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Have you considered using a drogue? Sometimes, particularly atm the tidal race/current is too fast. Also I would recommend watching the fish locker videos on YouTube, had a lot of haters on here, but John is a decent bloke and informative too.

Issue with that is the biomass that is removed from the oceans to feed the fish farm stocks. Look at the fish farms in the North African desert. Saline aquifers feeding them water, but harvested sandeel and other baitfish that’s ground up to feed the bass and black bream

Right decision to retreat, always another day. Always good to get off the mark though 👍

As does the salmon industry based in lochs and fiords. At least the freshwater prawn industry is thousands of miles away and fucks up other countries, still it’s a great way of getting rid of human waste.

The prawn you’re referring to are langustines, or Dublin Bay Prawn. They can easily be caught with creels and the fleet doesn’t need to trawl for them. However, until such time as they ban trawlers from the most productive areas, then creel boats haven’t got a chance.

Skye would be my favoured destination for a big pollock, Neist Point being the one I’d go for. Plenty of other places around the island for other targets. Never been to Orkney, but it probably holds the best chance of getting a big cod, but the haul there is always out of my budget for the...

Your mate’s bass is a sight for sore eyes 👍👍👍

Consistency is the true test of excellence and that’s you👌

www.tidetimes.org.uk These do the yellow book for all the areas, just select the one you want and for about £3 they’ll post one to you. Available about 3 months before the year starts and you can also buy an online version too. 👍

The Dexter Wedge is an old school metal that doesn’t need an inline orientated single hook. In fact you’d probably want an extra split ring to bring it back into line. Any hook would be fine really, especially since it’s on the tail of the lure. And if the target is mackerel, then maybe an...

I prefer chinu type hooks 👍

If you are specifically referring to British consumption, then yes we can reduce the amount we eat. Look at the epidemic of obesity in the U.K. we simply don’t need to eat as much food as we do. There’s plenty of choice for alternatives, chicken etc. I’m just as concerned about the vast amount...

They did it with the coal miners. There is always a way, it just takes the will.

Most fish spawn in winter, therefore close the fishery down between December to March. The US do this, due to past overfishing, so why can’t we?

I watched the first episode last night on the back of this thread. Pretty much sums commercial fishing shown in previous program incarnations both here in the U.K. and America too. I find it bizarre how people can set forth out into the seas and simply take virtually anything they want. The box...

I don’t believe the claptrap about man made climate change, or what was referred to until recently as global warming. If you care to look back 10’s of thousands of years from ice cores, you’ll see that climate changes have always occurred and more drastic changes happened long before man became...

The Red Sea has been warm enough for thousands of years, so to the Mediterranean and the bulk of the Atlantic, but they’ve only recently become an issue due to the direct stupidity of humans. Far more catastrophic than a tiny increase in sea temperatures. If someone came along and took 90% of...

Lion fish have been spread around the Red Sea and Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean by mankind in bilge water, thrown out or lost by careless aquarium owners. Few natural predators are known and they’re a bloody nightmare. Nothing to do with warming up of the oceans, but it doesn’t help in...

Funny, that’s what I was thinking too 🤣

You’re cherry picking. Half a degree on average. As for the geography lesson, mackerel have always used the same route, from arctic or near arctic seas to migrate to warmer waters, it’s just that the super trawlers intercept them further north and earlier in the year. They never get chance to...