Danger to UK spearos

[Spaniard]

Read this in todays Sun;

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...60474,,00.html

This sort of publicity is exactly what we don't need. Why do UK newspapers always refer to spearguns as Harpoon guns???? Moby Dick anyone?

[Sergiu]

just read the article...i dont get it...what sort of CARP do you lads have in UK? 8000 pounds for a 40lb specimen?!?! Goldfish pond?

As for spearfishing, obviously the "journalists" has no idea what's all about - but they need news that sell the paper and for that harpooning sounds much more serious!

[Spaniard]

Freshwater angling, and carp fishing in particular, is a big business here in UK. All is catch and release though. Some lakes which purport to hold record size fish can charge astronomical day fees for fishing rights. Anglers are very well organised and well funded here in UK and all we need is more bad publicity like this and then Spearfishing suddenly becomes illegal........

[octopus]

Knowing Sun, the emphasis is on migrants.

[podge]

Originally Posted by Spaniard

Freshwater angling, and carp fishing in particular, is a big business here in UK. All is catch and release though. Some lakes which purport to hold record size fish can charge astronomical day fees for fishing rights. Anglers are very well organised and well funded here in UK and all we need is more bad publicity like this and then Spearfishing suddenly becomes illegal........

Even if they did legislate against spear fishing here in the U.K.
"They would have to take my gun from my cold dyeing hand"

[Tim1]

Large carp can fetch very high prices (£0,000's) in the UK as stock fish for anglers, more so than as a dead 'delicacy' and poaching of live fish is becoming a very lucrative trade. If these Albanians really wanted to make some money, they should have joined the angling club, caught the damn fish on rod and line and sold it on to another angling syndicate...

The irony is that almost anywhere else than the UK, carp are considered trash fish!

As for being a delicacy, I was served carp whilst working in the FSU. The Sun would probably be more palatable!

[Sergiu]

yup, carp is usually far from delicacy - perhaps the wild variety, like the ones we sometimes catch in Danube Delta but certainly not the lazy fat ones pumped up to astronomical proportions by tonnes of boiles, corn, etc. But a great specimen, alive and kicking, can probably be a great deal if sold to another angling "sindicate". There's money in carp poaching, i lived to see this! Apparently the world record catch is still in Romania, a lake nearby Bucharest, too bad i dont live there any longer

here's a career path i might have overlooked!

[Shadowkiller]

Originally Posted by podge

"They would have to take my gun from my cold dyeing hand"

I think its important to keep your hands warm when colouring cloth...

As for the newspaper: "armed to the teeth"
hahaha what do you expect? Some of them mussels get huge!!!

here in Oz the Fisheries had a simple solution: Anything living, that is of interest, in the ocean is legally known as "fish". Period. Proper fish are known as "finfish"...

If you guys want carp, come over here! In one day, using a scoop net, I pulled more than a 100kg worth out of a creek during a spawning run! Stunk the place out when it was rotting on the side days later (carp must be killed here in Oz).

[Sergiu]

Originally Posted by Shadowkiller

Stunk the place out when it was rotting on the side days later (carp must be killed here in Oz).

Not a delicacy down there i guess!

[Oldsarge]

Or here! Small ones can be cooked up decently when taken from clean water but the big ones are best plowed under for their nitrogen. And I'd love to see a carp big enough to need a harpoon . . .

[Shadowkiller]

Originally Posted by Sergiu

Not a delicacy down there i guess!

Nup, just a pest!

Mind you, our Fisheries spend hundreds of thousands restocking lakes with introduced trout, while spending thousands to eradicate the introduced carp..

[podge]

Originally Posted by Shadowkiller

I think its important to keep your hands warm when colouring cloth...

As for the newspaper: "armed to the teeth"
hahaha what do you expect? Some of them mussels get huge!!!

here in Oz the Fisheries had a simple solution: Anything living, that is of interest, in the ocean is legally known as "fish". Period. Proper fish are known as "finfish"...

If you guys want carp, come over here! In one day, using a scoop net, I pulled more than a 100kg worth out of a creek during a spawning run! Stunk the place out when it was rotting on the side days later (carp must be killed here in Oz).

Shadowkiller I’m at work while typing all of my replies therefore no time to think BOSS could be just around the corner must think fast must type fast must save the world!!!!!!
Dying, Dying, Dying
How’s that???

[Shadowkiller]

hahaha, its juts that the juxtaposition amused me somewhat! Its not often a simple speeling mistake makes for a funny quote!

No offence intended

[podge]

Originally Posted by Shadowkiller

hahaha, its juts that the juxtaposition amused me somewhat! Its not often a simple speeling mistake makes for a funny quote!

No offence intended

Shadowkiller
No offence taken mate

[naiad]

Originally Posted by Oldsarge

And I'd love to see a carp big enough to need a harpoon . . .

Thar she blows!

This is about as big as a carp gets...
http://www.cadskoi.co.uk/NewFiles/japan_2.html
It is 165cm and 50kg.

I like the way someone is pouring food into its mouth, as if it is an eating machine.