New to course fishing, any help?

vswr

I have done a lot of sea fishing in my teens. Not a great fisher by a long shot, but I'd have the wherewithal to setup a basic setup for bottom fishing, conger fishing and spinning (lines, weights, hooks, bait etc….)

I don't live near the sea anymore, but I am close to some busy river fishing spots with a lot of Brown trout and Atlantic Salmon (not sure you're allowed catch these).

I've seen guys with spinners for the trout and others fly fishing.

I haven't a clue about course fishing. Does anyone have any pointers on where to get started? I still have all the sea fishing kit, is that still any use for course fishing? Would love to bring the young lad down to try his first time fishing.

Squatman

get a mepps spinner, throw it onto your sea gear and away you go. trial and error after that. other options, black fury, worms, shrimp, flying C. you can get a flyrod of temu relatively cheap, but its an artform that takes mastery. i havent mastered it, and get frustrated easily with it. when fly fishing, i bring my worm/spinner rod too, and alternate between rods.

spaceHopper

It would help if you said what river you’re thinking of. But generally, for pike you might be able to use some of your gear, but you’d be better off with a carp rod for pike or a bait / lure casting rod. A good general coarse rod and reel shouldn’t be that expensive. You need to check the permissions first. This could be as simple as asking somebody who’s already out fishing or a local tackle shop.

For slow, seep water ledger fishing would be best, you’d get perch, bream, roach, rudd…. You could use a ledger / quiver tip or a bite indicator between the real and fist eye, this could even bit some foil folded over the line or washing up bottle top. The a weight or a feeder stuffed with ground bait to attract them it. For slow shallow water, a float is best.

vswr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122439566#Comment_122439566

I don't really want to give my location away, but, there are regularly trout, grayling and Salmon in the river (I see big brown trout all the time, and have seen 3 Salmon over the years).

Permissions already checked, need a rod licence and location licence, depending where you are on the river.

Thank you for the info, I've seen guys ledger fishing there also, which would probably be more my preference over continuous spinning.

vswr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122439566#Comment_122439566

cheers for the suggestions, will have a look into them :-)

OwlEye

You've seen Grayling in Ireland?

vswr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122442172#Comment_122442172

I'm not in Ireland.

edit: also haven't seen them, but seen videos of the locals catching them. Only spotted trout and Salmon.

Lewis_Benson

You mention coarse (not course btw) but then mention trout and salmon, is it game fishing you mean?

Roach, bream, tench etc all fall under the coarse category, pike and perch are coarse fosh but these days are usually categorised as predators.

vswr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122452027#Comment_122452027

didn't know it was differentiated even further :-D

I always thought it was just sea and course fishing (rivers, lakes everything non sea thrown in).

I guess it's game fishing (sorry I'm new:-D)

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122454782#Comment_122454782

Not to worry.

For trout fishing in rivers I'd start off with a 1-5 gram spinning rod with a 1000 size reel loaded with 8-10lb braid, and use a 6lb floroucarbon leader.

Then stick on some small spinners and have at it.