Current Views on 2008 Lampuki Season?

[shanook]

well the rise in petrol and diesel havn't helped either combined with the ridiculous restriction of having to bring in an amount of fish to keep the MFB status. these all combine to compel one to lay parit or long lines. I know a person because he caught some bazuk from 230mts is now going back there with long lines NOW THATS WHAT I CALL SPORT FISHING SIC!?!

[fishfinder]

It would have been better if he deploys 30 Hjut instead of all that loglines that they are preparing  and most probable they will not retreave them back from that bottom and they will still keep fishing for some time since they will be using wire instead of nylon.

[busumark]

with long lines you still wont catch a lot of bazug. they stay together in asmall area and with long-lines you dont have a lot of hooks in that area.

[shanook]

if they dont retrieve back that means we will lose a lot of rigs as the probability is that we will get caught with them. We lost quite a few rigs because we caught some long lines last time we went deep sea fishing. wire is better than nylon i think as it will rust but the nylon is practically indestructible.

[EmicMalta]

yesturday my uncle caught 2 lampuki of around 3kgs each with the rixa. Said everyone tralling for tumbrell and they where the ony boat for lampuki

[camkev]

When the sea calms down a bit,will give a try again for lampuki...dont know which fads...st paul's area or m skala area

[shanook]

camkev i have my boat in garage with the intention of relaunching mid october... if we dont catch some decent lampuki then might as well pack up fishing......Gaffer u remember we used to fish Lampuki from inside the grand harbour.. the lack of lampuki in my humble opinion are 2 apart from overfishing that is. 1: the italians are laying fads for lampuki. when we were young they didnt even bother.  2: the Maltese commercial fisherman are laying their fads further and further out at sea keeping the lampuki away from land, so that we wont take their catch......

[mike.d.]

i agree with the gaffer 100 % , my home town is grimsby, in the uk, at one time it was the biggest fishing port in the uk, now its a ghost town, trust me, my father had 25 years deep sea fishing icelandic waters etc, photos show ice 1 foot thick on the trawler rigging, the reason its now a ghost town, over fishing in the north sea etc,( fish now is as expensive as steak ) OVERFISHING, there will be nothing left for fathers to leave to sons, just a lot of boats in the harbour rotting away, so i am afraid cut back now or pay the price later.
                  mike.  

[bigboy]

Was havinf a chat with a friend of mine who is a sports fisherman and told me that the early-closed season of tune might be the effect of not catching any lampuki. There is still a lot of tuna running around and the lampuki is therefore being on if its meals.

I think it makes a bit of sense

[The_Gaffer]

Bigboy, you might have a point there.  During my fishing trips for lampuki, I also noticed that this year, as opposed to previous years, the number of turtles basking in the sun on the surface has declined, the number of dolphins is on the increase, and huge amounts of Bram {jellyfish} (forgot the english word) in the sea.  I'm no marine biologist, but somethings not quite right. 

[bigboy]

You are right gaffer

[shanook]

and the jellyfish are not the usual small purple ones but large brown blobs which dont seem to have tentacles at least not the long trailing ones we are used to.

[skip]

A good time to be trying catch and release for tuna and maybe if you're lucky get one that is 30kgs+

[ramio]

Hey guys, what those the latest rules really say regarding tuna fishing? Does it irestrict fishing on all types of the family, tumbrell, kubrit etc?

[bigboy]

Ramio, never heard of a 30kg tumbrell or kubrita