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Sounds great Neil, keep up the good work!!
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Wow some awesome colour! You could probably sell that for a few grand.
I know, isn't it crazy what those Japanese Koi dealers will pay!!??
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Nice Pickerel there Scott. What does a Redfin Pickerel's markings look like? And aren't they a little bit smaller pickerel, yet?
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Firstly, HNV baits are producing bigger fish than ever in England. It took years for Chris Yates to break the record that Dick Walker held for ages. Same again happened. As bait progressed, more and more fifty plus fish have been caught, which more than likely could not have happened on natural feed alone. The lakes there are tiny in comparison to here. An average sized lake for me here is 200 acres, over there its 2 acres. I used to fish a gravel pit at 60 acres, here its a tank!
I don't think the fishing has tapered off due to angling pressure, others disagree with me. I feel its natural pure and simply. There is a pyramid of smaller fish working up to a few larger ones. If you lose a few of the bigger fish, which I think has happened then there is more room for smaller ones to move up the pyramid. What happens is it takes more time for these fish to attain the bigger weights of the ones that were lost. This happens on all waters and again seen it many times with several different species.
Realistically we need to be promoting the reduction of Cormorants versus the removal of an exhibition fish to spend its remaining life in an unatural environment of a tank. Hell on Lake Fork they are wiping out the birds, why not do it on the Austin Lakes? These birds do prevent the pyramid from forming at the base and the end results is the TOTAL collapse of a lake. Like I said before, I have seen it on at least a couple of dozen lakes in England, it is total devestation.
I hate those dastardly Cormorants, they are eating up all of the perch and walleyes in many of our eastern lakes in South Dakota. I was talking to a fellow fisherman a couple of years back, and we both thought that there should be a quota of cormorants each fisherman should have to shoot, each day of fishing, before they are allowed to wet a line. Like 3 cormorants per outing. I don't think our plan would be well accepted by the general public, though.
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That is an awesome accomplishment! Bill, you are right! It does look scaleless!
It does appear to be a Leather Koi. How cool and rare is that? And through the ice to boot!! Great job Gary!
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Give it up Derek. Ain't no exotic pikes in Europe. There are 7 Poland's in the US though...
The boat looks an awful lot like an American or Canadian set-up also!
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Iain as your Therapist zat infomazione ist verboten!
Yeah Iain, "Got to keep the loonies on the path"!!!
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That sounds very cool Neil!!
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Is there any chance it could be a norlunge?
Do you mean a tiger musky? That is what a cross with a northern pike and a muskellunge gives you. It would have vertical bars if it was, not pike markings.
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What a photo set!
Yea, that second shot is groovy (attempt at being cool).
Nice try old man!!
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That's what redcoat and I will be aiming to catch over Easter weekend!! Lake Oahe, home of the big pike, whoooeee!!!
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Again those who have been before.
Where would you least like to be pegged on either day (so two choices).
Me - not opposite the old HQ Hotel (I have caught there but never during the ATC); Or by the Railway bridge - that's just a nightmare place to fish unless the weather is bad.
Keith, is the railroad bridge where all of the boaters hangout?
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Fantastic photos man,
that is some beautiful country!! So did you see Nessie??
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Nice, nutty story Horace!
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Yo Scott.....Once I make the changes in the code , everone will have 2 states if it applies. Good point there fellas.
Nice job Ken!!
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Brewboy,
I guess getting familiar with a new site is one of the hurdles. But, I appreciate you honesty....its all in the feed back. Thats what I am after. Im here to answer any questions that you or anyone might have.
Ken
Hi Ken,
when I received my new password and username to login it keeps telling me to try again. I have entered the info correctly, so what am I missing?
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it is "CASE SENSITIVE" and you log in under "ANGLERS LOG IN"
Maybe I didn't logout with my initial password, let me check that out.
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it is "CASE SENSITIVE" and you log in under "ANGLERS LOG IN"
I did that and went to the site and tried my username and password several times and it does not accept it. And I made sure that I used the exact same case as I was given. I also replied to Ken, but have not seen his reply from my e-mail yet. I'll keep trying.
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Neil, I entered all of my information and got my second username and password e-mailed to me, but it won't let me log in with the new password and username. Do you have any idea what might be wrong?
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Wow Neil, the registration of new teams really came to a grinding halt!! You might want to re-emphasize that it is open for 50 teams instead of 45 this year!!
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i have also caught my share of golden shiners. the reservior where i learned a lot of my carp fishing used to have a lot. you could always get them freelining a small peice of bread near the shore.
they definately look like roach/rudd, but are easy to separate since they are actually golden.
Hey, I don't like how you are holding that poor shiner mister!!! In the future let's try to support the body with at least a 2 finger cradle!!!!!
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Nice pics Jerome it looks like you guys caught plenty of nice fish. I guess the cold is easier to take when you are catching big lumps, huh?
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look how different the Rudd are here in Hamilton and in the Waikato River! i dont know why this is....
This is a biggie i caught the other night at the Hamilton Gardens lake.
That's a pretty one, I'll bet that would catch the eye of Mrs. Pike over here!
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Yes, the American Golden Shiner is a very closely related species of both the roach and the rudd, or as they called them in Germany, Red Fin and Red Eye.
FLASH---FLASH--FLASH a Texas "CLARISSA" ??????
in ATC 2010 and back...
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I find it interesting that most of the guys that feel that it is wrong to put the carp into an aquarium are ex-British patriots. I can definitely see where their viewpoint is coming from, growing up in a country where carp are considered a prize gamefish by the angling crowd. Growing up in the USA, where carp are not considered gamefish, by the vast majority of anglers, we tend to view things differently. I have travelled across this country from coast to coast, and from north to south for work, and one thing I know about my fellow Americans, is that a picture will just not cut it!! Maybe we are a bunch of crude barbarians, but I know, from first hand experiences, that the way to make the average American citizen to change his mind about something is to show him or her that something in person. It is amazing how many people will stand around the aquariums at Cabelas and Bass Pro shops, 'oohing and ahhing over all of the different fish they have swimming around in them. Most of the fish are not even that huge of specimens. I do agree that personally, I would prefer the capture of a 40 + pounder to be released, and would suggest that maybe something smaller, like a 20 pounder be donated to the Lunkers program, it sounds like there are plenty of them in Town Lake. It could be labeled as an average sized Town Lake carp. Hell, even a fifteen or 20 pound carp in a tank will dwarf almost every other fish, except for maybe some cats. You just can't change the American Joe blow fisherman 's mind with pictures, and this is coming from a guy who never dreamed he would fish for carp for the first 25 years of his fishing life!! Remember, most American fishermen have a deeply, almost racist-like hatred for the carp, because it is something they don't understand, and were taught to hate. If you can show them what a carp looks like, swimming around in a tank, where they can see its majestic size and obvious power, it will have a much greater impact on them then just looking at a static picture. That's my 4 and a half cents worth.