Is it illegal to take home coarse fish and eat them

Well thanks for all you comments. Very interesting.

I'm off fishing tomorrow morning. The drains near Ramsey, so hopefully
a few pike, roach, bream will be the catch of the day. And you never
know, maybe even a Gudgen!

Enjoy your fishing.

Russ

Derek.Moody wrote:
In article , Alec Powell
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to be very popular years ago. Now sadly even the gudgeon is becoming
scarce in some rivers.

I've noticed them come and go - they seem to be very dependant on the nature
of the bottom. There's a stretch near here where dredging more or less got
rid of them and now after some more bottom work, they are becoming common
again. All the while another stretch of the same river has had plenty.

Cheerio,

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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Russ, gave forth these words of wisdom:
I'm off fishing tomorrow morning. The drains near Ramsey, so hopefully
a few pike
Good luck Russ, and if you manage a 3-4 lb. jack then take it home.
Poach it in plain water with a few herbs added to give it a bit of a
flavour and serve it with a Hollandaise sauce. Lovely! Very
underestimated fish is the pike as far as eating is concerned, (although
some Irish and Polish think more highly of them than salmon :-)
Good luck and tight lines!
Alec
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Alec Powell
Watlington Oxon. UK

In article , Alec Powell
wrote:
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Russ, gave forth these words of wisdom:
I'm off fishing tomorrow morning. The drains near Ramsey, so hopefully
a few pike
Good luck Russ, and if you manage a 3-4 lb. jack then take it home.
Poach it in plain water with a few herbs added to give it a bit of a
flavour and serve it with a Hollandaise sauce. Lovely! Very
underestimated fish is the pike as far as eating is concerned, (although
some Irish and Polish think more highly of them than salmon :-)

Imo that's a bit small - still rather soft fleshed and not a lot of flavour.
Roughly 7lb is about right. The problem with pike (and most other coarse
fish) is that they pick up taint from their food - so unless you can get one
that you know has been eating clean-gravel feeders it's often disappointing.

Middle sized trout stream pike are often OK. (And the best size to take to
control the population.) There are a few waters around here where they allow
coarse fishing during the game closed seasons on condition that all pike are
killed. If you actually do kill the big ones you get hundreds of jacks.

Cheerio,

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After gutting always leave overnight in salt water this removes that muddy
flavour.
John.

In article , John
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After gutting always leave overnight in salt water this removes that muddy
flavour.

Trouble is it takes away all the other flavour as well :-(

Cheerio,

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