The fishing thread

New Billingsgate Market 1899 from Cassell’s Old and New London

 

Although there is still a shortage of fish Billingsgate, the largest fish market in London, is getting busier. This is the result of more trawlers being released from service with the Royal Navy and the clearing of mines from the North Sea. For the first time in six years there travelers are not coming into East Coast ports loaded with fish which are being distributed to the home markets. A scene at Billingsgate fish market in London on Oct. 11, 1945, showing the boxes of fish being loaded onto the waiting house-drawn carts to be distributed to the various London shops.

 

Very nice CG

 

There is more.
But tomorrow I will add my Dad's fishing photos. x

 

That would be awesome

 

You are most welcome Master. x

 

Thank you

 

Nice one CG, will be back later. For now, a little advice, do not fly fish naked with friends if you have piercings.

 

Ugh. Still a month before we can fish for walleye (my favorite) around here.

 

I'm going out later. Unfortunately it got cold out again. So who knows what will happen today.

 

Hope everyone caught some fish over the weekend

 

He looks very curious. What exactly were you wearing at the time?

 

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Regular clothes.

 

It has since occurred to me that this fish may have only been around religious people. He must be holy.

 

Oh it backed away when I walked up to it.

 

This guy has some awesome fishing videos.

 

The clip says from 6 years ago but I think that's when it was posted online as the programme was filmed in the early ish 90s. I sed to love this program

 

Male anglers may have been suffering, for three-quarters of a century, from an inferiority complex, due to the fact that the record for the biggest salmon caught in these islands fell to a woman. This was Georgina Ballantine, daughter of a head ghillie on the River Tay in Scotland in 1922. Now that record is challenged by the surfacing of a salmon caught 10 years earlier, in 1912, and apparently unknown to the world of salmon fishers. The man who caught that fish had it stuffed, and while it is an inch shorter than Miss Ballantine's monster, it could just be heavier - or have been heavier when taken. Unfortunately, it was not measured at the time, and so cannot qualify, it seems for the record.

According to the London Times, a spokesman for the British Record Fish Committee said that for a fish to be authenticated, it needs to be weighed on certificated scales in the presence of witnesses at the time of capture. This was not done. And while the editor of the Trout and Salmon magazine said that, judging by the photographs and measurements it could possibly be the biggest salmon in history, a photograph of a stuffed fish is not enough. In the stuffing, the depth of the fish could have been distorted. Anyway, we are on the dangerous territory of the sex war here.

It has been argued for some time that women have an advantage over men in angling, unfair, and due entirely to sexual emanations. So many of the biggest salmon have been caught by women, that the theory has been put forward that the fish are attracted by the scent of female pheromones. The word isn't in this edition of the Oxford Dictionary, but it means emanations of some kind. You would be right in suspecting that this is a lame excuse from the hugely preponderant number of male anglers to female, but it is being taken to great lengths. For according to the Times a scientist has come up with a pheromone spray to be used on flies and baits, said to give male anglers an equal chance!


George Dods, a bio-technologist says he has successfully isolated the correct female pheromones. He has mixed them with amino acids and alcohol, and his ultrabite is now on sale or about to go on sale in Britain.

An expert asked to define pheromones said without hesitation: "They are smell hormones. Pig farmers know all about them. They spray; the appropriate part of the female pig, and the boar immediately gets on the job." So there is something in the old saying, not just male jealousy