Catch report Dunstanburgh Castle

[Charlie2005]

My actions wern\'t intentional We visited the mark to spin for Pollack i had no idea that mackrel would be there in those numbers what was i meant to do quit fishing for the day and go home i doubt it mate,put it this way the mackrel were even being caught on our weights so what else could we do?If you have any susgestions please enlighten me

[marksworld]

You aint a proper fisherman Charlie2005.
Your actions have sent 279 mackeral to their deaths.
I will be reporting you to the RSPCF.

get off ya high horse, if the poor lad did not know he does now. when i first read this post i did not know myself but i do now but i dont target macky apart from when boat fishing and that is not often
have we all not once did something wrong while fishing wether by mistake or not, i have, we all have and anyone who hasn\'t is lying.

mark

[morgs]

I don\'t think the lad has done anything wrong. He thought that he was acting in good faith by retuning the mackerel to fight another day.

I personally enjoy light spinning for mackerel on a summers night and unwittingly, have always returned a surplus catch.

Mind you I can\'t remember catching more than ten in one session.

I have just returned from a weeks fishing near the borders. Never seen any sight of mackerel. I was fishing at: Beadnell, Seahouses, Berwick pier, Burnmouth & Eyemouth. I eventually caught three, for the barby, at Torness Power station.

One thing I found puzzling was fishing Berwick pier on a summers night, high tide and I was the only person there.

[uggy26]

You aint a proper fisherman Charlie2005.
Your actions have sent 279 mackeral to their deaths.
I will be reporting you to the RSPCF.

Hmm, the RSPCF, good one conger!

Charlie has done nothing at all wrong. He just done something that he wasn\'t aware of, and that\'s why I originally posted to make him, and others aware of the weakness of a mackeral as there was nothing on the site to inform anyone of this.
Now that Charlie, and marksworld, along with the other 400 or so viewers know the craic, we may not have to have these \'How did you get them off the hooks to return them, Charlie?\' and \'What was the catch return process for these fish Charlie?\' replies, to what was an excellent catch report.

[TC]

Uggy,
Hmmmm...bit selective in your quotes................read the post I made after I asked how the fish were removed from the hooks......if you\'ve already read it - read it again.

I totally agree - Charlie had done nothing wrong (intentionally) by catching and releasing the fish. He was doing what he (and I dare say, many others would\'ve thought, too), the right thing by returning what he didn\'t need. Far better to do that than to leave a pile of unwanted fish rotting on the pier (as is often the case).

Up until a couple of years ago, I knew nothing about the damage that can be done to mackeral simply by handling them, either and had released many by unhooking them in the same manner as other fish.

We all live & learn.

[Charlie2005]

Cheers ALL
I think alot of people wern\'t aware of the fact of how handling Mackrel can cause them death,including myself but rest assured the next Mackrel i catch i\'ll know what to do!!!
Can i just say to put the record straight i didn\'t intentionaly go fishing for Mackrel they just happened to be there and it was great sport catching them on a light spinning outfit,mind you the old tennis elbow has started again since the trip but a good day was had.
I\'m off to the tackle shop tommorrow morn to see if they\'ll replace my spinning reel i bought as the amount of fish we caught that day stripped the gears on it,A brand new Shakespear reel who would of thought it but never mind thats part of fishing
Once again cheers lads and lasses

[uggy26]

Yes TC I did, and have read it.
Likewise, when someone tells me they caught a fish, my immediate response is \'how did you get it off the hook?\'

[gazzawill]

im same as mark i never knew of this problem till i read this and i agree with him , how many things have us and i meen all us anglers done. everyone has to learn so leave off charlie he thought he was doing his bit for conservation , now we all know and as tc said theres plenty that use mackerel for throwing games theres genuine anglers who cherrish the mackerel for bait for winter or food for them selves

[Charlie2005]

I wonder what would of been said if i had of kept all 300 of them would people be disgusted then?
Looks like i\'ve opened a real can of worms in this topic the good thing that has came out of this is next time i catch a mackrel i wont handle them unless its coming home with me

[Charlie2005]

Very funny congerking my sides are splitting

[Davey.adair]

Two posts to your name congerking and both have been pointless IMO, first post, I\'M GOING TO REPORT YOU, second post, NOW I\'M GOING TO CALL YOU A LIAR.

Charlie2005 didn\'t realise handling mackerel would damage them, now thanks to NESA he does.

As Marksworld rightly said \"get off ya high horse\"

[BriH]

I bet anyone £5 (RNLI fund) CongerKing is chucked off this site before the Clocks Change - what a Clown ,talk about bleating on about nowt - have a walk along Shields pier Congerking and you will have about 30 \"fisherman \" you can Preach to ,and get them to change their ways on mass slaughter - the fella thought he was doing the right thing by returning his excess catch ,End of story ,live with it - you must be in the Fishing World Cup team ,saying as your the best on here ,or have you also made the odd mistake when fishing BUT learnt from it like Charlie2005 and many others looking in !!!

[alan]

Charlie you have a private message,look above \"Search Box\" on the left

[Charlie2005]

Cheers Alan

[alan]