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Having a medical today. Just thought I'd get there first. P.S: I made this up, but the laws of averages say this will happen. Can anyone pretend to have got a text confirming this please? DONE DEAL!
A few years back I once got into a huge shoal of perch on a stretch of the Thames near Reading. My dad told me to go up river and practice my casting. Had a small piece of half dead earthworm on my hook, cast out bang, reeled in a Perch by accident. Told my dad , he tried his luck and bang another Perch immediately. We put spinners on our lines and it was literally a Perch a minute, some big f@ckers too. The river was boiling with them for a good half hour then they moved on. Never seen anything like that since.
A few years back I once got into a huge shoal of perch on a stretch of the Thames near Reading. My dad told me to go up river and practice my casting. Had a small piece of half dead earthworm on my hook, cast out bang, reeled in a Perch by accident. Told my dad , he tried his luck and bang another Perch immediately. We put spinners on our lines and it was literally a Perch a minute, some big f@ckers too. The river was boiling with them for a good half hour then they moved on. Never seen anything like that since.
Wow, what a moment! I'd like to thank Hoop_Du_Jour, wherever you are, my family, who supported me through all the near misses, thank you for believing in me. Lastly, I'd like to thank, you, the fans. You make what I do, worth it. X
Never heard of eating Perch. They have thick scales like armour and a solid dorsal fin they use to fend off predators which is also a bugger when unhooking one.
The only thing one would imagine worth eating out of the Thames is eels ... delightful with a bit of liquor so I'm told. My grandfather used to love em but watching one wriggle after he'd decapitated it, put me right off.
Amongst fish eating peeps, particularly in North America, I think they're highly regarded (as are their cousins: walleye, zander, pickerel) - particularly battered and fried. Personally I don't eat fish, so I just catch 'em and let 'em go again.
Amongst fish eating peeps, particularly in North America, I think they're highly regarded (as are their cousins: walleye, zander, pickerel) - particularly battered and fried. Personally I don't eat fish, so I just catch 'em and let 'em go again.
That isnt really fair. So clean Salmon have returned and even then, in the upper reaches I am sure the river isnt in the slightest bit polluted (rises in Gloucestershire somewhere, I think)
That isnt really fair. So clean Salmon have returned and even then, in the upper reaches I am sure the river isnt in the slightest bit polluted (rises in Gloucestershire somewhere, I think)
Maybe in the upper reaches of olde English countryside, but London? NO!
I have sympathy for what you say, but commercial fishing takes place in the estuary and trout have been caught at Greenwich and outside the Houses of Parliament.
65% of Thames water comes from the rivers, even though it is treated first
Some of it is natural dirt and silt from the riverbed, but much of the brown colour comes from diatoms. Diatoms are a type of algae that thrives in the river — which is actually a sign that it isn’t too badly polluted.
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