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Cheers MJB, I suppose I'll have to make do fishing my 2 beach casters and spinning rod then ;0) MIght be worth a crack in the estuary though...

Stavey, Sorry buddy, but if you feel that scaring people into not eating foods by stating that are full of crap will work then why do 98% of punters in this country STILL KNOWINGLY buy steroid filled, water injected, dreadfully treated battery farmed chickens...? Jeff [ 22. June 2005, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: JeffB ]

Cheers Leon, I only had to read the opener of that article before I saw those all important words - "consumer demand" It's a vicious circle, people will obviously continue to buy seafood such as tiger prawn for as long as it's on the ice counter at the supermarkets... This will undoubtably continue until the point that prawn stocks finally collapse and then, and only then, will the demand go away, and simply because it just cannot be supplied any more... The fish counter is one of those places that you "see and buy what they have on the day" Sometimes there'll be Plaice, bass and macky, other days it's cod and salmon. You don't really have a preconcieved idea of what you want to get but merely see what pickings there are on any given day... Now, with this in mind, I would like to see the supermarkets making a concerted ecological effort to not stock, or at least be more irregular with the stocking of, threated seafood species...??? OK, there 'may' be a demand for tiger prawns, but people know that they only get to pick what's on offer each day, therefore they'll go away with something else... With this method of the supermarkets not supplying the demand will reduce as people wean onto other foods... Still, I doubt this will ever happen because good old Tesco's profits might take a wee, unrecognised dent

Hi Ken, You're right that there are many reason as to why people use supermarkets. I too use them for most of my non-food shopping as it is convenient as you say. I also appreciate that some people generally 'have' to use supermarkets due to disability or lack of mobility etc... Still, the point I was more or less addressing was to do with the proposed scare-mongering as proposed by a poster in respect of highlighting worms in the flesh of the cod etc... I was highlighting that no amount of terrible tales has turned shoppers off of buying battery farmed, steroid fed chickens from the supermarkets, thus I don't suppose the release of controvercial news about the quality and unsustainability of our sea fish will get many a raised eyebrow either... Having been involed in surveys regarding such things I have seen that the general impression of the 'average Joe' is that they will turn a blind eye to problems such as this. People are not misslead but more ignorant of the problem of low fish stocks, yet still they buy their fish fingers and tiger prawns etc... They think that the little they are buying doesn't make a diffence... I spoke to a chap recently about tiger prawns, explaining that for every 1lb of prawn there is 15lb of fish and sealife waste, I explained that the methods in which the prawns are caught with a dredger-type device litterally strips the sea bed bare and barren... His answer was "If I don't eat em, someone else will..." I was going to go on to explain the ideals of supply upon demand but knew that he simply didn't care... Sad really ;0( Jeff

I've recently got myself some fly fishing gear... I've got a 9'6" #7 rod with a floating and inermediate line, could I use them on a surf beach at perhaps the eb of the tide when it's calmer? If so, what flies/lures do you recommend?? Jeff

I am very much into ethical food, I grow my own fruit and veg and try to only buy locally produced meat, poultry and game as it tastes far better than super market crap and it also support local traders. For many months and years there have been active campaigns aiming to highlight to the general public as to how bad battery farmed animals are kept and how flavourless the water pumped, steroid injected meat that they buy from the super market is.... Do you know what the general response is to this information...? "What I don't know won't kill me..." "I don't believe this information, Tesco wouldn't have that sort of thing on it's shelves!" "Oh, I didn't know that..." and then off they go to buy a week-long dead Chicken brought in from Holland... Unfortunatly, the situation seems to be that the average person on the high street will remain in blissful ignorance of the facts. If not they will have to go to greater lengths to buy their food in respect of getting freerange local meat from their local butcher, locally produced fruit and veg from their town grocers etc... But no, that's too much like hard work so they'll pop to Tesco and get their beef from Brazil or Austrailia, their fruit from Kenya and their veg from Portugal. Regardless of the air miles that food wil have clocked up or the flavour that it will lack, none of that matters as long as it's easy to just grab off of the shelf.... Sorry, rant over!!! Basically, what I am getting at is that you will only get through to those that care about fish sustainability etc, and most people sadly don't!!! demon [ 22. June 2005, 12:09 PM: Message edited by: JeffB ]

Sorry guys, I should have been more clear with my question as I am actually going to be looking for bait while on holiday in North Wales... The beach I am hoping to be bait digging for is purely sand and boulders, not mud flats at all... Is the principle still the same on this type of beach??? Cheers again! Jeff [ 22. June 2005, 11:35 AM: Message edited by: JeffB ]

Hi guys, In my 'unusual baits' thread a few of you have recommended that I should try and dig my own worms. I have never done this before and wonder if you guys can give me some advice on digging for both Lug and Rag...? What tools I'm best taking with me, as light and small as possible please and what signs I'm looking for regarding the worms location etc... I will be on a shallow sandy beach with a lot of big boulders to oneside... Cheers as always, Jeff

Thanks again chaps, so fantastic ideas there and I reckon I'm well on the way to avoiding that trip to the tackle shop I have got a nice little spinning rod that will be coming with me with a selection of lures. I'll also take my Carp match rod (nice and light but plenty of back bone) for the mullet in Porthmadog harbour. Teamed up with my beach casters, I reckon I'll have my options covered! Cheers again Jeff

That's not a bad call WOOE, What sort of frozen baits would you take because there is a fishmonger in the village where I'm going that I could get macky and squid from...

Thanks guys, It's always nice to know that you can go fishing with out having to spend money, also this will allow me to always have the rods with me so I can fish at my leisure... Jeff

It's said that the water I'm fishing predominently holds Bass and Flatties with other species popping up once in a blue... With that in mind I wondered if the local food which they will be taking anyway might score...?

Hello all, I'm going sea fishing in Wales next month and have seen that my nearest tackle shop for bait is a 45 minute drive... With this in mind I have decided that I will try and find my own baits outside of prime fishing time. I wonder if the following baits which I know I can gather from the rocks will be any good? Limpet... Mussels... Razor Clams... I suspect that I will have to whip them onto the hook with some bait elastic but will they score well? Cheers, Jeff

Yep same problem for me this weekend just gone, I had rag on one hook lug on the other and feathers out for the Macky but all I got was Schoolies... I did had a big macky fillet fished un the pier but I reckon the scorching weather put the bigger Bass off...???

Good fish Sam, a good fat fish like you say!

Pull up along side, place on board a small device, boom and goodbye, sounds fit and healthy to me ;0)

Sad sad news this... Something has got to give and unfortunatly it usually ends up being the fish :0( As many ideas we may throw around with regards to species being protected things like this always seem to come down to money. For these commercial boys to say they are doing this due to desparation is a bit pathetic really... Im sorry but if the job don't pay, get another!!! I'm for all fishing to be recreational, down with the commercials and if you want fish for supper then go catch it yourself! ha ha...

Thanks foer that Judley, And don't worry, the Bass will be patiently waiting for you buddy ;0) When you do get that biggy let us know and yes, you're going to know about it!

There's a Lidl in town but I rarely go there, is any of their fishing stuff up to much, I am sceptical?

Cheers FTH's, I may grab a pack for back up but am really confused as to whether they will score or not due to the very indifferent feedback I'm getting about them ;0/ I suppose the only way to find out is through trial and error and at £1:95 for a 10 pack it's not going to brake the bank so I'm going to grab some...

They are beautiful and fight like beasts, biggest ever for me is 5lb 8oz caught from Mike Rawles King Fisher out of Bradwell. i put her back but kept another smaller fish...

What sort of area was that Tack4?

Ah, that's the stuff Chris, Cheers!!!

I can't get any Rag for the weekend but plenty of Lug, so I'll have to put my faith in them and good old Mackerel... Saying that I will be going all out to get some live Pout or joey-macks so we'll see what happens... Oh, and that's me pretty much convinced that I should knock the Sand Eel idea on the head, cheers for the help!

I was there two years back and fished from the breakwater for a few hours without any luck.... Saying that I only had very undesirable and crappy bait from a local news agents as I could find a tackle shop in the short time I had available... Very nice there and I would prefer to night fish if given the choice...