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Post by 3x2 on Apr 12, 2014 18:50:50 GMT
My local river is a bit of a mixed bag.
Above the Town it is clearly a Trout/Grayling river and so I would accept that "non migratory Trout" rules apply.
The lower end of the river has a lot of 'course' fish and so we could apply "course fish" rules.
The middle section is the 'mixed bag'. Fishing maggot, one might get Chub, Roach, Perch, plenty of Grayling and the occasional Trout. Fishing Worm, one might get Trout, Chub, Perch and the occasional Grayling.
My question here is, in this situation, what rules should one apply? How does one decide which rules should apply? "Trout" or "course"?
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Post by nick88 on Apr 12, 2014 21:53:03 GMT
Stick a worm on and fish it anywhere!
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Post by nightwatchman © on Apr 13, 2014 8:32:53 GMT
Depends who owns the stretch of river? It's the owners of the stretch that applies the rules not the species that are in there or what you fish for  |
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Post by scott on Apr 24, 2014 1:07:44 GMT
The EA is still run by people with an IQ of -10,000 so fill your boots
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Post by mambrino on Apr 24, 2014 21:18:06 GMT
I would agree with Nick,but it was a short answer to a big question.So here are my own personal views based purely on my way of thinking.
1st Stick to the rules and know them inside out.
2nd.. Do not try to flount them,it is the close season for course fish so do not go out to intentionally catch them.
3rd. Worm only allowed (or artificial flies etc) with the objective of catching Trout only.
4th. If you catch a course fish,then move on,and leave that particular swim well alone until 16/June.you will enjoy going back to it all the more when you know its legal to catch course fish.
By all means try the middle section for trout, but at the end of the day,there is only yourself who knows whether you are being ethical or not and all of us as fishermen have a responsibility to respect the environment and future generations.
Hope that dosn't sound too snotty.
Ps. use barbless hooks when worming and put a 1/8in sq piece of elastic band onto the hook,pushed up to the worm to hold it in place.A trout that is throat hooked AND BLEEDING will usually die shortly afterwards.All clean hooked fish should be returned and only consider retaining a legally taken fish if you think its not going to survive anyway.
Hope that helps
Rod...
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Post by willothewisp on Apr 24, 2014 21:28:00 GMT
The EA is still run by people with an IQ of -10,000 so fill your boots Scott. An eternal difficulty for low IQ people is that this very limitation severely limits their capacity to understand superior intelligence. Plus, of course, that often education, possession of information and articulation is mistaken for intelligence. Moreover, very often some people of limited knowledge, understanding, and capacity to acknowledge others better perspectives simply assume others, whose actions or views they disagree with, must be stupid. I'm sure you know exactly what I mean. |
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