bobdurauntti

Once met him a few years ago in a pub in Plymouth, was right next to a marina (but can't remember the name of the place), was just before he went back home to Aus. He was having a brief journey through some of his old haunts almost like a last goodbye. Smashing bloke and a mind full of information and stories, these characters just get few and fewer.

That depends Wurzel on whether all the UK fishermen actually return all the tags they get. I wonder what percentage of fishermen return the tags. How many tags do you return each year? .........Oh sorry I forgot!!

The article says she was fishing for mackerel, do you normally get mackerel in February up there BC? Isn't the guy in the middle of the shot the guy out of Auf weidersein pet, the one who was the foreman, Dennis was his name.

With over 1 million anglers thats a weighty number of votes, if he gets this wrong and labour decide to go for an early election, could they be heading for an early bath. For the first time, the way I vote will be determined by how the new minister peforms in the near future. If he fudges the relevent issues, then it is time IMHO to give the opposition an opportunity to put things right. At least they have said they will not bend over backwards and continue to take it up the kyber from Johnny foreigner. If that means sharing UK stocks with UK fishermen that is a damn sight better than sharing UK stocks with UK fishermen, dutch, french, belgian, danish, german, spanish, portugeuse etc. I would anticipate that given sea anglers have a higher profile, and a greater interest, many would be thinking similarly. So watch this space, they (DEFRA) have an opportunity, its up to them how that pans out for the government. What a shame if our friendly sweaty only had 4 months as PM after standing in the queue behind phoney Blair for the last decade. We have a good chance of dictating who gets into government at the next election, its up to the minister to decide how long he stays there.

And then DEFRA will say "You sea anglers are going to have to pay for us to put some stability back" A few typo's there HA By illegal unlicensed fishermen, and the few unscroupulous legitimate fishermen (putting all commercial fishermen in the same bracket is akin to saying all anglers are selling bass through the back door at restaurants) Extinction is a highly emotive word to use and is rarely used in the right context You better believe it, thats what government do. They mismanage, tax the innocent parties and then use the revenue generated for something it was not intended for. Bob