Speyducer
Advisory Board
Release to spawn another day
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Post by Speyducer on Jan 27, 2008 11:41:54 GMT
Reviewing the Feb issue of FF & FT today, there is a sparse coverage of the salmon - not unsual for this mag However, of the two articles dealing with our preferred 'silver tourist', there are some worrying pictures: Malcolm Greenhalgh (a FF & FT 'institution') provides the "Your First Salmon" - and the two of the five pictures with fish shown illustrate what is wrong.... Both fish are small, coloured, and DEAD! I'm sure that, for the sake of an article in such a prestigious and influential UK magazine, and using 'artistic licence', with MG's considerable experience in catching at least a few salmon previously, he could have at least shown bright silver fish, and at least one of them in the process of being returned!, even if that meant using 'archive' pictures of past successes. In a later article in the same issue, "School report, November 2007" by Mark Bowler, the first picture of angler Peter Walshe displays his 'first salmon', (looks about 7 to 8lbs) gill-hung off his right little finger, and again, dark coloured and DEAD! It also looks like a hen fish, as it has no evidence of any kype formation. I wish these disgraceful photos would not appear in such publications, as they tend to re-inforce the ideas that it is acceptable to kill fish in such coloured condition. And it really doesn't cut the mustard to state that 'it was my first salmon'! Mike
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Post by G Ritchie on Jan 27, 2008 12:18:04 GMT
I did notice that the Annan picture was of a very gravid hen.
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fredo
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Post by fredo on Jan 27, 2008 15:50:14 GMT
There is a wonderful 5 page article on kelt fishing in Canada, complete with lots of happy anglers displaying their kelts. Which is worse, dead kipper pics or kelt pics?
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Post by G Ritchie on Jan 27, 2008 17:40:57 GMT
Kelt fishing seems to be popular over there on some of the river systems such as the Miramichi. The kelts over there behave differently to the ones over here, in that they start feeding again in freshwater on the runs of smelt which enter the rivers in the spring. This allows them to regain some weight before they drop back to sea and because of this there is a much higher survival rate. Saying that, the kelts in the pictures didnt apper to have regained any weight, they were a scabby looking bunch. They were surely still waiting for the smelts to arrive.
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Post by tweed ghillie on Jan 27, 2008 18:19:44 GMT
Don;t all pacific salmon die after spawning ? or are we talking about something different.
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Post by baroness on Jan 27, 2008 18:35:16 GMT
Yes, they do, but the salmon in the Miramichi, and other East coast rivers are Atlantic salmon, just like ours.
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