Hello from Fred

[fred hall]

Hi everyone
I've recently signed up to this site. I'm a coarse angler (but very refined as they go) whose first fishing love is the River Ribble although I do also enjoy lake fishing especially on big open waters such as the waters of the Erne System in Ireland. It upsets me that these latter have been allowed to deteriorate to the extent that they have but, hey, in angling hope always springs eternal!
I do enjoy the competition and banter that goes with club matches although I'm spectacularly unsuccessful at them. I think if I was objective about this I would have to conclude that I'm still a long way off mastering feeding but normally I put it down to drawing poor pegs.
I feel at present all we experienced anglers should be concerned at the lack of youngsters sharing our passion for fishing. Don't be hostile to them, encourage them. IMHO kids out fishing seldom cause trouble.

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Looking forward to your posts and welccome to the fishing forum

[fishypaul]

hi fred welcome to the forum,some wise words there,

[Norfolkboy]

Welcome to the forum

[blackwater]

Welcome

Nice to see somebody fishing the Northern Irish waters

I have to agree that the waters have deteriorated greatly especially Lough Erne and the Bann system in the past decade especially the pike and bream fishing side of things .

Looking forward to reading your reports

BW

[smarr7]

how can u remember what the waters were like when u were 7 blackwater?? lol

[blackwater]

smarr7,

Just from what my dad and uncle tell me about there trips to these waters and also the photos of their catches i can see the change from when i have fished these places

Cheers

Blackwater