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  1. A skipper in my neck of the woods who runs two well known charter boats when the skippers are bizy, has just purchased a 26 foot gill netter. I do not know if it is fair to make a judgement as we are all intiteled to have as many jobs as we wish. Having said that I would of thought in todays enviroment it would not be good PR for the skippers of the boats he runs to have a commercial run their boat. As it happens he does catch plenty of fish for his parties, and you can bet he will try and catch lots of fish in his gill nets.
  2. Mullet do not tast any where near as good as bass. They have similer looking flesh although bass fesh looks cleaner and tasts cleaner. Best left for sport. I sold mullet when I worked on a netting boat, we got 50 pence per pound. The biggest mullet I ever saw in our nets was 10lb pounds. That fish was werth 5 quid dead.
  3. just looked at the Alderney web sit. Does any one know if these fish are dead, or were they returened alive? There is no excuse to kill these fish, they tast like crap for a start and fight like hell on light gear. This would not be good PR for the site if the fish are dead.
  4. Sorry 202 havent received a E mail from you. Regards Sam
  5. Are you fishing with john Rawle or on Terry Batts boat the Vicky Emma, these two skippers I think will hire tackle of good quality. They are both good skippers and you should catch a few cods and roker. Take faulkland island squid if you can get them.
  6. 202 Yes it was Nick b I was talking about. I worked for nick straight from school herring drifting catching 100 to 175 stone per day. I did this for three herring seasons and tree bass and mullet seasons. last time I went out with Nick we had to get up 45 minutes early to try and beet the small fast boats from your side of the ditch. I presumed they were the sones of X Mersea fishermen, sorry if these prosumptions were wrong, I will endevor to be more precise. Oh yes and I wouldnt dare to speek on behalf OF Nick B. He has his own opinions, of which some make sence. I also remember the name Dan Birch, do you know my Dad he hatesall gill netters and would see them all burnt at dawn, thanks to working with Nick B I feel I have a more balanced point of view.
  7. Bass now days dont seem to migrate as such, rather just drop back into deaper water when it gets colder. Can anyone tell me where our mullet go. Im talking of Thames Estuary mullet.They are hear from April until late November.
  8. Commercial fisherman should not be compared withn farmers. Farmers are subsadised not to grow crops and set the fields aside for the wild life. Fisherman used to be subsadised but this was stopped and origanly the govement gave them their lisences. The lisences are now worth money, and are bought and sold by fisherman. There has to be real efforts to conserve our fisheries, this is not for commercial fisherman but for anglers. The reason for this is as mentioned before angling is worth far more to the UK econemy than commercial fishing. Having said that we can still have a small well managed substainable commercial fishery if hard decisions are made soon. Shutting off estuaries to commercial fishermen, increasing mesh size, are both direction we should be heading. There is one commercial fisherman at Bradwell, he fills the gaps in the fishing with other work to make a liveing. He conciders his first job as fishing, although he has down sized from a 35 footer to a 26 footer in the last five years. 5 stone of bass is a good day around 35 fish. There are a new generation of fisherman at Mersea.The days when son followed father into fishing are still in excistance. But instead of working on the larger boats with their fathers they are buying small fast boat. These boat get to the inshore marks in minutes. They only go out at the right state of tide, and only use around 1000 yards of gear.The whole proses is normally over in 3 hours. This sort of fishing should be pushed further ofshore alowing the inshore marks to develop. This must be best for all concerned in the long run.
  9. gill nets are fished differently in different areas. the average inshore fisherman down hear would be happy with 1, 7 stone box of bass per trip. @ 1.75 per lb that aint much. this is due to the compatition from farmed fish.
  10. The wheather is so bad hear on Dengie Marshes Essex that the wind has destroyed the tarp that covers my 23 foot boat project. We got very little sleep due to noise of the wind. Fishing may be good when it all eases off.
  11. Yes I agree with you Winter, but I realy enjoi collecting my own bait, I always look after my crabing marks. Puting rocks back the right way that others have left on top of weed. This stops the weed roting. If people look after the crabing marks we can all enjoi good crabing.
  12. people need to be shown how collect bait properly mate. If you find a peeler under a rock, the chances are if you put the rock back there will be a peeler there the next time you look. Where in Cornwall are you.I fish Trebeteric, Trevos head, Padstow, Rock, Port Quin, Port Gavern all in the North. I love cornwall although went to Irland instead this year.
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