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Post by salmonshrimp on Jul 18, 2007 10:22:27 GMT
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Post by charlieh on Jul 18, 2007 11:30:52 GMT
Innes Smith, who will no doubt be known to some Tummel fishers, mentioned a 44lb fish from the Lochy on Gethyn's sea trout forum the other day. Apparently is has since been downgraded to a mere 36lbs. Don't know if this is the same fish.
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Post by robmason on Jul 18, 2007 19:09:39 GMT
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Post by salmonshrimp on Jul 18, 2007 21:19:48 GMT
Very good thanks.
It looks like the 36lb fish has grown to 43lb over night LOL.
Great link Rob thanks.
Mind you it's about 28lb short of the record rod caught fish
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Post by jock on Jul 18, 2007 21:44:14 GMT
Just back from the Earn today from a beat which a certain Lord T fishes and there is a story circulating about a 43lb salmon caught by one of his friends earlier this month on the private beats of the Lochy, not the 36 lb salmon mentioned on the website. If true I'm surprised Jon Gibb has not been quick to mention it on the Lochy website, then again July is one of the months mainly fished by the shareholders so maybe they are keeping quiet. If true it will have been returned ready for me to catch in Sept. ;D How did the Earn fish today.....not well unless a 4" brownie counts, although a friend did lose a salmon  |
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Post by salmonshrimp on Jul 25, 2007 10:06:08 GMT
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Post by fishingd0 on Jul 25, 2007 16:56:37 GMT
Next day a 32lb fish was also taken off the loch.
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Post by salmonshrimp on Jul 26, 2007 14:38:55 GMT
If these are "Spring Fish" which I suspect they are given that the 37lb fish was coloured and springers are usually large fish.
What conservation benefit is there in closing the season for a month or two in the spring if these so called "Spring Fish" are still going to be hooked and taken in June/July and onwards to the end of the season.
I'm all for conservation but I don't see any conservation in these types of suggestions. Perhaps I'm missing something.
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Post by sagecaster on Jul 28, 2007 10:14:06 GMT
If these are "Spring Fish" which I suspect they are given that the 37lb fish was coloured and springers are usually large fish. What conservation benefit is there in closing the season for a month or two in the spring if these so called "Spring Fish" are still going to be hooked and taken in June/July and onwards to the end of the season. I'm all for conservation but I don't see any conservation in these types of suggestions. Perhaps I'm missing something. I agree I question whether closing the season for " a month or two" offers any real benefit other than protecting unspawned fish such as rawners and baggots, this closed period would allow them to finish their job undisturbed. I also think that we are entering a new period where fisherman tend to return coloured fish. Certainly all the rivers that I now fish try and enforce this policy. Hence these late coloured "Springers" should be released and not "taken" as you infer is happening, I'd be very disappointed if this is indeed happening. |
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Post by salmonshrimp on Jul 29, 2007 11:58:37 GMT
If these are "Spring Fish" which I suspect they are given that the 37lb fish was coloured and springers are usually large fish. What conservation benefit is there in closing the season for a month or two in the spring if these so called "Spring Fish" are still going to be hooked and taken in June/July and onwards to the end of the season. I'm all for conservation but I don't see any conservation in these types of suggestions. Perhaps I'm missing something. I agree I question whether closing the season for " a month or two" offers any real benefit other than protecting unspawned fish such as rawners and baggots, this closed period would allow them to finish their job undisturbed. I also think that we are entering a new period where fisherman tend to return coloured fish. Certainly all the rivers that I now fish try and enforce this policy. Hence these late coloured "Springers" should be released and not "taken" as you infer is happening, I'd be very disappointed if this is indeed happening. Indeed the season has always closed in winter to allow fish to spawn. Rawners and baggots perhaps will never spawn because they might find it difficult to find a partner (mate) after the main run has done the business. Extending the closed season by a month or two does little or nothing to protect springers. These early fish do not spawn until the following winter, therefore they are in the river for almost a whole season, "available for taking". The argument to extend the close season in the spring to protect these springers is perhaps invalid, and as you say they may be released anyway. |
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