channelislandcharlie

I am a lifelong sea angler who is starting to do a little coarse/carp fishing in the uk.While I know the basics I am struggling with some of the terms and jargon especially in the Carp world.Can anybody recommend a rig book which doesn't just show you how to make the rigs but actually explains the purpose of the specific rig so I can try and make sense of what's best to use and more importantly why. Thanks

In Dorset near Wimborne.

Hi.im off to riverside lakes for a week and was wondering what the fishing is like there.Ive heard there are hardly any fish left? just wondered if anybody has fished it and how the fishing was? Thanks

Hi.was looking at booking a couple of weeks at sumners ponds next summer and was wondering if anybody had camped or fished there and what they thought of it.Also any other good campsites with coarse fishing.Recently stayed at Greenhill farm in the new forest and really enjoyed having a crack at the coarse fishing as a lifelong sea angler

I personally like to return fish where possible especially as I don't really eat fish but I have no issue with anglers keeping fish to eat if they want to.At the end of the day there are a lot of people who like to be seen as conservation anglers but the fact is if you are really worried about the fishes welfare you wouldn't fish in the first place.

I simply started this thread to ask the general question do anglers today see a "British record fish" as less important than anglers of say 10,15,20 or more years ago and if so why.If anglers do think less of a British record is it due to the predictability of where a record will come from or maybe some anglers feel they don't have the opportunity to fish a water where these fish are present.Maybe sea anglers simply don't want to kill a fish to make the claim or as has been said with magazines printing reports of record sized fish being returned they don't consider the record list as accurate.Personally I think british records are great but I think most anglers aren't really interested in them.

Would the pike record not be one? I may be wrong but I thought only a limited few got to fish that water for pike.I believe the same can be said of Chew where although I believe anybody can apply to fish there for pike only a very few actually get the chance to fish it.Living in the Channel Islands I do very little in the way of coarse fishing but I do follow the coarse specimen scene with some interest,therefore I may have my facts wrong so I hold my hands up if I have.I started this thread because the British records lists is an interesting topic worthy of discussion I believe.Growing up as a young angler the thought of actually catching a British record was something special.Last year I caught a smoothound which may of just beaten the current british record.It was heavily in pups and as smoothound can only be truly identified by a marine biologist it would of meant killing the fish to claim the record.The fact is there have already been bigger hounds caught and released so it would of been killing the fish to claim a record even though its not the biggest hound that's been caught which to me seems somewhat pointless.I should probably point out at this point I have infact killed a fish to claim a british record in the past so I have been both sides of this.I remember the situation with the Rainbow trout being grown to huge weights then released for somebody to catch a new record within a day or so.The brfc then set up the natural and reared records to counter this.My point is really I want to see the british record list held up as the pinacal of each species but that can only be so if it represents the biggest species caught.Not sure what the answer or even if there is one.How many of you honestly would kill a record smoothound or skate or even Bass to claim a british record? I don't necessarily agree with the ego remarks,to my mind your either a pleasure,match or specimen angler and if your a specimen angler you get you enjoyment from targeting and catching big fish,nothing wrong with that.

I have been using these cheap Cree headlamps for a couple of years now and think they are excellent.Having spent a fortune over the years on petzl's and speeleo's I bought one to try it.Very comfortable,good light,excellent battery life and as soon as it gets a bit temperamental which even expensive headlamps do you just bin it.No more problems with stretched straps either.

I see this forum site is just like all the others then.You start a thread looking for discussion and debate and you end up with people just slagging each other off.shame

That's my point.If the record isn't the record then what is the point of the record.What do you think of having notable fish lists for all species for example all pike over 35lb,all Bass over 17lb.Still massive fish.

Simple question.Do british records mean as much today with such managed fisheries and fish almost grown to order.Some would say only the select few with access to certain waters have access to british record size fish in certain species.With sea angling many of the British records like smoothound,common skate etc are not the biggest caught because anglers simply aren't prepared to kill a fish to have it correctly weighed and identified so if the fish on the list is only say the third or fourth biggest then what is the point? My own opinion is the British record list is important both as a record and as an ultimate goal for the specimen angler but the brfc need to modernise and perhaps have lists for open waters and closed fisheries as well as procedures to allow sea anglers to weigh,measure,photograph and return a fish and still make a claim.What do you think?

Hi.Going to greenhill farm camping park in June and hope to do a fair bit of fishing on the lakes there.Just wondered if anyone has fished there and if so if they can give me any pointers.cheers

hi.i am a sea angler planning to have a few coarse angling holidays in the uk to try something a bit different.i was wondering if anybody can recommend some venues/holiday parks etc preferably where i can take a campervan.i have done a very small amount of coarse fishing so have some idea what im doing???ideally looking for somewhere along the south coast or devon & cornwall.Preferance is more for a nice quiet place,not to commercial where the wife can chill out with her craft stuff and i can fish.Dont mind if i have to pay for self catering accomodation and would be happy to travel further north for the right venue. thanks in advance