@ King Bait Co
Don't know nothing about the PETA except that they are the natural enemies of all anglers and hunters worldwide
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May well be possible , that their head is a German , since in the wide public over here obviously the welfare of animals is considered more important than the one of humans(at least mistreated animals always generate bigger headlines as crimes , violence or even murder against senior people)
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I also can frequently read of them in local fishing magazines about having lost for one more time a lawsuit against single persons or organisations involved into fishing or hunting over here
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Their complaints and arguments are just of the most unbelieveable and foolish nature , so that no judge could follow them
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And we haven't yet lost hope , that things could also turn out better one day
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Since many years it was forbidden nationwide to keep your caught fish in a livewell net , you had(and have) to kill them instantly
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As a result , on a hot summer day you have to leave the waters edge before time , since you don't want your early day caught(and killed) fish to be rotten in the heat
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I consider this a massive impact on the planning of your rare leisure time
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But the newly reworked restrictions(2006) in the state of "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" allow such livewells again , which is evident to me , that the common sense is not entirely lost , and we hope , that other states would follow soon
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@ philB
Off course this "Kill Policy" does not allow a very good stock of fish to grow over here and also that seldom bigger fish are caught
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This German guy , that you mentioned , might as well also not have caught legal sized carp , because there is another restriction about not stocking legal sized fish anymore into the waters , so there are a lot of small ones against few big ones , the "Kill Policy" probably removed the rest inbetween
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But this really depends on each single water
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Not to forget , that big carp are pretty clever , and most likely you don't catch them just like that
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In my local waters in Hamburg you hardly catch carp without special carp gear , especially not big ones .
But they are the ones to be caught frequently from March through December , since these carp guys are the pioneers of CPR over here , and many of us predator anglers have learned our lesson and follow them nowadays , though it is still illegal
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Here is a pic , that I took on the 23rd of May , saw this guy playing this fish from the bank , when passing by with my small boat .
I went ashore to look more , and he was so happy , that I took some pics with his own camera as well , since he was alone
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Also made some shots , when he released it again , it was his PB of 38 continental pounds , so almost 42 lbs
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Why , the heck , one should kill such a beauty , the quality of its flesh would be minor anyway !
Next season it would have gained another few pounds to probably make up for someones PB again
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@ hawnjigs
Not really worth it to take a trip to fish over here , though we still have some excellent pike waters , a good share of Europes largest are still caught in German waters , but only frequently fishing natives most likely catch these trophy fish
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Only option for a tourist might be to fish the coastal waters of the Baltic in "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" . They have professional guiding there , a tourist license issue is possible and there are frequently big pike caught there at certain times of year .
But in general the numbers of fish caught over here are smaller , on good days(long time gone) over here I have caught and landed 5 or 6 legal sized pike
, in other European nations ( Ireland , the Netherlands) you could maybe catch them by the dozens on excellent days
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Dieter
