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Barry C

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Barry C

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By nursery I do'nt mean for fish but for youngsters.

I went to an old quarry today, never been there before and I loved every minute of it. Not especially for the fishing but for the venue.

This is a realy out of the way free water.

There were horse riders taking there mounts into the shallows and dog walkers throwing sticks.

But there was also a few groups of youngsters fishing. They were not being told off for using the wrong gear or mishandling fish. They were learning the way I learnt with maggots and perch, bread and roach. Yes and when a couple of young girls came by they showed off a bit. All these youngsters were there unsupervised and realy enjoying themselves.

And me, well I enjoyed watching them enjoying themselves and had a nice bag of pristine bream as well. They did'nt have ripped mouths like they would have had on a commy water where everyone handled them properly. They fought hard and were great sport.

Oh for more waters where our youngsters can go for free to learn by there mistakes.

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Wonderful, there should be more waters like that returned to the public with free fishing for all and within reach of towns or villages and without lots of rules, natural the way childhood should be exploring things and learning for themselves.

 

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Especially in these days of cutbacks in leisure it sounds like a minimum expense and a maximum return, something all councils in all areas should consider.

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There are a few waters like that around here but they're not a nice place to be. A friend of mine fishes there regularly for short 1-2 hour sessions. I went up with him a few weeks back just to watch and there were some teenagers sat on a rock chatting for 45mins or so, until the light started to fade and they started throwing rocks into the water not far from where we were sat, was a bit unnerving if I'm honest as they were 30feet above us. It would be a great little free venue for kids to learn if it wasn't frequented by the local scumbags and it wasn't as 'out of the way' as it is. Shame.

Started coarse fishing February last year, species so far:

 

Roach, Rudd, Bream, Tench, Perch, Carp, Gudgeon, Eel, Crucian and a Goldfish.

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It would be a great little free venue for kids to learn if it wasn't frequented by the local scumbags and it wasn't as 'out of the way' as it is. Shame.

Sadly that is the way of lot of places like that are these days. They are just a haven for chavs to go and smoke pot and get **** without the police being anywhere near. I gave up fishing places like this including some parts of the river as there are just too many idiots around making noise and abusing people and in some cases stealing tackle. There used to be a few pits nearby when I was younger that held some lovely perch but you couldnt fish them that often as there were many stories of louts from the local estates turning up and threatening to beat people up if they didnt hand over all their tackle. I saw it myself one day when I was about 13 and my brother got punched in the gob and had his tackle nicked by a group of about 12 of these scumbags. Makes you furious but what can you do. The police couldnt give a toss. They are too busy pulling people over for speeding to worry about the antisocial behaviour that is ruining this country. Anyway rant over :D .

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Sadly I think most of the sort of places many of us older members used to fish as nippers and cut our teeth on Gudgeon, Perch and Roach are no longer the sort of places that many parents would want there children to go to day, well other then the parents of the louts that seem to hang around many a free water these days.

 

So this is one of the positive things I see about small commercials. They are places where you can drop the kids off with a few bits of tackle and a packed lunch and have reasonable assurance that they will not come to harm and they do provide a safe environment to learn to fish. Not as romantic a way in to fishing as some of us have taken but if I had children then I would feel a lot better letting them fish a commercial then some of the haunts I fished as a kid and would not fish now as an adult.

 

Now if only I could find Roach as big now as I could as a kid :rolleyes:

Stephen

 

Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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