Leon Roskilly

Joined by the Met Office. http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/met-office-in-the-mail-on-sunday/ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/bob-ward/huge-blow-to-campaign-by-_b_3645347.html http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/09/scientists-take-the-mail-on-sunday-to-task-over-claim-that-warming-is-half-what-ipcc-expected/

That's what I thought when I first saw it, possibly because of having read this http://simpleclimate.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/climate-change-set-to-bring-western-europe-more-hurricanes/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50360/abstract

Perhaps it's the oceans we should really be worrying about http://apps.seattletimes.com/reports/sea-change/2013/sep/11/pacific-ocean-perilous-turn-overview/ http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=68371094521

So where are they? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/13/hurricane-season-inaccurate-forecasts?CMP=twt_fd

Just for Vagabond http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130909152956.htm

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/09/climate-change-arctic-sea-ice-delusions

The EU is on the case! http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-769_en.htm

I wonder where this one will go? http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/084532.shtml?tswind120#contents

Quite a sexy swish when handling a rod https://twitter.com/AkuV/status/376966102263156736/photo/1

In the Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415142/Rare-fish-caught-sausage-Royal-sturgeon-hooked-Welsh-coast.html

www.ifm.org.uk INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Brothers, Public Relations Officer. 01273 471 496 / 07957 870 616 abrothers1037395@aol.com Date: September 8 2013 Caviar anyone? That just might be a sturgeon you’ve hooked from a beach in Kent or Sussex Sea anglers and commercial fishermen all along the Kent and Sussex coasts are being asked from today to watch out for one of the most unusual catches they may ever make - a sturgeon. It is one of the most protected fish in the world and the eggs of the beluga species are served as caviar. There are no records of sturgeon ever being caught in Kent. The last one in Sussex was 22 years ago by a trawler five miles off Rye harbour. The first record of one being taken in the county was nearly 50 years ago in 1964 from Bosham Harbour but it is not known how it was caught. The only other record is one caught nine miles off Worthing in 1986 also by a trawler. The sturgeon alert which covers all coasts in England and Wales was sparked after one of two boys fishing at Hobbs Point, near Pembroke Dock, South Wales on August 2 hooked one about a metre long (3 feet). “We are sure from the only photograph taken of this fish at Pembroke Dock that it was a sturgeon and that it may be the forerunner of others arriving here. Where it came from is at present a mystery,” said Steve Colclough of the Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM). Page 2 The last of these fish reported in UK waters was nine years ago when one 2.6 metres (8 feet 6 inches) long was caught in June 2004 also in South Wales by a trawler 2.4 kilometres (1.5 miles) off Port Talbot. “It is illegal to retain sturgeon and anybody catching one should return it quickly unharmed and alive to the water and then report it.” said Mr. Colclough who is chairman of the IFM marine section. “Before putting it back they should note as many facts as possible - its length, overall condition, signs of damage or disease, the data on any tag attached to it and take a good photo. “A yellow tag would show the fish had probably migrated from the Gironde river in France where the European sturgeon is now being bred and released.” The fish would normally stay in the Gironde until they were about ten years old and they might then migrate to the open sea, Mr. Colclough added. “If they came to the UK they would most likely be caught in estuaries and still be juvenile fish. Normally they would live 50 or 60 years and grow up to three-metres long (about 10 feet).” Anglers and commercial fishermen should report any sturgeon caught to the Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) at Shoreham on 01273 454407, or to the Kent and Essex IFCA tat Ramsgate on 01843 585 310 or to the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) on 01502 562 244 at Lowestoft. Mr. Colclough would also like to hear from them on 01634 686460 or by e-mail to srcifm@gmail.com. END Note to editors: Steve Colclough has been studying sturgeon for the past decade and has a database of UK catches from 1850. He represented the UK six years ago in a European Bern Convention meeting to conserve the last population of the European sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, (also known as the common or sea sturgeon) in the Gironde river in France. 2013/15 September 8 2013 Institute of Fisheries Management PO Box 679, Hull, HU5 9AX United Kingdom Executive Officer: John Gregory CEnv, FIFM e-mail: john.gregory@ifm.org.uk Telephone +44 (0) 1603 717059 Mobile/cell +44 (0)7432 658486

If you catch one, you can't release it, unless you have an ILFA licence (which is unlikely to be issued). http://www.defra.gov.uk/aahm/files/Form-ILFA1-Leaflet.pdf

The American striped bass lives its life in salt-water, but spawns in freshwater. In the states, some populations have found themselves land-locked by dams, and have adapted to living entirely in freshwater. This led to them being stocked in lakes, and in some lakes successfully spawning there. A striped bass reportedly caught at Dover breakwater raises some intriguing questions. Was this a fish that began life in the Hudson and made a wrong turn, or have changes in sea-temperature and ocean currents bought a breeding population to this side of the Atlantic? (Striped bass were caught by a German trawler some years ago). The fish caught at Dover is clearly a juvenile, did it start life perhaps in the Thames or the Rhine etc? Was this an isolated incident, or a first sign. And will UK river anglers get the chance of catching a striper, maybe even some stillwaters? The Dover Breakwater fish This one is bigger

http://www.benefitspro.com/2013/08/21/retire-early-live-longer I retired at 60 on a small company pension, at 70 (in January) I'm still managing to fish several times a week, going for long bike rides and 10 mile country walks every other day

Maybe something more than a simple buzzer is needed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/10276759/Goldfish-are-music-connoisseurs.html

Hmmmmm! So, carp swim around and may find your offerings, or someone elses. Now if you but a buzzer in with your offerings, and carp begin to associate the buzz with freebies, they may make a beeline to where your baits are. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133013000695 (If I were to fish for carp, I'd give it a try and keep it a secret)

Bear this in mind too http://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS0032945213040024

Hold on to your hats http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/23868987

On the Medway I find it can take up to half an hour of feeding hemp before the roach cotton on. But don't overdo it, just a small pinch of hemp on each cast (around 10 grains), rather than a handful.

This time of year I'll feed hemp and trot through with elderberry. On the tidal Kentish Stour, the larger roach tend to be further out from the feed line, and deeper, so I invested in a 17ft rod to reach them whilst trotting.

Phone, Consider a fly flying south down a motorway at 10mph. It meets a car windscreen travelling north at 70mph. Now physics says that an object travelling in one direction cannot travel in a reverse direction instantaneously, it must de-accelerate, come to a stop and accelerate back the way it came. It's impossible for that fly (or at least each molecule from which the fly is/was comprised) to be travelling in one direction at 10mph then to be travelling back the other way at 80mph without coming to a complete stop at some point. For the fly (or its constituent molecules) to be at 0 mph, the car against which windscreen it momentarily rests at 0mph, must also be at 0mph before accelerating the fly in the opposite direction to 70mph. Physics eh? ps The answer lies in what happens to the car's tyres, the top of the tyres are travelling at 140mph, whereas the bottom of the tyre in contact with the road (where all the energy generated by the engine, minus the energy used to overcome wind resistance and work the wipers is transferred to the road surface) is at 0 mph. Yet the tyre as an entity is moving forward at 70mph!

And mackerel (several others as well) http://sabella.mba.ac.uk/1962/01/The_buoyancy_of_bathypelagic_fishes_without_a_gas-filled_swimbladder.pdf

A short video well worth watching http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/tv-shows/tight-lines/8885501/bass-fishing-restrictions

What about flying fish travelling above the water?