Let's talk fishing

[gbb]

Re perch, the Nene (thats Neen, not Nen, we live in Cambs not Northants ..while there are no (or many) big ones, my son was seeing loads and loads of small ones last season, one of the.most common fish to catch for him.
Seals did for the fish populations here, perhaps those littleuns will get a chance to grow now...

 

[13 rider]

Re perch, the Nene (thats Neen, not Nen, we live in Cambs not Northants ..while there are no (or many) big ones, my son was seeing loads and loads of small ones last season, one of the.most common fish to catch for him.
Seals did for the fish populations here, perhaps those littleuns will get a chance to grow now...

The story how Peterborough angling got rid of the seals and the hoops they had to jump through

View: https://youtu.be/YqQXul1mv5k?si=2ozmFcxaZbfBbhvi

Nature normally finds a way to get balance so the smaller fish will grow on to fill the void left if there's enough food

 

[13 rider]

Regarding other predators,report cormorant sightings on this easy to use website . Their are trying to get real data with photographic evidence on how wide an issue the black things are
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...aiGO3zquFZSLSoYPC5vtoLXuybp2wwPwtLH_TU-bn8Tpg
Should also be in play and apple store for your mobile search hydroscape-group
With real evidence backed data maybe something can be done

 

[Hicky]

@13 rider The EA won't do a thing, nor will any other governing body. In our club at the foothills of the Pennines we are absolutely plagued by them. All evidenced and they take forever and a day to grant a license to shoot.....when it arrives the total is 3 per year, I can see three in a hour!

 

[13 rider]

@13 rider The EA won't do a thing, nor will any other governing body. In our club at the foothills of the Pennines we are absolutely plagued by them. All evidenced and they take forever and a day to grant a license to shoot.....when it arrives the total is 3 per year, I can see three in a hour!

Yes it's extremely frustrating but the government count is ridiculous low and won't change their stance without hard evidence. Apparently there is an allowance for 3000 birds to be shot each year and the government has never received that many applications!! So why would they change anything .

 

[Hicky]

Yes it's extremely frustrating but the government count is ridiculous low and won't change their stance without hard evidence. Apparently there is an allowance for 3000 birds to be shot each year and the government has never received that many applications!! So why would they change anything .

Agreed, I’d also push that the hoops you have to jump through put off some many clubs due to the admin burden.

 

[13 rider]

Agreed, I’d also push that the hoops you have to jump through put off some many clubs due to the admin burden.

Yes all clubs are run by volunteers so asking them to deal with government departments is a massive ask . Apparently Hydroscape will do a licence application on a club's behalf but at a cost where I guess most smaller clubs will baulk at

 

[gbb]

The story how Peterborough angling got rid of the seals and the hoops they had to jump through

View: https://youtu.be/YqQXul1mv5k?si=2ozmFcxaZbfBbhvi

Nature normally finds a way to get balance so the smaller fish will grow on to fill the void left if there's enough food

I loved the podcast, thanks for that and im not even an angler
His words (and i'd heard this ) from Dog In A Doublet to Wansford was when surveyed by the Environment Agency, almost 'completely devoid if adult fish'..and this echoes what my son found over the last couple seasons...he simply wouldn't catch anything of size, it was just juvenile fish.
The only positive, there are apparently a LOT of juvenile fish in there so things should recover somewhat given time.

One cost I didnt hear them touch on was that last season PDAA had to drop season ticket prices by half because the situation was so bad, sales had collapsed.


Be interesting what my son finds this next season.