New Fish

[Gray-Catchpole]

Nile perch, or the Nasire(i think its called) i can just see me self punting off down the rappids in a little dustbin lid chasing the wild thing, great stuff.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Has to be Tarpon on the fly.Light Salmon gear,300 yds of backing and a punt for transport.Big brass tube fly and a quick strip...and bang!!....see you 3 days later,200 miles down the coast.Ace

[Ken L]

Assuming I was limited to fish that should survive and even do well in our climate, I'd go for Asp, Small Mouth Bass and Amur Pike in freshwater. The first two take normal baits as well as fish/lures and so should keep the pleasure anglers happy as well as the predator nuts

In the salt, Kharwai (Aussie Salmon), Stripers and White Sea Bass - not that I think any of them would ever reach a decent size with the way that our seas are treated.

Bluefish (AKA Tailor) would be nice but despite a circumglobal distribution, they are strangely absent from all European waters, so presumably they wouldn't fit my original criteria.

[singy]

Barramundi

 

What a fish that is

[Spindle]

Mahseer would be nice too...

 

Do you think they would be happy living in my local Great Ouse???

[Polly]

spindle:

Mahseer would be nice too...

 

Do you think they would be happy living in my local Great Ouse???

Never caught one (but then again one wouldn't in the River Cam)but seen videos, especially Casting for Gold and would have to be my favourite.

[Ken L]

Mahseer, now there's a thought.

Some of those high country rivers in Nepal and northern India are cold as hell.

The Mahseer would even satisfy the bait fisho's.

 

I've only ever managed the babies, but they do fight a bit better than your average chub.

[Mally]

MAY SOUND BORING BUT I'M QUITE HAPPY WITH ALL THE SPECIES WE HAVE, I THINK WE HAVE A GOOD BALANCE WITH SOMTHING TO FISH FOR ALL YEAR ROUND, I SAY KEEP THE OTHER FISH WHERE THEY BELONG AND THEN IT WILL MAKE THEM EVEN MORE SPECIAL WHEN/IF YOU GET A CHANCE TO FISH FOR THEM, IF I HAD TO SAY ONE THOUGH, I THINK IT WOULD BE iDE INTRODUCED INTO OUR RIVERS, I REMEMBER WATCHING JOHN WILSON CATHING SOME ON A RIVER IN SWEDEN AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE ACE ON THE TRENT!!

[Tim Kelly]

I wouldn't mind small mouths in the Thames and Tiger Musky everywhere. I dunno how these little lakes seem to be able to put sterlet, catfish and orf and other odd things in but the idea of anything the rest of the world might think of as a Game Fish, and fun to catch throws the EA into fits? Predators must be finite as they can only survive if there are enough bait fish for them to live on. The only thing that would be effected as far as I can think would be the numbers of other predatory species. How is it OK to stock rainbow trout in any pond you dig in the ground but not smallmouths?

 

Confused

 

Tim

[Nightwing]

Being completely surrounded by prime small mouth waters, I tend to get a bit jaded as to just how much fun they are.

Even the babies will put up a spirited fight, the best part being the seeming endless ability to stay out of the water more than in it!

A dozen or more leaps in a space of 30 seconds is normal for the things, often several feet in elevation, even from fish of only 8 in. or so in length.

About the only negative, if you want to call it that, is that they only rarely get much larger then 6 lbs or so.

Still, a 6lb smallmouth is worth about 12 lbs of most anything else.