Lure Challenge 2014

[phill_itofish]

Well done everyone, Table Updated.

Sorry Si your 'Fish' cant be counted, not only because you dont have your card but because he's not a FISH lol

 

[Wreckingball76]

Small technicality..... just testing. Lol

 

[pointer]

I've only managed three two hour sessions after carp and one day last week on a boat after Tope but a few fish have come up.

Common carp

Chub

Tench

Rudd

Caught a few things whilst fishing for bait using sabiki rig.

Mackerel

Dab

Whiting

Grey Gurnard

 

[phill_itofish]

Well done mate, I'll update the table asap, looks like we have a new leader!

 

[natonthetyne]

BOOM! Nice haul of species Pointer! That has knocked me off the top spot for the first time in nearly 4 months. I don't think I can compete with all of those fresh water species. Still, I've beaten my previous best seasonl by 6 species (so far) so I'm happy..
Good effort mate
Cheers
Nathan

 

[pointer]

Thanks lads. I haven't been able to do much fishing this year but I should be able to put some time in for the next month and hopefully catch sea species, it wouldn't be right to just have a load of freshwater. I only fish for carp anyway so the other things are caught by accident really so I can't see me getting any other freshwater ones.
Time for some LRF I think to catch those mini species.

 

[phill_itofish]

Table Updated

 

[phill_itofish]

Thanks lads. I haven't been able to do much fishing this year but I should be able to put some time in for the next month and hopefully catch sea species, it wouldn't be right to just have a load of freshwater. I only fish for carp anyway so the other things are caught by accident really so I can't see me getting any other freshwater ones.
Time for some LRF I think to catch those mini species.

I might have to go the other way and do a bit of freshwater.

 

[pointer]

I might have to go the other way and do a bit of freshwater.

Have a go mate you might like it, mind carp can become an obsession.

 

[natonthetyne]

There's nowt wrong with catching a load of fresh water species, Pointer, it just shows that you're a good all-round angler . It's whithin the rules of the comp, I have 3 myself,and it means i have to learn a few new techniques.

Agreed Phill, I think we might need to get some wagglers on the go! ;-)

 

[pointer]

Thanks mate, I like any fishing and there's so many species and different methods I haven't tried yet. I've never caught a Ballan Wrasse so that's something I want to put right soon.

 

[Uncle_Filthster]

Lesser weever

One question... Why are mirror and common carp counting as 2 different species? They are nothing more than man made scale variations of the same species (Cyprinus carpio), as are koi, ghosties, butterfly koi, and doitsu magoi where colour, finnage and scaling have been altered. This is the same with blue and golden trout which are nothing more than man made colour variations of rainbow trout, so they are still the same species.
That is slightly different however to sea trout, which are a natural sub-species of brown trout so technically could be classed as another species (and was at one point classified by taxonomists as a distinct species).

Not being a tw4t, just wanting clarification

 

[pointer]

The points you make were mentioned earlier on in the thread. I'm not bothered either way. I've never caught a golden trout and if I did I would see it as something different although not a different species. I still remember the first golden tench I caught but I can't remember my first normal coloured tench.

There will always be debate about man made course fish being stocked in lakes but I quite like the variety. I hate catching Ide,Rudd, roach and bream but I don't mind the odd golden orfe lol.

 

[phill_itofish]

A valid question mate, as Pointer has said it was discussed early doors. I looked at the different carp species and found there were many different genus for the same family and that the Mirror carp (Cyprinus carpio carpio) was a sub genus of the Common (Cyprinus carpio) so decided it should be ok. The trout question was also raised, last year i think, and it was decided that Sea and Brown trout were the same Species (Salmo trutta) the same goes for the Raindow, Gold and Blue Trout.

As ever this might be something we revise next year and has already been discussed

 

[Uncle_Filthster]

No worries
I can't abide rainbows myself, horrible things they are over here but wouldn't mind catching them in an Alaskan stream or going for the natural golden sub species in california.
I'd love a proper ide from their natural habitat but it would mean a trip to Scandinavia or Poland, 6lb ide on an ultralight set up would be a fair scrap

 

[phill_itofish]

Table Updated,

My next targets are Launce, Bass, Wrasse, Flounder and Pike I've had all these in recent years and know how and where to get them, just need to put the hours in.

 

[pointer]

Whilst catching doggies and Huss last week I did think about trying to catch one on a shad but as my fishing time has been so limited I didn't risk wasting any on an experiment. I think it could be done, they are predatory fish after all.

Maybe one day I'll try.

 

[natonthetyne]

Whilst catching doggies and Huss last week I did think about trying to catch one on a shad but as my fishing time has been so limited I didn't risk wasting any on an experiment. I think it could be done, they are predatory fish after all.

Maybe one day I'll try.

This is my 2nd season of trying to catch a wrasse on the lure. I did get a corkwing off whitley a month ago on my yak but had no camera. I've read that people catch them with the 10g fiiish black minnow shads but it's not worked for me, yet. Hopefully tomorrow that will change.

 

[Uncle_Filthster]

Anyone noticed that there aren't as many flounder about as there was a couple of months ago? Usually I can go straight out and get one on a lure but they seem to have buggered off somewhere as even on bait there aren't as many as usual.

Black minnows are highly rated for wrasse by a few people, not had one on mine yet though Can only keep trying, but maybe because they aren't present in as great numbers as dahn sahf they don't have as much competition so maybe aren't as eager to hit lures.

 

[Nooo Fish]

Pollack