samuel-cox

Fish especially gold fish are famed with being a bit thick. However I once watched a pair of six inch bass bait for shrimps. The bass were fed squid on this day. They ate most of the squid but saved some. The saved squid was taken by the two bass to a pile of rocks at one end off the tank.In the pile of rocks live the shrimps. The bass put the squid infront off the rocks and wait for a shrimp to come out then pounce on the shrimp. I have seen this happen twice and to me it shows synes of intelligence. I have also heard of fish farmers who farm cod often clicker train them like dogs for easy capture.

Fish especially gold fish are famed with being a bit thick. However I once watched a pair of six inch bass bait for shrimps. The bass were fed squid on this day. They ate most of the squid but saved some. The saved squid was taken by the two bass to a pile of rocks at one end off the tank.In the pile of rocks live the shrimps. The bass put the squid infront off the rocks and wait for a shrimp to come out then pounce on the shrimp. I

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At present im re building a 23 footer, but already have a standard caloe. My farther had a 5.5lb mullet on fly on our Blackwater estuary. He fishes Irland with fly lots, hes had bass to almost 7lb. He ran a charter boat from Bradwell on Sea Essex for 20 years so we know lots of marks where a yak would be ideal.We get some very very big stingers doun hear they could be fun!

At 50 p to 1 quid each no.

I was thinking at worst of using high pressure sodium or metal haylide light to maybe give light and heat, although I would prefer to just use normal fish tank light and a heater.

Happy New Year to All. I am very interested in the spec of your yak, and the sort of fishing you do from it. Im my area there are miles of flats that hold bass, mullet, roker hounds ect. Ive often thought of fishing from some sort of large canoe or yak. Fly lure and bait fishing I imagine would be great fun and faily cheap.

My local bait merchant uses beer coolers for his tanked rag and lug worms, he uses loft tanks as holding tanks and small loft tanks for his filtration. I plan on setting up a old 6 ft by 1 foot tank I have in my shed. Im planing to use lights on timers and heats for tropical tanks on thermostats to imertate spring light and temperature. As I said before some plants can be induced to bud by puting them on a 12 hours of light and 12 hours of dark regine. So if I can induce crabs to peel by imertateing spring I can then store in fridge and always have peelers for bait all year round.

size matters! happy new year to all!!!!!

Guys we should be careful discussing using baby lobsters and small edible crabs for bait. These have strict size limits and if we are to ask for the size limit of bass to be increesed we have to be squeeky clean where other speacis are concerned. Good stuff though so far, I have a six foot by 2.5 foot fish tank in my dining room when i put crabs in they normally moult within a week.

oh, ok. we have only been talking again since May. We feel out over me being stupid 5 years ago.So I lost track of his tagging stuff.

See cod are not realy rare, not only are people banging out massive cod two at a time, but I was walking up Stokenewington High Street( i had to work there) the other day when there in the gutter was a cod around 4lb.As cod are that rare I was thinking of giving it to Ben Bradshaw so he could stuff it.

In April the water is just starting to warm and the days are getting longer, this triggers male crabs to start moulting.They need to do this to grow and breed. They are followed in June by the females.(normaly found under large males) I like a lot of crab collectors have lernt to grade my crabs. jellies and poppers are at the bottem of the fridge, this is the coldest part and stops the moulting prosses. Good peelers go on the next shelves. Crabs that have only just started peeling can be left in a warm (not hot)spot in the shed and the prosses will continue and in a few days they will be good bait. I was thinking of using a tank,lights and a heater to imertate the spring to see if I could induce the male crabs to moult. I know certan plants can be induced to bud by putting them on a 12 hour light, 12 hour dark plan, does anyone think it could work with crabs????

My farther used to be involved in tagging bass. Does any one know of any bass tagging programs and how I could get involved, as I catch several bass and most are put back.

Well said, but you wont ever get totaly rid of commercial fishing, hopefully it will come down to a number that will not effect the angling trade.Not only that but farmed fish tast very bland.

The americans us large star lights when trolling large artificial squid for tuna and marlin. A friend of mine has had good results pike fishing at night, he has adapted some plugs to take a small star light.He uses the desposable ones that have to be cracked before use as they are very bright. In the summer there is at times a lot of phospheros in the water.I have seen bait fish and mullet at night by the green glow they make by disterbing the phospheros. I fancie that on neap tides when the water is clear they could increase my catch rate. Has any one out there played with star Lights

On a bit of a different note, in 1990 I was working on a herring drifter at Bradwell on Sea Essex.This was a very cold winter, so cold there was a layer of thin ice on the marina. On our way down to the boat on morning we notice hundreds and hundreds of horse mackeral on the banks of the marina.Aparently they had jumped out, it was very strang indeed and nobody I have spoken to can give a explanation.

There is a book I have heard of called the Cod Bangers, aparently its about boats from Maldon, in Essex that whent lineing in ice land.

Well thank god they dont pass their moan glads down the female line.

I found Graham Xes post very interesting, I have had, mullut, flounder, whitting, pour cod, put, bass, horse mackeral, mackeral, gobbies, blennies, sand smelt, eels, small pollock & coalies all on bread

I to put my mullet back as the tast like sxxt. However I do take a few bass as I like to eat them. A 12lb mullet WOW a very old fish.

I sometimes use Dutck fyke nets to catch my live baits ie peeler crabs, eels, blenies and prawns. Occasionally I have caught flounders and soles in these fyke netts.These are like a keep nett with a tapered mesh funnel inside going into a codend, from the middle of the first ring is a nett wall. The only problem being the crabs from outside the nett somtimes nip and kill the fish inside the nett.I fear this may happen if sea fish were to be kept in shallow water in a keep nett. From a boat the only problem I can see is the affect of the tide on the nett if the boat is small.

I want the job of bailiff!

They were mullet guernseybass, my fathers pb bass, i thinK is fifteen lb mine, is 11 and three quarterds lb. i beat my pb mullet this year, and my dad caught his 1st fly caught mullet at 5lb. The mullet cost me to catch 60p for my bread and 60p for deisel, I find this very reasnable. When I take my 16 foot dingy out for the day it costs 30 quid for bait, 35 quid for peterol and around 10 quid for grub. I use the dingy twice per week in the summer from May until November. Thats 75 quid per week, 300 quid per month.1800 quid per year. This is just the cost of going out in my dingy I pay 40 quid a month moring fees. I am just one angler there are thousands like myself so sea angling is a very valuable sport, Not to be under estermated is the clout we couls and should have.

and its xmas hols iv had a drink or two. you got the jist didnt you? I also bunked a lot of school to go fishing.