Muddy

thank you.

Is there anywhere on the internet I can get an list of the current UK coarse fishing records? Having spent the morning searching for a list, I can find nothing that is anywhere near current.

went on post by alan taylor I should have done my homework !!!

sorry pressed wrong key and whoops!!! anyway regarding the barracuda handling I sent an e-mail to Rex Hunts Office www.lee@rexhunt.com.au asking about the handling and wether they know of deaths caused by handling and recieved the following: not sure about the handling as couta live in cold water which has less organisms in it so infection is less of a problem We also find that they are a hardy species unlike mackekrel regards Lee Rayner slightly confused here as I thought Mackerel was a cold water species???

there is a canadian marine research site when you get past all the technical stuff is quite interesting ( I asume it the same species of mackerel) http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/communic/fish_man...el/IFMPAM_E.htm

When I was there last week the amount of unwanted fish just dumped around the bins (and back at the camp site)or just left on the beach after people had fished for "pleasure" was very annoying if not upsetting. About every other shop in Weymouth sold small kiddies rods and hand lines most supplied with "mackeral" feathers. The Harbour was running alive with small crabs after being caught(and with no chance of getting back to the water,(people scared to touch them...SO WHY DO IT?) And what happens to the fish that are caught on the "mackeral fishing" boat trips that run out from harbours, I'm sure that 99% of the fish taken away do not even make it to the car let alone to the cooker. My young daughters had "a go" from the beach but we all packed up when we had caught about a dozen Mackeral (enough to use for bait the following day and BBQ that night) and even they understand the reasons for stopping when we did (we could have carried on for hours). Not to mention the "Mullet fishers" fishing from 20 feet up the wall....... Sorry for sounding like an Anti but it is very annoying that people have no respect to sea life. PS. I totally agree the Mackeral comes into its own when caught on a single hook and carp rod.

I used to drink Holstien Pils but it used to make me ill after 12 bottles and I never could seem to make it downstairs to the "God phone"!(thanks Mum ) I now, some 20 years later stick to beer (current favourite is Wells's Banana Bread Beer)

So one day God calls down to Noah . . . . and says, "Noah, I want you to build another Ark, but this time I don't just want a couple of decks - I want 20 decks, one on top of the other". "Twenty decks!?", screams Noah, "Well, OK, whatever you say. Should I fill it with all the animals, just like last time?". "No, this time I just want fish . . . carp to be exact.", answers God. Noah looks to the skies, "OK, God, let me get this right . . . you want a New Ark with 20 decks, one on top of the other? And you want it full of carp?" "That's right", replies God. Why?" asks Noah. "Dunno really", says God. "I just fancied a multi-storey carp ark".

On the hottest day of the century I fished the beach at Abbotsbury expecting to find a sea full of swimmers and was surprised to find just a few in the water...UNTIL the Mackeral shoals arrived in close to the shore and suddenly what seemed to be the whole population of Dorset jumped into the sea trying to catch Mackeral by Hand!!!! Is this a local tradition? considering the amount of feathered hooks and weights flying around them it seems a pretty dangerous pastime. :confused:

was in a armoured security van last week...trouble is air conditioning broke down and the extractor unit I dont think has ever worked, talk about a mobile sauna I hate to think what the temp was inside..

A guy falls asleep on the beach for several hours and gets a horrible sunburn. He goes to the hospital and is promptly admitted after being diagnosed with second degree burns. He was already starting to blister and in agony. The doctor prescribed continued intravenious feeding with saline and electrolytes, a sedative, and a Viagra pill every four hours. The nurse, rather astounded, said "what good will Viagra do him???" The doctor replied, "It'll keepthe sheets off his legs."

congrats to Leon I guess he'll be buying the beers on his return!

missing most of as sleeping during the day as on nights but the early mornings and evenings are ok (reminds oneself to park van in shade as sunrise is waking me up)!

this site gives prediction by month at a time http://www.digiserve.co.uk/ukfr/gbtide.htm