Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
The Grand Canal
Did you have a look at his other vids Kev amazing!
Mark
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Fishkeeping the Only way to get wet and wild
currently 25 tanks, and breeding is the aim of everything i keep
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Unfortunately, people took to literally netting the canal for food 
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Amazing video Kev! The perch look stunning when they are giving their full display. Unfortunately, I would say there are not too many stretches of our canals supporting shoals like that these days. I used to regularly fish a stretch of Canal at Mullingar which held huge shoals of large roach, perch and tench but it was literally fished out over 5 years ago
The same situation with Howth Harbour, the shelf at Dun Laoghaire, Bull Wall etc.. I witnessed guys snorkling along under our lines, I saw the bubbles first, I thought it/they were Seals but no, two guys in wetsuits, they surfaced with plastic bags full of anything that respired, came out onto the shelf where three or four others were sitting with cans of Beer, they poured everything into a bigger Bag, drank Beer, chucked the empty Bags and Beer cans onto the ground and went off leaving a horrible mess behind them.
We couldn't say anything as they didn't speak English and we were outnumbered.
I noticed Lobster Pots near the shelf, these had been up-ended and emptied.
Trawlers come in so close to the shore that you can smell the Diesel. We put an Idea across to the BIM crowd suggesting that Car chassis should be dropped 100 yards off shore, devoid of any contaminants, in a line to stop the Trawlers coming in too close, destroying Fish nurseries, he looked at me as if I had 2 Heads !! It would keep the Trawlers away, fearing damage to expensive nets etc.
There must be something that can be fixed onto the bottom of Canals that would be able to stop netting?
Kev.
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We couldn't say anything as they didn't speak English and we were outnumbered.
Trawlers come in so close to the shore that you can smell the Diesel. We put an Idea across to the BIM crowd suggesting that Car chassis should be dropped 100 yards off shore, devoid of any contaminants, in a line to stop the Trawlers coming in too close, destroying Fish nurseries, he looked at me as if I had 2 Heads !! It would keep the Trawlers away, fearing damage to expensive nets etc.
There must be something that can be fixed onto the bottom of Canals that would be able to stop netting?
Kev.
in relation to in bold... don't let them fool ye kev, they can speek english when they want to, it quite a conincidence that the people who have caused the diminish in fish on waters local to me too don't seem to speek english either
...if the BIM warned the trawling companies about the obstructions they put at the bottom would it not be up to the skippers to advoid them? maybe they should cut out fishing the channel altogether because in reality there are not alot of fish let in it, i gave up beachcasting because eventually i could catch nothing but kelp
Below tank is for sale
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dont make me come over there.
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