moor hens, mallards .......

[Jonah13]

Jim

I'll second that but feel we should give the coots, moorhens and mallards a stay of execution...

[argyll]

Jim, I hope that you weren't thinking of shooting these little fellas too. This one got close enough for a 'shot' on Tuesday. Sadly to get to the offered piece of herring, it had to wade through a ton of canada goose crap. Now you can shoot those......please.

 

 

[Peter Waller]

Oi, leave Ol' Frank out of this! Best pike finder on the market!

[Jim Roper]

spodrokit:

I can live with the swans but canada geese....counted 127 on our local pond...then some twit comes along with a ton of bread and bye bye fishing. :mad:

http://www.canadageese.org

http://www.cgcs.demon.co.uk

[awaaar]

"well yesterday convinced me swans are nothing more than a pain is the backside"

 

very, very tasty though!

[Tony U]

The Black Swan that used to live at the old Monk lake was pretty friendly though, kinda cute and never caused me any problems.

[Paul Boote]

Jim Gibbinson:

With worries about avian flu coming to the UK, I think we should take the precautionary measure of shooting all cormorants and tufties. Geese and swans should come next, then coots, moorhens and mallards.

 

Makes sense to me.

VERY sound, Jim.

 

I would go a little further and take out everything from, say, Blue whales and elephants downwards. After all, all the latter do is cr@p everywhere; as for the former, they're too be big to safe, innit?

 

Right. I'm loading the elephant gun now, and am going after magpies...

[Jim Gibbinson]

Never seen elephants or whales on/in/around my local patch, Paul, so no quarrel with either of them. Seen a dolphin (or possibly a porpoise) in the tidal Medway, but it didn't do much damage to mullet or bass stocks because the daft thing went and got itself stranded in Rainham Creek.

 

Mind you, I'm not overly enthusiastic about magpies so your elephant gun might come in useful.

[Alan Stubbs]

Our local lake has got a couple of Muscovy duck...

Theyr'e suitable targets on the grounds of ugliness alone.

[poledark]

Alan, I won't hear a word said against Muscovies; when I used to flyfish at Weirwood there were a couple that used to come and sit down with me when having my lunch break.

 

I had many serious conversations with them., and found them to be very good listeners

 

Den