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    • 31/08/2010 at 2:03 pm #41614

      TF_JohnH

        I really enjoyed last weeks programme with Tommy Pickering. The Hampshire Avon looked an absolute delight and like Tommy I would move heaven and earth to fish there. Is this stretch available on a book does anyone know and if so whats the waiting list?

        Only one moan, I just wish Keith would let the guests do most of the talking. One particular frustration when Tommy started to explain that Andy Findlay had taught him how to load a method feeder properly Keith side tracked onto method moulds and we never had the benefit of Tommys explanantion.

        One final point on the England team team photo, what happened to Tony Scott?? I know he fished for Stan Smiths team but not Dick Clegg unless I am mistaken.

        Clive Smith (RIP) in the same photo wrote with Ken Giles what I still regard as one of the best books on match fishing ever printed, Match fishing our way, the illustations were ground breaking. Great loss to angling when he passed on as with Ivan.

      • 31/08/2010 at 7:59 pm #115038

        TF_Waveney One

          The stretch Keith fished was the Parlour Pool. It is available on a day ticket through Davis Tackle and tickets cost £60 per day.

          http://www.davistackle.co.uk/fishing/royalty-price-list-and-map/144-20102011-season-valid-15310-14311-

          To contact Davis Tackle ring 01202 485169 or see their web site http://www.davistackle.co.uk/

          The tackle shop is more or less on the banks of the river.

        • 31/08/2010 at 8:01 pm #115039

          TF_flintstone

            john h he ( keith arthur )likes the sound of his own voice

          • 31/08/2010 at 8:01 pm #115041

            TF_Waveney One

              There are cheaper stretches to fish and they can al;so be booked through Davis Tackle or you can get an LAA or Ringwood handbook to cover other stretches of the river.

            • 31/08/2010 at 8:07 pm #115043

              TF_Craftytafty

                £60 a day, he wants to fish it not buy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol

              • 31/08/2010 at 8:27 pm #115047

                TF_Chris-turner
                Participant

                  tht is just stupid money to go fishing for 1 day

                • 31/08/2010 at 8:49 pm #115054

                  TF_yiddo

                    thats so unlike keith not to let the guests get a word in i dunno why sky dont call it the keith arthur show haha

                  • 01/09/2010 at 7:56 am #115086

                    TF_JohnH

                      Thanks for the feedback, I will definately look up Davis tackle and try to spend a bit of time down there. £60 seems a lot but most top premiership clubs will charge that for a match. Even at lower levels of footy, many fans spend much more particularly for away games. Also how much would a golfer pay for a round at St Andrews I wonder?

                      No info on Tony Scott? Did he just drop out like Kim Milsom did?

                    • 01/09/2010 at 8:13 pm #115147

                      DEEDOGDACE
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                        Good post JohnH – really enjoyed listening to Tommy last week but I honestly think FBlues was just being enthusiastic and got carried away by the conversation. Keith is top imho and puts far more back into fishing than most.

                      • 01/09/2010 at 9:48 pm #115158

                        TF_Dodge

                          Great to see some proper fishing footage on tight lines last week , the clearwater shots were superb imo ….. more of it i say , totally fed up with carp,carp,carp !

                          Ps , Tommy can go on a bit an all ….. LOL

                        • 02/09/2010 at 7:45 am #115181

                          TF_JohnH

                            I agree its Keiths enthusiasm and without it the programme would not be the same. Just suggesting how it could be improved. As has been pointed out Keith does it every week.

                          • 02/09/2010 at 2:03 pm #115209

                            TF_Fordy

                              The Parlour Pool used to be for special bookings only. I think you can still get a normal day ticket to fish on the rest of the Royalty.

                            • 02/09/2010 at 2:38 pm #115211

                              TF_welshmagic

                                Normal day tickets for the rest of The Royalty are (or were last year I believe) £10. It can get extremely busy down there during the summer months and most pegs are taken.A ticket for Parlour pool means you effectively have it to yourself which is why the charge is £60

                              • 02/09/2010 at 4:40 pm #115219

                                TF_Waveney One

                                  I think that there are 3 tickets for the Parlour Pool available every day. So presumably either you and a couple of mates or you could pay the £180 and have it all to yourself.

                                  As I understand it, it is exclusive and almost fully booked up all summer so expensive perhaps but people will and do pay that money. It used to be preserved for salmon fishing only until October/November.

                                • 02/09/2010 at 5:50 pm #115222

                                  TF_Fordy

                                    Yep I’ve never managed to get on it either!

                                    You can book the punt and fish the pool below the bridge for about £120 as well. Always fancied that! Trotting for dace and sea trout on the tide.

                                  • 03/09/2010 at 6:40 am #115256

                                    TF_Fordy

                                      Just found out the Parlour is for three anglers sharing. So £20 each. Pretty cheap if you ask me!!

                                    • 03/09/2010 at 8:53 am #115264

                                      TF_Dave Pellet

                                        an alternative John, around the Fordingbridge area there’s a holiday park called Sandy Balls, a few years ago we went for a week down there in one of their woodland lodges, they have fishing rights for a nice stretch of the Avon, but it’s a fair trek through the woods

                                        fished the full week just using maggot feeder (didn’t seek any advice until the penultimate day!) and had shedfulls of dace & chub, best dace was a 14oz pb, also had a whopping great big eel but lost that at the net, cos I’d only got a daft folding landing net & it folded!!

                                        caught my first and only salmon (parr) as well, a record breaking pb of 2oz!

                                        Yes – 2oz!!!

                                        went down to Ringwood the day before we were coming home & discovered a good tackle shop, they told me I should have been fishing big pellets or trigga boilies over pellets for the barbel – takl about gutted, I thought I’d done really well

                                      • 03/09/2010 at 10:14 am #115273

                                        TF_Waveney One

                                          That is very cheap Fordy and well worth the money – if you can get in. It is a bit like fishing in a goldfish bowl though.

                                          I think the Bridge Pool is a better bet on the right tide. As, I think it was you said earlier, sea trout on the flood and roach and dace on the ebb – lovely!

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