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Post by Clydesider on Dec 2, 2004 10:51:51 GMT -5
Was at one of my local fisheries and the owner had caught a 5lb tiger trout. What a gub it had on it! A miassive kype and if he'd caught it anywhere but the scissors, it would have bitten any line you might care to use at a put an take fishery right through.
Anyway, the point is; it had four finger marks on one side and a thumb print on the other. Some eejit had picked it up with dry hands and faffed about with it, then put it back. The fish was scarred for life as a result. Horrible disfiguration of what was otherwise a spectacular fish.
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Post by dunc85 on Dec 2, 2004 11:33:44 GMT -5
May I refer you to my previous question? "What species of trout were they?" richard I heard you the first time, but was delaying whether to answer or not, as you would probably tell me that fishing for trout in winter is not right.
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Post by richardw on Dec 2, 2004 15:45:23 GMT -5
Please yourself then! The speculative answers you have had so far show how varied are the problems that trout can have. If you had answered either of my posts, instead of ignoring them, we could at least have eliminated some of the possible causes. Rainbow trout can have certain ailments that brown trout do not get and vice versa. What do you want? Answers to your questions that have some chance of being right? Or just a thread of uninformed speculation? If you had answered my original question I would have then asked if the stock fish were being replenished from stews by the fishery and if so whether the stews were "upstream" of the fishery and whether the outfall was "upstream" of the fishery. Even with these pieces of information, any answers I gave you in return would still be speculative but they would have had more chance of being correct. Right now, none of us can really help you with any confidence of being right... richard
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Post by Adz on Dec 3, 2004 3:07:35 GMT -5
Some eejit had picked it up with dry hands Really no excuse for that when it's a fish you have to net is there? It only takes a second to wet a hand on the mesh of the net before touching a fish
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Post by Clydesider on Dec 3, 2004 3:15:24 GMT -5
Really no excuse for that when it's a fish you have to net is there? It only takes a second to wet a hand on the mesh of the net before touching a fish At this particular fishery, nets are banned if fishing C&R. Go figure!?!
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Post by Adz on Dec 3, 2004 5:28:00 GMT -5
Must have been some leader they were using to hoist a fish that size out eh?
Mind you - sometimes its not possible to unhook fish in the water and a lot kinder to the fish to net it and unhook it quickly than faffing about for 10 minutes trying to get a deep hook out in the water, not that I'm advocating releasing fish that are unlikely to survive.
Getting back to the original thread, the fungus I've seen on , predominantly rainbow, trout at this time of year appears similar to the stuff goldfish seem to suffer if they're handled excessively by the kids. They're certainly distressed by it - whether it kills them or not is hard to say as I've rarely seen infected corpses.
RichardW, does that give you anything to go on? I'd be interested to find out more. I've seen very similar symptoms on rainbows in small stillwaters and on the Kennet, so it's not neccesarily something endemic to stillwater. In both cases I don't know of a hatchery/farm in the local water system that could contribute to the condition.
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Post by richardw on Dec 3, 2004 6:24:17 GMT -5
RichardW, does that give you anything to go on? I'd be interested to find out more. I've seen very similar symptoms on rainbows in small stillwaters and on the Kennet, so it's not neccesarily something endemic to stillwater. In both cases I don't know of a hatchery/farm in the local water system that could contribute to the condition. No. How can any of us comment intelligently without knowing what species these trout were? richard
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