This is kent -angling reports

Below is a link to the folkestone area angling report which appeared this week - tends to be a report most weeks they appear in the sports section on a Friday morning- report can be found by checking through the sports pages or doing a search (yates usually finds it)

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/news/Officers-town-stop-fishy-goings/article-3146181-detail/article.html

There was a time you could read the east kent mercury reports online as well but that tight lot over in Deal charge an annual subscription for that now.

If anyone else is aware a good angling related news source - please post a link

Dave

The East Kent Mercury has got to cut back on freebies now they are paying me £15 an article for ‘Those were the days’ … which is an improvement from the £10 I used to get!

In this week’s letter page of the EKM, a chap has taken Mr Yates to task for having a go at commercial fishermen. The only problem being was that Alan wrote the comments in the Mercury’s rival paper – the Dover Express.

Hold the front page … or just call me ‘Scoop’.

This weeks report- seems the fishing is better round here than Ireland

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/sport/Luck-Irish-thing-time/article-3173237-detail/article.html

Hope Alan gets his expenses paid, that an expensive trip to blank

D.A.A. comp gets a mention this week

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/news/Dave-s-big-catch-proves-ray-joy/article-3336863-detail/article.html

If you drop lower down it sais " Read more about Mike Burke"


it takes you to a Morris dancing page whats that all about Mike

secrets out lol

This weeks report has a write up on the Dungy comp at the weekend - sorry no mention mike

Was interested to read that Martyn targetted the hounds with crab. I believe we would see hounds come from many more diffent places if more people fished with crab during the summer- but i would never have dreamt of trying it at Dungerness in April

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/news/Reid-smooth-operator-Martyn-lands-title/article-3415778-detail/article.html

Thsi weeks offering

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/news/Lugworm-bait-big-pier-catch/article-3593203-detail/article.html

A bit of match news this week

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Nothin-troublin-Open-winner-Nathan/story-14344955-detail/story.html

Has a lot to say this week, pity we cant get him on here

Nick Hedges wrote:Has a lot to say this week, pity we cant get him on here

May be one day - I see facebook gets a mention which surprised me

Dave Andrews wrote:

Nick Hedges wrote:Has a lot to say this week, pity we cant get him on here

May be one day - I see facebook gets a mention which surprised me

Most of the 'names' are on Facebook. Poor show that a third of the entry did not turn-up for the Hythe match.

"Noakes, who is also the secretary of the Folkestone Fishermen's Association, insists the English Channel has never had so many cod and that it's playing into the hands of sea anglers"

Must live on a different planet see

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Folkestone-fisherman-hits-English-Channel-cod/story-14421002-detail/story.html

Mussels War

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/2012/january/18/new_page/mussels_war.aspx

Dave Andrews wrote:"Noakes, who is also the secretary of the Folkestone Fishermen's Association, insists the English Channel has never had so many cod and that it's playing into the hands of sea anglers"

Must live on a different planet see

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Folkestone-fisherman-hits-English-Channel-cod/story-14421002-detail/story.html

For anybody who can remember that far back, in the words of Mandy Rice Davies, Mr Noakes and Mr Yates ‘would say that wouldn’t he’. We all have our own opinion which should, in theory, come from by research and commonsense. However, we are all emotive and do tend to hang on to other peoples opinions … right or wrong. Any angling opinion I have had (right or wrong) has been about my own patch and I wouldn’t be qualified to talk about elsewhere. That’s the disclaimer over with.

Has commercial fishing brought about a decline in fish stocks at Deal?

For a start the quality of shore angler and equipment has improved that much that I think shore fishing is good. OK, we do not catch cod in numbers, but there are plenty of other fish to target - and coming home with a complete blank is normally down to the angler and state of tide or time they fish.

However, the fish catches in the boat off Deal have suffered. The other day I was talking to a chap who has had a boat on the beach for more years than I can remember and has fished for England. He reckoned that last year was very poor. I have great respect for this man’s angling abilities, and also his opinion. So why is it that bad off Deal?

Many years ago I was a strong campaigner against gill nets. One of the main instigators was a local commercial fisherman, who, believe or not, was also a good friend of mine. We would ague all night, in the pub, who was right or wrong.

At that time, I was chartering and my business relied on catching fish for my customers. I could guarantee hundred-weights of spurdog at the end of April and beginning of May. October, the better size cod would come inshore as regular as clockwork and could be caught till February. I opened up inshore wrecking, where, if the sea was clear enough, we could catch double figure cod less than a mile from shore in the summer months … and I won’t bore you with the turbot that we caught off the Sands.
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And then along came gill netting. The spurdog were hammered, the cod were hammered and even my inshore wrecks were hammered. The Sands were scoured with drift nets and I did not see anymore turbot.

That was my argument against C/F and their argument was that they were supplying the nation with food (well actually over 70% of British fish is exported). So, that was the dispute, anglers do it for pleasure (although my wages depended on it) and the C/F does it for a living. Who was right?

Now that I have retired, my blood pressure does not reach the heights and passion as it did in my younger days, and I’m still friends with the local C/F. Even he admits the fish at Deal are not as abundant as they used to be.

Again I ask the question where have they gone (from Deal). I have no answers as I’m not qualified. However, I can only speculate. Have the C/F caught them all – maybe, but unlikely as fish are migratory. Have the fish got some sort of brain where they will bypass an area where their brothers and sisters were slaughtered last time. Are the seals eating the resident and migratory stock as it appears off Deal? Are the charter and angling boats killing all the cod from the offshore wrecks in the summer months before the can get inshore?

I cannot truthfully answer any of these questions with a clear conscience. Can You?

Dave Chamberlain wrote:
Again I ask the question where have they gone (from Deal).

Good read Dave - we will never know but nature is a wonderful thing it’s amazing how species like hounds, thornbacks and even whiting have increased in numbers round here as others have moved away or have been decimated.

If i could have a go with Dr Who's Tardis i would like to go back a couple of hundred years to see what was to be caught before man started to have an influence- i would also be quite interested to see how the bait beds looked too. Mind you if I was only allowed one trip I would just go back a week to get the lottery numbers!

A link you may find of interest- pobably best not to comment on this

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/9491903.Dion__I___m_innocent/

Dave A wrote:A link you may find of interest- pobably best not to comment on this

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/9491903.Dion__I___m_innocent/

... totally agree.

oh go on, i dare you


Well the way i see it, the man aint hiding so he must believe in his word, and if hes been about that long there must be plenty to back up his word