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Fishy things you wish you had done !


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100lb conger eel

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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John

 

I left school in 1960 and like you was an apprentice, I think I got paid £2.50 a week, of which I had to pay Mum some house keeping ?

 

But in those days you could buy a s/h BSA Bantam for a £5er !!

 

The Tiger Cub was my pride and joy which took me all over the country fishing, even in the worst of winter weather, no wonder every joint in my body now has arthritis.

 

As for the Avon, it still holds some splendid Roach, the LAA ticket with the Britford Ticket is amazing Value and does 2lbders every year.

 

Bob

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But in those days you could buy a s/h BSA Bantam for a £5er !!

 

 

I left school ten years earlier, in 1950. Wages were even less then, and although my first motorcycle only cost me a fiver (s/h Royal Enfield two-stroke 125cc) a Mitchell with claw pick-up cost £6-17-6 !

 

 

RNLI Governor

 

World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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Interesting topic, I keep thinking there must be something I wish I'd done when I had the chance, but quite honestly I don't think there is! Maybe I'm just slightly too young (late 30s now) or maybe I'm just not as adventurous as many of you. I've never felt the urge to explore and fish in other countries or for exotic species, and when I do get obsessed about something it's usually something quite modest and achievable, and I then fish away quite hard until I either 'succeed' (whatever form that takes!) or admit defeat and move on to something else.

 

I wonder what my answer would look like in another 30 years...

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

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  • 4 weeks later...

Taken the time to appreciate fishing with my old 11 ft cane rod instead of coveting a glass fibre rod.

 

Taken every opportunity while I was young to get out on my local rivers but then I would never have become a family man.

 

Talked more to those strange fishing blokes on the river instead of just watching them.... so much experience just lost.

"Muddlin' along"

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I'd love to be able to target Mangar (Luciobarbus esocinus) in Iraq but thanks to current events, that's never going to happen.

I did consider vising the upper Tigris in Turkey a couple of years buck but was advised that the area was unsafe.

 

Another species that I'd love to catch is the Yellow cheek carp. A Chinese 200lb super predator that could easily survive in the UK's climate. That trip is still a possible and if I could pull it off, it would also afford me the opportunity to try for things like Pacific salmon, Northern snakehead, Chinese perch etc.

 

Surinam is a very real possibility for a future trip for me. There lives the daddy of all catfish, the Piraiba (known locally as the Lau Lau) as well as a host of other South American fresh and saltwater species from Peackock bass to Tarpon.

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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Interesting thread and like a few of the more senior members, my interest in fishing started in the early fifties. Whilst I have been fortunate enough to fish a wide variety of venues both in the uk and occasionally across the channel, my first love has always been river fishing and I too can relate to the excursions on a cheap and cheerful motorbike my first being a James Captain. Whilst I have no great ambitions apart from a double figure Tench preferably on a float, I have since I moved from the midlands to Suffolk some 30 years ago and really missed the bigger rivers such as the Severn, Trent and particularly the Dove. I didn't realise just how much until a few weeks ago when I stayed for a few days with an old time fishing friend and went with him on the Trent for a couple of sessions. It was so enjoyable to be travelling light and fishing with one rod that I obtained a licence which contained several miles of good fishing on the Trent and Dove. Subsequently I have stayed with him again for a few days having Barbel sessions on the Trent, Severn and Dove. A few fish were caught but the main point being that I wish that I had made the effort a lot earlier but better late than never.

In terms of fishing Dreams, Redmire in the early days always captured my imagination but I would never wish to fish there as it would shatter the illusion.

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Tinca,

 

I've told this story a thousand times. I was privileged to fish Redmire in 1974. A British Tobacco Exec took me. In my kit (a very small metal box) was this device. The "host" at the lake had a young man stay with me the entire session. I learned a great deal about Euro/UK carp fishing that day.

 

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For more than 10 years I felt badly about my crude behavior. It is now an event I somewhat cherish.
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(ps: I was told "stringers" were acceptable - the above is a "stringer" in the US
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