mickgrove
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Re: Close season lengthThx Stewpar! Managed a couple of pounds of small roach and perch on pinkie over a bit of ground bait. Lovely afternoon and a hint of spring. My earlier rant about photographing and weighing every fish goes back to years ago, when I spotted a bloke on the opposite bank to where I was fishing at Arley. He took out his keep net and placed 4 decent sized barbel on his landing net on a shingle bank. He left them there flapping about and then proceeded to slowly pack away. I remonstrated with him and his reply was that he could get a better photo of the fish when they had been out of the water for four or five minutes and had calmed down. Appalling. We should all try and get fish back into the water asap - where they belong.
Posted on March 24, 2021 at 7:24 PM
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Re: Close season lengthNot sure that I agree that the close season is now obsolete and a throwback to a bygone age when fish needed protection during spawning. Imagine the impact on stocks, and in particular vulnerable or declining species like barbel, if we had all-year round fishing? Three more months of matches with barbel in keep nets? Three more months for circuses like Lower Trent where barbel are fished for 24 x 7 - especially with those big old girls full of spawn and potentially reaching record sizes. Three more months of fish being prodded, weighed and made to pose for a series of photos? One big bonus of the close season is that we do not have to see more photos of every bloody babel ever caught for three months. Except for those anglers who spend close season reposting photos of their prizes from last season. Predation seems to be given as a main reason for decline of barbel, but I cannot but think that cameras on mobile phones in conjunction with social media platforms does not help the situation. Week one of close season and grumpy already. Have a good day folks - I'm off to the canal at Hinksford.
Posted on March 24, 2021 at 8:28 AM
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Re: Breaking lock down rules ?Yawn.... Bring back the good old days of sparring between Stew and Onelastcast.................
Posted on March 13, 2021 at 10:24 PM
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Re: Trotting the TemeThanks for the information guys, really useful starting point. Mick
Posted on February 25, 2021 at 2:11 PM
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Trotting the TemeEvening Guys - looking for a little advice re the River Teme, in anticipation of next season. Most of my fishing is on the Severn and Wye and my preferred method is trotting the stick, or avon / chubber in the faster, shallower swims. Happy if barbel turn up, but just enjoy catching anything with fins on the float. Having had a BAA card for 40 years, I am aware that I have neglected the Teme, having read a lot of negative reports recently. So my two questions are: Can anyone recommend any of the BAA stretches on the Teme, that have some good trotting pegs and have a decent head of mixed fish - I really need a starting point from which to explore. Secondly, is the Teme still a decent mixed fishery and are there plenty of roach, chub, dace etc for the float fisherman to go at ? I know that the barbel are not there in the numbers they used to be, but what about other species? Would welcome any advice you might be able to offer.
Posted on February 22, 2021 at 5:52 PM
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