[ArtfulDodger84]

I wondered how many members of this forum would advocate a shortening of the fishing season on the don to say June thru to October.  I feel this would allow the Spring run (whats left of it) and the Kelts, safe passage to their respective destinations.

What do you all think?

[Paul Rankine]

HI Art,
           Don't see the problem . Perhaps you could elucidate ?

Paul.

[Hamish Young]

I think it's a bad idea to be honest - extending the current voluntary code to compulsory might make more sense IMHO 

[Mike Barrio]

I think it's a bad idea to be honest - extending the current voluntary code to compulsory might make more sense IMHO 

Yes, I think I would agree with that Hamish

Best wishes
Mike

[sharpie]

tbh if you were to make it from june to october then you would have all the trouters pulling them in and not returning them.

[monsterfish]

Sorry arty i agree with hamish on this one. Are you new to fishing?

[ArtfulDodger84]

No been fishing for 19 years Colin.  i agree the best solution would be to make the voluntary code compulsory. 

[Mike Barrio]

tbh if you were to make it from june to october then you would have all the trouters pulling them in and not returning them.

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[Sandy Nelson]

Mike

funny thats what i was thinking

Still i'll hold ranks with the big man too, but i thought the voluntary code should have compulsary from the start, if certain associations hadn't paniked at the thought that some of the members would run because they couldn't keep their fish then it probably would have been  

Anyway my feelings on this were well documented at the time so i won't go there

Sandy

[Mike Livingstone]

I'm with Hamsih and Sandy on this one.  Make the code compulsory. 

As for the trouters pulling them in and not returning them, I must have been fishing the wrong river all this time asI have not seen that.  Better turn myself in to which every fishery board I need to as I'm sure it was the Don I was fishing!   

I guess if salmon fishers do not return the fish to spawn and the runs are already poor it could go the same way as some of the East Coast US rivers and a blanket ban on Atlantic Salmon fishing could be enforced until the stocks recover.   Drastic but it has helped a few rivers over there.  Saying that, the rod caught fish are a small number and other issues such as offshore netting, river water quality, forestation and its effects on run-off etc all need to be answered if the salmon runs are to be improved substantially.