I was out fishing yesterday,and I saw the 1st skiens of Pinkfoot geese arrive.then later in the day I saw a large flock of fieldfares.Just about spot on time wise for the start of winter migration to the UK.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

The best time of the year jim. Plenty of nature on the move, beautiful colours. Nature at it's best.

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All that glitters, will catch anglers.

I agree 100%.I love this time of year.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

It spells out salmon fishing and large runs of salmon for me.

BK

This was always the best time of the year for me arrival of the geese, duck and pheasent shooting fast approaching then i moved back to London and now I look forward to grey miserable days and TV for 5 months

BBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I don't mind Autumn.....it's what follows that i don't like....

Lorks Guv ,London is not that bad,heard a skein of geese go over the two "bl'@@dy stadia this morning ,had a team of corvids bullying a cat in the boughs of the weeping willow in the next garden ,something never seen before a Jay a crow and 3 or 4 magpies giving out hell at the rather dazed looking cat up in the upper boughs .
Through the winter I expect to get in some Wandle clearance,a tad of grayling fishing and hopefully a few beach castings for Cod .
All thats within an hour or so drive out of Highbury !

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Andy Wren
Winter grayling taking a year off !
Claret not just a great dubbing colour!

Central heating on last thing yesterday and first thing today, as overnight temperatures in Hampshire were down in single figures. First time for months.

When Autumn is good, it's very good as per last year when we had a real "golden season" as Bernard Venables called it. Fishing can be good too. But if we have a succession of dank, grey, chilly days and rain, it's no fun at all.

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"In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is strength. In water there is bacteria." - German proverb
JH based near Southampton

October - nature in all it's splendour - beautiful!

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