pawl
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- Desford Leicestershire
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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
i think it's the following month's draw
woodbutcher
Veteran
- Location
- S W France
As a teenager l caught one or two tench but always put them back . Now l am wondering if l should have cooked and eaten them or would that be unsporting behaviour ? Do you know if they are edible .
woodbutcher
Veteran
- Location
- S W France
"with sweet repose" ?It'shere again.
On the upsides, I now have five verses (including the first verse) of "Love Lingers Softly" cooperating with each other. I just need to figure out how to get them to join up with the last four lines.
Which, incidentally, were the first four lines of this poem that jumped into my head. Inevitably while I was in the bath. Bathtime is often good thinking time for writing.
The next four lines I came up with after those have now found a home in verse 3.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
They're bottom feeders, so likely they'll taste a tad muddy.
Eels, on the other hand...
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
Yes they are but I'm not sure that I would want to try one! A Polish friend gave me some Polish fishing magazines once and they have much the same fish over there as we do. I couldn't read a word of it but the fish were recogniseable (even if they did have different names!) and there was one fella holding a large tench. He was standing in his kitchen. I like them too much to eat one.
I know bream are edible because I once saw one about 8lbs on a fishmonger's slab in the Luton market. I think they get them from Ireland. The owner of a fishery I used to go to visited Ireland every year just to catch bream. Talk about a busman's holiday!
Also I've read that perch are delicious - and of course we know that pike are popular with travelling folk.
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
Oh yeah, I forgot eels! But aren't they endangered now?They're bottom feeders, so likely they'll taste a tad muddy.
Eels, on the other hand...
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
Never heard of him I'm afraid - but I haven't really got far with trout fishing, having only been once! I did enjoy it though and wanted to go more but I just never got round to it as I was more into coarse fishing and had memberships at a couple of places. It came down to cost really. I did tie a few flies though. Somebody at the fishery gave me a couple of lovebirds to put in my aviary (I bred budgies at the time), so I made him a couple of flies from their discarded feathers - he was tickled pink with them!
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Yes they are but I'm not sure that I would want to try one! A Polish friend gave me some Polish fishing magazines once and they have much the same fish over there as we do. I couldn't read a word of it but the fish were recogniseable (even if they did have different names!) and there was one fella holding a large tench. He was standing in his kitchen. I like them too much to eat one.
I know bream are edible because I once saw one about 8lbs on a fishmonger's slab in the Luton market. I think they get them from Ireland. The owner of a fishery I used to go to visited Ireland every year just to catch bream. Talk about a busman's holiday!
Also I've read that perch are delicious - and of course we know that pike are popular with travelling folk.
Poles prize freshwater fish over sea fish, because for most of their (recent) history, they were effectively landlocked. Dad always insisted on carp for Christmas, but it's horribly bony and doesn't taste very nice IMHO. Likewise most freshwater fish.
Perch *is* very good though, as is Zander.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Probably. It's been that long since I last went fishing that the regs have almost certainly changed. Back then, you could take eels (they're great sport too, got real fight to them) as long as they were above a certain size.
I used to hot smoke them. Smoked eel is just lush.
In the past week or so I've had a puncture on my mountain bike, a collapsed bottom bracket bearing on my mountain bike (which I will fix this weekend) and now tonight a spoke went ping on the rear wheel of my fixed wheel Raleigh (typically it's the driveside too so added hassle).
My long trouble-free run has come to an end...
My long trouble-free run has come to an end...
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's not that kind of a poem...
The theme is about the progression of grief, from loss to acceptance.
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
My boiler passed its annual inspection with flying colours! The engineer said it was spotless and needed nothing doing to it. He couldn't even find any dust to hoover out... 
So he stood about for a bit (12 feet away fro me) and we talked about bikes (he owns a Trek). Then he left.
So he stood about for a bit (12 feet away fro me) and we talked about bikes (he owns a Trek). Then he left.
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
My friend came from Gdansk (about 40 years ago) and he said they had carp at Christmas too. Other people (English ones) have told me its a bit like eating warm soap. An acquired taste obviously! I would expect zander to be tasty because they are in the same group as perch and pike. I tok a small pike from a river and gave it to my Polish mate. He BBQ'd it and said it was lovely.
