In message , George Lee
writes

Plenty of other reasons to dam tescos even if it is nothing to do with
undersized fish. For a start they don't sell genuinely useful boxes of squid
for fishing with, as for the mackerel they actually do sell, it always looks
way too old to be any good for fishing, god knows why we eat it.

I've never seen fresh (really fresh) mackerel in a supermarket, so I
don't eat it. It's too soggy for bait, from the beach at least. The
blast frozen stuff from the tackle shop is far better quality; I wonder
why they don't sell that.

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Steve Walker