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Why do we have to have separate competitions for male and female anglers? Why can't we all just fish together?
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Well they may have been here (carp that is) for a while now, but that does not make them a 'native species', they are still feral.Graham X:QUOTE Corydoras: "In my humble opinion the general rule should be 'Thou shalt not suffer a non native and potentially invasive species to live' and if you press me too hard this topic then I will say that yes this should include the all hallowed porcine carp too.
I should keep your head WELL down until that one blows over, matey!
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I too have an "agricultural upbringing" although in Scotland. There are no real trespass laws in Scotland, but I think this may be changing, but sheep farmers CAN and WILL shoot dogs off the leash, especially at lambing time.Scratch dtb:Not sure about that!!!
I come from a line of farmers and have parents who still are!
I count myself my dad and my mum friendly and happy peeps!!
I have horses and a pet sheep so does that make me a farmer too???
C x
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No law of trespass in Scotland and they seem to get on OK.Jim Roper:The problems of trespassers are many.
If you do not discourage them and you know you have trespassers, then you have a duty of care toward them. So it is best to say 'Private Land, Keep Out' at every possible access point. With the way that everybody and his wife want an excuse to take you to court for damages nowadays, it is better to pull up the drawbridge.
Another reason that I don't want anybody on my property without I know them, is as follows. If I am working with some tools or impliments, I want to be able to leave them where they are for short periods from time to time without the worry of somebody walking off with them while I'm gone. If I know that I am the only one who has been around, then I will look for a mislaid tool until I find it. If I know that others have been, or might have been around, I don't know whether to look for it or assume it has been taken.
The last year that I made silage, I caught 3 youngsters walking through a field of laid up grass. I week later, when we cut the grass, an electric fencing stake went up through the machine and wrecked the blades, on the very line they had taken throught the field. The only time this had ever happened in about 15 years of making silage.
Set asside areas are often used in connection with pheasant shooting. This often has to subsidize the farming business nowadays. Shooting is as much a crop as peas or sugar beet. You don't want dogs spreading you birds all over the county.
I used to wander about all over the place with a dog when I was a younster, but I changed my habits after buying a farm of my own.
How many people would not show concern if they saw someone having a good look at the nice shiny car that they had just spent a lot of money on, and had parked it up somewhere????
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I have never tried them myself. Snails are different, I love them to death.Tinca61:quote:(at least most of the ones I know and I know a few) have never even tasted frogs legs.I tried them once at a French Army stand at an international fair held in Berlin. I found them quite........unremarkable!
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Well said that man!Leon Roskilly:
It's gone on long enough now.Leon Roskilly:he has to back the frogs
his wife tells him to the word "rosbif" is a derogatory french word for the english a bit like the word frog we use for them its all based on dietry consumption
Wessex should tell the so called 'United' Kingdom where to shove it.
Bloody beuracrats in Westminster, what do they know about life outside of London.
Bring back the groat, and bushels and chains, they all used to mean something!
And what idiot believed that the economy of the North Riding of Yorkshire and the ancient kingdom of Cornwall had anything in common?
And what a mess the so called 'Union' flag is!!
Bloody bits of real flags, thats all. Stitched together by some committee.
Thank god for the River Medway. At least that keeps Kentish Men and the Men of Kent apart!!
At least the frogs have the dignity of being citizens of their country.
Us, now we are merely subjects of the crown.
But no one would listen to me when I pointed out where we were heading, back in ..... Oh! I've forgotten. So long ago!
Tight Lines - leon
Tight Lines - leon
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Frozen prawns then methinks!Colin Payne:quote:ColinWhat do you want to catchThe tench at a local fishery are going for prawns in a big way so I was hoping to jump on the bandwagon!
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Actually Chesters she's an ex wife and I never was very good at taking instructions from her (hence the ex bit )chesters1:he has to back the frogs
his wife tells him to the word "rosbif" is a derogatory french word for the english a bit like the word frog we use for them its all based on dietry consumption
You are spot on about the 'rosbif' bit. Just like me calling a Frog a frog, nothing to get upset about. Most French folks get confused about us calling them Frogs though, because most French (at least most of the ones I know and I know a few) have never even tasted frogs legs.
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Why does it have to bee nasty? Joining the Euro is something the UK is going to have to do at some time. IMHO if you disagree with that then you are just burying your head in the sand. We all complain about living in 'rip-off Britain' and yet we cannot grasp this opportunity because 'we don't like change'. Nobody likes change but things change from time to time. The time has come for us to adopt the Euro and turn the change more to our advantage.little onions:This is going to get nasty, isn't it?
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I can remember it as wel, and it was inflationary. Again this was not the fault of the new currency per se, but caused by greedy retailers and wholesalers rounding everything up and whacking on 5%-10% to boot.Jim Roper:
So you 'can' remember that far back!!Jim Roper:Any day now. Like Decimilisation, another bloody con.
Everything doubled in price in a couple of years didn't it?
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quote:I haven't even got a passport.My British one ran out 25 years ago and I don't want one with those stars on.Which means that you don't HAVE to travel abroad. Those of us whose lifestyle or work takes us into the Eurozone will undoubtably have different views.The Swiss aren't in, are they?If they do go in then we'll get all that business perhaps, provided we stay out.I don't see what that has do do with the price of tea in China.The EU is all about big brother socialism. The Soviets went through 70 years of misery while they experimented with it.NO THANKS!!!!I'm sorry but I just do not agree.My ancestry goes back to Germany not France, thank the Lord.But Germany is in the Euro.
Joining the Euro will not make us any less British. Do you think that suddenly the French are 'less French' or that Germans are less German than they were pre-Euro? :confused:
Do you think that we will lose some 'British way of life' that never really existed at least not since the 1950's just because we call the round thing in your pocket a Euro and not a pound? :confused:
This is the 21st century, get with the beat!
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1) The Euro put up prices.Essex:With all due respect, our european cousins couldn't hold a match to the British spirit.
What has the euro done for people so far ?
1. put up prices
2. Devalued very quickly
3. Wages have not risen
4. Put poor people in poorer situ
Above all we are an island,a proud one at that,i hate politics and polititians but they have there place.
The thought of some jumped up non reality based character deciding best practice for the uk is beyond comprehension and would only serve to P@ss people off (more than already).....
Ill informed or cautious of motives,we ahve seen the crass ruling introduced over here so far,impressed my ar@e :mad:
Cannot say this has not happened. Mostly caused by retailers being a bit greedy with their rounding-up. I beleive this has been particularly bad in Germany and Italy, perhaps in the Netherlands too. Not as apparent in France.
2) Devalued very quickly.
Yes it did. It is now creeping back up at an alarming rate. Will soon reach parity with GBP. Exceeding parity with USD. Having a strong currency is not some kind of symbol of financial virility you know.
3) Whose wages where?
4) Again what poor people where.
'Being an island' can hardly be used as an argument for or against the Euro. I do know that I have to pay my ex wife €500 a month and that lately it is costing me about £20 more each month as the Euro gets stronger against the pound. That is just me a private individual. It must be crippling for companies, large and small who buy from the Eurozone.
One day we will join, so we may as well get it over and done with.
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Q) Who am I?Mally:Corydoras,
who are you, where are you from?
A) If you think I am going to post me name and address up here then think again!
Q) Where am I from.
A) Born Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire in 1960.
Left school 1976. Joined Merchant Navy
After 9 years in MN decided that I had seen lots of old seamen that I did not want to become one. Left MN in about 1986.
Went to College (Clydebank Tech) and did some IT courses. Could not find work in Glasgow (old story no IT experience no IT job) so decided to check out Southampton, an old haunt from my MN days. Decided to stay for 6 months to a year to get some experience and then return to Glasgow. Never did return.
Met nice French girl in Southampton, got married 2.4 kids etc. After 12 years wife wants to life in France. OK by me, sell house and move to France. After 6 months wife decides she wants a divorce. I say OK, move back to Southampton. Will soon buy a flat in France and move back again.
I used to be as anti-Euro as the rest of you until I saw the actual 'changeover' in France. I was sure the Frogs would screw it up, but it went with mostly a hitch.
So that's me, who're you?
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Uninformed twaddle like this really p!sses me off! :mad: I have a better idea. Why do'nt we just break up the UK then the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish can do the sensible thing and adopt the Euro and the English can keep their poxy English (actually it is Roman, so that makes it ItalianIan Bass:Shove it.............You know where and as for this Federal states of Europe, Oh sorry we got the word 'Federal' dropped......BIG DEAL :mad: its still the same you can shove that too!!!!!!!!!! We should pull out of the EU and go it alone
What the hell has so called European money or Europe in general ever done for me? Bu**er all, thats what! :mad: ) pound.They could even give it up for the dollar and go and join the US of A but I think our American cousins would soon suss them for the bunch of whingers that they are and they would then become the first State to be ejected from the Union.
The problem with all you rostbifs is that you have no real sense of national identity apart from the 'pound in your pocket'. You don't even make your Patron Saint's day a Public Holiday for crying out loud. Maybe that is because St. George was a Turk?
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I seldom spawn without eatingEssex:Would you eat if you were spawning
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ColinColin Payne:When fishing with prawns do you just buy the usual Tesco/Sainsbury variety, frozen/non-frozen or uncooked from a fishmonger?
What do you want to catch?
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I am sorry but I must beg to differ. I know Loch Lomond very well. I was born and brought up in the district. There are no pleasure craft on the Loch that are big enough to have ballast tanks. The only vessel on the Loch that is big enough to have ballast tanks is the Maid of The Loch, but she was prefabricated in Glasgow, shipped to Balloch in pieces and then re-assembled on at a purpose built slipway. This is because she was far to big to sail or be towed up the River Leven.phil hackett:
Ruffe got into Loch Lomond the same way they got into the Lake District, USA, Mexico, etc through ballast water in boats. In LD LL it was ballast water in pleasure craft. It really is that simple. No clandestine pikers transporting buckets of ruffe up North over the boarder. Sorry to disappoint its pleasure craft period!phil hackett:
Nor to pollute Loch Lomond with Ruffephil hackett:Well said Rob, I would not mind betting that at least half the fisheries in this country have benefited from stock obtained from some other lake or river.
No one needed a section 30 to stock the Severn with barbel!
Den
One could not get anything much bigger than a sixteen foot cabin cruiser up the River Leven in the summer months because the water would not be deep enough in some stretches. One could have a bash in the winter, but you would be mad to try, after all the Leven is the second fastest flowing river in Scotland. That would still leave you with the impossible task of actually sailing your boat over the dam Balloch.
Maybe what you mean is that the ruffe were introduced into the loch in the bilges of pleasure craft. To be honest I do'nt swallow that theory. In my experience bilge water very quickly becomes de-oxygenated and stagnant and will not support life as complex as a fish and anyway how do the fish get into the bilge in the first place?
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You could always head for Loch Awe. Stonking place to fish either by boat or from the shore. It is about 60 miles away from where you are headed though.Quest:This might be a very stupid question, But someone once told me that the only fresh water fish in Scotland is pike. Is this true :confused: :confused: . As later on in this year I am going on a holiday there and I would like to do a spot of fishing.
Thanks
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De rigeur in France mate. Here is a recipe for Quenelles de brochet . Very yummy.Peter Waller:cooking the catch, awful.
Why do some English people get so sniffy about eating what they catch when they catch something edible?
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Nor to pollute Loch Lomond with Ruffepoledark:Well said Rob, I would not mind betting that at least half the fisheries in this country have benefited from stock obtained from some other lake or river.
No one needed a section 30 to stock the Severn with barbel!
Den
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OK you asked for this but since you asked ...Lurking Pike:Could you please post on this thread about your veiws on Zander. :confused: :confused:
In my humble opinion the general rule should be 'Thou shalt not suffer a non native and potentially invasive species to live' and if you press me too hard this topic then I will say that yes this should include the all hallowed porcine carp too.
Nature does not always find it's own balance, witness cane toads in Australia or the Round Goby and Ruffe in the Great Lakes, Ruffe (again) in my own Loch Lomond, Signal crayfish all over the shop. The list goes on and on.
I also dont think that losing one Esox lucius in exchange for a zander is fair exchange!
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QuestQuest:I am going to place called Inchree Holiday Centre which is located in the village of Onich midway between Ben Nevis and Glen Coe. Do you know of any hot spots I could go. and any tips?
Thanks
Where you're headed is pretty good for sea fishing.
You will need a permit to fish for salmon or trout. If coarse fishing is your bag you may find that you will only find pike, perch and maybe roach that far north (I am not sure. My home turf is Loch Lomond and its tributaries). One normally does not need a permit to fish for coarse fish in Scotland but you will need permission. You may find that you will be restricted to ledgering marine deadbaits for pike. Lure fishing for coarse fish and any kind of float fishing may be prohibited too. Be aware that there are (or at least there were when I was a teenager) some waters in Scotland where you are expected to kill any pike caught. If it is not Salmon or trout then its pig-food.
If you want to do some fresh water fishing then your Caravan site or the local pub may be a good place to find out about permits.
There is no Angling Tax (rod licence scheme) in Scotland so you can leave that at home :-)
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Anyone got any ideas how to present a 30lb plus carp?