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  1. skunkhead
    the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) and the brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) anyone know of anywhere in the north of england where these fish reside? i heard some years back that they was some in a park or country park near rotheram or nottingham not sure i got taliking with some one years back at the NEC at birmingham at a angling show looked but cant find anything on them they are classed as a british species same as small mouth black bass cant find anything on them sure they will ahve disapeared by now as the us have pulled out of our airbases i have found places down the south of th
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    cant beat whats natural to the river or lake yer fishing,i know mackeral work but they aint native to rivers so a live roach or perch or whatever and yer cant go wrong! i think useing gold fish is cheating abit and to use a pet well come on wtf lol ide rather sit it out than use pet fish for bait plus yer dunno what parrasites yer may introduce to the water yer fish take a look what reintroductions has done to certain lakes in cumbria nearly made the vendace extinct and it aint helped its realtive the schelly (powen) or the char for that matter so yeah keep useing aquarium fish and knack the
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    yer would think that this would protect the fish but my personal opinion is that it dont,we had a fish kill ban imposed here in england to me thats done sweet f/a spring fish are still present in many rivers ok maybe not the numbers that they were in time gone by,but we still do get em,we even had bans on fishing in certain tidal waters to help protect the salmon in certain circumstances again its done nothing in my opinion i see spring fish every year on my local river the TEES and TYNE (NORTHUMBRIAN) I never see them on the river WEAR only ever seen 2 spring fish in 34 years when i say sprin
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    sounds ok but why not try linton loch on the ouse not far from where you are good fishing there yer cant really go wrong what ever tactic yer use
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    very nice indeed wheres the river if i may ask ?
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    what yr selling up for dont tell me yer packing in fishing surely!
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    is st marys in the dumfries area sort of ? if so im sure thats where the vendace from the lake district has been rehomed, they were once present in two scotish lochs maben and someother loch might of been castle loch (correct me if im wrong) i went there for a look one day years back,when looking for hid lakes,ponds etc came across it seen a feller fishing for pike and one for bream,looked alright but the angler told me it was very shallow,seen a sign on the loch saying" vendace bend" or something,they were only present in 4 uk lakes two in scotland and two in the lake district cumbria,the sco
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    perthshire keeper yeah it was 20 summit pound mate yer say yer seen one in a net off the coast yeah? well the Tyne gets many big sea trout every year,funny thing is they seem to run the south Tyne most the sea trout,dont get me wrong they a good few in the tyne system but ive always cored well at haltwhistle and alston areas, i seen some big sea trout well over the 20 lb bracket at slaggyford in the spawning bescks ( on the redds) but the river Wear is better for sea trout or used to be they dwindled a bit over the years and the wear is becomeing a salmon river rather than sea trout,ive had so
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    good site so yer can veiw yer local rivers use this with fish counter information and yer have the advantage http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/river-reports/
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    yes never had much look i was going off my local area and the trout seem to get smaller the higher yer go around here north east england,but yeah yer right the trout do get big depending on water quality etc....
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    the yorks esk is about 30 miles long ! two miles from the sea it becomes freshwater, the river narrows to a very small stream in most places,where he caught the fish was in a tidal section where when the tide drops it leaves very narrow rapids,he caught the fish as the pools fill up off the tide,it was rare to have coloured fish that far down but it did happen from time to time......
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    I HAVE MADE ME OWN BOILIEE many times though not for years now i used mine for barbel,carp and cats though i rarely use them for carp or cats these days prefering floating and live and dead baits for the latter,i used to use nash,then switched to john baker baits as i seen them once at the NEC at Birmingham,what i found was esp with boris (barbel) that the sweet baits didnt work one bit for me on the rivers i was fishing ie the river Wear at Durham probly the furthest northern barbel in the uk i dont any further north than that,none i know of in the Tyne and beyond also i fishe the River Tees
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    try you tube they is some very good videos of dogs courseing deer, the arab ones are the biz courseing gazzelle in the desterts of arabia, as well as sloogi or salukis in afghanistan etc areas very good stuff indeed a bit different from what we are used to here in the uk
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    strange if i write u r e without spaces it says banned text whats that about?
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    http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/research/library/publications/40717.aspx http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/cy/ymchwil/llyfrgell/cyhoeddiadau/40713.aspx http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/research/library/publications/138616.a THE counter on the Yorkshire Esk is broken has been for a few years no funding available same as the river coquet,i beleive they is a counter now on the yorkshire ouse which changes its name half way to the yorks u r e ,its at naburn near york or west tanfeild i think,the counters on the Tyne and Wear only represent a certain % of the true run
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    seen many otters on the river Tees middle and upper reaches,now the river has lost a 12 mile tidal section due to a flood barrier and the barrier also helps keep the remaining tidal water out of the fresh,unatural yes but youtube the Tees at stockton in 1977 me mother used to say if yer fall in go straight to one of the high street shops and they will RUSH yer to hospital ! yeah that bad due to industrial pollution so now we have one or two in the town on the lower reaches,very nice to see,the Tees has some massive salmon well over 30lbs every year with fish being trapped in the old school e/a
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    the size of the trout will i suppose depend on the altitude,ive found that the higher yer go the smaller they seem to get in a way,yeah trout maybe grayling probly bullhead (trouts dinner) and maybe minnow and just maybe loach,invest in some poaroid sun glasses these take the glare from the water and help the human eye see beneeth the waters surface any polaroids will work yer can buy proper fishing glasses i like optix
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    scaffy tubes or something similar shaped like church organ pipes meshed at the bottom say six small section of pipe drop em in the drink and away yer go,yer could use a eel net i suppose but one of our local fisheries carp pool is plagued with them,the owner lets yer keep as many as yer can get i allways get me shre from his traps like the scaffy tube things,we have still got a few strongholds for native cray fish up here dunno about down the south of the country whats the situation down there ?
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    they was some bonitos caught up this end of the country i think northumberland
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    i used to go to bridge port and gundry in whitby north yorkshire or john roberson on peterlee co durham also north sheilds fish key but they werent for bass ! i liked the muti mono type many strands to make one square if yer wanna call it that we used them for salmon the normal ones were to springy and ridid these were like silk with a meas size of 5-6 inches they used to wrap fish up proper they could gill salmon over 30lbs +
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    the WHITBY and SCARBORO Tunny (tuna club) THUNNUS THYNNUS yeah back then tuna fishing was big buisness in yorkshire.lorenzo mitchel henry was i think the first to make the discovery then his record was short lived when capatin ch frsby got a think 5 fish in one days fishing,it was for the rich and famous back then me dad used to tell me the stories of them being landed every other day when the tune were there,they were quite far out at sea but went up to a 1,000 lbs nearly they is somewhere on the internet a video in black and white of tuna being caught way back then,we had fotos once family f
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    terrible foto but a small mouth bass which incerdentally is classed as british uk fish introduced once when the us had airforce bases here in the uk during the height of the old cold war
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    record sea trout caught by the legendary ROY TOWNSEND (R.I.P) from the yorkshire Esk back in the 80s knew tha man really well when i was in me youth what he didnt know about the esk wanst worth knowing!
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    couple of cats from a few years ago
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    all right lads new in here hope to have some good banter
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