Extreme Sibbing at the top of the Thames.

[Nos4r2]

Originally Posted by whisper

Nos I can't see your vids dude

Uploading them to Youtube-they're huge and slow to load if I use the vid uploader here.

[willk]

That's mad sh1t!

Myself, Ricochet and a mate of mine keep threatening to do the same in the Foyle System - Moville to Lifford, but we've not got round to it.

Fair play to you both - kudos!

[whisper]

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[Nos4r2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O29z5BVVPM&

[Nos4r2]

Whisper finds a shallow bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUv8U4Lc5eU&

[whisper]

Originally Posted by willk

That's mad sh1t!

Myself, Ricochet and a mate of mine keep threatening to do the same in the Foyle System - Moville to Lifford, but we've not got round to it.

Fair play to you both - kudos!

Thanks dude

[whisper]

Originally Posted by Nos4r2

Whisper finds a shallow bit.

Yeah there's not a lot you can do when your skegs in the mud

[whisper]

A long time in the planning but well worth the effort...

We only had one float needle stick so apart from that everything was groovy

[Nos4r2]

We were both quite surprised we managed to do the whole thing without any punctures. It's quite inconsistent-going from several feet deep to inches in a matter of yards.

[whisper]

The Thames is a beautiful place but with many dangers but well worth a visit for two or more sibs

[willk]

Originally Posted by whisper

Yeah there's not a lot you can do when your skegs in the mud

Oh tell me about it. I was attempting Letterkenny quay a couple of years back and lads who were teeing off on the local golf course were shouting "Fore!" at me as I passed through

FYI, I found my boathook was the most useful item on board that day - for fending off and punting...

[whisper]

Originally Posted by willk

Oh tell me about it. I was attempting Letterkenny quay a couple of years back and lads who were teeing off on the local golf course were shouting "Fore!" at me as I passed through

FYI, I found my boathook was the most useful item on board that day - for fending off and punting...

Didn't have a boat hook but used a oar...

I have to say I'm shattered And I caught the sun too

[HDAV]

That looked fun

Regards the permit situ anything specific to bear in mind? Or be aware of in general? as there is a nice river right near me but die to wiers isn't really navigable for large parts but a small sib could be pulled up them easily enough...

Reminds me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GognU4c3IHM

[Nos4r2]

No permit needed for where we were-it's not maintained for navigation, so they can't charge for using it
If you see kayaks on it, you can sib it as far as I know.

Some more, take by Sixy after the engine swap:-

[Nos4r2]

On the 1st fallen tree (within 150 yards of the start) I was thinking 'oh s**t' as we couldn't really row back against the current and we had to drag the boats round it. By the second, I wasn't sure how far we'd gone or if continuing was even feasable.

Having looked on Youtube at other people that did it, I suspect we were just unlucky with the winter fallen trees not being cleared yet though.


I also discovered that...erm... playing bumper boats with sibs is quite fun

[Barrowboy]

That's just waaaaaay too much hard work but fair play to you both and some cracking' pics. There must be a few monster chub lurking near those trees so take a couple of rods with you next time and drift a feeder under those roots and branches!

[Nos4r2]

There is-I used to fish several of the stretches we went through when I was a kid and used to pull a lot of big Chub out.

It actually wasn't that hard work-we only had to get out of the boats twice.