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Post by Diawlbach on Nov 3, 2004 17:33:00 GMT -1
Harris Sportsmail are knocking out a limited range of their rapalas for £4.00. Only snag is you have to spend time registering with them to access the bargains. www.harris-sportsmail.com/
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Post by Paul Dunstan on Nov 3, 2004 19:36:11 GMT -1
Thanks Diawlbach! You've just cost me £21.50! You know constipated Lighthouse - can't pass a Rapala.
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Post by Hoppy on Nov 3, 2004 21:35:20 GMT -1
Diawlbach
They are even cheaper if obtained in a dodgy canoe using a piece of 4x2 on the banks of the Teifi!
Hoppy
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Post by Reeco on Nov 4, 2004 12:39:38 GMT -1
Hi All That tickled me Hoppy, It conjured picture of a well know angler from this forum, in an audition for the start of Hawaii Five O lol. Great memories. ATB. Reeco
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Post by Paul Dunstan on Nov 4, 2004 13:05:07 GMT -1
I will definitely be using the Diawlbach Rapala Retreaval Service on the Teifi next season. I mean, Rapalas are expensive and one does have to consider the potential loss of life. OK, done that - Rapala wins!
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Post by Diawlbach on Nov 5, 2004 7:07:19 GMT -1
Plans to raid the tree fondly think of as "the tackle shop" went awry after the river rose by a couple of metres the weekend following the Hawaii Five O rapala rescue. A nice blue one I had my eye on is probably in the Irish sea now after the flood swept it away.
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Post by Dylan on Nov 5, 2004 8:08:00 GMT -1
You'll be lucky to get your rapalas back. On the Teifi you'll have to beat a certain Wyn "post" to your rapalas he spends most of September, October and November almost every day patroling the banks of the middle and lower Teifi with a pair of binoculars and 15-m coarse fishing pole with a sock and 30lb gut attached to the end of it. The system works a treat I met him last October and he had a boxful of rapalas, meps and condoms in his car.
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Post by Aled on Nov 5, 2004 8:34:50 GMT -1
I suppose it beats swimming for them in cold water Dylan. Had a very pleasent evening with DiawlB and his family last night. Good food, nice people and good company. Diolch Colin. Cheers Aled
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Post by Diawlbach on Nov 7, 2004 17:59:19 GMT -1
Pleased to say that rapala wasn't washed out in the flood, it was simply the tree that it was caught in that had fallen into the river. After a couple of hours with a depleted bank clearance team, (thanks chaps) a tractor a winch and leaky waders the tree was in. Gino thought he'd found another lure but oddly enough it was a trout that had come in with the tree. Caught and released.
Otter Startler - I have your Blair Spoon!
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Post by Paul Dunstan on Nov 7, 2004 20:04:43 GMT -1
Plans to raid the tree fondly think of as "the tackle shop" went awry after the river rose by a couple of metres the weekend following the Hawaii Five O rapala rescue. A nice blue one I had my eye on is probably in the Irish sea now after the flood swept it away. I don't know - a little bit of water and you wimp out - this is not the legendary sea dog we know! ;D
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Post by Diawlbach on Nov 7, 2004 21:34:27 GMT -1
I'll have you know I took that one after my daily dip! You can't beat a swim in a maize field.
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Post by Diawlbach on Nov 7, 2004 21:58:34 GMT -1
Hi Diawlbach. I can still see the "otter startlers" sthingy or wiggler on that hawthorn bush. he!he!. must have been awesome below Cenarth?. Cheers, Gethyn. This is what it was like Gethyn, one from summer , one from last month's flood
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Post by DRJ on Nov 7, 2004 22:31:59 GMT -1
The system works a treat I met him last October and he had a boxful of rapalas, meps and condoms in his car. I expect the latter were strewn, in some disarray, on the floor of his car.
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Post by DRJ on Nov 8, 2004 8:29:10 GMT -1
Thanks Colin. I think a sinker at least, and 3 inch copper tube would have been in order. ( six days later). I wish I could see the biggest salmon to have gone under that bridge in the past. Anyone with any clue's?. Ask Garth Roberts - he caught one of the biggest - back in the 60's I think. Otherwise it's only the poachers will know!
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Post by Paul Dunstan on Nov 8, 2004 9:49:55 GMT -1
Thanks Colin. I think a sinker at least, and 3 inch copper tube would have been in order. ( six days later). I wish I could see the biggest salmon to have gone under that bridge in the past. Anyone with any clue's?. I seem to recall a conversation with Eric Porter (ace wormer!) some years ago and I think a 30lb fish was mentioned. Personally, I like to target larger fish!
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Post by Paul Boote on Nov 8, 2004 10:14:00 GMT -1
Dai Ball of Aberporth had a 37-pounder from Cenarth back in the mid 1970s. I once witnessed (and so did a few others) the most notorious poacher in the area purposely foul a fish below the falls in broad daylight. He eventually brought it down to Bridge Pool where a trustie stuck a gaff in the fish and half lifted it out -- well into the forties of pounds. Then the gaff-handle (a length of hayfork shaft) snapped like a twig. Off the fish went, back upstream, past the Pothole, past the Parlour, up into the rush beside the Mill, the poacher giving it everything his usual 30lb-test mono could give. The monster then took the fall, the gaff handle protruding from its back like some periscope, and summarily broke him. Some fish.
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Post by Aled on Nov 9, 2004 6:52:48 GMT -1
Hi All I know this is the Teifi site but... There was a 30-40pounder found dead on the Cothi in 1996 or 97. I saw the photos taken by the bailiffs and there was a cast of it made. I did see a picture of the cast in T&S. Gethyn and other Tywi regulalrs any memories? Cheers Aled
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Post by DRJ on Nov 9, 2004 7:25:27 GMT -1
Yes, it was found dead and beached on the "famous" Garden Pool (just above the bridge) at Edwinsford on the Cothi in 1997. It was the remains of a hen salmon estimated to have weighed in excess of 50lbs. Scale readings indicated that it had spent year 1 in the river before returning to spawn on five separate occasions. At the time the EA said that "information suggested that no salmon has been recorded in the UK that has completed more migrations than this fish".
A cast of the fish was made using photographs taken at the time with the help of an outline traced onto a board.
Suffice to say no salmon remotely approaching this size has been actually caught at Edwinsford but as our friends over the pond would say - "they're in there"!
I think..............
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Post by Paul Boote on Nov 9, 2004 8:23:15 GMT -1
There was another Teifi monster. This time from its tributary, the river Ceri, taken in winter many many years ago by Dai John (died 1973 or '74), the last miller at Felingeri Mill before it became a tourist operation. Dai John was a lovely man and terrific angler who taught me much in our converstions about the lower Teifi and how to fish it legally. But back in the 1930s or '40s, out one winter, with a lamp and a gaff on the Ceri, the stream that powered his mill, he had a whacker. Fifty pounds, a cOck fish, he told me. No photo to record the fish (how could he, he would have been in the local magistrates court), but instead marked the fish's length on a piece of scrap timber, and which, years on, he still kept inside the old mill. He produced it to show me -- me in my teens then, him in his seventies -- one summer's afternoon as we drank tea on the lawn in front of his cottage. The distance between the sawn lines hinted more at minor Nile crocodile than salmon.
After Dai John died in 1973/4, there was a big auction sale at Felingeri (in the summer of '74) -- contents first, then the property itself. I searched for that old bit of timber among the many lots, but never found it -- it had probably been burned prior to the the sale.
Dai John told me that he and his father used to see a number of big fish every year -- 30 and 40 pounders. Some taken by locals with the gaff; others, kelted, found dead or dying in the river or washed down the leat that fed the mill.
Nice to think that one day in the future such monsters will return.
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Post by Paul Boote on Nov 9, 2004 9:39:17 GMT -1
I want one.
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