Gardener's Question Time

Gwladys St. Glory said:
Yeah, I know...just not seen them mentioned by UK anglers much but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. They love the cold, drizzly and cloudy vibe so gotta' get Chernobyl-sized there. Nothing like a fish that can turn your fingers in to hamburger while removing the hook.
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Gwladys St. Glory said:
Yeah, I know...just not seen them mentioned by UK anglers much but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. They love the cold, drizzly and cloudy vibe so gotta' get Chernobyl-sized there. Nothing like a fish that can turn your fingers in to hamburger while removing the hook.
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At the age of 17 years old - I was invited to go to the lake district with my future in laws & Girlfriend who is now my wife my future Father in law got his rods out & went to a post office in Kendal to fish in the river at Kendal - this old dear was walking past with an umbrella in her hand as he was showing me how to cast etc - She suddenly started the verbals about fishing being a cruel sport - i just thought she was winding us up till she hit my to father in law on the head - he just turned around told her to behave & bent her umbrella in half & threw it over the bridge into the river :lol:
Animal rights in the early 1970s hey ho :D
I thought I like this guy - he was a hoot till he passed away 4 years ago with an aggressive brain tumor fishing is very popular sport & @COYBL25 has the right idea to fish in peace ....;)
 
Joey66 said:
At the age of 17 years old - I was invited to go to the lake district with my future in laws & Girlfriend who is now my wife my future Father in law got his rods out & went to a post office in Kendal to fish in the river at Kendal - this old dear was walking past with an umbrella in her hand as he was showing me how to cast etc - She suddenly started the verbals about fishing being a cruel sport - i just thought she was winding us up till she hit my to father in law on the head - he just turned around told her to behave & bent her umbrella in half & threw it over the bridge into the river :lol:
Animal rights in the early 1970s hey ho :D
I thought I like this guy - he was a hoot till he passed away 4 years ago with an aggressive brain tumor fishing is very popular sport & @COYBL25 has the right idea to fish in peace ....;)
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Damn, the ending stopped the fun, 'cos believe you me, there's volumes.
 
Rita_Poon said:
Damn, the ending stopped the fun, 'cos believe you me, there's volumes.
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I keep fish & feed them daily - I was a sea angler in my day but ate my prey for breakfast ... yum yum - a pond is a nice feature in a garden but I am getting to old to bother now - they are hard work for me & my family - they spawned one year & i have too many fish in my pond now...
they are my babies ....
 

Joey66 said:
At the age of 17 years old - I was invited to go to the lake district with my future in laws & Girlfriend who is now my wife my future Father in law got his rods out & went to a post office in Kendal to fish in the river at Kendal - this old dear was walking past with an umbrella in her hand as he was showing me how to cast etc - She suddenly started the verbals about fishing being a cruel sport - i just thought she was winding us up till she hit my to father in law on the head - he just turned around told her to behave & bent her umbrella in half & threw it over the bridge into the river :lol:
Animal rights in the early 1970s hey ho :D
I thought I like this guy - he was a hoot till he passed away 4 years ago with an aggressive brain tumor fishing is very popular sport & @COYBL25 has the right idea to fish in peace ....;)
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Fishing in peace is becoming a thing of the past here which saddens me. Montana, Wyoming, Alaska...'bout the last bastions of a proper American day out in the back country.
 
Joey66 said:
I keep fish & feed them daily - I was a sea angler in my day but ate my prey for breakfast ... yum yum - a pond is a nice feature in a garden but I am getting to old to bother now - they are hard work for me & my family - they spawned one year & i have too many fish in my pond now...
they are my babies ....
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maybe it's me talking in Klingon.
 
Rita_Poon said:
There's a lot here, so let's get to it.

In the hierarchy of knob-head birds, I think geese are silver medal to swans.

Where are you considering borrowing the fish to stock this pond/pit with? And does the land owner have any idea of your plans? Do you know whoever it is?

This next bit is best though, about 3 hours ago we established you've never had a rod licence, and now you've set yourself up as the anti carp fishermen cops. You must be somewhere fairly secluded, how sly do you reckon you can be you and jnr? Would it not be worth finding a small local anglers club and introducing him through that? With a bit of structure and law following it'd make getting into the game a bit more straight forward?

cowboy ninja skirmish fishing might be a bit stressful from the off?

Reading your post back, I guess the rampant weed is what's choked the water off sustaining life thus far, but if you tidy that out might you find another problem, in that is it a body of water that takes run off from local fields or is part of a stream system? It might be worth getting the water checked for contaminants as you'll be heart broke if in 12 months time and a load of hard work that a flash rain fall has washed a load of fertilizer through it and killed everything.
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I can't disagree more with this.

Canada Geese are the top of the nobhead bird pyramid
 

Rita_Poon said:
Swans are about twice the size and twice the weight. If I was allowed I'd deport the lot. Awful bullies, I dislike them like kopites.
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My experience with swans is mostly seeing them on the water. Canadian geese are aggressive.

The geese are terrorists every spring up here and leave their nasty green craps everywhere.

They all have their goslings in the Ottawa River here and the beligerent nobheads chase small children and cyclists. They did not like my Alsatian though and always herded the goslings into the water will spitting bloody murder at him.

Vile creatures them.
 
Efcjake said:
My experience with swans is mostly seeing them on the water. Canadian geese are aggressive.

The geese are terrorists every spring up here and leave their nasty green craps everywhere.

They all have their goslings in the Ottawa River here and the beligerent nobheads chase small children and cyclists. They did not like my Alsatian though and always herded the goslings into the water will spitting bloody murder at him.

Vile creatures them.
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silver for a reason. The difference between Jake La Mota and iron mike.
 
Efcjake said:
My experience with swans is mostly seeing them on the water. Canadian geese are aggressive.

The geese are terrorists every spring up here and leave their nasty green craps everywhere.

They all have their goslings in the Ottawa River here and the beligerent nobheads chase small children and cyclists. They did not like my Alsatian though and always herded the goslings into the water will spitting bloody murder at him.

Vile creatures them.
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If there`s enough of them, they can seriously pollute still waters too with the amount of bird crap they deposit in the water.
 

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