Guernsey 2013

[Rouge Moullet]

Jonny the kayak has been wet four times this year still to catch from it. Trouble is my real passion is the shore angling and everytime i set aside a window for a trip afloat i get a call asking if i fancy such and such .
Nice to see life has bought you a bundle of joy Magpie glad everything went well for you both.
I have been lucky in having a few "moments" this year and hopefully will have one or two more before new years eve comes along and wipes the slate clean.

 

[Jonny250]

But she's no excuse for not getting in, she wants to come with already I reckon:
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Congratulations Tom, and a cool piccie with the new fins too

 

[ADM]

Can't say I spear any more so this is not the place for me to post. Time is at a serious premium nowadays.

 

[Sarnian]

Hi does anyone know if horse mackerel is definitely inedible? Some friends have caught some and were thinking of putting it in mackerel pâté Nice new emoticons DB!

 

[Sarnian]

Apparently it did smart a little Scrumpy, only took 5 days to come out...

But she's no excuse for not getting in, she wants to come with already I reckon:
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Yeah, congrats Tom ( and Mrs Magpie!) hope all's going well.

 

[foxfish]

Horse mackerel taste just like mackerel but have more bones than flesh making them inedible! However considering some of the other things I have seen you eat, I would of thought that you would love them mate!

 

[Jonny250]

well i managed to get in for a couple of hours this afternoon, please to say there are still fish around took a 'moulet de mer grise' and watched a shoal of white breams for a bit. the water is good and clear at the moment!

 

[jerseymike]

well i managed to get in for a couple of hours this afternoon, please to say there are still fish around took a 'moulet de mer grise' and watched a shoal of white breams for a bit. the water is good and clear at the moment!

Nice one Jonny, ur lucky to find vis. I am just back from a week away and was hoping to get in, but its looking poop here!

 

[Fro-in-shorts]

havent been in since september, its all work work work and its dark the whole time. Nawt but mushrooms for me at the moment, though I will grow a pair and start night diving at some point, the weathers just been so shite recently and its dark

 

[foxfish]

Build a gun then!

 

[foxfish]

Looks like we can get our fist feed on the first day of the new year.

http://www.gov.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=84222&p=0

 

[Magpie]

Cor la, it's bad enough when the first tide is on a normal weekday, on a holiday its going to be all out war down the west coast!

 

[denian]

Can't open that link take it its Omer season starting?

 

[foxfish]

A great afternoon out though Maggers...

 

[foxfish]

Shocking statistic showing the decline in our bass stocks!!


Local bass landing stats from GSF reports, weight in tonnes.

2004 - 127.8 (BB discovered, 1 local team pair trawling for them)
2005 - 173
2006 - 162.4
2007 - 142
2008 - 123.2 (big storm upset visual feeders, pair trawling ceasing)
2009 - 94.2 (gill netting starts to increase, especially round Alderney)
2010 - 120
2011 - 74 (angling hours halved - many giving up on BB)
2012 - 44.4

 

[bobdonny]

Pretty dire reading....

 

[Yeti]

Pretty dire reading....

ditto! that doesn't make for great reading....

 

[ADM]

Shocking statistic showing the decline in our bass stocks!!


Local bass landing stats from GSF reports, weight in tonnes.

2004 - 127.8 (BB discovered, 1 local team pair trawling for them)
2005 - 173
2006 - 162.4
2007 - 142
2008 - 123.2 (big storm upset visual feeders, pair trawling ceasing)
2009 - 94.2 (gill netting starts to increase, especially round Alderney)
2010 - 120
2011 - 74 (angling hours halved - many giving up on BB)
2012 - 44.4

You might find this of interest Mart: http://www.ukbass.com/sea-angling-2012-final-report/ latest research commissioned by DEFRA.

Those fishery resources upon which RSA across England are dependent, and which drive £2 billion worth of expenditure across RSA, are ONLY WORTH £35 million to commercial fishing! First sale landings value – what the fishermen receive – is less than 2% of what sea anglers put into the economy.

 

[bobdonny]

Fascinating ADM... thanks for sharing... I'm sending that around to local Irish bodies!

 

[ep_haury]

So here's a question. Two to three centuries back, what were the sort of goods smuggled into the Channel Islands, and what kind of goods were smuggled out? Sounds like it was a lot of items, but are there any iconic goods that you think of when you think of Channel
Islands smuggling? I remember seeing a Jersey museum with stories of women wearing many. many layers of clothes to smuggle them (I think) in. I've seen French wines being popular and alcohol in general. According to this site (http://www.visitguernsey.com/-smuggling), "By ancient charter, Guernsey was exempted from Excise and Custom levies, neither was she bound by the various anti-smuggling statutes in force on the mainland." So does it even count as smuggling if its a legal loophole?