gozzer

"stuff grows best when planted in s**t." Me, when someone called me baldy.

The spread of carp might not be a problem yet, but I think we sould keep an eye on the situation. I well remember the worries over catfish and zander in the 70s, reports of zander spreading into the Trent and the Yorkshire Ouse system etc. This came to nothing, but they didn't breed lie the carp do, they seem to adapt to most waters and conditions. And the introduction of so many different types of carp makes the chance of adaptation more likely. As I said before I am not against any fish,and because of this I'd like to see more "balance" in fishery management.

Some folks are so hornery.if they fell in they'd insist on floating upstream. (Mark Twain) i think.

Thanks Ken, Iv'e got my anti boilie barrage armour on just in case!

A few years ago I was asked to marshal and weigh-in at a pike match run by a work-mate on alake he leased. He thought be cause I had been angling for a long time (30 odd years) I would be suited to the job. I had to explain that I wasn't a pike angler and not used to handling big pike, so I refused. I went watch the match and I wish i had said yes, Because I could have done a better job than the clowns he had doing it. So you see it's not the number of marshals it's how commpitent they are.

this is my first entry so hi everyone, I've been browsing for a couple of weeks now and decided to get my feet wet by jumping in. I coundn't agree more with what PW is saying about the number of carp now in our waters, I'm not anti any fish but I like a "balance", I refuse to fish "commercial ponds" because I prefer rivers, but on the odd visit to a lake I've noticed that it dosn't take long before the carp show up. I even heard of carp winning matches at Ullerskelfe on the R Wharfe! I wonder if the carp are slowly pushing out some of the other species.