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gary magee
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Theres one thing I’ve noticed since the volentry abolishon of the close season on still waters its the fact that the fish seem to spawn a lot earlier now than they used to when the closed season applied. Around my area (the N.W. Merseyside area) the carp have been at it for the last ten days and all the bream and roach have been covered in breeding tubicles for the last month. Where as a few years ago you used to catch a lot of fish full of spawn right the way through June and basically write the carp off for a week or two in July due to them spawning. Another thing is the match weights are down, a sure sign of fish spawning early.
Is this down to the weather? I don`t think so. I think its down to the fact that naturally the fish need an extra nutrishinal boost to start the breeding cycle off, but once the warm weather comes there is a lag due to the fact that the plankton and invertibrates also have to reproduce to provide this much needed boost and this takes time.
Bait now is such an itegral part of our native fishes diet that stocks are unnaturally high and when we all stopped fishing on March 15th this very large stock of fish suddenly turned to natural food as their only food source so depleting the invertibrate stock it took longer and longer every year for it to recover to the extent to trigger fish breeding. A consequence of this is that if it pushed the breeding season so late in some years that if the weather was poor some fish especially carp would not breed at all that year leading to spawn bound fish(which is a serious cause of death in older fish).Far from being detrimental to fish stocks I think the abolishon of the close season is now a benefit to them.
This may sound like a load of b*****ks to anyone whos an expert on such things but its based on my own observations and adding two and two together and probably getting five .I look forward to hearing from any one who has thoughts on this issue.
Is this down to the weather? I don`t think so. I think its down to the fact that naturally the fish need an extra nutrishinal boost to start the breeding cycle off, but once the warm weather comes there is a lag due to the fact that the plankton and invertibrates also have to reproduce to provide this much needed boost and this takes time.
Bait now is such an itegral part of our native fishes diet that stocks are unnaturally high and when we all stopped fishing on March 15th this very large stock of fish suddenly turned to natural food as their only food source so depleting the invertibrate stock it took longer and longer every year for it to recover to the extent to trigger fish breeding. A consequence of this is that if it pushed the breeding season so late in some years that if the weather was poor some fish especially carp would not breed at all that year leading to spawn bound fish(which is a serious cause of death in older fish).Far from being detrimental to fish stocks I think the abolishon of the close season is now a benefit to them.
This may sound like a load of b*****ks to anyone whos an expert on such things but its based on my own observations and adding two and two together and probably getting five .I look forward to hearing from any one who has thoughts on this issue.