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keep the reports cominging m8 take no notice all reports are welcome especially those from the south of the region.if the fish is dead or dying when landed do these people think it will come back to life if you throw it back?
i would say that fish is undersize and even if it wasnt i wouldnt bother trying to keep it as you would get virtually nothing off it for food whether it was dead or dying doesnt make a difference if it is undersize it is illegal to keep
It still wasn't under size would it make you feel better if I got it out the frezzer and took a pic with a tape measure nxt to it don't see why people have the need to critasize I only put a report up if this is what it is like I will not bother
dont you worry about the moning of some ppl on here i caught 135 whities one niyt with my m8 kev and post ov them were belters ie 2lb this time last year . and some ppl were happy ie they couldnt gt to the cod for the rats lol. others were not happy . i got a write up in the JOURNEL it was a fair write up to. i dig/collect most of my own bait and so what ever i catch gose home for my grandad. i got few m8s with boats and trawlers they all get me fish crabs ect all year for my grandad. the call him the seal lol. ill pm you and am guna go digging tmoro morning pos fishing tmoro nyt. if you fancy it pm me bk spotter
ok thant was between my self and kev moon we fished side by side between us 135 i got 78 he got 57 as you can count the fish on the floor ther is 67 and ther was more in the bucket and a bin liner lol any ways they gone now they were on 2 hook flappers with rag and mackrel. then another nyt we used spinning rods 15lb line that was more fun lol ppl looked at us as if we were craizy lol
I keep Whiting and Dabs as they are 2 of my favourite fish to eat.The legal size limit is 20cm, so I can see they are both size, no problem. I have had people criticise me keeping legal sized whiting while they are happily keeping undersized coalfish,(under 45cm).If they won't go back why waste them?
I keep Whiting and Dabs as they are 2 of my favourite fish to eat.The legal size limit is 20cm, so I can see they are both size, no problem. I have had people criticise me keeping legal sized whiting while they are happily keeping undersized coalfish,(under 45cm).If they won't go back why waste them?
You need to familiarise yourself with the current Minimum Landing Sizes (MLS's) for these species. There is actually no minimum size for dabs, for whiting it's 27cm and the mls for coalfish is 35cm, not 45.
So long as a fish is of legal size, then you're quite entitled to keep it.
You need to familiarise yourself with the current Minimum Landing Sizes (MLS's) for these species. There is actually no minimum size for dabs, for whiting it's 27cm and the mls for coalfish is 35cm, not 45.
So long as a fish is of legal size, then you're quite entitled to keep it.
OOOps! Sorry! I mis-read the size limits.
I have them on the top of my box and have a min. size for Dabs at 20cm. and 27 for Whiting as you said!
Gary is right, there is no MLS for Dab south of the Tyne Minimum Landing Sizes and as far as I can tell north of the Tyne also. Can't find minimum sizes on the Northumberland IFCA site so I assume they just use the EU ones (either that or they are very well hidden).
It is a moot point whether MLS apply to rescreational shore anglers anyway; the wording of the relevant laws suggests they apply to commercial landings only. That said I wouldn't want to be the one to go to court in a test case...
The whole business of size limits can get confusing! There are quite a few species that have no legal minimum size; two more I think are flounder and poutings - so you could quite happily fill up a bucket with dabs, flounders & pouts of any size to feed to the cat/make fish-cakes/boil up as a stew or whatever.
However, angling clubs have usually adopted the size limits established by the old Northern Federation of Sea Anglers, which will give certain minimum sizes for things like dabs (20cm) or flounders (25cm). Some take an extra step and up certain species by a few centimetres to avoid unnecessarily large bags of small fish being weighed in - such as upping flounders, for example, to 27 or 28cm. Probably the most commonly confused is the size for bass (there have been several posts in the past on this one!) - the legal size being 36cm, the "recommended retention size" being 41cm.
This is why when fishing matches it's worth checking the rules - I've fished matches where flounders, for example, have been 25, 27, 28 or 30cm depending on the event. Then, of course, there are your catch, measure and release match sizes (usually a minimum of 20cm, or 18cm for SAMF events) which are purely to reward the angler for their effort, as all fish are returned, not retained.
So long as you familiarise yourself with the sizes that the ICFA & DEFRA publish, you won't go far wrong (at least as far as the law is concerned!)
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