Save our Crucians!

FishingMagic · May 9, 2014

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Ray Roberts · May 9, 2014

I had a dozen from Old Bury Hill fishery on Wednesday. What a delight they are to catch. Most clubs seem to favour F1's and pasty sized carp over Crucians which to my mind is difficult to understand.

S-Kippy · May 9, 2014

Ray Roberts said:
I had a dozen from Old Bury Hill fishery on Wednesday. What a delight they are to catch. Most clubs seem to favour F1's and pasty sized carp over Crucians which to my mind is difficult to understand.

I'm guessing you were on Milton,Ray and I totally agree. Tremendous fun on light gear & such lovely looking fish.

Tee-Cee · May 9, 2014

Have to agree!
I had twenty today from a Farm Pond, mostly small but one did go around 1,5lbs which put a nice bend in the Ultralight c/w fine bottom....I thought it was bigger on hooking as they do tend to 'hold' bottom for a while before coming up.

A very pretty fish in the sunlight and I would've happily caught them all day!

S-Kippy · May 9, 2014

The perfect float rod for crucians IMO. I have one and would not dream of using anything else.

Mark Wintle · May 9, 2014

I'm involved in this project, in particular in trying to create a list of waters that hold crucians in the UK. We have already identified many waters - into the hundreds already - and the next task is to verify those on the list. Many waters suffer the stocking of the diabolical F1 and what people are told are crucians but are all too often dumped brown goldfish. I've caught Milton crucians but that was in the 90s.

Paul Boote · May 9, 2014

Massive carp cull required. Short sharp shock - Crucian!

Ray Roberts · May 9, 2014

S-Kippy said:
I'm guessing you were on Milton,Ray and I totally agree. Tremendous fun on light gear & such lovely looking fish.

Yes it was on Milton, nice fish too, all between 1.5lb and 2.5lb's plus a couple of nice Rudd and a bloody great Tench which killed the Crucian swim but at last knockings. I like to use a Drennan Floatmaster which is a very nice rod for the job.

hunters moon · May 10, 2014

yes a lovely looking fish and great fun to-catch, why clubs seem to favour
the f1's over the crucian is beyond me.

....I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.
....Roderick haig-brown.

greenie62 · May 10, 2014

trying to create a list of waters that hold crucians in the UK

Hi Mark,
How can anglers help in this - is there a central website/email for notifying of Crucian Waters?
Given that there seems to be some confusion over identification on occasions - are there any key indicators that you can give to avoid misreporting?
Best wishes!

Mark Wintle · May 10, 2014

greenie62 said:
Hi Mark,
How can anglers help in this - is there a central website/email for notifying of Crucian Waters?
Given that there seems to be some confusion over identification on occasions - are there any key indicators that you can give to avoid misreporting?
Best wishes!

At the moment we are working within a closed Facebook group but once we've nailed the list down a bit more it will be available on The Crucian Carp Website

If you know of a water that you'd like to be included then PM me. We are going to a fair bit of trouble to try to sort out the ID.

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