for those who live by the coast.

Lighthouse_in_the_dark

Have you ever thought of buying a gill net?

In my teenage years i use to live by the sea 200 yards away, and always use to set a couple of gill nets at low tide and collect them once the tide had risen and retreated again. provided the tides werent silly hours, 6am low to 8am lows (and the following low tides in the evening) used to be perfect.

used to get tonnes of fish wild seabass, dover sole, roker (skate), cod and whiting in the winter, plaice (the odd, small turbot in the spring) and even occasionally the odd wild salmon (these of course went back )
spider crabs, brown crabs and even the odd lobster from time to time aswell.

never used to sell any of it, but a £100 net will keep your fridge and freezer full of tonnes of the freshest fish all year (i wont even look at tesco fish counter anymore) and you know your eating well.

keeps you bloody fit aswell. even if you just set one at the weekend its well worth the effort, if i still lived by the sea i would start back up again without a doubt.

all completely legal, (despite what the odd !!!!ed off angler may say) so long as you dont sell your catch and dont keep migratory salmonids, (salmon, sea trout, and twaited shads)

Ken68

I've fished orf the beach LHITDk for cod with rod and line.
And got shrimps by the bucketload with just a small hand net.
Still do-able i would think.

Lynsey

Would someone not just steal your net??
£100's worth of stuff must be a gamble??

Lynsey

VfM4meplse

Lynsey wrote: »

£100's worth of stuff must be a gamble??

Does it really matter if a few fish get pinched, as long as it feeds someone, without actually generating a profit in the process? :think:

I can see why they couldn't legally be sold on, elf 'n' safety and all that.

Lynsey

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Does it really matter if a few fish get pinched,

I'm talking about the net. lol

Lynsey

just_trying

A collapsable creel over the side of a harbour wall does just aswell and you can get them for £10 or less. We have one and have had crabs, lobster and the biggest fish so far was a 5.5lb cod how it fitted I don't know but it was caught and the funniest thing was oh and son and another man with the best of gear had been fishing and caught nothing. So I would say if you want to give it a go get a collapsible creel.

Lighthouse_in_the_dark

I never had a net pinched, seems to be a costal code almost the people out at low water are generally a certain type not the type to be pinching nets,

lost one to a cockle boat running over one before but after about a week or so they usally have already well paid for themselves.

I used to set pots aswell and never had cod in them but i did get a 4lb bass once!

McKneff

Wonderful, catch your dinner, cook it and eat it.

Yu could even barbecue it on the beach, what a life.....

Luverly....

Living_proof

Lighthouse in the Dark. You seem to be a pretty good catch yourself. Are netted already?

Macca83_2

Lighthouse_in_the_dark wrote: »

I never had a net pinched, seems to be a costal code almost the people out at low water are generally a certain type not the type to be pinching nets,

lost one to a cockle boat running over one before but after about a week or so they usally have already well paid for themselves.

I used to set pots aswell and never had cod in them but i did get a 4lb bass once!

theres very much a coastal/harbour code here. Everyone looks after everyone else.

chesky

Would that apply if you lived somewhere like Brighton or Eastbourne, say, which is kind of very highly populated with tourists and so on?