mmc1uk

this thread has me thinking. sorry guys i dont have carp experience but i do use barbless hooks for mullet. i always thought i was doing the fish a favour but now i dont know. very interesting thanks for the eye opener.

anyone thinking of going to torness this weekend may want to not bother. concord is staying there today and tomorrow untill 9 pm when it will be moved to east fortune. security at torness is to be be very strict and the chances of being allowed near the place may be slim.

Golden greys, are you sure? Their distribution is reputed to be limited to the South coast(of England....) Jim. been getting them here for years. There is also a scottish record (8 oz ish)

water was warm today and the first real show of fish for the year for me. between me and my mate we got 1 good mullet three golden greys and a few very small bass. a couple of big losses too.

once saw a tv programme where this guy threaded worms on wool. He had a huge weight tied to the bottom and thumped it of the river bed. Eels got their teeth stuck in the wool as they bit the worms. He was very successful. weird but it worked. [ 13. April 2004, 12:24 AM: Message edited by: mmc1uk ]

The passive smoking issue amuses me. Non smokers raving on about their lungs being polluted then jumping in their cars and contributing to a far heavier pollution than cigarettes. Rather hypocritical methinks.

Talked the wife into videoing me fly fishing today for half an hour. Only got a couple of small fish but her reaction on the firstcast is rather amusing:) If your interested you can find the clips on the game section of my site. see my sig for link.

Thanks

since its the start of the season today I nipped down the wee burn near my house. got four brown trout all on a size 16 wet greenwells glory. All about the half pound or under mark but great to get out on the water again. lovely :cool:

A carp rod is also fun for flounder fishing. I use a pierced bullit weight for the light surf. The bait (usually mackeral) rolls about in the surf and the flounder seem to take well on this tactic.

well theres a wee burn here that got heavily flooded about 3 or years ago. The local fish farm lost two tanks of fish to the flood. As a result the burn now gets runs of steelheads every year. I had the fish identified on this site by one of our american freinds. As far as Im concerned its been a great place since the rainbows escaped and the brown trout are being caught at the same ratio as they were before the flood.

Have only seen H&L one. Mark something or other is that why you never turned up the next day for your meal?

I remember when I was a kid there was a programme on one of the three channels called (i think) the great fishing race. I remember some of the guys went for the big points zander and were happy to sit there for days at a time to catch one. It seems a shame that they are deemed pests now. The same seen as a pest thing is also tagged to the grayling in a few if not most of scottish rivers. Such a shame as they wonderfull to fish for.

this was on a canal stretch around Birmingham if I remember right, and what the council were doing was electric fishing which stuns the fish allowing them to be removed from the water and to a different location, but doesn't kill them. It's offen employed when trying to clean up ponds/boating lakes etc. Ahhhh Forgive my ignorance. The whole aura of the shows section did seem very anti zander so I assumed they were killing the fish. You learn somthing new everyday quote: they have a bad reputation mate that is unwarrante on the whoe. they can cause problems when they first arrive in a fishery, but they soon settle to a balanced level. the fishing in the fens 40 years on from their introduction is verygood, if they really were such a pest tis would not be the case. I was told a pike would never eat out its food supply hence why the survive so well in small ponds/pits etc. Is this true and if so would that be the case with the zander?