When this great man is no longer with us, which i hope is another lifetime away, i hope the angling world realises the impact hes had on our past time. Thank you Danny
I met him at the northern show a few years back, my missus thought we were mates he was asking all about my baby girl asking about my fishing really nice guy. As we walked off my missus said how do you know him ?? She thought he was another punter at the show who knew me. Top man
In my opinion Danny Fairbrass is the most significant figure in carp fishing history ! What a MAN ! Would love to meet him personally one day. Keep up the brilliant work Dan, your an absolute legend ! 👍 👌 👍
We had embryo at our club Lake to price the installation of an otter fence one year later we have now got the otter fence cannot fault the lads and the company especially James Turner for. coming round with us to measure up big respect for Danny Fairbrass he has done so much for the fishing industry now our club Lake is safe from otters❤👌👌👌👌👌👌
Danny is a legend in the game!! All these huge companies that have sat back and done nothing once again team Korda and embryo came to the rescue ❤ this man is humble and genuine.
We need more people like DF in this country, keep up the good work. From selling leads out a carrier bag 30 years ago to spending £9M putting back into the sport is staggering.
Met so many great people at norton disney. Some i may speak to for years to come. Its not a franchise of fisheries its a community of likeminded people. Hats of to Dan and Matt for getting all of it sorted🤟🏻
From personal experience i can only give my point of view. I’ve only ever had good experiences there and seen positive things for fishing. But at the end of the day everyone has their own view mate
Incredible listen, it really is good seeing Danny sitting down and talking in a setting like this. Interesting and knowledgeable. Wish it was longer it felt 10 minutes long, look forward to the next one!
Well done korda / embryo leagues above other fishing companies and give so much back to the sport. Another great listen and off to North bank for a second time mega social venue. Keep up the great work 👏👏👏.
Danny, I don't wish to blow smoke, but you're a very smart, driven perfectionist to do what you've done. An inspiration to me. You must be tough to work with I bet but the output speaks for itself. Amazing.
Nothing but respect for what Dan has put back into our beloved past time if he had done this for any another sport he probably would of been knighted 👏🏻
Amazing podcast, I am a fan of the idea of embryo. Would love to see more waters with good rules and more etiquette over here in belgium (I fish the low stock lake) and like Dan toched on doggy dog and swim rotation killing it for the normal anglers ... so would love to see more embryo waters over here in Belgium. Keep it going guys
Great podcast tons of info from dan... he's seriously set the bar mega high and the futures bright.. gets so much stick from jealous anglers and there's no need.....just hope embryo can capture more lakes in the northwest of England... us northerners are made of harder stuff than southerners hahaha Great work fellas
Great job embryos doing a great listen this was .will they be venturing into kent though got lakes further up the country but not everyone had the time to travel the distance to fish these water so would be great to see them do something in Kent one day
dan the eels declined because of over fishing of the elvers [baby eels ] the EA wont say this because they made a lot of money by brining in a licence for the nets used to catch them also there was no elver fishery to control the numbers taken so it was never controlled in any way ,it is one of a few industries that let you take the young stock as well as the mature stock this speaks for its self ,1kilo of elvers equals 3000 baby eels the average catch per fisherman per night was between 1kilo to 50kilo plus , the price per kilo was around £350 per kilo i fished for them from the age of 16 until 45. when they were no long in numbers worth fishing for , eels where the main diet of the otter , no wonder it turned to easy pond fish , its some thing the idiots that let them go did not even know about .the elver was also the biggest food source for river fish at one time .ps ,a big thank you for all you are doing for fishing, ATB
I thought that there was a parasite which attacked their swim bladder. I remember reading about a study done which tracked eels as they returned to spawn and found that they were constantly either swimming up to the surface to feed at night, or travelling back down to deeper water to be safer from predators for the daylight hours. The eels with the parasite couldn't control their depth so basically dropped over the continental shelf and basically staved before reaching their spawning grounds in the Sargasso sea. Obviously, over fishing, pollution and predation hasn't helped numbers either, bit of a perfect storm of negative factors all contributing to their decline
@@dispatchteam729 yes that also it affected the silver eels going back to sea to spawn they could not get down to the depth to mate , it came from imported eels from china for the pie and mash shops , some escaped and caused the problem , but the damage was done by over fishing the elvers , leaving less and less eels to migrate back to the sargasso sea as you point out , and very few elvers coming back.
DF is a legend in angling on a level par as a leader as churchill was to our country. And just because I'm not sure where to contact embryo about it. There are to lakes local to me that are shockingly run and I think would benefit immensely from your input. I believe that West Lake in colwick Park nottingham and the old trout lake next to it are run by the city council, and as such, you might imagine how things are. Please advise me if there is another avenue at which to get embryo more information. Again, your content is eye-opening. Danny has one of those voices that could read the yellow pages and have folk hanging on every word. #Danny for a knight hood. For service's rendered to the commonwealth.
Danny Q&A once every few months on here would be decent, if youre gonna be talking about the english embryo waters Rob Burgess be a good shout to have there with you he seems to smash them all up
DF is the greatest man alive in the Angling world 🌎.. An inspiration to others, a great ambassador and idol #kordaofficial 💚.. I'd love to work for him and I'd work for nothing ❤
Need to persuade Martin Pick to do a podcast. Thats one that would be 100% worth a serious listen to. I am sure Danny or Damo could talk him round, especially if they tell him he can have at least 15 mins to talk about Leicester City FC😂
Do you have plans to add lakes, etc, up as far as Cumbria and up into Scotland? Would be good to have some day ticket, 2/3 nighter weekdays and weekends up this way supported under the embryo banner. It's hard work travelling far for some anglers with disabilities so that is why I'm asking. Cheers guys.
Have you look at Catch 22 lake in Norfolk? I never had the chance to fish it but a lot of people think that is one of the best lakes in East Anglia and its wasting away at the minute.
Danny my old mukka do you think you be getting any syndicates up north and up north means Newcastle,it might be abit cold for you southern boys up here but doveys for head should keep yous warm with that glare,lol keep up the good work danny
What a Great Selfless Person Danny is my only Gripe is I wish Korda would lead the way to cease production of fake baits which if swallowed by carp can be fatal!
Don’t loose feed them then!!! 😂 Seriously though, most fake baits if actually swallowed by the fish will just pass through them in the vast majority of cases. The main issue would be a smaller fish with a smaller GI tract being unable to pass a large fake bait through it easily. Carp will ingest far larger items that they don’t fully crush with their phyrangeal teeth & plastic baits won’t swell inside the fish unlike unprepared particle can. What should be of more concern is that plastic baits don’t degrade leaving cracked off rigs ‘live’ still. Way too many people fish under-gunned still nowadays claiming it’s ’to enjoy the fight’ yet will still just attempt to crank the fish in holding the rod low like a match angler.
I love what you've done but do you think that the younger people will not take up the sport in the future as we have to pay alot to fish as its getting more expensive to fish day ticket lakes and syndicates now let alone in future
Im a bit gutted i fished broom since i was 11 and now i cant I thought local anglers with a relationship with the lakes were priority...i lost a bit of me when you took over.i tried and tried to get on it.. I look at it from my house and not one local person i recognised is on it..
I've a question why is it only korda who are creating waters home and away where the fuck is NASH FOX TRAKKER RIDGEMONKEY..any one stepping up from the other big carp fishing manufacturers I could list more 🤔 korda don't have to pump money into the future but because one man who has the love of fishing wants to see it grow. Take a step back 30 years ago and see where it all started .. in his mum's kitchen. Definitely want to get out and fish some of the European waters.
Danny is so important for fishing without him it would be in a worse place what he has done for carp and matchfishing is emmence should be Sir Danny Fairbrass
Pity all the waiting lists are full and will take years just to get in the waiting lists there’s a couple of lakes I’d love to fish but will never even get on the lists now
@@russellgriffiths660 all the lakes I’m interested in are full waiting lists either fifty or 100 all ready on the list and at a rate of 5/10 new members a year your waiting 5/6 years just to get on the lists
@@garythwilliams8732: Where did you get those figures from ??? You couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve just got on Phil’s …. Waited about 13 months. Get your name on your chosen list, stop moaning and WAIT !!! You’ll never get on decent syndicate unless you put your name…..I think you’ll carry on day ticketing because all you want to do is whinge !!!
@@Kingcarparpeggio devils lane 100 on list list closed Gordon’s lake 50 on list list closed Hyde lane 65 on list list closed iris lake denham 92 on list list closed I live in Sussex and not spending 3/4 hours driving up north to go fishing it’s a 90 mile drive just to London for me
Blaming otters 🦦 is ridiculous of course, and yes, as Danny mentions, humans are mainly to blame. Otters never became extinct and have always been present in good numbers across UK. When you increase the number of lakes across Britain and over-stock them with a single species... then there was bound to be a problem. Also, the reasoning that carp eventually learn to avoid otters 🦦 is not exactly true, because the big male otters in the wild tend to target the largest carp of an over-stocked lake during the coldest winter months, when the fish are dormant for longer periods than summer (although all carp naturally sleep for periods during every 24hrs year round, and this is another period when otters and mink target big fish). The saddest aspect of many once beautiful waters of England during recent years, is the widespread building of 'otter fences' that have turned it into an eye-sore. Gladly the larger lakes and rivers are too big to be surrounded by horrendous fencing.
@@DjDolHaus86 Stop trying to blame everything on 'introductions' when the majority of otters in UK are from natural born wild animals and not all from re-introduced animals. Regarding the ugly perimeter fencing of a small artificially constructed commercial water on private land, then that is of course up to the owner.
@@Globetrotter-1 The majority of otters are descendants from the licensed reintroduction's in the early 80s by the otter trust and unlicensed operations by individuals and groups through the 80s and into the 90s (I know people who did it across the country during this period so don't tell me they didn't). The issue, as Danny mentions, is not the reintroductions but rather the lack of foresight given to protect fish stocks and businesses as the populations began to flourish. What happens when you reintroduce an apex predator into an environment where they've been all but absent is that their populations swell to take advantage of the available food, they eventually eat everything causing the prey populations to crash before the predator population starves. This swings back and forth until hopefully you achieve equilibrium but there's no telling what casualties will occur along the way, you might gain a stable otter population at the potential loss of a few bird, amphibian, lizard, fish or mammal species which have either been predated upon as the natural food sources dried up or they've been pushed out of the ecological niche that was available in the absence of otters. If a government body has decided to allow the reintroduction of a species then it has a duty of care to ensure the populations are monitored and that those whose property, livestock or business are taken care of if the decision unduly affects them. All it needed was more money being pumped into the EA to maintain river conditions and stocks and a subsidy on the means for lakes to be protected. They released the wolves and thought nothing of the sheep.
@@DjDolHaus86 I completely disagree. I have been studying and tracking natural wild otters 🦦 (and other mammals) for over six decades and they have been present in good numbers during that time period. The widespread and unchecked volume of single-species artificially stocked waters during more recent decades have been one of the main reasons for the increase in sightings of otter activity. Regarding wolves (including lynx, bears etc...) I'm all in favour of their natural increase in numbers across Europe, especially the Alpine regions. The biggest problem in my view is that there are not enough large predators at present in UK/Europe. I'm also in favour of the beaver and other wildlife that all bring a vital factor towards maintaining a healthy biosphere.
We have natural England to thank for reintroduction of otters with no thought for anything else if we don't protect ALL fishing and not private fenced pools we are fucked natural fishing is the best fishing u can do no named fish,fixed swims,less rules and the unknown just u against the dish which is what I love haven't been to a commercial carp pool in 10+yrs I know 1 baliff who shot 12 otters last year alone on his waters and 1 of the biggest day ticket complexes in uk we need to protect fishing as a whole otherwise there will be only fenced fisheries which will become overrun and can charge what they want
Had winter tickets on two embryo lakes, whilst i commend you Dan for what you have built with embryo the overall running for the syndicates at HQ I've found is very poor. You literally get a email one day saying you owe X amount by tomorrow or lost your spot and even when you get a ticket you basically have to chase HQ for any gate codes/info ETC. And the statement you've made about going to the bottom of the list after paying your fee and not accepting with a days notice is totally false, ive checked the syndicate I was on and I am already off the list.
Stanton as example, 25 weekend members, 35 week members. 60 members @ £525 = £31500. Wow, you must be paying your Baliff’s big bucks, Not. One eyed man in the kingdom of the blind is King.
So it costs Embryo £40 to make a phone call to enquire if you want a membership. Organisation is a joke, building a legacy on borrowed money. Fishing and hunting used to be a way of putting food on the table and now it’s a capitalist business. Full respect Mr Fairarse for the Korda tackle but Embryo is a joke.
Bollocks mate. I run a fishery and have done for about a decade, we do everything we can to encourage and nurture the natural environment but you've got to be practical. I need to make a profit to keep my business open, my profit is based on the value of the stock held within it, if I don't protect my stock then that little haven for nature becomes essentially valueless and will be turned into a duck shooting pond, a watersports park or simply backfilled to build on.
@@darrenbrown4605 David's death was a sad loss of a brilliant botanist and knowledge of the natural world. He was so right about the fake climate change and corrupt net zero agenda.
@@darrenbrown4605 David was a brilliant botanist and had an outstanding knowledge of the natural world. He was so right about the false agenda of climate.
When this great man is no longer with us, which i hope is another lifetime away, i hope the angling world realises the impact hes had on our past time. Thank you Danny
he's one of those people that will be appreciated 10 times more when he's gone... the impact he's had on angling is right up there with anyone
@@ThomasSloan-kz9fu 100%
Agreed but that’s sad. He gets to much hate from jealous people
Absolutely. Done understand why he gets so much hate when all you have to do is watch his podcasts and see how passionate he is about the sport.
I met him at the northern show a few years back, my missus thought we were mates he was asking all about my baby girl asking about my fishing really nice guy. As we walked off my missus said how do you know him ?? She thought he was another punter at the show who knew me. Top man
In my opinion Danny Fairbrass is the most significant figure in carp fishing history ! What a MAN !
Would love to meet him personally one day.
Keep up the brilliant work Dan, your an absolute legend !
👍 👌 👍
We had embryo at our club Lake to price the installation of an otter fence one year later we have now got the otter fence cannot fault the lads and the company especially James Turner for. coming round with us to measure up big respect for Danny Fairbrass he has done so much for the fishing industry now our club Lake is safe from otters❤👌👌👌👌👌👌
What Danny has done for coarse and carp fishing is truly amazing
He's opened up carp fishing at at top level to everyone who wants to improve what a boy.... started out selling leads Respect
Danny is a legend in the game!! All these huge companies that have sat back and done nothing once again team Korda and embryo came to the rescue ❤ this man is humble and genuine.
DF - A legacy that will never be forgotten in angling.
great listen this - thanks for what you do for the sport Dan - carp fishing is lucky to have someone like you involved. proper legend imo
Bloody awesome podcast Dan is a legend
so good to see how well people talk of Danny.. he used to get so much stick of social media but people finally realise how good he is for fishing
Dan the man is a carping legend.
Never wanted to shake a mans hand more. Incredible human.
We need more people like DF in this country, keep up the good work. From selling leads out a carrier bag 30 years ago to spending £9M putting back into the sport is staggering.
That was quality 👏🏻 Danny doesn’t get respect he deserves total transparency 👏🏻🎣
What a legacy to leave behind one day.
Hope he lives a long & healthy life and achieves everything he’s hoping too
Absolute legend! Amazing Danny.
Met so many great people at norton disney. Some i may speak to for years to come. Its not a franchise of fisheries its a community of likeminded people.
Hats of to Dan and Matt for getting all of it sorted🤟🏻
It is a franchise it's the angling direct of carp fisheries
From personal experience i can only give my point of view. I’ve only ever had good experiences there and seen positive things for fishing.
But at the end of the day everyone has their own view mate
Danny is the MAN !
Great watch dan and his team have done wonders for carp fishing and people mental health. Hope to fish some these waters abroad in the future 👍😃🎣🐟
Incredible listen, it really is good seeing Danny sitting down and talking in a setting like this. Interesting and knowledgeable. Wish it was longer it felt 10 minutes long, look forward to the next one!
Well done korda / embryo leagues above other fishing companies and give so much back to the sport. Another great listen and off to North bank for a second time mega social venue. Keep up the great work 👏👏👏.
Danny, I don't wish to blow smoke, but you're a very smart, driven perfectionist to do what you've done. An inspiration to me. You must be tough to work with I bet but the output speaks for itself. Amazing.
A Gem in so many ways! Thank you!!
Love Danny one in a billion
deepest respect for you Danny fairbrass
Nothing but respect for what Dan has put back into our beloved past time if he had done this for any another sport he probably would of been knighted 👏🏻
If only we had politicians like this man, the country would be a better place.
Amazing podcast, I am a fan of the idea of embryo. Would love to see more waters with good rules and more etiquette over here in belgium (I fish the low stock lake) and like Dan toched on doggy dog and swim rotation killing it for the normal anglers ... so would love to see more embryo waters over here in Belgium. Keep it going guys
Great podcast tons of info from dan... he's seriously set the bar mega high and the futures bright.. gets so much stick from jealous anglers and there's no need.....just hope embryo can capture more lakes in the northwest of England... us northerners are made of harder stuff than southerners hahaha
Great work fellas
We've been waiting for another DF Hope All Is Well 👍🏾
He certainly leads the market as far as tackle companies go. He says what he says, and jealous people don’t like it.
Awesomesauce! 👏👏👏👏
Great job embryos doing a great listen this was .will they be venturing into kent though got lakes further up the country but not everyone had the time to travel the distance to fish these water so would be great to see them do something in Kent one day
dan the eels declined because of over fishing of the elvers [baby eels ] the EA wont say this because they made a lot of money by brining in a licence for the nets used to catch them also there was no elver fishery to control the numbers taken so it was never controlled in any way ,it is one of a few industries that let you take the young stock as well as the mature stock this speaks for its self ,1kilo of elvers equals 3000 baby eels the average catch per fisherman per night was between 1kilo to 50kilo plus , the price per kilo was around £350 per kilo i fished for them from the age of 16 until 45. when they were no long in numbers worth fishing for , eels where the main diet of the otter , no wonder it turned to easy pond fish , its some thing the idiots that let them go did not even know about .the elver was also the biggest food source for river fish at one time .ps ,a big thank you for all you are doing for fishing, ATB
I thought that there was a parasite which attacked their swim bladder. I remember reading about a study done which tracked eels as they returned to spawn and found that they were constantly either swimming up to the surface to feed at night, or travelling back down to deeper water to be safer from predators for the daylight hours. The eels with the parasite couldn't control their depth so basically dropped over the continental shelf and basically staved before reaching their spawning grounds in the Sargasso sea. Obviously, over fishing, pollution and predation hasn't helped numbers either, bit of a perfect storm of negative factors all contributing to their decline
@@dispatchteam729I had also heard that
Very interesting
@@dispatchteam729 yes that also it affected the silver eels going back to sea to spawn they could not get down to the depth to mate , it came from imported eels from china for the pie and mash shops , some escaped and caused the problem , but the damage was done by over fishing the elvers , leaving less and less eels to migrate back to the sargasso sea as you point out , and very few elvers coming back.
China doesn't have its own eel stocks to import from
DF is a legend in angling on a level par as a leader as churchill was to our country.
And just because I'm not sure where to contact embryo about it. There are to lakes local to me that are shockingly run and I think would benefit immensely from your input. I believe that West Lake in colwick Park nottingham and the old trout lake next to it are run by the city council, and as such, you might imagine how things are.
Please advise me if there is another avenue at which to get embryo more information.
Again, your content is eye-opening. Danny has one of those voices that could read the yellow pages and have folk hanging on every word.
#Danny for a knight hood. For service's rendered to the commonwealth.
Any lakes coming to Hampshire. I know a lovely venue could be developed 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Danny Q&A once every few months on here would be decent, if youre gonna be talking about the english embryo waters Rob Burgess be a good shout to have there with you he seems to smash them all up
DF is the greatest man alive in the Angling world 🌎..
An inspiration to others, a great ambassador and idol #kordaofficial 💚..
I'd love to work for him and I'd work for nothing ❤
North midlands is aching for something like this.
Need to persuade Martin Pick to do a podcast. Thats one that would be 100% worth a serious listen to. I am sure Danny or Damo could talk him round, especially if they tell him he can have at least 15 mins to talk about Leicester City FC😂
Do you have plans to add lakes, etc, up as far as Cumbria and up into Scotland? Would be good to have some day ticket, 2/3 nighter weekdays and weekends up this way supported under the embryo banner. It's hard work travelling far for some anglers with disabilities so that is why I'm asking. Cheers guys.
It's a pity you couldn't get hold of Hainault forest lake, you must've fished it Dan as like me you lived collier row and was such a fantastic lake.
Give over with it 😂
@@plantyblud Give over what?... From your replies to everyone I can see you're an argumentative 🤡 so jog on muppet!!
@@plantyblud Give over what?... I can see by your replies you're just an argumentative 🤡 so jog on muppet
@@plantyblud 🤡
@@plantyblud And here we have the not so elusive Troll... Jog on muppet 👍🏼
Credit where credit is due as Danny says his actions spoke louder than just words.
Is there any chance of you getting something in the northwest of England ?
Have you look at Catch 22 lake in Norfolk? I never had the chance to fish it but a lot of people think that is one of the best lakes in East Anglia and its wasting away at the minute.
Is there any plan for any more Embryo lakes up north?
Quality
Danny my old mukka do you think you be getting any syndicates up north and up north means Newcastle,it might be abit cold for you southern boys up here but doveys for head should keep yous warm with that glare,lol keep up the good work danny
What a Great Selfless Person Danny is my only Gripe is I wish Korda would lead the way to cease production of fake baits which if swallowed by carp can be fatal!
Don’t loose feed them then!!! 😂
Seriously though, most fake baits if actually swallowed by the fish will just pass through them in the vast majority of cases. The main issue would be a smaller fish with a smaller GI tract being unable to pass a large fake bait through it easily. Carp will ingest far larger items that they don’t fully crush with their phyrangeal teeth & plastic baits won’t swell inside the fish unlike unprepared particle can.
What should be of more concern is that plastic baits don’t degrade leaving cracked off rigs ‘live’ still. Way too many people fish under-gunned still nowadays claiming it’s ’to enjoy the fight’ yet will still just attempt to crank the fish in holding the rod low like a match angler.
🍺TOP MAN🍺
Sheepy magna lake needs opening again such a shame it closed
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I love what you've done but do you think that the younger people will not take up the sport in the future as we have to pay alot to fish as its getting more expensive to fish day ticket lakes and syndicates now let alone in future
So have embryo bought basten?
Im a bit gutted i fished broom since i was 11 and now i cant I thought local anglers with a relationship with the lakes were priority...i lost a bit of me when you took over.i tried and tried to get on it..
I look at it from my house and not one local person i recognised is on it..
Just fish it mate, what’s the worst that can happen. Get thrown off.
I've a question why is it only korda who are creating waters home and away where the fuck is NASH FOX TRAKKER RIDGEMONKEY..any one stepping up from the other big carp fishing manufacturers I could list more 🤔 korda don't have to pump money into the future but because one man who has the love of fishing wants to see it grow. Take a step back 30 years ago and see where it all started .. in his mum's kitchen. Definitely want to get out and fish some of the European waters.
Couldn't agree more; well said!
Nash have some exclusive bookings/day ticket venues (the Church/Copse + Royston). Gary Bayes has Bayswater complex as well.
Come up to Scotland , Scotland is badly crying out for carp waters
Will they ever have a water in the north west
Danny is so important for fishing without him it would be in a worse place what he has done for carp and matchfishing is emmence should be Sir Danny Fairbrass
And mitten crabs hammering fish eggs
Pity all the waiting lists are full and will take years just to get in the waiting lists there’s a couple of lakes I’d love to fish but will never even get on the lists now
Have a look on the website. A lot of the lists are open again.
@@russellgriffiths660 all the lakes I’m interested in are full waiting lists either fifty or 100 all ready on the list and at a rate of 5/10 new members a year your waiting 5/6 years just to get on the lists
@@garythwilliams8732: Where did you get those figures from ??? You couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve just got on Phil’s …. Waited about 13 months. Get your name on your chosen list, stop moaning and WAIT !!!
You’ll never get on decent syndicate unless you put your name…..I think you’ll carry on day ticketing because all you want to do is whinge !!!
All decent syndicates have long waiting lists and bet they don't have people queue jumping like most do.
@@Kingcarparpeggio devils lane 100 on list list closed Gordon’s lake 50 on list list closed Hyde lane 65 on list list closed iris lake denham 92 on list list closed I live in Sussex and not spending 3/4 hours driving up north to go fishing it’s a 90 mile drive just to London for me
Blaming otters 🦦 is ridiculous of course, and yes, as Danny mentions, humans are mainly to blame.
Otters never became extinct and have always been present in good numbers across UK.
When you increase the number of lakes across Britain and over-stock them with a single species... then there was bound to be a problem.
Also, the reasoning that carp eventually learn to avoid otters 🦦 is not exactly true, because the big male otters in the wild tend to target the largest carp of an over-stocked lake during the coldest winter months, when the fish are dormant for longer periods than summer (although all carp naturally sleep for periods during every 24hrs year round, and this is another period when otters and mink target big fish).
The saddest aspect of many once beautiful waters of England during recent years, is the widespread building of 'otter fences' that have turned it into an eye-sore.
Gladly the larger lakes and rivers are too big to be surrounded by horrendous fencing.
If I want to raise sheep and someone decides to reintroduce wolves then I'm going to build fences to keep my investment safe.
@@DjDolHaus86 Stop trying to blame everything on 'introductions' when the majority of otters in UK are from natural born wild animals and not all from re-introduced animals.
Regarding the ugly perimeter fencing of a small artificially constructed commercial water on private land, then that is of course up to the owner.
@@Globetrotter-1 The majority of otters are descendants from the licensed reintroduction's in the early 80s by the otter trust and unlicensed operations by individuals and groups through the 80s and into the 90s (I know people who did it across the country during this period so don't tell me they didn't). The issue, as Danny mentions, is not the reintroductions but rather the lack of foresight given to protect fish stocks and businesses as the populations began to flourish.
What happens when you reintroduce an apex predator into an environment where they've been all but absent is that their populations swell to take advantage of the available food, they eventually eat everything causing the prey populations to crash before the predator population starves. This swings back and forth until hopefully you achieve equilibrium but there's no telling what casualties will occur along the way, you might gain a stable otter population at the potential loss of a few bird, amphibian, lizard, fish or mammal species which have either been predated upon as the natural food sources dried up or they've been pushed out of the ecological niche that was available in the absence of otters. If a government body has decided to allow the reintroduction of a species then it has a duty of care to ensure the populations are monitored and that those whose property, livestock or business are taken care of if the decision unduly affects them. All it needed was more money being pumped into the EA to maintain river conditions and stocks and a subsidy on the means for lakes to be protected. They released the wolves and thought nothing of the sheep.
@@DjDolHaus86 I completely disagree. I have been studying and tracking natural wild otters 🦦 (and other mammals) for over six decades and they have been present in good numbers during that time period. The widespread and unchecked volume of single-species artificially stocked waters during more recent decades have been one of the main reasons for the increase in sightings of otter activity.
Regarding wolves (including lynx, bears etc...) I'm all in favour of their natural increase in numbers across Europe, especially the Alpine regions.
The biggest problem in my view is that there are not enough large predators at present in UK/Europe.
I'm also in favour of the beaver and other wildlife that all bring a vital factor towards maintaining a healthy biosphere.
@Globetrotter-1 mate you are making yourself look like a tool here go and get in get coffin like 👍
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Great man to not lose sleep over every single loser that only has negative things to say about him but who'll never amount to anything, but bell ends.
We have natural England to thank for reintroduction of otters with no thought for anything else if we don't protect ALL fishing and not private fenced pools we are fucked natural fishing is the best fishing u can do no named fish,fixed swims,less rules and the unknown just u against the dish which is what I love haven't been to a commercial carp pool in 10+yrs I know 1 baliff who shot 12 otters last year alone on his waters and 1 of the biggest day ticket complexes in uk we need to protect fishing as a whole otherwise there will be only fenced fisheries which will become overrun and can charge what they want
As much as I hate the shouting of "Bosh" and "Get in" that he always does when landing a fish, I can't knock the man for what he's done for the sport.
As a continental, I feel insulted. What a caricature.
Danny, get something done in Manchester. Carp fishing in Manchester is so poor, and anywhere half decent is run by non fisherman led by greed.
Had winter tickets on two embryo lakes, whilst i commend you Dan for what you have built with embryo the overall running for the syndicates at HQ I've found is very poor. You literally get a email one day saying you owe X amount by tomorrow or lost your spot and even when you get a ticket you basically have to chase HQ for any gate codes/info ETC. And the statement you've made about going to the bottom of the list after paying your fee and not accepting with a days notice is totally false, ive checked the syndicate I was on and I am already off the list.
Stanton as example, 25 weekend members, 35 week members. 60 members @ £525 = £31500. Wow, you must be paying your Baliff’s big bucks, Not. One eyed man in the kingdom of the blind is King.
So it costs Embryo £40 to make a phone call to enquire if you want a membership. Organisation is a joke, building a legacy on borrowed money. Fishing and hunting used to be a way of putting food on the table and now it’s a capitalist business. Full respect Mr Fairarse for the Korda tackle but Embryo is a joke.
And anglers always want everything their way... Nature's way don't really matter to anglers.
I think your find anglers are the eyes and ears when it comes to nature and waterways . (Quoted from the late great David Bellamy )
Bollocks mate. I run a fishery and have done for about a decade, we do everything we can to encourage and nurture the natural environment but you've got to be practical. I need to make a profit to keep my business open, my profit is based on the value of the stock held within it, if I don't protect my stock then that little haven for nature becomes essentially valueless and will be turned into a duck shooting pond, a watersports park or simply backfilled to build on.
@@darrenbrown4605 David's death was a sad loss of a brilliant botanist and knowledge of the natural world. He was so right about the fake climate change and corrupt net zero agenda.
@@darrenbrown4605 David was a brilliant botanist and had an outstanding knowledge of the natural world. He was so right about the false agenda of climate.