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
brown trout
) so methods to cook it please and can i give a raw bit to my fish?YUCK!! Im gonna burn in hell. it dumped all over the chopping board, gutted it, washed it, seasoned it with salt, pepper, thyme, garlic butter, lemon and roasted it in a tinfoil parcel wit a bay leaf it tasted like drinking the river dodders water. brown trout is off the menu along with murdering fish
Check out the angling section, it is fantastic
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i am considering jacking in the consumption of fish from here on out
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Gut it,chop it into inch long sections,throw in hot wok with all sorts of Asian ingredients,chilli,ginger,rice wine vinegar,etc.
always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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If you are so against killing any Trout you catch, could I suggest you either replace the treble hook on your spinner/lure bait with a barbless treble hook.
This would enable an easier (most times) removal of the hook from the fish's mouth.
If this isn't possible you could either use pliers to flatten the barbs on the existing hook - or better still, carefully file off the barbs completely.
I applaud your desire to return the trout to the water, but sometimes this just isn't possible.
You could, of course, have frozen the dead fish and donated it to a Pike angler to use as a deadbait...now who, I wonder, fishes for Pike???
John
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N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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It's a long way to Tipperary.
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Location: Portlaoise, Midlands
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You could, of course, have frozen the dead fish and donated it to a Pike angler to use as a deadbait...now who, I wonder, fishes for Pike???
John
I'm sure you could also find someone who owns a big catfish or eel who'd have gladly taken it off you for dinner!
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