove this thread instantly - do you hear me. It is an effrontery to all right minded people (i.e. people who think [or clearly don't before they post] exactly like me) etc etc etc etc

Nice photo Splash, although I thought Chatham was in Kent...global warming jeez it's working quicker than we all thought

Yours aye

CLaG

[salmonking]

Here here,,,,exterminate,,,,exterminate.

[robbie]

No fear of global warming affecting us North of the border, the icy blasts and cold fronts(shoulders) will put paid to that

[rpsalmon]

Another pointless thread, what has this to do with salmon fishing? Nothing!

Of course Splash could turn it around and tell us whether he has learned anything catching these fish that he think may be used in fishing for salmon.

[greenbanks]

steve said:

Hello RP Salmon, many of your posts have been amusing and interesting, however, unless tongue is firmly in cheek posts like this could result in you being perceived as seriously auto intra anal.

regards

Steve

Too late for that Steve.
100 posts in about week about sums him up know what I mean.
Too much time on his hands and not enough fishing.

[greenbanks]

splash said:

Reasonable numbers of school bluefin and bonito showing of Chatham and down by RI. Even better, the guide I'm fishing with next week up in Maine has been getting a good number of surface shots at bluefin in the 70-100lb class Got the Tibor Pacific spooled up with 600yds of 65lb gelspun for these guys. Hope my ticker holds out

cheers

Splash

Keep us all posted on how well the drag holds up Loon. ;D

[davewallbridge]

castlikeaghille said:

I shall have you thrown into the Tower when you return -

Sir, sir, now that you are in charge and you are going boot off splash and make him sit a cold dark place forever and eat only dry crusts and not ever let him mix with us other boys or go on hols ever again to hot places where he can catch big fish that aint salmon just like what the old headmaster said an, an, well an all that stuff sir, please sir can I have Splash's username an his posh sunglasses, sir, sir, please sir.

[splash]

rpsalmon said:

Another pointless thread, what has this to do with salmon fishing? Nothing!

Of course Splash could turn it around and tell us whether he has learned anything catching these fish that he think may be used in fishing for salmon.

Oh dear it appears that I take a week of on vacation and there has been a Stalinist type purge of the forum. Springers been exiled to Barcelona and RPsalmon has elected himself global moderator and administrator and is telling everyone what they can and cannot post! Of course, in true RPS style its aggressive, abrasive and poorly researched. We all know its a wind up and utterly tedious but here goes on this occasion it will get a response. RPS please engage your brain before posting and as usual insulting fellow forum members when they respond in the negative to your posts. If you look at the history of the forum, some of the best theads have had little to do with salmon fishing. Wine, music, food, cars, song lyrics and careers are amongst the diverse subjects covered and discussed. 0ff course, the primary focus of the forum is salmon fishing but to suggest every thread must be on salmon fishing is clearly preposterous. What next no jokes ? - yes you probably would like that too.
Does tuna fishing relate to salmon fishing? Perhaps not directly, but there are always things in fishing that you can learn from spending time on the water practising any form of the sport. BTW the tuna in the picture was caught on an executioner but they have to have an orange varnish head or they don't work ;-) So RPs I will continue to post pictures of tuna this week if it provides some enjoyment to other forum members. The fact that it annoys the hell out of you in the process is just an added bonus!
cheers
Splash

[rpsalmon]

Dear "Steve" and "Greenbanks"
Irrespective of whether you appreciate my contributions, looking at a few of each of your contributions I can confirm that I won't be following your example.

[greenbanks]

splash said:

rpsalmon said:

Another pointless thread, what has this to do with salmon fishing? Nothing!

Of course Splash could turn it around and tell us whether he has learned anything catching these fish that he think may be used in fishing for salmon.

Oh dear it appears that I take a week of on vacation and there has been a Stalinist type purge of the forum. Springers been exiled to Barcelona and RPsalmon has elected himself global moderator and administrator and is telling everyone what they can and cannot post! Of course, in true RPS style its aggressive, abrasive and poorly researched. We all know its a wind up and utterly tedious but here goes on this occasion it will get a response. RPS please engage your brain before posting and as usual insulting fellow forum members when they respond in the negative to your posts. If you look at the history of the forum, some of the best theads have had little to do with salmon fishing. Wine, music, food, cars, song lyrics and careers are amongst the diverse subjects covered and discussed. 0ff course, the primary focus of the forum is salmon fishing but to suggest every thread must be on salmon fishing is clearly preposterous. What next no jokes ? - yes you probably would like that too.
Does tuna fishing relate to salmon fishing? Perhaps not directly, but there are always things in fishing that you can learn from spending time on the water practising any form of the sport. BTW the tuna in the picture was caught on an executioner but they have to have an orange varnish head or they don't work ;-) So RPs I will continue to post pictures of tuna this week if it provides some enjoyment to other forum members. The fact that it annoys the hell out of you in the process is just an added bonus!
cheers
Splash

Alan

Global moderator indeed,he lacks the style of our emperor does he not?the guys a p3nis on viagra! he just wont stay down.
Could you not hear, over the pond, his quill shakin' with rage at the impertinant buggers not supporting his stiff upper lip stance?
Baldrick where the feck's my gun and powder some boundahs needing another dose of pellets up the arse.

[barkingcollie]

That's a nice looking fish Alan though pretty sure I also saw it on the slab in the fishmonger in Morningside Road. On more mundane matters, what's all the fuss about a fellow follower of the angle posting something out of the ordinary, so what if its not a salmon ?
RPSalmon - you're becoming a seriously Semi-pro w@nker.

[rpsalmon]

Dear Splash

You claim I am poorly researched but lets look at the facts. Firstly, your original posting was about bluefin tuna/bonito. Secondly it does not mention salmon, salmon flies or salmon fishing in any way. Therefore, on the basis that this is a salmon fishing forum and as your posting has no relevance to salmon, my conclusion was that your posting is utterly irrelevant to this forum!

I do think it is intelligent to question a non salmon fishing feature appearing in a salmon fishing forum and then ask you to suggest parallels to the relevant subject of salmon fishing. If you’d mentioned that you had caught the tuna on a salmon fly and possibly were trying out others, stated the reasons why you thought the particular salmon fly was successful for tuna then we would have had a very interesting topic for discussion. Even if you’d posted the picture of a tuna with a caption “Caught on a Executioner!” that would have been very interesting in the “Lounge-Jokes” thread”. You are correct in making reference to various fishing threads, such as jokes, wine, music etc, and they are in an appropriate section.

Obviously your idea of intelligence is to make inaccurate, unsubstantiated and wild remarks about myself because, on the evidence of your postings, I have to assume you are incapable of defending your posting.

If you wish to post pictures to your friends, and posting non salmon related material on a salmon site is permitted, then please do so in the “Picture Gallery” ( I wonder why it is called that!), or even the “Lounge” since your are fishing for tuna and not salmon.

[greenbanks]

barkingcollie said:

That's a nice looking fish Alan though pretty sure I also saw it on the slab in the fishmonger in Morningside Road. On more mundane matters, what's all the fuss about a fellow follower of the angle posting something out of the ordinary, so what if its not a salmon ?
RPSalmon - you're becoming a seriously Semi-pro w@nker.

Out of bed already and he's spat out the dummy.
No doubt some of the pellets hit the spot
Perhaps he will find this forum much more to his liking.
www.flyforums.co.uk/

[rpsalmon]

Dear barkingcollie

Since I will state that my previous post to Splash covers the constructive element of your remarks, and since you do not share my view that a salmon fishing forum is for the subject of salmon fishing, you won’t be surprised to learn that I won’t descend to remark upon your non-constructive remark.

[barkingcollie]

OK then, let's make a salmon link. I had a day on the Annan yesterday (no tittering please) and actually saw a few fish moving through on a rising water. I had one half hearted offer then the mother of all thumps to a size 12 silver stoat which turned out to be a grayling, and a big one too. There's no way a grayling should be taking that fly.
Thinking about Alan's fish (which we all recognise isn't a salmon and all that earlier guff...) is there a case for being radical in what we throw at our fish and looking at some of the lures and tactics used in salt water fly fishing and applying that in our rivers and lochs ?
How many times have you been in a tackle shop either in the UK or overseas, had a look at, in particular, some of the shrimp or baitfish imitations used for tuna or bonefish (agree these are not salmon but let's not go there....) and thought that they would be just the bunnies for our fish back home ? Trouble is, we never have the balls to try them out.
So, Splash-meister, fancy trying some of your salt water creations over here ?

[rpsalmon]

Over the last 30 years myself and others have tried many of those salt water and fresh water shrimp/bait fish patterns. While some won't fish properly in a river current, the main problem I found was with realistic imitations and these didn't impress even the fresh fish. As we are talking about predatory fish it is hardly surprising that fast moving flies with flash and illusion worked with fresh fish in coloured water, even when fished in different ways, but overall were not as good as my other patterns. Many of the sea flies are more like spinners, like some of the "salmon flies" around today, and it is up to the ethics of the fly fisherman as to whether he/she chooses to go down that route.

[barkingcollie]

Ethics you say............isn't that somewhere you go to from Liverpool St station?