Alan Tyler
Well-known member
In the light of the debate over a bag photo of an amazing catch of bream by a youngster, what's the collective wisdom on what to carry and what procedures to follow to record the happy event should you have more success than you anticipated?
It's not happened to me, yet, and I should hate to screw up if it does, so what should I pack, apart from mat, scales and camera, for either a roving trip after chub or a static session after bream?
When bream are the quarry, do you stop and weigh each fish as it is caught (remembering the feeding/catching spell is likely to be brief) or later - and if later, how?
My instinct would be ,having made the catch, to sort out the bounciest bit of ground I could find/make, take the bag shot, pop any I wanted individual weights for back in the keepnet (and the net back in the water); weigh and return the rest in batches in the landing net head, then get the weghts and portraits of the best couple of fish. That would be as close as I can get to good matchmens' practice ... but what do/would to you do?
It's not happened to me, yet, and I should hate to screw up if it does, so what should I pack, apart from mat, scales and camera, for either a roving trip after chub or a static session after bream?
When bream are the quarry, do you stop and weigh each fish as it is caught (remembering the feeding/catching spell is likely to be brief) or later - and if later, how?
My instinct would be ,having made the catch, to sort out the bounciest bit of ground I could find/make, take the bag shot, pop any I wanted individual weights for back in the keepnet (and the net back in the water); weigh and return the rest in batches in the landing net head, then get the weghts and portraits of the best couple of fish. That would be as close as I can get to good matchmens' practice ... but what do/would to you do?