Re: Gerald Berth-Jones handmade Floats
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 1:10 pm
Exactly, which is why the committee has decided that fishing will be banned from anywhere other than the designated pegs.
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Just kidding!! But to all anglers, heed sweetcorns experience. Getting stuck in the silt is very dangerous and you also look like a right pillock getting pulled out!St.John wrote:Exactly, which is why the committee has decided that fishing will be banned from anywhere other than the designated pegs.
that is something that i have heard speculated upon. i recon so-also larger fish can and will push smaller fish out of 'safe zones'. however they do it, there are fish that avoid nettings.FarliesBirthday wrote:I reckon the carp must bury themselves at times in that silt. Otto Overbeck, about 100 years ago, recalled wading out at Croxby and feeling a wiggle in the mud beneath his feet - it was a decent carp, deep under the silt...
Perhaps this is how the big ones evade the net...?
Indeed, St John, even the ancients marvelled at the carp's ability to evade the net.St.John wrote:that is something that i have heard speculated upon. i recon so-also larger fish can and will push smaller fish out of 'safe zones'. however they do it, there are fish that avoid nettings.FarliesBirthday wrote:I reckon the carp must bury themselves at times in that silt. Otto Overbeck, about 100 years ago, recalled wading out at Croxby and feeling a wiggle in the mud beneath his feet - it was a decent carp, deep under the silt...
Perhaps this is how the big ones evade the net...?