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Re: Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:50 pm
by Duebel
Welcome to the TFF, Ian!
Re: Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:53 pm
by JW1
Welcome Ian, I grew up in Norfolk and regularly fished the Little Ouse at Thetford for huge roach and the River Thet for good pike, but that was a few years ago, so perhaps things have changed.
JW
Re: Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:14 pm
by Gobio Gobio
Welcome to the forum Ian.
Re: Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 2:35 am
by Mitch300
Welcome to the forum, Ian, from a fellow mechanical engineer. Your comments about others joining the `fishing arms race' and losing touch with some of the magic of fishing ring very true. This is the place to restore your faith in the simple pleasures of a relaxed day's fishing with traditional equipment.
G. B.
Re: Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 6:07 am
by Lea Dweller
Welcome! Enjoy the forum!
Re: Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:58 am
by Aquaerial
A warm welcome Ian.
If you are ever Brundall way let me know and drop by as having recently moved I have some old bits and pieces that deserve a good home ..
Re: Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:19 pm
by Aquaerial
JW1 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:53 pm
Welcome Ian, I grew up in Norfolk and regularly fished the Little Ouse at Thetford for huge roach and the River Thet for good pike, but that was a few years ago, so perhaps things have changed.
JW
Oh how I loved those days...big dace too. There are a few nice fish show in Thetford town centre but apart from that the river has been polluted by Watton Produce, ottered by roving animals and on a canoe trip last summer to Santon Downham I found everything from discarded crude tackle to staked lines or drinkers with lines tied to a stick cut from the hedgerows. Its no longer the waterway it was sadly.
Re: Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 2:56 pm
by Silfield
Aquaerial wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:58 am
A warm welcome Ian.
If you are ever Brundall way let me know and drop by as having recently moved I have some old bits and pieces that deserve a good home ..
Thanks very much, I am always on the look out for bits and bobs to grace my small but growing collection-just dont tell the wife!
Re: Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 3:05 pm
by Nigel Rainton
Hi,
'the fishing arms race', I like the phrase :-) welcome to the forum.
Re: Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 3:10 pm
by Silfield
Aquaerial wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:19 pm
JW1 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:53 pm
Welcome Ian, I grew up in Norfolk and regularly fished the Little Ouse at Thetford for huge roach and the River Thet for good pike, but that was a few years ago, so perhaps things have changed.
JW
Oh how I loved those days...big dace too. There are a few nice fish show in Thetford town centre but apart from that the river has been polluted by Watton Produce, ottered by roving animals and on a canoe trip last summer to Santon Downham I found everything from discarded crude tackle to staked lines or drinkers with lines tied to a stick cut from the hedgerows. Its no longer the waterway it was sadly.
Strangely enough I was walking the dog at Santon a couple of weeks ago (well I used the dog as an excuse to scope out new waters) and was surprised by the state of the river, and yes, spotted a couple of staked lines in the water. I regularly shoot on Thetford Battle Area and there are a few waters on there that I would give my hind teeth to fish-I wonder when the last time was that they saw a line?