Salmo The Leaper - Hugh Falkus

Me to I’m 50 He was Shot down over Holland 🇳🇱 I think, spent the rest of the war in captivity much to his disgust.

​@@delagreenpicti2022I'm told his German captors were only too glad to be rid of him as he was a somewhat less than a model prisoner and drove them crazy 😂

Wasn't he a pervert I thought they called him Huge Phallus because he couldn't keep his pecker under control?

Jesus, get a grip people.....the guy wasn't even that good at fishing and nicked a lot of ideas for his own.......and I'd love to see him jump in with rubber CHEST waders and be so cocky.....anyone can do that with thigh waders as they little more than long wellies. Guy was an arrogant tit.

His autobiography "Some of it was fun" is worth a read I get the impression he was a bit of "his own salesman", but I think the world needs its personalities like this.

Im not sure what he would think of the catch and release rubbish of today.

Baywatch maybe😜

Thanks 🙏

I just. Checked it out it’s booked solid ,till January 25

@@delagreenpicti2022Hi, I did wonder about that so checked with the letting company. The family who own Cragg are having some renovations done and don’t have a finish date, hence it appears unavailable. Tight Lines

The only reason for the posh as you say is money and tradition , nothing really posh about sea trout at night, same as wild fouling. I only take out a fly rod after dark. Not only is it more exciting, more productive, it's quiet as most of the locals are frightened of the ghosts and witches that walk the river banks by night.

@@12dougreed Nah, were not, can't beat a moonlit sea trout session. Unfortunately the countless fish of the 1970's are a distant memory. I like to fish for them in salt water also. As for tradition and money I'm well aware of the history and that's the way things are, I have my own decent slice of land here looking down on the Moray Firth and have travelled many countries for work but my land is the most beautiful.👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I didn't use his pattern's,but used his method. I fished the Towy for 35 years and found local Fly's worked best .

But didn't this happen in 70s?

@@carlhughes9584Certainly not to the extent it is now, water companies dumping sewage with impunity and contempt for the our waterways and coastline. Even farmers, who you would think as custodians of the land, are not helping with the intensive farming methods. Sadly but unsurprisingly profit and greed are the route cause. There is only ever going to be one winner between dividends for shareholders and necessary investment to control pollution.

The Esk upstream of Amun caster Castle.

The author of the Bible, Sea Trout Fishing.

@@angusmcangus7914 In Hugh We Trust

And he wasn't even that good a seatrout angler was he?

@@carlhughes9584 did you know him and fish with him?

​@@angusmcangus7914No but I know 2 people who fished with him and said this.......just because someone writes well and has a big ego, doesn't mean he's the best angler .......

It's fake.......like all the planted dead fish......cringeworthy.

You are funny

@@12dougreed I'm not trying to be ' funny '......any sane person, can easily tell the fish are already dead. You can tell by the lack of reaction when they get whacked with the priest

I’d heard that ranger white, the bottles do look a bit suss. Not so sure on the sun though as you don’t normally get that kind of shimmer when the ambient sun light all around is bright anyway, you could be right though🎣. Interestingly I never realised,until now, how scripted the scenes with Michael Hordern were, notice when Falkus walks off and says “don’t forget your net” that Falkus didn’t look back to see he had forgotten his net. Tackling up outside Cragg you would think Hordern was in a Dickens play. “Now Hugh, what fly, Eh”😆

​@@robsmith8024 whole think looks suss.....can tell fish already dead. Michael far too pompous and bombastic.....so not very good acting. As you say it's not a scene out of a Victorian novel, but should be casual.....2 mates fishing.

They do

Selective

@@martin7955 Salmon aren't capable of being bored you 🤡......they don't have human emotion! Next you will be saying they take lures as they jealous of them!

Nothing like taking a quote out of context, eh Carl. I’ll put a bit of meat on the bone shall I “the most likely answer is habit, the feeding habit when they were feeding at sea in a similar water temperature, of course it could be out of curiosity, anger or boredom” and he finishes with “whatever is going on in their grey heads I have no idea” There, that readdresses the balance!

@@robsmith8024 A fish hasn't the capacity to be ' bored ' you fool! The most obvious explanation, is that a salmon attacks out of aggression as it sees the ' fly ' as a small fish that's dared to enter it's personal space. But if you want to believe a fish is just bored, go on then you 🤡

They are in decline but not at the hands of the fisherman where catch an release (salmon) is commonplace and mandatory in England and Wales. The real enemy, and more prolific since Falkus’s day, is dubious agricultural practices, pollution by the water industry, netting and poaching. Go north of the border especially the West Coast of Scotland then you will see the enormous damage aqua culture has done, decimated wild fish stocks. You can’t lay this situation at the angler’s door.

What’s a salmonoid? (If you’re going to criticise something made so long ago, with added ‘wisdom’ of your own, at least get your spelling right, you pompous bore).

Then why do they suck on a bunch of worms?

@@12dougreed They haven't got hands! Anything moving and invading their space, is likely to be mouthed by them either out of aggression or curiosity. If you had some odd moving close by you and you're not sure what it is, you might prod it with your hands to see what is was........clearly a fish can't do this! It's not fckn rocket science

Careful,you sound like someone who will soon be wearing panties.

Ok most of us are now old. But in our days he was the only one writing any sense about our sport. Especially night fishing. That said, you can get back to your computer game

​@12dougreed he spoke about salmon are animals as creatures not as fish but as special animals ,and he was right ,sea trout the same

As far as I’m aware Labs are not aggressive dogs.. in fact they are the opposite, they would likely come over for a stroke. He was probably just taking them for a bit of exercise. You have a strange way of looking at the world.. judging by all of the bitter comments you’ve left.

@@TRAITOR--R0BlNSTIEN But he's still not going out on his own.......dogs have superior senses and can warn. Not got a funny view of the world at all, I can just see through bullshit!

@@carlhughes9584 I doubt very much that he was one bit frightened of the dark. Sounds like you are. What is it, the ghost and spooky wookys? That one thing I like about fishing in Wales, not many on the river bank at night.

@@12dougreed You are a first class clown.....he went out with 2 bloody big dogs so I think he might have been scared of the dark.....I'm.not in the slightest

I've been in the drink with rubber chest waders. You can swim.

The pressure of the water will keep the rubber tight to your body and push any water out.. I don’t know if you’ve ever stood in a pair of chest waders before, but they become highly compressed against your legs and body and all of the air is expelled so it would be difficult for water to get in.

@@TRAITOR--R0BlNSTIEN So why didn't he mention this?? And why did he come out the river and empty his waders of all that water?? Stop trying to make out you know what you are talking about about you 🤡!!

What’s really cringeworthy is your responses. Filmmakers are allowed some ‘poetic licence’, and this film, notwithstanding its flaws, is a wonderfully evocative and important piece of angling history. What’s your contribution, you miserable so-and -so?

Do you fish at night?

@raftonpounder6696 I never fish at night you don't have too, there's alot off mythes about these fish, there very easy too catch if you no how, and very hard fighting!

@@shaunpreston2839 but you can’t catch them at night if you don’t fish at night can you? I have caught thousands of them but the best sport is at night. That’s the point. Nobody says you can’t catch them during the day. First light is lethal for the worm. As is the evening. But the night is the cream.

​@@raftonpounder6696 is it bollocks.. n

I see no ' magic ' being on a river at night. I'm not scared of the dark at all, but how can it compare with seeing the river full of life in the day? Flyfishing is a visual sport.