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Lure Fishing for Salmon in the closed season


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I've booked a short break holiday near a stretch of the Ouse near Stillingfleet, York in mid April. Obviously this is the closed season for course fishing but I wondered if people could give me some guidance on the legalities of fishing for Salmon with lures. If I was to purchase a Game license for the week, do I have to buy specialist tackle or would I be permitted to used my short 9ft Carp rod and some jelly lures I have?

 

Thanks

 

Tony

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I've booked a short break holiday near a stretch of the Ouse near Stillingfleet, York in mid April. Obviously this is the closed season for course fishing but I wondered if people could give me some guidance on the legalities of fishing for Salmon with lures. If I was to purchase a Game license for the week, do I have to buy specialist tackle or would I be permitted to used my short 9ft Carp rod and some jelly lures I have?

 

Thanks

 

Tony

 

Not sure of the legalities of what you are intending, but I suspect that you may have a job convincing any bailiff that you are fishing for salmon, particularly using 'jelly' type lures in a river that is not exactly known for its run of salmon B)

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I'd agree with the above. I fish the middle and upper Severn, the Stour and the Teme with lures for trout when the season opens in March. I catch a fair few (Probably more then you would think) and I get quite a lot of chub and perch as well.

I don't "extract the micturation" though. I only use fly or spinners and I only fish the fast shallow water where I could reasonably be targeting the trout.

Fishing soft plastics on the Ouse is going to see you busted if Mr Bailiff come along and "I'm fishing for salmon mate" ain't gonna wash any more than it washed for a very well known pike angler who claimed he was fishing for trout (with 7" plugs) in the lake district a few years ago.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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Not sure of the legalities of what you are intending, but I suspect that you may have a job convincing any bailiff that you are fishing for salmon, particularly using 'jelly' type lures in a river that is not exactly known for its run of salmon B)

 

Thanks for the reply. I didn't know that. Their website rather misleadingly has a picture of someone with a caught Salmon.

Tony

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I'd agree with the above. I fish the middle and upper Severn, the Stour and the Teme with lures for trout when the season opens in March. I catch a fair few (Probably more then you would think) and I get quite a lot of chub and perch as well.

I don't "extract the micturation" though. I only use fly or spinners and I only fish the fast shallow water where I could reasonably be targeting the trout.

Fishing soft plastics on the Ouse is going to see you busted if Mr Bailiff come along and "I'm fishing for salmon mate" ain't gonna wash any more than it washed for a very well known pike angler who claimed he was fishing for trout (with 7" plugs) in the lake district a few years ago.

 

Thanks. I attempted to read the Bylaws on the EA site and was confused about what it meant by lures. It only seem to state no lead weight and incorporating a hook.

I'll stick to walking the bank this trip.

 

Tony

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" ain't gonna wash any more than it washed for a very well known pike angler who claimed he was fishing for trout (with 7" plugs) in the lake district a few years ago.

 

I didn't hear about that Ken, can you tell me more?

 

If he was fishing in one of the lakes, then it wouldn't matter, as there is all year round coarse fishing so he could have been after pike, and a 7" 'plug' isn't a totally out of the way method for (ferox) trout. If he was using them in a river, then I would be especially interested to know about it, for I don't know of any river in the park where it would be worth targeting pike, (under the guise of trout fishin'). The rivers are very much'trout zone' ones and the very odd pike might turn up in the hinterland where lake becomes river. Those rivers season opens in the middle of march, I could start fishing my local river from Thursday.

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i might be wrong but it looks like you are just trying to work around the rules if you want to catch salmon then would it not have been better to book near a salmon river?

 

if you are after coarse fish why not just fish a lake near where you are staying it would save a lot of trouble

 

i am struggling to understand what you are trying to achieve as there is plenty of legal and not grey area fishing available not to have to try to work around rules

Azree

 

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