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| phil |
A present from a friend!http://s380.photobucket.com/album...view¤t=reanspics002.jpg |
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| Camile |
they look gorgeous Phil ..
there is such a shine on them .. and for a complete novice with fish .. what are they ? Thanks, Camile |
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| phil |
I think they are probably salmon the ones with a hook jaw might be male. | ||
| blowin |
Not pike , that is for sure .
Equally certain is that if they are salmonoid species ( salmon or sea trout ) and they have come from the wild then it is highly illegal to have them in your possession unless they have been tagged thru the gills . Might be an idea to put the tags back on now that you have taken the nice pics 
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| dara |
When we came back from London I went out with neighbours gaffing salmon for years and so did a lot of other people round here - that's all changed - partly because the fish just aint there anymore and we're catching nothing on the moy these days, but mostly because you've had it if you get caught.
As well as a very heavy fine they will also take your herd number(s), any cheques or entitlements you are getting and you forfeit your rights to any future government grants. |
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| phil |
"Might be an idea to put the tags back on now."
I must get in touch with my friend straight away and get those tags. |
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| phil |
"partly because the fish just aint there anymore and we're catching nothing on the moy these days"
Theres obviously some fish about, maybe he caught them somewhere down country. |
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| dara |
There's fish about all right. I was looking at them laying up under the bridge in Charlestown on Saturday. Some good fish too.
We know yours could'nt have been caught round here because the official season finished end of September. I'd guess that red tinge is'nt 'cause they've been up a while but from a bloody good smoking they got back then - well you'd have to take the tags off to smoke them, would'nt you?.
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| phil |
absolutely | ||
| joker |
A somewhat higher penalty than you might expect to get for growing a small plantation of cannabis for personal use , then . Quite right imho . |
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| blowin |
A lot of the local old boys freely admit that they used to do this back when times were really hard -- 30 fish per night was not exceptional with the "best" catch being around 80 from the old bridge below Curry . Setting aside the ethics of poaching if you are really hungry , you should have seen the maize of legal nets in the bay outside Ballina ( Moy estuary ) a couple of years ago . So many it was quite hazardous to navigate a small boat around them and they seemed to go from surface right to sea-bed at low water . Mackerel shoals were trapped between them . Little wonder few fish ever got upstream . Hopefully they will stand some chance now . |
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| dara |
hello Joker - talk about change the subject, maybe we should open a new thread under 'alternative harvests'. I don't know what the penalty is now but round here the neighbours would'nt take too kindly (worse than anything a judge could throw at you) and a few years ago a certain judge used to delight in offering offending brits the choice of a stretch in the nick or a oneway ticket back to blighty.
I had the same experience with those bloody nets - but there were none last year and yet it was still one of the worse seasons for the moy catchment. |
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