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Marvellous anglers Johnny foreigner ,with their 6ft kids rods and plastic reels according to some can devoid a river or lake of all fish overnight!

Perhaps this is why? Why would anyone pay this for any fish never mind god awful bream?

https://www.thesmellyalleyfishcompany.co.uk/carp-and-freshwater-bream-c102x3128211

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Looking at that, I've chucked a few quids worth of fish back over the years. If only I had known :doh:

You often see Pike and Zander on the fishmonger's slab here and very expensive it is too.

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Why would anyone pay this for any fish never mind god awful bream?

When we first went to Ireland in 1953, there were some desperately poor people there.

 

One aspect of this was the lavish treatment we got from the hotels (they were desperate for repeat custom)

A second aspect was the presence of small boys, each clutching a jar of lobworms on the river bank, chanting "D'yee wanna buy any worrums Misther" At sixpence a jar so full of worms that they lasted one angler all day, we thought it good value, and sixpence was a fortune to the worm sellers. Many of these lads only wore one garment - shorts made out of hessian sacking , held up by braces made from binder twine. Coupled with the general "skin and bone" appearance of the boys, it was quite a culture shock to see such abject poverty so close to home.

 

One lad, Liam, became our regular supplier and aspects one and two above came together when we opened the picnic basket containing our "packed lunches" Each day the hotel loaded it with enough food to feed, if not an army, at least a small company. There was more than enough even for the hollow-legged teenagers we then were. So we offered a sandwich or two to Liam, and they disappeared faster than a spaniel wolfing down a stolen sausage. This lad, if not at starvation level, was nevetheless very hungry indeed. We learnt that his very large family fasted on Fridays as they could not afford fish (which information further hardened my views on religious customs)

 

As we were to fish for perch from a boat the next day (Friday) we offered to bring him some fish back Liam accepted.

 

We brought back about twenty-eight pounds of medium-sized perch,and were met at the staithe by Liam, and four of his brothers, all wearing the same style of hessian shorts and carrying sacks of the same material. Liam's father had come along also to thank us for the fish. We mentioned we were bream fishing the next day which drew the observation "We don't eat the brame sorr, they are a dhurty fish !"

 

So there we are - even a 1950s Irish family on the breadline won't eat bream, yet some people in this country will pay almost £5 per lb for it !

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Very famous local fishmongers - been selling coarse fish for the pot as long as I can remember - certainly as far back as the early 70's - would ALWAYS stop by when ever I was in town as a kid as they would often have a big pike in the window! (Reading has had a large Polish community for a long time - which I guess helped their trade - it will certainly be full of carp at this time of year - a traditional Christmas dish in Poland!)

 

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Very famous local fishmongers - been selling coarse fish for the pot as long as I can remember - certainly as far back as the early 70's - would ALWAYS stop by when ever I was in town as a kid as they would often have a big pike in the window! (Reading has had a large Polish community for a long time - which I guess helped their trade - it will certainly be full of carp at this time of year - a traditional Christmas dish in Poland!)

 

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No fishmonger in Farnham or Aldershot as far as I know ,regarding the Aldershot one at the top of town it was a Saturday treat after doing the weeks shopping was parking opposite it and eating a vast bag of chicken wings i bought for the family they sold (it was a butcher and fishmonger) boxes of lambs hearts as well which we turned into very tasty stew.

Never spotted any freshwater fish as Aldershot in the 70's was mostly white intact the only obviously foreign shop was the Italian deli opposite the station now its predominately foreign shops .

The only freshwater fish on sale I ever saw was at billingsgate on a school trip but then how many kids take much notice in Mac fisheries apart from buying sardines for pike!

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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When we first went to Ireland in 1953, there were some desperately poor people there.

 

One aspect of this was the lavish treatment we got from the hotels (they were desperate for repeat custom)

A second aspect was the presence of small boys, each clutching a jar of lobworms on the river bank, chanting "D'yee wanna buy any worrums Misther" At sixpence a jar so full of worms that they lasted one angler all day, we thought it good value, and sixpence was a fortune to the worm sellers. Many of these lads only wore one garment - shorts made out of hessian sacking , held up by braces made from binder twine. Coupled with the general "skin and bone" appearance of the boys, it was quite a culture shock to see such abject poverty so close to home.

 

One lad, Liam, became our regular supplier and aspects one and two above came together when we opened the picnic basket containing our "packed lunches" Each day the hotel loaded it with enough food to feed, if not an army, at least a small company. There was more than enough even for the hollow-legged teenagers we then were. So we offered a sandwich or two to Liam, and they disappeared faster than a spaniel wolfing down a stolen sausage. This lad, if not at starvation level, was nevetheless very hungry indeed. We learnt that his very large family fasted on Fridays as they could not afford fish (which information further hardened my views on religious customs)

 

As we were to fish for perch from a boat the next day (Friday) we offered to bring him some fish back Liam accepted.

 

We brought back about twenty-eight pounds of medium-sized perch,and were met at the staithe by Liam, and four of his brothers, all wearing the same style of hessian shorts and carrying sacks of the same material. Liam's father had come along also to thank us for the fish. We mentioned we were bream fishing the next day which drew the observation "We don't eat the bream sorr, they are a dhurty fish !"

 

So there we are - even a 1950s Irish family on the breadline won't eat bream, yet some people in this country will pay almost £5 per lb for it !

Blimey bailer twine that's a bit posh we used to dream .........etc

Only visited Ireland once in the late 60's when it was the fishing place to be ,cannot even remember where we went it was a bus excursion with an overnight stop in some brown room!

The river was like the river at Maidstone but far colder and damper ,had a good two days but apart from the anglers and bus driver and perhaps the b&b owner saw no-one

The coach took us to a river ,we piled out and fished (driver as well) then went to the b&b via him providing fish and chips and went back the next day after breakfast until dinnertime when we went home ,the travelling time far exceeded the fishing time and coaches then were not very good for sleeping on .

I took Monday off sick I was so knackered

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Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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Hove (large Jewish population) has a fishmonger's which has offered carp for as long as I can remember - ie at least as far back as WW II

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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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Plenty of bream and carp in Birmingham markets. Roach are fairly regular too and occasionally pollen end up on the slab - which kinds suggests the source.

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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