Valuable prizes for sea trout anglers in 2011
Sea trout anglers on the east and south coast of Ireland, the west coasts of Scotland, England and Wales and on the Isle of Man have an excellent chance to win one of the many valuable prizes on offer in a free prize draw by collecting scale samples from any sea trout they catch in 2011.
The Celtic Sea Trout Project (CSTP) is incentivising anglers to take samples of scales from any sea trout they catch over the season in specific “priority” rivers.
The priority rivers are:
IRELAND: Shimna, Castletown, Dee/Glyde, Boyne, Dargle, Slaney, Colligan, Bandon Argideen, Currane
SCOTLAND & ISLE OF MAN: Luce, Nith, Annan, Esk (Border), Neb, Sulby
ENGLAND: Esk (Border), Ehen, Lune, Ribble
WALES: Dee, Conwy, Clwyd, Dwyfor, Glaslyn, Dyfi, Teifi, Tywi, Tawe
The prizes are:
• A £500 tackle voucher prize to the angler submitting the most scale samples from any CSTP priority river in 2011.
• Three £350 tackle voucher prizes to each of the three 3 anglers who return the most scales from priority systems in 2011 within each of other three regions: Ireland (inc NI), Scotland and IoM, Wales, or NW England
• Ten £100 tackle vouchers to be awarded to 10 anglers to be drawn at random from the remaining scale samples submitted. (this includes samples submitted in 2010 and those from non‐priority rivers within the project area)
There are major unanswered questions in the understanding of sea trout, namely:
•where do they go at sea and how are their stocks structured and interlinked?
•what is their marine ecology (feeding, growth, survival and life history variation)?
•what environmental and other pressures are they exposed to?
•how do their life histories (and thus fishery quality) respond to environmental variation?
The CSTP intends to provide this missing knowledge and to translate it into fishery and conservation benefits for countries bordering the Irish Sea.
The winners will be chosen based on the scale samples submitted to us before 31st March 2012. The prize draw will take place on the 1st of April 2012. Winners will be contacted directly.
Record sea trout taken from the shore!
An angler fishing for mackerel in the Erne estuary in Ballyshannon, north west Ireland, has landed what’s thought to be the largest sea trout ever caught at sea on rod and line in the shape of an 11lb 1oz giant.
John Cunningham (41), from Killybegs, hooked ‘the fish of a lifetime’ from the shore using what he’d only describe as a ‘special mackerel bait.
It took him ten minutes to land, and is more than five times the size of the average sea trout caught in Irish waters. It’s understood the previous local record in the Ballyshannon area for a sea trout stood at around 8lbs.
John’s fish measured 72cm long, meaning it was 32cm over the limit to retain and was therefore returned unharmed on conservation grounds.
The record for an Irish sea trout is 16lb 6oz, a fish caught in County Down in 1983.
North east is tops for salmon!
The North East is being hailed as the nation’s salmon capital after figures showed the region to be home to the three most productive rivers for game anglers in England and Wales.
Despite once being two of the most polluted waterways in the country, the River Tyne and River Wear now fill the top two spots in the whole of England and Wales for the number of salmon caught per season by rod and line, with well over 6,000 fish banked in 2010. A third, lesser-known river in the region, the Coquet, came in third.
Andrew Flitcroft, editor of Trout and Salmon magazine, said: “The North East has been one huge success story for game fishermen over the past 20 years.”
For the full story, with a breakdown of the figures, see tomorrow's Angling Times.
Bag a big sea trout, win a big prize!
Sea trout anglers on the east and south coast of Ireland, the west coasts of Scotland, England and Wales and on the Isle of Man have an excellent chance to win one of the many valuable prizes on offer in a free prize draw by collecting scale samples from any sea trout they catch in 2011.
The Celtic Sea Trout Project (CSTP) is incentivising anglers to take samples of scales from any sea trout they catch over the season in specific “priority” rivers.
The priority rivers are:
Ireland - Shimna, Castletown, Dee/Glyde, Boyne, Dargle, Slaney, Colligan, Bandon Argideen, Currane
Scotland and the Isle of Man: Luce, Nith, Annan, Esk (Border), Neb, Sulby
England: Esk (Border), Ehen, Lune, Ribble
Wales: Dee, Conwy, Clwyd, Dwyfor, Glaslyn, Dyfi, Teifi, Tywi, Tawe
The prizes are:
•A £500 tackle voucher prize to the angler submitting the most scale samples from any CSTP priority river in 2011.
•Three £350 tackle voucher prizes to each of the three 3 anglers who return the most scales from priority systems in 2011 within each of other three regions: Ireland (inc NI), Scotland and IoM, Wales, or NW England
•Ten £100 tackle vouchers to be awarded to 10 anglers to be drawn at random from the remaining scale samples submitted. (this includes samples submitted in 2010 and those from non‐priority rivers within the project area)
The project is geared towards finding answers to a number of questions about the enigmatic species, such as - where do they go at sea and how are their stocks structured and interlinked; what is their marine ecology (feeding, growth, survival and life history variation); and what environmental and other pressures are they exposed to?
The winners will be chosen based on the scale samples submitted before 31st March 2012. The prize draw will take place on the 1st of April 2012. Winners will be contacted directly.
