Steve Handley
Active member
Inside this months IYCF magazine there is a very interesting article by Dr Mark Burdass, who is a lecturer at Hampshire's Sparsholt College, regarding communication between fish via sound and chemical responses.
I think most of us have seen it, when we have released a fish back into the water, it can sometimes spook the rest of the shoal. What I did'nt realise is that it ismaybe due to the release of chemicals that actually causes this reaction.
As with a lot of anglers these days I rarely use a keepnet or retain my fish. If I'm fishing small rivers I will often release a good fish further upstream to prevent it spooking the rest of the shoal, but a lot of the time on stillwaters and if I'm fishing for barbel on the Trent, I return the fish directly back into my swim.
An interesting thought, are we damaging our chances of catching more fish now that we are more likely to release our fish back into the water straight away?
An interesting article and well worth a read.
I think most of us have seen it, when we have released a fish back into the water, it can sometimes spook the rest of the shoal. What I did'nt realise is that it ismaybe due to the release of chemicals that actually causes this reaction.
As with a lot of anglers these days I rarely use a keepnet or retain my fish. If I'm fishing small rivers I will often release a good fish further upstream to prevent it spooking the rest of the shoal, but a lot of the time on stillwaters and if I'm fishing for barbel on the Trent, I return the fish directly back into my swim.
An interesting thought, are we damaging our chances of catching more fish now that we are more likely to release our fish back into the water straight away?
An interesting article and well worth a read.