Catch & release

[big sid]

Is there a club within the NorthEast that practises a catch and release scheme when fishing club matches and if not why not ?

I for one and I hope I'm not alone on this one. Strongly believe that a coddling coalie pollack to mention just three when just sizable for a match, just aren't big enough to keep and should be returned alive and unharmed.There's other species such as wrasse which are kept and killed if caught in a match, but caught any other time these are returned hopefuly unharmed.
Now don't get me wrong I'm not wanting to stop anglers taking fish home for the plate but just sizable? There's just not enough meat on the fillets to justify killing it not even for your cat.

Put them back for tomorrow and tomorrow they will be bigger.

[big sid]

I am alone

Maybe early days but after 109 views and not one reply it seems I may be on my own? So for the sake of winning the small club match and a few quid the club members prefer to kill fish needlessly collect their blood money,then dump the bodies in the nearest rubbish bin.

[geordieshaun]

Hi,

I'm not sure about the clubs, but looking through the catch reports on here it looks to me that the majority here practice catch and release. I'm not sure how many are club members though.

I havent fished a club match for about 15 years, but when I did it was down to the individual if they took the fish that were size. The majority only took the bigger fish though, and then only "edible" fish.

shaun

[codseeker]

most of my trips away in the summer months i release all fish as for winter some decent size fish are kept and smaller ones go back ,but its just pleasure fishing for me

[micky-quayle]

many of the organised sweepsteaks matches organised in both the tyne and the wear are measure and release matches where the fish are measured and released and the winner the one with the most centimetres. the only exeption is eels, every eel caught is counted as a certain length regardless of its size, then returned, have you ever tried measuring a live eel !

[Charlie_Thompson]

have you ever tried measuring a live eel !

Use a rubber ruler

[kela66]

with the advent of the "digital age" ie scale's, cameras & mobile phones with good cameras surely an end should be in sight for this practice ?
the killing of wrasse ,pout and other fish most people don't eat plus young fish that have yet to mature and breed is bad practice , how many tonnes of fish must be killed every year in the uk only to be weighed in at a comp then dumped

[Lowrider]

Never saw this thread hence why no reply but a topic i have raised in the past and feel is the way to go.
Just hope some of the bigger comps go for it this Winter

[el_sid]

a always practice catch and release only keep fish that are knackered such as ling. a fish purely for the sport, this has always put me off joinin clubs or entering comps, couldnt sit and watch unedible fish such as wrasse(which is also very slow growing) being killed just to ad a few extra points

[waco]

agree with what your saying about the taking of fish that are not eaten and borderline fish when caught and ending up undersize when weighed in. how could you make catch and release work in opens when boundries somtimes miles apart e. g. tynemouth pier --- druidridge bay. liked to think there is a solution but a can't see where from????

[codseeker]

new technology a satalite video link pmsl

[nemosharktale]

Is there a club within the NorthEast that practises a catch and release scheme when fishing club matches and if not why not ?

I for one and I hope I'm not alone on this one. Strongly believe that a coddling coalie pollack to mention just three when just sizable for a match, just aren't big enough to keep and should be returned alive and unharmed.There's other species such as wrasse which are kept and killed if caught in a match, but caught any other time these are returned hopefuly unharmed.
Now don't get me wrong I'm not wanting to stop anglers taking fish home for the plate but just sizable? There's just not enough meat on the fillets to justify killing it not even for your cat.

Put them back for tomorrow and tomorrow they will be bigger.

l think if you just want to fish catch and release it would be better leaveing the clubs alone and fish for fun least that way you at pulling them out the see for points and we all know they all dont live when we put them back l fish for what l can eat dont keep anything l cant eat but its everyone till there own.

[Red5]

I used to fish a club and this bothered me when I was there.....Not so much with the codling, as there were very few 'just size' brought back to the weigh in, but certainly coalies that were just size, were brought back and dumped and dogfish....Mind you it was a cardinal sin to knock a flounder on the head, they had to be brought in a bucket, weighed and released.........Curious eh?

[big sid]

Catch & release

I brought this topic up mainly targeting the local club matches. Some matches aren't that well attended while others are. The less well attened matches were there's less than twelve, even less on some matches. Members fishing should have no doubts as to what should be happening to the fish caught, also the least attended matches the winnings surly don't come into it to make anyone (dare i say it )cheat. If there's one place were a catch&release could and should be practiced it has to be on our piers i can't see no excuse not to,and on an ending note.
Could we not take fish care to a level such as the coarse/carp anglers practice ?

[tonynufc]

sid your entitled to your opinion but before you say things on a forum have you thought about going to our club meetings to voice your concerns.