Thursday 17th Sept 09

BoB · Thursday 17th Sept 09

It is a fishing day

Sunny here and 17c at the moment

Nice day for sitting at the river

there is no fish so will just sit and enjoy the sun

Now that I have said that it will be thunder and lightning and hell water

Bennachie from the willows pool:

MadWelshie

Please god of weather make sure it stays dry for BoB!!

Sunny with 20 degrees.

Wee John

MadWelshie

BoB

Stayed nice here all day, even had a lovely almost purple sunset.
Taken on my old phone:

BoB

Fish were arriving just as I left

Go forth and multiply fish

Wee John

MadWelshie

BoB

Cheeky baskets!!!

It was coming down dark and the fish were coming into the pools I am allowed to fish.
Only problem is they tend to go up as far as they can.
I lost a good 15 - 20 lb fish the other night and it was a cock fish.
We are not allowed to keep the hen fish now as we want them to breed and make more fishes.
The angler get blamed for the reduction in fish stocks, but it is not the angler, it is the trawlers, seals, dolphins that are the main cause of their demise. Mainly it is the trawlers that is the problem, since they invented fish finding sonar they don't stand a chance when they discover a shoal of fish they scoop the lot up and destroy any chance of fish stocks recovering.
In the old days maybe only part of the shoal would be scooped up and that was by chance as they were just trawling and guessing where the fish were. Even if they hit a shoal of fish they might only get part of it in the net.
Anyway, I can only fish when I can see what I am doing.
I have been told that Sea trout will have to be returned next year along with Salmon, if that is the case I won't be fishing as the whole point of fishing is to get a fish that you have caught yourself to eat.
There is more Sea trout this year than I have ever seen in the River Don so why they want them all returned is a mystery to me, though I do hear they are is a bad way on the west coast with sea lice, so much so that they are dropping dead before they can breed. This I feel is due to the farmed fish on the West Coast that the Sea trout have to swim past to get to the rivers. The fish pens have Sea Lice trying to attack the farmed fish, though they use chemicals to keep them at bay, a thing I don't like either!

Any, you are both going to get a kick up the posterior when I see you!

MadWelshie

Is the lecture over yet!!!!

Oh goody a kick, I love that,

Wee John

Interesting BoB, so you can only fish in areas where you are told?
Over here you can fish anywhere, if you have your fishing license.
They do have rules on some fish and the size where you have to release them tho. (catch & release)

In the great lakes area where I am,(fresh water) they are advised not to eat any, as the fish have to much mercury in them, but I see people catching them and taking them home.

Hope you don't have to give up fishing next year that would be a bummer.

BoB

Here you have to own the fishing rights to the bank you are fishing from, i.e. a club or another owner and you have to pay for a ticket to fish only the bit they own.

England has two tickets as I understand it.
You need a Rod Licence and you need a Permit from the owner of the fisheries as well

they want to do that here as well

The River Tweed has parts of it where you need a rod licence and parts of it where you don't as it pops in and out of Englandshire

Wee John

Looks like the fishermen are more fortunate over here.
If a NY fisherman went out of state he would need a license for that state.

The only thing they have to watch for is if they go out in their boat on the lake and float into Canadian water.

The Lake is divided in two, so if you float over the line, [their is nothing to tell you, you should know] and get caught by Canadian Coast guard (They are watching all the time) and you do not have a Canadian license they will fine you and can take your boat, which they have done many times.
But same is done in reverse by USA Coast guard.

But standing on the bank is nae bather atah.