pacadmin wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:33 am

The November one is due very soon, then February ,May, August . Brian

Arrived yesterday

Hi, new to the club joined last week. I have only been fishing 3 years but this is only my second season for pike fishing. I enjoy both deadbaiting and lure fishing, best fish to date 17lb. Could anyone point me in the right direction to which area I would belong to coming from Retford Notts as I'm...

We have not pike fished Rutland for a few years, and when we did we had to use lures of at least 6" in length. I notice now that smaller lures can be used, and there are clips on youtube of anglers catching a lot of zander on small soft plastics. Does Rutland now have a much bigger population of za...

Be careful what you wish for re television coverage...... cormorants have not been introduce by anyone, unlike reared birds for shooting. Cormorants have adapted to fish inland because man has raped the sea's of fish that they naturally fished for. So man is the problem and not the bird. Regarding t...

Using the government website as best I could, it showed over 900 roach present in 1992 at the section of river I was looking at. That number had fallen to 30 roach in 2004. All I know is that I used to be able to catch 5 or 6 pike a session, and now I can't catch one. The fish are not there. Hardly...

I don't know. I couldn't find what I wanted on the government site. A paranoid person may think that the author of the State of Nature Report does not want the general public to know how low freshwater fish stocks are in the UK, because it might lead to calls for action against predators. Slightly ...

Eric Edwards wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 25, 2018 10:02 am

These look interesting, anybody got one?

https://www.tackleuk.co.uk/Shop/Predato ... gIxkvD_BwE

Well built but heavy as hell!

JohnLucas1316 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 24, 2019 8:54 pm

Got a reply from the founder of the State of Nature report explaining that fish numbers are not included because surveys are patchy and regional and there is no comprehensive national data.

What a load of tosh! I think the author needs to speak with the EA Fisheries teams

Have you not got a local contact with you EA Fisheries Team? I have always found they to be very helpful and knowledgeable on matters like this.

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