Kagger

All of a sudden they've appeared

When I look at posts, instead of seeing those smiley things that people put in, all i see is a text link. Its getting a bit boring. Any ideas?

I'd LOVE to be able to forward a link to this post to someone like Paul McCartney

Bag limits? I for one will totally ignore any attempt to impose bag limits or a sea rod licence. I spent 30 years buying a freshwater rod licence so that the powers that be (northumbrian water authority, NRA, EA) could stock salmon in various rivers around the country to prove how clean they were. What did they do for me? Nothing. Bag limits? Is somebody having a laugh? I caught 50 codling last winter big enough to keep(not the stupidly small size limit) and up to 6lb+. I kept somewhere in the region of 35. The rest went back. The most bass I've ever had in a session was nine. I kept three 3lbers. I fish a lot, at least every week, and sometimes two or three times a week. I catch nothing worthwhile on most of my trips. If I'm fortunate enough to catch half a dozen codling one night, and the freezer's empty, I'll take the lot. If I've a few fillets in there, they might go back. The point is, I will be the one that decides. And who would be able to stop me being the one that decides? Could you imagine being asked to show your licence at four o clock in the morning on a deserted beach. In 30 years of coarse/match fishing, I could count the number of times I've been asked to show my rod licence on the fingers of one hand...

Cunningly, the £30 you're supposed to send with the broken rod to cover administration or whatever its for, is approximatley what it costs greys to buy the rods in from china. Greys are hardly putting themselves out with their lifetime guarrantee are they?

No mate, YOU'RE special

Nice link mate and some superb pics. It appears not to have changed that much after all. I wish you hadn't put up that link tho'. You've made me homesick. What passes for picturesque down here is a windmill in the middle of a 10 mile square billiard board

I've been in Norfolk for twelve years, but when I lived in Teesside probably my favourite venue was Runswick bay. I had some cracking fish from a gulley just short of the yacht club. Anyway, I was just looking at this:- http://www.photorecce.co.uk/runswick/east/runswickb.html. I was shocked. I used to dig some big lug there (just down from the jetty). Now its flat rock! How else has the place changed?

Seems to me the video should be entitled... "How to turn a 4lb cod into two fish fingers" Each to their own I suppose. Personally I prefer not to waste any of the fillet and take my time when filleting. I spend too long trying to catch the bloody things to rush the last bit....

One or maybe two meals ? Either you haven't got a TV, or all that stuff we see in the media about the population of the US having huge appetites and equally matching waist lines is true?

And for what its worth.... Imagine John E Ashford going fishing. He pulls up at the venue, puts the handbrake on and parks up. Then all the doors fall off his motor. Him and his mates, donning big floppy shoes, dungarees, orange wigs, scary face paints,and the latest Titan nose warmers (they're bright red and round), climb out of the car and procede to throw buckets of confetti over each other. All very funny. NOT

Muttley said..."Tell them to get a bloody job...it ain't rocket science is it!!" Thanks for that pearl of wisdom. I'll try that next time I'm walking along the pier. I'm sure anyone who's unemployed who happens to be fishing will pack up instantly and rush to the job centre. I'm not condoning the wholesale slaughter of bass that goes on down there, I wouldn't and dont have anything to do with it. I'm also not going to make excuses for "parasites on the back of all of us tax payers...." as that sort of thing annoys me as much as the next bloke, but put it like this, I wouldn't like to think I had to find a well paid job in north norfolk. Whats the old saying? There but for the grace of god...

That is EXACTLY how me and the lads I fish with feel about it....

Steve. Cromer is as near to the coast as it gets for me in Norwich, and the only time you'll see me on the pier is with a bag of chips having a stroll with the family. Its shoulder to shoulder, rods secured to the railing with bungy straps, 80lb line straight thro, rubbish on the decks etc etc. For my part, I'd rather be on a beach somewhere out of the way without the hassle. Much as I would love to catch a double figure bass, I couldn't be bothered with the hassle involved in fishing the pier.

Stavey said "..how do you educate these people and convince them to do otherwise.."? I'm lead to believe that the majority of the big bass caught and kept on the pier end up being sold to local pubs and hotels. I'm not sure how you would "educate" people who may be unemployed and skint into returning these fish. I'm not going to pass judgement on them, tho' I wouild like to see the majority of these fish returned.