Latimeria

Ah, how long does it take for your vowels to flatten on return to the land of all that is decent? Never bring your tackle up with you?

Bit far to come from Wilts anyway, think you'd get a nosebleed up these parts (depends whether you bump into Tigger or not..)

Two separate meetings, one in Bolton on the 16th Nov the other in Lancaster on the 3rd Dec. http://www.anglingtrust.net/page.asp?section=835&sectionTitle=North+West+Region

In case the rivers are still wiped out this coming weekend and you need a fix of fishy action, there's an aquatic auction taking place in Darwen on Sunday 15th, more information can be found here https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208141746164411&set=gm.567208326759845&type=3&theater and here http://www.catfishstudygroup.org/core/events.php

It'll never happen now, too many people on the island, business too much in control, EA even more emasculated than they were. We're paying to keep rivers stocked that have been screwed over by everyone else (and ourselves, we need to start with our own lifestyles before criticising others). Might be OK if the EA were actually doing any follow-up on the survival rates of these fish and looking at what age produces the best adaptation to the environments they're placed in, but they're not. As for the carp, wasn't Simmonds the guy who was whining about being driven out of business by otters? Guess he realised that maybe he'd have to actually protect his thick farmed fish long enough to sell them to people wanting instant trophy shots. Think being in work in this weather is making me grumpy...

Sounds like a plan with no drawbacks!

That's what I was looking for. I'll see if I can get that other paper for you (edit - just requested it from the authors).

Will also vary throughout the year depending on plankton richness and diversity. Some prey selection stuff here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4224368/

There's an increasing list of fish with very good UV vision, so someone would need to use a camera sensitive to that portion of the spectrum to find out (plus of course zander have the tapetum in the eye which greatly increases low-light vision. Mike Ladle has been playing around with lures which include an isotope, of course the snap lights are a far cheaper option. There is some legislation in the UK around the use of light as or within a lure, but this might fall outside that.

Managed to finish work early on Sunday and dashed across with just enough time to swap gossip with friends and watch a very interesting presentation from a German guest speaker on the fish of the upper Orinoco drainage. Actually featured more angling than aquaria, best way to see what large fish are in the rapids where nets are both dangerous to use and useless for the purpose.

Forwarded from elsewhere INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT Thames Tideway Foreshore Events – September 19th & 20th, 2015 Twenty years ago, seine netting demonstrations of fish life were a popular component of many environmental educational events along the tidal Thames. Following a successful trial at Bankside last September, IFM are now re-launching that support. This coming weekend, we will be providing seine netting demonstrations as part of larger elements of the Thames Festival. On Saturday 19th September, we will be supporting Dr Fiona Haughey, Director of Archaeology on the Thames Project, with Firing on the Foreshore, an illuminated history of this part of the river. We will be conducting seine netting sessions at Bankside from 11am until 4pm as part of the event and manning a stand together with colleagues from Thames 21. On Sunday 20th, we will be supporting Tidefest with seine netting demonstrations up at Strand on the Green between 12-3pm and manning a stand with Thames 21. For further details of Tidefest, which has activities at a range of sites along the river, check the website at www. thamestidefest.net. If you want to see some life in the old river yet, do come and see us, and join in if you wish!

Don't give him ideas, please!

This coming Sunday is the Preston & District Aquarist Soc. Annual Convention, https://www.facebook.com/events/1436218296686019/ The following weekend it's the Catfish Study Group Show and Auction http://www.catfishstudygroup.org/core/open_show.php Both events well worth attending.

It's a genuine picture, they do get extremely large but it's also about perspective and use of the camera. Pretty much the standard tedious Wels picture. https://spthumbnails.5min.com/10373404/518670164_c_570_411.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rBi7YblFJC0/U4Y2DxY3HiI/AAAAAAAAXBI/4Gaz7S3itLE/s1600/dino+ferrari+117+po+back+cat+blackcat+team+catfish+catfishes+wels+italy++big+fishes+huge+world+record+caught+records+largest+fly+fished+fish+ocean+sea++giant+freshwater+saltwater+fishing+images+lb+pound.jpg US hog "hunters" take the same kind of trophy pics

http://internationalfishingnews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/italy-caught-on-lure-265-lb-catfish-wels.html

There's a lot more to the Dove at this time of year than just barbel, some great chub and grayling to be had, plus apparently some very good perch in places (although yet to encounter a decent one).

Thought about potting in some joker? Be interesting to find out if that gets their heads down (or if it just gets mopped up rapid-style by everything else). One of these days I'm going to pack a feeder with live tubifex and fish a small worm on the hook.

Just in case you're genuinely dim and not just acting the pub idiot... I'd guess it's called international communication and networking, gathering intel. about methods used for illegally taking fish from freshwater and estuaries, cultural aspects to small-scale harvesting, how to better educate economic migrants from eastern Europe about UK laws and culture relating to inland fish stocks (so "me no understandy" stops being an excuse that means the EA/coppers don't act), showing law enforcement and governments that angling is willing to go about it professionally rather than just gobbing off on forums or Facebook. Doing what those who are Angling Trust members have paid for. Could be wrong, but that's how I interpreted it. I don't really have an axe to grind on this though, especially not a tired, blunt old axe that more often than not misses the target. Fine if you have a problem with the AT, but at least make it coherent and worthy of debate.

Not really that hard to work out is it?

Time to be trying different mixes to look at the reaction. Would be interesting to watch how perch react to a fishmeal mix, whether dampened pellets create a better feeding response, and whether natural sweet flavours get them rooting around.

If you consider the stomach size of an otter, where larger fish were the predominant stocks present then even if they return a couple of times there's still going to be plenty left before they're disturbed or choose not to return for whatever reason, would take even me more than one day to chew my way through a barbel several pounds in weight. There seems to be a picture coming out from several rivers that once the barbel are reduced in numbers, other fish species are bouncing back with a more natural spread across sizes, good catches of roach and dace to be had. I wouldn't be surprised if that then allows a new generation of younger barbel to grow successfully (as long as those fish that are left are not all fat old eunuchs and there's somewhere to spawn still) through safety in numbers. Might not be at sizes that'll excite those who want to queue up to catch that fish behind that bush. The above is just pulled out of the air of course, nothing to substantiate it, but if the angling press can make up any old b******s so can I.

I was float-legering with mine the other day on my local, no problem casting the weight, it did feel like I was bullying the bream I caught though.

Even better than when those skinnydipping nymphomaniacs called Timothy and Simon invaded your swim?

Same genus, different species http://happywaterlife.blogspot.de/2013/06/pungitius-kaibarae.html (actually Pungitius sinensis)

After netting a chub Weds evening I found a 1" barbel also in the net, that was cool (even though it was a barbel). Prefer to see fry than anything else to be honest. First time I caught fish I'd only ever seen before in books or aquaria I had to pinch myself.