Spring sprung failure

[Robin Anderson]

Lovely Seagulling days out at St Mawes and St Just.
Wee Forty has been in regular use as am living on the boat on the Fal over this seemingly never ending winter.
Thought Spring had sprung ... ,

But no, the wicked weather witch is back on her broom again. At least there is no snow on the Fal.

Robin

[Robin Anderson]

And here we are on the weekly shopping trip up to Falmouth....http://youtu.be/Qj-jZw9fuYQ

[Stelios_Rjk]

Nice pictures!! Don't worry, Spring will sprung in the end!

What are you doing with the underwater suit in your profile picture?

[Robin Anderson]

Underwater antics are me going overboard with joy at prospect of winter ending......... or actually me going over to scrub the waterline - saves on lift out costs. Also good practice for clearing lines and nets etc off main ship propellor. No need to do that on the Seagull propellors - and they have of course got a sprung spring drive spring.
Robin

[Stelios_Rjk]

Oh I see! I have done that for a friend once. Do people hunt with spearguns over there?

[Robin Anderson]

I am not sure if we are still allowed to hunt anything over here - we might be allowed to talk loudly out in the woods but hunting is a bit too extreme for us. We love our badgers and foxy woxies so very much. They do sell spear guns in dive shops but can't say there is much underwater sniping going on - our waters are often a bit too murky to see much. I remember chasing a few flatties once with a rubber band powered spear gun but missed - fortunately they did not shoot back .
Robin

[david doyle]

There is still reams of hunting done in your neck of the woods. Simply is not conducted by the class of folks who tinker with engines. No free range stag for you mate, off to the chip stand with ya.

royalty, the rich and free men will always hunt

Not only is the grub great but the scenery is nice

[Stelios_Rjk]

That's what I have heard, water too murky to enjoy diving/spearfishing. That could also be a reason for big fishes to spread. Here because spearfishing is common you can't find any more proper sized fishes

[Niander101]

Stelios the waters round here are COLD...maybe why some don't want to jump in the water with a spear gun

[Stelios_Rjk]

Hehe
How cold? I have tried 9C degrees. I don't think I will try again in such temperature

[Niander101]

Ye it would be well shwivelled up at that temp

[david doyle]

you can't find any more proper sized fishes

That sucks a lack of big fish is never a good sign. That being said and with some restraint in mind a good hunter is seldom left with no options. A concept we use for hunts in high pressure/low productivity hunts (i.e near urban centers) is to look for "pocket hunts". Basically very specific and geographically small areas where some natural or man made barrier to resource exploitation keeps most folks away. Obviously there are places where there is simply nothing left to hunt but in my limited experience when folks start saying there is nothing out there left to harvest it usually simply translates into the fact that using the same methods the hunter is experiencing an increased amount of effort per unit harvest. Mobility/planning/and adapatability usually can reduce the effort back down to an acceptable level. Hunters are amongst the most conservative and unbending artisans out there, very little likelyhood of any hunting population changing methods/locations. If you do adapt you will profit. I am simply horror struck by the concept of living where you cannot feed yourself and your family from the land or the sea. You can never eat cheaper but you can always eat better.

[Stelios_Rjk]

Due to this adaptation many guys have ended swimming with the fish forever..
In the sea there are some more matters to take into account. At first you have to be staid. Otherwise the luck of oxygen and the rising of CO2 makes you like drunk. Happier and certain that you will catch your fish and you will get back save. But..
Bad game if you are too ambitious. In my point of view it is pointless to dive near urban centers. You risk and you get tired (psychologically). At least that's what have happened to me. Too many fail attempts so now I am waiting for the summer to go away from the civilization and do some proper fishing!

[david doyle]

Stelios you missed my point. I never said risk your life being stupid. I said apply some thinking to the problem. The fact though that you so easily reached a point of pyschological tiredness indicates you might have the farmer genes and not the predators.

[Stelios_Rjk]

I wouldn't say that it is the farmers genes. But if you go 20 times for fishing and you get back with fishes 1-3 times out of the 20, then whatever the genes are you find pleasure messing with old, well rusted outboards!