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Re: Fishing
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2009, 05:24:12 PM »
Quote from: Miss Creant on July 25, 2009, 10:14:26 AM
I want to start fishing.  Both freshwater and sea fishing.  I know nothing whatsoever about it and haven't a clue where to start.  I want to eat what I catch.  Advice hints and explanations all gratefully received.

Freshwater - join a club. Not many species you can eat (without a lot of work and there are restrictions on what you can take) - gudgeon (on toast) a London favourite once upton time, perch (cook same way as for a hedgehog, wrapped in clay), eels (probably the best), pike (maybe) carp and tench (only if you are foreign) - you may catch signal crayfish in which case you should take them (tasty and totally not to be left alive, native ones are protected. Trout, of course but you need to know where to go - don't ever catch and  eat farmed ones, they taste of trout pellets.
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2009, 10:36:10 AM »
What are trout pellets made of?
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2009, 10:43:54 AM »
I suspect you already know the answer to this but for those who do not:

Trout pellets are made from fishmeal (ground fish left over from manufacture of human food production) with added oils, proteins etc claimed by different manufacturers to enhance their product but in essence since fish are cannibalistic then it follows that they want to eat other fish and thus the best thing to feed them on is fishmeal ~ no matter how it is served up.

Obviously fish will eat other things, bread, maggots, worms, crabs, beetles ~ just about anything they can get their mouths round in fact but the sure fire bait is always another fish in one form or another.
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2009, 10:47:39 AM »
So farmed trout taste of, um, fish  rubschin:

I see
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #19 on: July 28, 2009, 10:58:54 AM »
Farmed trout do not normally get the chance to spend much time developing muscle by swimming in strong running water. They are often fed daily once placed in the fishing lake and when cooked are very "flabby". They also tend to take on the flavour of whichever "enhancer" is used by the manufacturer of the fish pellets that the fishery owner favours. The lakes I use (there are five of them ranged down a hill side) are fed by a mountain water run-off and the water filters from one lake down to the next until it runs out into the river again at a point below the last lake. Because of this the fishery is not permitted to feed the fish once they are in the lakes (they are of course farmed in tanks) and thus have a chance to develop muscle tone and rid themselves of the pellet "flavour". The longer they spend in the lakes the stronger they become. One can usually judge by the fight they put up when caught whether they are new to the lakes or have been "wild" for some weeks. They are all put into the lakes at about 1.5lbs in weight (a bit late in my opinion) so if one catches a 2lb plus fish it has been there for some time.
It comes down to knowing your waters and the policies of the owners.
All that said a wild Brown Trout, though much smaller, from one of the many Welsh rivers is better eating by far.

All the above applies equally to "Wiild" and "Farmed" salmon.
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #20 on: July 28, 2009, 11:04:40 AM »
 surrender:
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #21 on: July 28, 2009, 11:06:56 AM »
Sorry  redface:
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #22 on: July 28, 2009, 12:34:34 PM »
I have a magazine now.  angel1


Before you know it I will have a rod or two, accosted a strange man in a local tackle shop yesterday and believe me he was strange.  His wife was most put out.   evil:

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Re: Fishing
« Reply #23 on: July 28, 2009, 12:46:40 PM »
Shouldn't you be oinking?
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #24 on: July 28, 2009, 12:58:15 PM »
Quote from: Nick on July 28, 2009, 12:46:40 PM
Shouldn't you be oinking?
Not when strange mens tackle is about obviously.
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #25 on: July 28, 2009, 06:55:22 PM »
Quote from: Miss Creant on July 28, 2009, 12:34:34 PM
I have a magazine now.  angel1


Before you know it I will have a rod or two, accosted a strange man in a local tackle shop yesterday and believe me he was strange.  His wife was most put out.   evil:



Go for it Miss C. I bumped into an old aquaintance the other evening, we'd not seen each other for about four years. About three years ago she won "an afternoon fishing with an expert". She's never done it before, went along to see what it was about, and three years on, she's now in the British fly-fishing team

The world is your oyster  redface:
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #26 on: July 28, 2009, 07:43:00 PM »
Oyster?

They make you randy I hear  rubschin:
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #27 on: July 29, 2009, 08:29:35 AM »
I bought a filleting knife from these people last week  happy088

http://www.marttiini.fi/puukot/shop/english/filleting.htm
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Re: Fishing
« Reply #28 on: July 29, 2009, 10:39:26 AM »
Having a good knife is one thing ~ keeping it sharp is quite another. I get my brother (the butcher) to sharpen mine. The only thing I have successfully sharpened is my ex wife's tongue.
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Re: Fishing
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