Gone Fishin'

[John Fenna]

All the kit is in the photo really - I got the fish with a bit of space blanket ... which is the only thing not in the photo....The kit I have assembled includes 10 hooks, 10 swivels, corks for floats, lead sinkers, 60'of 8lb line on the tube, extra line, artificial maggots, home made spinners, feathers for lures, braided wire for leaders etc and tape to protect the line in transit.

 

[JonathanD]

Well at least you caught a fish; but why didn't you post a picture of it? Instead of just the pix of the bait?

The fish is the big slippery looking fish-like object in the last four pictures you loon

 

[GGTBod]

John you hit the nail on the head there, for my trip to loch lomond later this month i had originally planned to fish with a rod (illegal to fish without one inland) and then looked into the cost, firstly £28 rod licence, then £25 first time fishing on the loch registration fee, then £50 per week to fish, so if i wanted to catch 1 fish for my supper each day all month that is £253, even if i caught my dinner every single day that is £8.40 per fish, even the fanciest fish in the shop will not cost anywhere near that for a one person portion, not by a long shot. So now my plan is just to pop to any local shop and buy a piece of fish, at most i might sit with a stick pointing over the water for an hour before cooking it up like some sort of fishing simulator.

Seems it is a pastime for the rich who are board

 

[John Fenna]

The fish is the big slippery looking fish-like object in the last four pictures you loon

In texas the mackerel would be the bait to catch the bait for a real fish!

 

[Mesquite]

In texas the mackerel would be the bait to catch the bait for a real fish!

Nah, we would have chucked it back as too small for anything useful

 

[santaman2000]

In texas the mackerel would be the bait to catch the bait for a real fish!

But I'm in Florida!

Seriously though, I'm used to "mackerel" to mean either King Mackerel or Spanish Mackerel. What species mackerel is the one you've caught?

 

[Mesquite]

. What species mackerel is the one you've caught?

Atlantic Mackerel

 

[Biker]

What species mackerel is the one you've caught?

Compact, dinky, midget, bit sized. Take your pick.

Seriously though, nice one John. We're on the same page about fishing. I'd take a book with me and enjoy the book more.

 

[GGTBod]

I was amazed and disgusted at the cost entailed to fish, it is just not economically viable to me let alone factoring in the cost of my time, maybe if i loved the act of fishing i'd see it different but i am just looking for one fish each time for the next meal

 

[boatman]

Try it out on a SOT kayak on the sea with simple rod or handline. Worth it even if you don't catch anything but quite often one does. Haven't been lucky from the coracle but it's still great out on an estuary.

 

[tiger stacker]

John you hit the nail on the head there, for my trip to loch lomond later this month i had originally planned to fish with a rod (illegal to fish without one inland) and then looked into the cost, firstly £28 rod licence, then £25 first time fishing on the loch registration fee, then £50 per week to fish, so if i wanted to catch 1 fish for my supper each day all month that is £253, even if i caught my dinner every single day that is £8.40 per fish, even the fanciest fish in the shop will not cost anywhere near that for a one person portion, not by a long shot. So now my plan is just to pop to any local shop and buy a piece of fish, at most i might sit with a stick pointing over the water for an hour before cooking it up like some sort of fishing simulator.

Seems it is a pastime for the rich who are board

The locals do like to avoid the water baliffs

 

[GGTBod]

i don't blame them, if that is the actual legal cost i'd hate to see the fines

 

[boatman]

If you research there is actually free fishing around, often in traditional boroughs like Newbury or Reading, Berkshire. Not mentioned on this site http://www.dofreefishing.com/ but worth checking.

 

[GGTBod]

Thanks for sharing that, book marked and will trawl it in hope of something local, shameful pun i know

 

[GGTBod]

cheers I found 3 local spots and 2 are viable, 1 is only for local residents of the specific area and is strictly enforced

 

[david1]

John you hit the nail on the head there, for my trip to loch lomond later this month i had originally planned to fish with a rod (illegal to fish without one inland) and then looked into the cost, firstly £28 rod licence, then £25 first time fishing on the loch registration fee, then £50 per week to fish, so if i wanted to catch 1 fish for my supper each day all month that is £253, even if i caught my dinner every single day that is £8.40 per fish, even the fanciest fish in the shop will not cost anywhere near that for a one person portion, not by a long shot. So now my plan is just to pop to any local shop and buy a piece of fish, at most i might sit with a stick pointing over the water for an hour before cooking it up like some sort of fishing simulator.

Seems it is a pastime for the rich who are board

I wonder how much the fine would be if you got caught ?

 

[Blaidd]

Just checked, maximum of £2500 plus a criminal conviction that shows up on a CRB. (One report gave £550 fine plus £127 costs). I think (but dont know)that a (£27?) rod licence would stop that, but not sure about not having the other licenses. Plus Scottish law can always be different, they hung, drew and quartered William Wallace for not having a rod licence. No, maybe I'm wrong there.

 

[david1]

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[GGTBod]

Sport of the rich or the carefree who take the risk, sadly put an end to my dreams of fishing for food, i hate this country nothing left but the scraps from the table

 

[boatman]

Sport of the rich or the carefree who take the risk, sadly put an end to my dreams of fishing for food, i hate this country nothing left but the scraps from the table

Always was the case and it is interesting to try and work out how some public access was privatised. Marlborough in Wiltshire was a borough and the fishing in the town would most likely have been available for the burgesses at least as it was in Hungerford further down the River Kennet but somehow in the nineteenth century it became regarded as the private rights of one family but when I lived in the area nobody in town council or archives could show me when and how that happened, Most likely the gentry started treating it as their own with the connivance of the local magistrates and it has now become a "fact" that the fishing is private.