why keep fish if you dont want them

[01kayak]

was walking up south shields pier today saturday about 3ish and in the harbour near the brigade hut , i noticed about 9 dead whitting floating in the water they coudnt of been there for long as the seagulls hadnt spotted them yet , why kill fish if you dont want them or was it just someones bag of fish that accidently fell in the water jeff

 

[adam123]

maybe people further up the pier had put them pack and they've went belly up and floated down alongside the pier.

 

[louis268]

its funny mate i caught two last night on shields pier and quickly put them back in the water and they wouldnt swim away i didnt know what was up with them ,seems a bit strange as i was careful with them as i knew i wasnt keeping them

 

[01kayak]

i would hope something like that is the case but nine fish in about 10 meters and the gulls hadnt got them

 

[Stewart 1971]

Small Whiting tend not to go back very well at all. Even off the beach plenty of fish will go belly up, dropped back in over the pier wall very few will survive.

It's very naiive to think that just because a fish is alive when you chuck it back in it is going to survive. Flatties and Eels excepted in my experience the majority of undersize round fish probably don't make it we just don't usually see the evidence.

 

[lug]

one way to return small fish is hook them through the gill with your grip wire and out the mouth and lower back in

 

[peeagee]

I was out last year and a group of young lads asked if there could keep the mackerel I had just caught ( three on daylites) When I asked what there were going to do with them, the reply came, " A dunno. Just kick em along the pier." needless to say all fish went back swimming. My philosophy is either you use it or it goes back. As bait or to eat I don't mind but just catching for the sake annoys me. I suppose that's why I hate Maccy season. I have seen people(chavs) walk off the pier and dump their Aldi bags full of mackerel just to be pick up by the local bin men. This may sound like a rant but as a decent sea fisherman or woman I hope you get the point.

 

[lug]

I was out last year and a group of young lads asked if there could keep the mackerel I had just caught ( three on daylites) When I asked what there were going to do with them, the reply came, " A dunno. Just kick em along the pier." needless to say all fish went back swimming. My philosophy is either you use it or it goes back. As bait or to eat I don't mind but just catching for the sake annoys me. I suppose that's why I hate Maccy season. I have seen people(chavs) walk off the pier and dump their Aldi bags full of mackerel just to be pick up by the local bin men. This may sound like a rant but as a decent sea fisherman or woman I hope you get the point.

no rant mate all perfectly correct

i dont really eat fish the father inlaw does and the neighbour so any that are big enough go to them also the sister inlaw has 2 cats so any that were not wanted would go to her

 

[09gmarsh2009]

i hate it when you catch a small fish and unhook it and put it back then just floats! if i fish the beach and catch small i wade in and release it in and they seem to swim away then!

 

[peeagee]

Cheers lug. I thought it was just me. :thumbup:

 

[BestNest]

one way to return small fish is hook them through the gill with your grip wire and out the mouth and lower back in

Top notch idea that m8! The pier wall on a low tide is a canny drop for a 20cm Codling!!!!!

 

[codling9]

putting fish back

putting fish back

It was a bloke who caught a load of fish off the walkway this morning throwing the whiting back I was at the fisrt gate and saw them floating by - some nice fish in the discards

 

[Thunderpants]

was walking up south shields pier today saturday about 3ish and in the harbour near the brigade hut , i noticed about 9 dead whitting floating in the water they coudnt of been there for long as the seagulls hadnt spotted them yet , why kill fish if you dont want them or was it just someones bag of fish that accidently fell in the water jeff

I was on the pier today all day until about 3.30 ish varying between the blocks and the end - there were no whiting caught by anyone in this area so the ones you saw must have been caught further down.

 

[<(Andy2009)>]

It really ticks me off why people even bother writing threads like this. Fair enough if ya found 9 fish dead on the ground, but in the water, for crying out loud its a common thing sometimes...

What if the guy who caught them found that the fish were deep hooked?? 90% of anglers will probably end up injuring the fish to the point of no survival when removing a deep hook in a fish, we've all done it before, including myself.

Its just one of those things that happens. It's probably an everyday thing on most piers with unfortunate deep hooked fish, so there's no one to blame, **** happens, deal with it or take some money oot ya wallet and go to Co-Operative Funeral and buy some fishy coffins (if they make em that size)

I also think theres around 10 or 20 other threads like this or based on the same thing...

RANT OVER.

 

[RossW]

If a coalie or whiting is deep hooked and undersized and will certainly die, is it such a crime to go home with it and slam it in a frying pan or a fiskcake?

Obviously don't target little uns but some anglers whack 14 inch codling on the head because they are "size" regardless of them being lip-hooked and yet they chuck 13.5 inch fish back, deep-hooked and knackered, and watch them float away to become crab food.

Anyway, as previous lad says, its not tiddly-winks, it's fishing. I remember feeling sorry for the ragworms when I was a kid. But I was a soppy kid.

Tight lines to all