Tight lines

[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.

[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.

[TF_flintstone]

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

[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.

[TF_Craftytafty]

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

[TF_Chris-turnerParticipant]

tht is just stupid money to go fishing for 1 day

[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

[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?

[DEEDOGDACEParticipant]

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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[TF_Fordy]

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

[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

[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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