[Wildlife]

rob.i:

saw my first bee whilst fishing yesterday, a tad unusual at this time of year i thought .

I have seen a couple of bumble bees in the last couple of weeks.

[Melting Plastic - any chemists out there?]

Salar:

 

Salar:

Salar - if you can find anyone doing a roofing job using hot tar, you can just dip the entire cage into the tar and pull it back out.

What would that do to a white fibreglass deck ?

Nothing a bit of elbow grease won't cure

[Driving in France]

Yep thats another one Graham. STOP in France means STOP. That gendarme hiding in the hedge is watching your wheelnuts and he wants to see them STOP. If you don't it will be a fine and maybe three or four points too.

 

Also read up on priorite a droite, (priority on the right) as there is nothing quite like it in our system.

[Cat amongst the pigeons.]

35,000,000 is a 'kin' LOT of little birds. I knew there was a reason that i hete moggies, now I know.

[Frozen lugworm - is there any point??]

The faster something organic freezes (fruit, worms) the smaller the ice crystals. The smaller the ice crystals, the less damage to the cell structure of the organism.

[Frozen lugworm - is there any point??]

I think the secret with freezing lug or wrag is that the quicker they are frozen, the better they will be when defrosted. I reckon if you could have plunged them straight into liquid nitrogen that would be even better.

[Cruel?]

How can it be cruel, I thought we were all of the opinion that fish cannot feel pain?

[should we eradicate non native species]

Bradford Angler:

yep - I think it is just another fish related conspiracy, live and let live once they are in . .

So we can use this model for other species too then, including mink, coypu, mitten crabs, crayfish.

[Pornography! What is it?]

Newt:

The interesting thing to me is that you can use a bow & arrow but not a crossbow - unless you are disabled and in that case, you are allowed to use a crossbow.

I can just imagine my local carp hole surrounded by paraplegic arbalesters. Makes me grin from ear to ear.

[Sad state of specimen carp fishing]

I'm sorry but sat in a tent all night with a set line out is not what I call angling. If it turns one on then go for it, but it is not for me.

[should we eradicate non native species]

I don't know if they were introduced to the Loch by Sassenach pike fishermen or not, but I do know that they (the ruffe, that is) were not in the Loch when I was a nipper.

 

[ 26. February 2004, 04:48 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

[Fishing in the amazon]

John Bogle:

Well I was close. I knew it was something like that!    

Very close, virtually a typo. But don't they have an evil set of gnashers for a freshwater fish? I caught a little (2-3lb) barracuda in Oz once and its teeth did not look half as bad as those on one of these payara critters.

[Driving in France]

Be carefull turning left. It is too easy to turn into your own (wrong!) side of the road.

[Pets]

Newt:

Salar - try some of the crickets for bait.  Not sure about winter but come spring, they are great.

I agree Newt. You just need to superglue a hook onto their wing case and freeline them. Just like a live wriggling fly.

[Pornography! What is it?]

Newt no need to post anything. A quick Google for 'carp bow arrow' gave me a whole weeks worth of reading material. You probably know this but in some states you can 'fish' for 'gators using this 'method'.

[Pornography! What is it?]

Newt:

The US practice (quite legal by the way) of taking large carp with bow and arrow comes to mind. Pro-bow discussion or photographs on AN would be completely out of place while in a bow hunting forum, they should be fine.

Newt, have you got any links to this kind of stuff? You can PM them if you prefer. I've heard that they get up to this kind of fishing in Australia and New Zealand too. It has got to beat bivvies and boilies

 

[ 26. February 2004, 02:56 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

[suggestions 3ft tank]

butiaboy:

i am going to stick to barbs/tetras/corys for my set-up

Plenty of corys I hope!

[Word Association....enough is enough!]

Never caught a ling, how about a conger?

 

[ 26. February 2004, 02:25 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

[Driving in France]

I've got two, both brought up as Roman Catholics by their mother in France. I am not a believer I am afraid, so no I would not take one of mine to Lourdes looking for a miracle, but that does not mean that they might not get dragged off there by their (slightly mad) mother. I don't think I would have the heart to try to stop her.

[Driving in France]

Lourdes? Never been there but I have seen it on the tele once or twice. A weird, sick place! The catholic version of Vegas. I am not religous, but if JC really exists I am sure this place must fill him with despair. Tacky is not the word!

[Word association]

brazilian

[Not nice to know]

nursejudy:

oops no Dave its all off,  

 

Alan, I guess the male version is a BCS. That stands for Back, Crack and Sac (ouch! )

[the man who wants every zander dead]

mark barrett:

corydoras, you of course have the rigt to your own point of view but are you seriously suggesting that we should get rid of:

 

Carp

Rainbow trout

Catfish

Orfe

 

as welll as of course zander?

 

Zander are not invasive and the only reason that the EA post such drivel is because they do not want them stocked into other waters, particularly game rivers.  iagree now that the spread should stop and that illegal stockings should be condemed outright but this guy was wrong, and although he may have been targetting the zander, he did catch Pike, and they ended up i the same place, and it was not his freezer. i wonder if you have any personal experience of zander waters are are you just toeing the antiquated line that all zeds are bad.

Carp : Well since they have been around for 500 years or so it is probably a bit late for us to even try to eradicate them, so no not carp.

 

Likewise the rainbow trout, but yes IMHO the law here should prohibit the release or return of wels, orphe and zander.

 

Once an alien species is indroduced into an ecosphere the long term results of that release can be difficult to predict. Often a species that seems to have a benign or neutral affect on introduction to a non-native ecology can have disastrous long term effects, for example the cane toad in Australia, the coypu on the Norfolk Broads.

 

[ 26. February 2004, 12:59 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

[ask the expert]

bubbles:

but lets say for instance you took your float set up..and caught a 5 lb carp and a 5lb tench on it the carp would give just as hard a scrap as the tench would !!

And a 5lb mullet would beat the both of 'em

[Fishing in the amazon]

John Bogle:

there is also a fish called a Paraya, otherwise known as the vampire fish due to it's two 4 inch long fangs

Sorry to be a pedant, but it is called a payara but like you say it sure has a mouth full of evil teeth, with two at the front of the bottom jaw that can be 4 to 6 inches long.