Well done, that'll go down well with the chips tonight! I totally envy you.
We're hoping to get out ourselves tomorrow, it'll be only our second time sea fishing in our 4m inflatable tender. Last time we went to Littlehampton and caught 5 little mackeral on feathers. We were quite excited about that. Tomorrow we hope to go down to Chichester and try again but also, having now bought rod, reel, line, and a load of rapala lures off E-bay we're also hoping for something to fill the dinner plates a bit more. Whether bass, pollack or cod is immaterial, we just want to catch dinner but, I'll be honest, we haven't a clue! Been watching all the fishing progs on telly which suggest close in over obstructions when the tide is running.
How did you do it and where did you go?
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I was using feathers, it gave me quite a shock when i saw it come out the water,
I was just off st Brelade's bay,Jersey, it has caused a bit of stir round here, not the normal thing to catch.
the thing about big dead fish is that they are exactly that, dead, never to be caught again or contribute to the regeneration of large inshore fish stocks... that picture's a 10lb lump of dead meat to me, not impressive at all.
Much prefer to catch something 6 times its size and return it to live on and allow its strain to produce stock that'll grow to be larger than the one released
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blimey gary!!!!!!! are you trying to put the japaness whalers out of business. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Somehow the notion of chucking food back into the sea doesn't appeal to either I or my family. If we catch fish, it's for the table. Do you see any difference in that notion than you or your wife going to the Supermarket and buying fish in batter ready frozen - someone caught it for food, and probably a few dolphins regrettably got caught and killed in the net as a "by product". For thousands of years men have fished "inshore" for food, it's not the guy with the feather-line that's reducing stocks, it's the commercial over-fishing made possible by greed and technology. By all means throw immature fsh back, that is only right, and if you don't fish for food then I don't see any point in fishing at all! But what a man can catch with a rod and line is not going to make much difference in the greater scheme of things as far as sea-fishing is concerned and as for fresh water fishing, if you can't eat them why bother is how we feel. You fish for sport, I don't, and I don't hunt foxes or any other creature for sport either.
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I used to think wives and boats were a financial drain on one's resources, but that was before the kids became teenagers.
guys, you miss my point.. I too have fished for cod for a good deal of my life, including long lining on the beach as a teen in the depths of winter to sell on and put in my mums freezer.. as you say, very tasty indeed! however, that was 30 years ago before nearshore fishing decimated the fish stocks.. unless things have radically changed and 10lb cod are 10 a penny wthin casting distance of the shore.. are they?? I can't understand why someone would kill what is seemingly a specimen fish.
btw, coarse fishing as a sport has helped fund major renovation of our inland waterways.. a hook in the mouth occasionally is a small price to pay for water that's livable imo
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ah, I see.. my mistake... didn't realise the fish was tickled to death with feather's... I presumed you'd bopped it on the head or something [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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Nearshore fishing?? As in small boats inshore? or beachcasting with rod and line?
I dont believe rod and line beach or rock fishing has decimated stocks, but I could be proved wrong, as I dont really know. So go ahead, prove me wrong please, always willing to expand my knowledge.
The ones to watch are the Spanish purse siene netting ships, running out the longest nets in the commercial fishing industry. Capable of extracting up to 600 tonnes of fish per pull.
Apparently have now relocated to the Pacific after Tuna because local stocks appear to have been depleted.
Carp fishing is for strange people that like to spend hundreds of pounds
To keep up with the joneses and sit in their bivis or what ever they are
Called for days on end just to catch a boring old carp that’s been caught
Many times before !! need I say more.
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the thing about big dead fish is that they are exactly that, dead, never to be caught again or contribute to the regeneration of large inshore fish stocks... that picture's a 10lb lump of dead meat to me, not impressive at all.
Much prefer to catch something 6 times its size and return it to live on and allow its strain to produce stock that'll grow to be larger than the one released
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We were once on the Shannon (hire boat) and moored on one of the many villages pontoons along with several other boats. Some lads from Blackburn were fishing and caught a beauty. Unhooking it they threw it back into the river. A German on another hire boat opposite said:
"So, ven you catch zee fish you do not eat them?"
"No" came a very Lancastrian voice "and we don't gas 'em either" [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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