[Mike Barrio]

What type of fishing do you guys do in Europe in the Winter?

Cheers
Mike

[Allan Liddle]

Sadly this year i've been laid low, but generally i tend to turn my focus on the predictable, rainbows in the fisheries, very occasional pike foray (although admittedly it's been a long time since i gave the pike a bash so will need to remedy soon), grayling weekend or two Tweed System/ Clyde tied in with visiting the folks and sometimes a wee flurry in the salt water (a good friend's got his own boat berthed in Hopeman and winter cod / ling / pollack forays have been pretty successful in the past).

There's a wee course loch i know that needs a wee look, just for the sheer hell of it, so all in all there's a decent mixed bag out there if you fancy it, just a case of getting the enthusiasm.

Oh nearly forgot, Feb and the big rod comes out (for kelts, expectation followed rapidly by forlorn hope then a few glasses of shit speakin wreck the hoose juice back in the hut and the inevitable 'Coventry Treatment' for the next couple of days once i get home.  God don't you just love Spring Salmon Fishing???  )

[Rob Brownfield]

Dryflee,
We have not even had a vote on Independence yet and you are already thinking you are in Europe

[Mike Barrio]

Sieger posts some great stuff about his pike fishing .... I just wondered what else our European neighbours are fishing for?

Best wishes
Mike

[Iain Cameron]

does subbuteo angling count? It's too wet for anything else today!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Subbuteo-Angling-Game-fishing-Game-Boxed-Very-RARE-/170952876013?pt=UK_SportsMemorabilia_Subbuteo_SM&hash=item27cd95dfed

I used to own this; always used to get moldy paste!

[Marc Fauvet]

I've been fishing for complements a lot lately.

[Mike Barrio]

I've been fishing for complements a lot lately.

    

[Allan Liddle]

Complimints?  Minty fresh then?   

I'm sure we're still in Europe at the moment Rob, (unlike Chelsea  )

[Iain Goolager]

Marc,

You are an amazing bloke, with no doubt nice trousers and a good sense of humour. Happy now? 

 

Well whatever the weather I'm going to fish my 3wt SLX on my 3wt Helios (old version for old mannies) for Rainbow Troot and if I'm cold and wet and they are all on the bottom then tuff luck, but I need to escape the working mans' mundane Winter routine.

Iain

[Marc Fauvet]

    (i particularly like the trousers bit !  )

ok, to get back to Mike's topic: i'm back living in France now and to put it briefly there's two categories of water here: 1 and 2
1 is 'trout waters' (trout and grayling), generally but not exclusive to mountain areas.
2 is everything else. in rivers it will be downstream from Cat 1
Cat 1 closed to all fishing from the end of september to march.
Cat 2 is open all year with the exception of predators (pike, perch bass, zander) which closes during their reproductive period.

i love trout fishing but any fish is a good fish so, with the exception of zander and grayling (i don't like them, they look ugly and stupid  ) i have the opportunity to target lots of other fishes throughout the winter. and then there's the Mediterranean an hour away
i also do part-time surveillance work at a trout fishery (stocked rainbows and browns) in exchange for year round fishing rights so i get to fish for trout all year after all..... 

cheers,
marc