Fish Deaths In The Freeze

[Andy_1984]

Well you might think it's funny, wee Andy I don't.

 

 

my comment yes, the death of fish quite obviously no.

 

but you know me i find anything funny.

[Andy_1984]

Must be a real laugh at a funeral Andy

 

yours perhaps

[Andy Macfarlane]

Ooooooh mee-oww scratch scratch!!

[thamesoddity]

I always find it strange that we have lost our tradition of eating coarse fish. It's a great shame, especially seeing as coarse fish are much more efficient to farm than game. It's very surprising indeed.

[Worms]

I always find it strange that we have lost our tradition of eating coarse fish. It's a great shame, especially seeing as coarse fish are much more efficient to farm than game. It's very surprising indeed.

Gosh, I'm surprised that you haven't been hung drawn and quartered making statements like that young man . Oops I forgot, you're not on the G(ung H)o Fishing website now

 

But seriously, so am I. If you like fish and have ignored coarse fish then why? Most are perfectly edible and some are the ultimate in fishy flavours. Just a shame that unles you fancy a small jack (bloody delicious mind when prepared properly) we now have the opportunity to rank amongst terrorists and rapists if we fancy a nice fillet of perch fried in butter or baked with a little smoked bacon and black pepper!

[thamesoddity]

Bleak are not illegal, they're under the minimum size and highly abundant, a tasty breakfast...it makes sense to dine at a lower trophic level...*cough* i mean *cought* a tasty deadbait...

[Worms]

Bleak are not illegal, they're under the minimum size and highly abundant, a tasty breakfast...it makes sense to dine at a lower trophic level...*cough* i mean *cought* a tasty deadbait...

Titter!.....Gudgeon tastes nice as well but a bit soft for my liking.........A really big fat carp is the best, keep it in the bath for a couple of days and flush it through, bloody delicious with horseradish sauce and game chips and the obligatory crusty bread...Only do it to fish over 30lb though, smaller ones I just chuck up the bank......

 

 

Oh sh1t, sorry, wrong forum

[thamesoddity]

Titter!.....Gudgeon tastes nice as well but a bit soft for my liking.........A really big fat carp is the best, keep it in the bath for a couple of days and flush it through, bloody delicious with horseradish sauce and game chips and the obligatory crusty bread...Only do it to fish over 30lb though, smaller ones I just chuck up the bank......

 

 

Oh sh1t, sorry, wrong forum

 

Picked up a great recipe for carp soup in a newspaper recently.

[CR41G]

Looks like some people have been!

 

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2010/12...len-by-raiders/

 

 

this is the black country , they probably been nicking them to stock there garden ponds

[chevin]

Winter kill is nothing to do with over stocking or poor management. It happens somewhere every time there is a prolonged freeze up. During the 1962/63 winter a lot of fisheries were completely wiped out, a fishery I had was one of them. Those most susceptable are the shallow waters the bottoms of which have a layer of dead leaves and other vegetation on them. Oxygen levels fall and the content of poisonous gases rises even though the decomposition of the detritous is retarded. Breaking ice can't hurt, but it is unlikely to do any good at all. I have no idea if an air pump pumping air into the water will help or not - it is not something that was tried, as far as I am aware, in 62/63. The sight and smell of a major winter kill after the thaw is distressing especially when you realise that unless the water is re-stocked, it will be many years before it is worth fishing again.

 

Such tragedies do turn up some surprioses though. A Luton angler was claiming to catch numerous double figure carp from one small lake, and although Fred Taylor and Dick Walker had fished it on a number of occasions they had never seen any carp even approaching double figures. The winter kill wiped out all of the fish in the pond and not one double figure carp was seen when Fred went along to see it.