o.k, so I created a new post ...

And Ken, you said "There's nothing I can do about top-posting, so anymore
I ignore it." .

In all honesty that was down to my ignorance of etiquette(Thank god there's someone like you to correct me!). Also, I couldn't help but respond to your wit and charm. My sincere apologies!

Re. the site saying "stocked with fish from 1.5 to 10 lbs", thanks for pointing that out to me - I think its a mistake, but will clarify that once I've checked it out. While I've been at Harelaw, the largest stockie I saw caught was a 4.5 lb blue trout - Thats simply because one or 2 larger fish end up going in simply as the supplier can't guarantee that every fish will definitely be less than 3lb. The bigger fish I've seen caught have tended to be (wild) brownies except for a 9 3/4 rainbow and that had definitely been in the water for a very long time. However, I'm not there as often as I'd like to be so there may be one or two others that I'm not aware of.

Re. Not fishing a 102 acre "puddle", each to their own. The best fishing I ever had was in a stream less than 12ft wide and mostly less than 4 inches deep. All the fish were wild and extremely difficult to catch. My record trout from that stream was 3lb 8oz (in 3 inches of water) )and I'd rate that higher than 10 pounders from many waters. I also had a grayling from the same stream - I thought it had equalled the british record of that time (2lbs8oz ), but someone had caught one weighing 2lb 12oz a couple of days earlier (My age is showing here! Its a long time since the record was 2lb 12oz!).

Fishing on smaller waters has some great benefits - especially where surroundings and wildlife are concerned - I've seen wildlife that most people around here would never see in their lives, and Ithink that those experiences have truly enriched my life. Harelaws wildlife can be equally exciting - what is thought to be a black panther has been seen near the loch on a couple of occasions, and this year, a pair of bitterns stayed at the loch for a month or so. I haven't seen any otters there, but it wouldn't surprise me if I did see one there. I have seen Goshawks, peregrine falcons and other more abundant raptors and also picked up a "wild guest" on the way back home 3 weeks ago. The pic is here http://www.harelaw.net/myunusualguest.htm

I've never fished on any truly large waters unless you count an expedition to the mediterranean for swordfish, but I would quite like to try - when time and money permit. At the end of the day, I don't think the quality of my fishing would improve at all if I were to have an attitude of "I wouldn't fish there if you paid me". Also, we don't need to pay for customers - the people who visit tend to become regulars.

Cheers

John

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Visit Harelaw Trout Fishery
Http://www.harelaw.net

Flycatcher wrote:

And Ken, you said "There's nothing I can do about top-posting, so
anymore
I ignore it."
etc.

Please also turn off the HTML.

Thanks, JR
(Good job with the owl, btw.)

Now done.

"JR" wrote in message ...
Flycatcher wrote:

And Ken, you said "There's nothing I can do about top-posting, so
anymore
I ignore it."
etc.

Please also turn off the HTML.

Thanks, JR
(Good job with the owl, btw.)

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:02:28 +0100, "Flycatcher" wrote:

Now done.

"JR" wrote in message ...
Flycatcher wrote:

And Ken, you said "There's nothing I can do about top-posting, so
anymore
I ignore it."
etc.

Please also turn off the HTML.

Thanks, JR
(Good job with the owl, btw.)

top posted again

ahahahahaha!!

Flycatcher wrote:
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No offense intended, John. Like I said, if you like
it, hey, knock yourself out. But truth is, you don't
know what you're missing, and that's OK too, I guess.
You're probably better off that way.

We have stocked pay ponds here too, there are dozens
of them around the Smokies, and I wouldn't fish in
them for love nor money.

Some questions for you:

What's a blue trout ? Likewise, tiger ?

The web site says:
"The season for brown trout, tiger and brook trout runs
from March 15 through to October 6. Rainbows and blue
'bows are available all year round."

What happens on October 7th ? Do all the browns, tigers
and brookies pack up their bags and go to Venezuela to
play winter ball ? ;-)

(That was a baseball joke, sorry I don't speak cricket ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

I believe that blues and tigers are hybrids of some sort - I'm not that
sure - tigers haven't been stocked for a while, but one or two get caught
from time to time. They have quite spectacular markings similar in a way to
brook trout but even more pronounced. The blue trout looks similar to a
rainbow, but the pinks of the rainbow are instead blue and there is an
overall blue silver sheen about the body. Sorry its not particularly
scientific. I'll try and get some photo's and do a series of species pages
on the web site with more info - once I've "genned up" on them.

The website doesn't mention golden trout either, and I've seen a couple of
those caught as well.

John


"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
...
Flycatcher wrote:
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No offense intended, John. Like I said, if you like
it, hey, knock yourself out. But truth is, you don't
know what you're missing, and that's OK too, I guess.
You're probably better off that way.

We have stocked pay ponds here too, there are dozens
of them around the Smokies, and I wouldn't fish in
them for love nor money.

Some questions for you:

What's a blue trout ? Likewise, tiger ?

The web site says:
"The season for brown trout, tiger and brook trout runs
from March 15 through to October 6. Rainbows and blue
'bows are available all year round."

What happens on October 7th ? Do all the browns, tigers
and brookies pack up their bags and go to Venezuela to
play winter ball ? ;-)

(That was a baseball joke, sorry I don't speak cricket ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

Flycatcher wrote:
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The website doesn't mention golden trout either, and I've seen a couple of
those caught as well.

That's disgusting. I'd rather be dry-humped by a half ton
bison snortin' meth than catch a golden trout in a goddamn
trout zoo.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:13:34 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

That's disgusting. I'd rather be dry-humped by a half ton
bison snortin' meth than catch a golden trout in a goddamn
trout zoo.

I know of one roffian who has taken a golden from Jurassic Park during
Waldo's Spring Fling. d;o)

Don't know about Blue Trout, but a Tiger is a cross between a brown and
a brookie. Fast growing, disease resistant, sterile, and dumb as a box
of rocks. Perfect fish for stricktly put and take fishing......the meat
fishermen here in MA love them. They even tried to get F&W to biuld a
hatchery to raise them.

wrote:
Don't know about Blue Trout, but a Tiger is a cross between a brown and
a brookie. Fast growing, disease resistant, sterile, and dumb as a box
of rocks. Perfect fish for stricktly put and take fishing......the meat
fishermen here in MA love them. They even tried to get F&W to biuld a
hatchery to raise them.

I wouldn't have thought it possible. Not just different
species, but different genus as well. I found this site:

http://www.patrout.org/tiger.htm

Learn something new every day.

--
Ken Fortenberry