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Challenge just been notified by MFA today that our cod quota has been increased will let you have a read of it tomorrow. regards Andy

Big lump of wood mate what happend to good old queensberry rules. Slackline threatend me with a black eye for laughing when that big cock crab had him by his finger.

where did you dig that up mate was trying to keep that a secret that was last season both those fish came out of twenty five feet of water about one hndred feet off the shore like a pair of twins good day that

There is a great recipe book by Kate Whiteman the ulimate book of fish and shellfish three hundred recipes not one for dog fish that must tell you something. No some of the sugested recipes sound good, i was fishing over in clew bay a few weeks ago with a mate from Donegal and he took a load home with him just batters and deep frys them says they are good. Recipe book is a top book if you like fish .

Whats this chaps wet fish at ten paces

made a mess of that john sounds good to me not sure nipper will come if you keep having a go at him. do they get crabs out there .

Will you leave my mate alone he has just beaten me with the rod again we have been up at our peters clearing roach out of his pond size 22 hook with a single pinky on good fun.

Paul tell me more how secret where do you get it?

Cliff i have fished an awfull lot in very shallow water and the boat noise thing can ruin your day like i said i have a longliner 9.9hp fourstoke motor very quiet setup when fishing shallow i go round the mark insead of up it . i have a mate who has a eighteen foot wilson flyer with a seventy hp force motor he has many times come roaring up to me shot up the mark and the fishing has stoped instantly, time to move, told him loads of times he just laughs bless him,the stealth mode is the way to go in shallow water thanks for your comments tight lines

Nothing personal newt yours was last on list have not quite got used to this computer lark apologies.

Sorry for being so blunt you guys but give your heads a shake you winge and wine moan and grone about cod stocks and gain nothing if you are that worried about it you would be united there is no dout that there is not the cod that there used to be and that you can go further east to get big cod and we still catch a few fish inside but at the end of the day its a pond we fish in all be it a big pond but you take a fish out its one less fish and so on and so on and so on you can only catch them onece good managment is what is needed so get together and talk to the top man stop your differences and be united and do something positive.

We should do john with all that time you will have .

Walcott have they got wheelchair accsess over there fancy a shot at a big lunka

Steve my boat is a longliner 16 usually fish in fifty to sixty foot of water in amongst pots where there are lots of ropes and boys,dont think that the noise thing makes a diference to us, but i have heard that larger boats have that problem.like paul said we fish on very hard ground and do have a real bother with snags, a i am a big believer in a spot of ground bait you seem to get runs of fish coming up tide to the smell so it is important to position yourself on the reef so you get as much lenth of reef down tide as possible the bait smell travels a long way and fish just keep coming uptide to the smell and hook bait.

Its getting to that time of year when the water starts to cool and after a blow or two thicken and we will be getting our uptide gear out. I will be at it as often as possible over the winter months the prefered method for me is down the tide i like to get a good scent trail down tide at anchor i find that you will get a steady run of fish comeing up to the bait,not really a fan of casting up tide. Whats your favoured method chaps.

After seeing the way that they fish and the fish they catch i am converted.thats untill something else comes out that will better them.culour plays a good part also we have found the other day les had brown shads on i had pearly white les had all the best fish on brown and more fish,nothing on jigger, but as fishing goes never two days the same.

John you know the reasons mate and there are plenty. Its been a very strange year inside we started of at a hell of a gallop, and as you all know we had that blow in August and then we started to struggle it took a long time for the water to clear tons of feed but i can count the cod on one hand that had been full of sand eel or sprats, but i have never seen so many pipe fish for some strange reason the cod have been stuffed with them,like i said earlyer the small jigers that we use usually take plenty of fish but they have been totaly out fished by the shad and better fish.in the wreks that you fish john with plenty of fish on single jigger will allways do well, regards Andy

Sorry about that line stavey you probably do have a good life.

Elton i use them was a bit worried that you would not get as many hook ups but after trying them realised that was not a problem.it does stop a lot of deep hooking usually hook ends up in the scissors give your bite plenty of time fish usually hook them self when running

Stavey dont worry about the last cod in the sea because its allready safe the way the rules and regs are going there will be no comercial fleet left in a few years time too much conservation too many do gooders too much bureaucracy we as comercial fishermen will be gone before the cod so rest easy mate and chill go forth and get a life

Glen if i cook a brown crab im the one whos going to eat it in a nice sarny while i am fishing

There is no room when nipper is onboard, any fish mate , away for a beer soon vic about eight thirty,

now john we can use velvets provided they are sized 65 mm not to use brown crab at all we do get checked inside but they dont check off side at the moment very few sized brown inside apparently the new fisheries boat that is on order will have the gear to check deep water gear pots etc lobster size to go up from 87 mm to 90 mm