Fisherperson

Thats great, Ill have a look at the photo when I have a minute Fisherperson

Any time for me,send me a pm with time date and location

Im not sure if my reply went. So here it i again,Thtas very kind of you.How shall I collect it?

New to fly fishing and fancy a go at tying your own fly's. Come along to the Blake Hotel Walkley on the 2nd Tuesday of the month and have a go. The materials can be supplied if you are a complete novice,fathers and sons/daughters are welcome (over the age of 14years old) We start about 7.30 pm come along you may enjoy it. More info on my web http://www.riverdonfishing.org.uk/availability The beer is good as well Fisherperson

Get in touch with sprite they are on the web.They run regular clean ups. The E.A are not responsible for bankside rubbish it is up to the riperian owners although the environment officers at SCC can be notified. Fisherperson

Ever thought about fly fishing for carp? Why not come along to Crookes Valley Park for an hour. Learn the basics of fly fishing all the proceeds are going to Help For Heroes.The link is http://www.riverdonfishing.org.uk/availability

Hi Guys I think it is bogus to,the sign was not in Sheffield.I think that the club who rents the water further down has just put claim on it.

Hi Guys Came across a sign on the Don the other day that said PRIVATE FISHING POACHES WILL BE PROSECUTED. It got me thinking first of all,who is the club and secondly what is poaching.I had a long hard job finding the definition of poaching. Apparently it come from the french "to encroach" The only thing I could find was this little snippet The Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 – Fish Poaching The main offences are to fish for or take salmon, sea trout or any freshwater fish: without a rod licence. by an unauthorised means. in the close season. by a prohibited method, e.g. set line, gaff, snare, explosive, poison or electrical device. introduce fish to inland waters without permission. N.B. Fishery bye-laws may also apply. So if that's the case and I fish this section of the Don with a rod licence, in the appropriate season and with the correct equipment,what can that club do whoever the club is. Im not intending to fish it,Ill just go to the other side of the river. Any thoughts on it.

Its not on my blog its on my web.Not all British anglers practice catch and release. Salmon fishers can still take a fish in England after the 1st of June, but must not before . I think that at Lady bower, all trout caught over the size of 12inches have to be killed. Toft newton also has a policy that you can kill a fish "for the pot" The E.A also don't rule out the taking of fish for the pot,however certain species you cant take,the Atlantic eels being one. Most coarse fisheries have their own rules.One of the clubs I'm in will not let anglers take pike over I think its about 4 pound,I don't take fish except sometimes a rainbow "for the pot"and only if the the fishery rules allows it. i.e Ladybower and the likes of them. Anyway that's all I have to say on the matter,except are eastern Europeans indigenous to this country or are they alien causing a problem on our fisheries.Live and let live,I think you said that on an earlier post!

You said a few threads ago that you sometimes get things wrong and find it hard to decipher the net.Well first of all have a look at our web.You know the address.It states quite categorically that we use Rainbow Trout to cook.If I am not mistaken this whole thread was about indigenous and alien species and I'm sure you know that Rainbow are not native to this country .They do however bred in one or two of our rivers The Derbyshire Wye being one, private fly fishery's do stock with them (Lady bower,Toft Newton and others)as they are very good to eat and usually die in the first winter. In fact only triploid and diploid rainbow can be stocked and this has to be verified by the E.A. So we do have a cookery part to our courses this is not to make a "few quid" as you put it,but to show that fish does come in other forms than in batter. As you also failed to tell people it also said that this part of the course could be used as part of healthy eating .I would like to see where I have berated seals or otters, although it could be argued that seals become alien when in freshwater as they are a saltwater mammal as opposed to the otter which is freshwater and can be found locally. I said alien species that eat fish or degrade the ecosystem should be eradicated because they do not have natural predators in this ecosystem to eat them.I do believe that fish owners should be given the same permission as professional fishermen have with seals and farmers have with dogs and foxes when worrying or eating there stock! That is if all other methods fail the owner should be able to shoot them,but only the one that is causing the problem.Not a cull of otters and seals! On the question of charging people for fishing lessons,I am by professiona fly fishing instructor,could you tell me if I didn't charge,who would pay for bait, time, venues fuel etc..Im sure you don't work for nothing or do you? I give my time freely to Help the heros (fishing) Casting for recovery and also help with fishing in a school for learning and physical disabilities in Derby. I also work in a rea of social and economical deprivation with the kids of that area and charge each guy a quid a night.Thats usually for approx two hours work sometimes Saturday mornings and occasionally a trip to a fishing venue out of Sheffield which is free from me,but not usually the mini bus driver or the fishery owner.This post started off as a honest debate about alien and indeginous species.It has gone off at a tangent and you now seem to be questioning me and my ethics and not my opinions.I do however suggest that if you do read articles on the net or peoples webs you actually quote what is there and not what you presume to be there.

One of the reasons I don't go on a lot of forums a lot is this attitude.What starts off as a decent debate finishes up as a slagging match.To reiterate what I said and this will be the finish on my posts are:-Yes it does begger belief when people like yourself cannot understand the places that animals have in the bio security of the water system.If Signal Crayfish and Knotweed are left unchallenged,they will probably kill the invertrabates of the rivers,but this will in turn stop the fish breeding (because there is nothing to eat),that in turn will stop the kingfishers eating fish because there wont be any). The otters will die because no there are no fish in the river.The river will become a lot wider and shallower because signal crayfish are burrowing animals along with knotweed and Balsam they degrade the riverbanks,thus causing siltation and problems for butterflies and birds. When the balsam and knotweed dies back it leaves bald patches what with signal crayfish burrowing and knotweed on the other end rivers could start to silt up causing more of a problem for flood protection. Killing signal Crayfish is not a solution and will only cause more problems. Harvesting them will cause problem, white clayed crayfish are not a problem because they are part of the ecosystem we have in Britain.Signal crayfish, balsam,knotweed, mitten crabs are and will and do cause a problem to our native species. So you start off with guys saying, but its only a signal crayfish and finish up with people who may get flooded out. So yes I stand by my remarks by saying it beggers belief cause it does. The actual quote is look at some of the commentsts from anglers on how to get rid of them on the Sheffield Forum.It beggars belief! The key word is some Please read and understand what is written before you make presumptions.

Hi Sheff 13 I have not done enough posts so it wont let me reply or put a link on the forum.I may have now Ill give it a go. still wont let me

The otter was discussed last Saturday because of its predatory habits on fish.Not as a alien specie,which of course its not. I agree with you on the introduction of the so called ornamental plants.They were introduced by the Victorians for their gardens.I think if people on forums who are interested in these kinds of problems get together for the common cause,we could actually get politicians to do something constructive about the environment. These forums are great if a constructive argument is achieved (like ours) its when people treat it as a insulting soap box. If you are interested please use my get in touch by P.M and have a look at my blog The forum wont let me put a link in)

Sheff13 we will have to stop meeting this way. Crayfish is one of the invasive species I was talking about.It is one of about half a dozen. I was at a meeting (one of many)Saturday last. It was about invasive species and as you can imagine Signal Crayfish was at the top of the list.Other things that were discussed were,otters, cormarants, seals etc. The state of play with the crayfish is this. You do need a licence to trap crayfish No licences are being issued It is illegal to put Signal Crayfish back in a watercourse It is not illegal to catch them on a rod and line It all seems a bit bizarre,but nobody knows how to stop the spread of these things,people think its a good idea to harvest them.Wrong, the fish are cannibalistic so they just lay more eggs and grow again.The problem is they are just eating machines,fish,but not large fish,but of course large fish start of as small fish. Gammarus ,also known as the freshwater shrimp,Caddis both cased and caseless,tadpoles small frogs as you can see it is endless.They also are burrows which along with Balsam and Knotweed can cause silting up of water courses thus causing flooding. Fishermen need to report any sighting of tese creatures to the E.A or Councils, always clean and dry ALL equipment when finishing fishing. Its best to disinfect will virkon. I have put this on the forum because of the lack of education about these creatures so everyone can read it. If you need anymore info get in touch

On the contrary, it is up to people like us to debate and argue about the way forward.Otherwise you finish up with politicians making decisions,heaven forbid. There are ways of controlling mink and that is by trapping them,the cormorants did not start nesting inland until 1981. Please read extract from defra report 2004. I literary converted continental to European. In Europe, over the past 20-30 years there have been marked increases in thepopulations of the two European subspecies of the great cormorant, the ‘Atlantic’race P. c. carbo L. and the ‘Continental’ race P. c.sinensisBlumenbach (Debout,Rov & Sellars 1995; Lindell et al. 1995; Van Eerden & Gregersen 1995). The UK cormorant population is dominated by the nominate race P. c. carbo (Cramp &Simmons 1977). The conservation status of the cormorant in the European Union is described as favourable, its population trend as experiencing a large increase, and its threat status as secure (Birdlife International 2004).In the UK, increase in the number of birds and in range extension, together with changes in seasonal distribution has increasingly brought cormorants into conflict with inland fisheries. The latest national seabird census (Seabird 2000) estimated the breeding population at 9,133 pairs, during 1998/2002, representing an increase in numbers of coastal breeding pairs of 10% since 1985/88, and 21% since 1969/70 (Mitchell et al. 2004). During this period inland breeding colonies have also become established and have increased in size and number. Since first breeding at Abberton Reservoir, Essex in 1981, numbers of cormorants breeding inland inEngland increased to 1,437 pairs at 23 inland sites by 1998, a mean increase of35% per annum (Hughes et al. 2000). The most recent estimate for number sbreeding inland is 1,646 pairs (Mitchell et al. 2004) . As you can see the birds I am talking about are not inland birds ,but have become so since 1981 when they were first reported at Abberton. The licence used to be to scare ,but the licence holder can now "]shoot to kill[ Herons are protected end off and rightly so. This document is an old one 2004,a green paper has been written.(I tried to put you the link in ,but the forum wont let me) I strongly disagree with you about the alien, invasive specie both plant and animal.They have no place in our biosecurity system and are a threat to our wild flowers,animals and rivers courses. The bee keepers would disagree about the balsam though.