A bass whilst pike fishing.

[cathalger]

There's a beach I fish in Kerry where the river trout venture out a good bit from the river, so who knows?

Nice one youonlythevinegar123, thankyou, I know a fella who caught a BROWN trout, not a sea trout, not a smolt, not a returning kelt on spinner in open salt water in the summer, but yes it was within 100 yards of a river mouth. I caught an 8oz pollack 200 yards up a small river estuary one time and I know a fella who caught a wee codling 2 or 300 yards up a neighbouiring spate river, but yes still in water affected by the tide.

I'm not 100% sure about the pics above, if theyve been manipulated theyve been done very well but I wouldnt be one bit surprised if he got the bass in freshwater. Fish do things we dont always understand.

[twinkle]

i know of hundreds of cases of sea fish been caught miles up fresh water rivers .even on the discovery channel they were hunting a bull shark 30 miles up an american river that was attacking tourists and while they were filming they caught 4 of them.i think it depends on what food is coming out of the river, or what food is going back in to the river from the sea.that small river on clone strand had flats all the way up past the second bridge which is about 3 miles away from the mouth.have also seen mullet go up this far they would spawn in the river.at around august there fry would be there in thousands along with seatrout fry.as kids we would catch them with nets and keep them in jars

[Davy Murdoch]

It defo doesn`t look photo shopped to me...

There`s no reason why it couldn`t be caught 1 mile from the brackish part of the river..
Flounder and mullet are caught at St Mullins and its a hell of alot further up river!!

[chuckaroo]

there is no doubt of marine species adapting to 100% freshwater, have seen flounder caught in coarse matches many many miles inland after tidal cut gates, and many weirs etc. for those who know it, gilmores shore above portna locks co.antrim.

could absolutely believe it BigPhil. am well aware of the powers of those wee flatties!.. its a new one on me though whether sea bass would be capable of it.. or not.. as the case may be.
cheers

i think it depends on what food is coming out of the river, or what food is going back in to the river from the sea

or just how lowlaying, tidal and saline the water is twinkle... no matter exactly how far we are being told they are being found..
Its amazing how some lower stretches of river can be lowlaying, tidal and salty for many miles inshore - sometimes its hard to define exactly where the river ends and where the sea beings...

that small river on clone strand had flats all the way up past the second bridge which is about 3 miles away from the mouth.have also seen mullet go up this far they would spawn in the river.at around august there fry would be there in thousands along with seatrout fry.as kids we would catch them with nets and keep them in jars

am well aware of mullet being quite tolerant/adapable too..
seatrout are obvious contenders...

has anyone ever seen anything other than the mentioned species 'out of place'..
interesting about the brown trout too lads. i always found it very difficult to distinguish between juvenile brown trout and juvenile sea trout!

[twinkle]

there is no doubt of marine species adapting to 100% freshwater, have seen flounder caught in coarse matche

has anyone ever seen anything other than the mentioned species 'out of place'..
interesting about the brown trout too lads. i always found it very difficult to distinguish between juvenile brown trout and juvenile sea trout!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... lly&page=2 this might explain some of it

[kevin o connor]

Kevin why do think the picture is photoshoped? i have heard and read about this before. Its not that uncommon some freshwater fisheries in england that are stiil a small bit tidal. i think the only reason this fish is being reported is because it was a double figure fish

To be perfectly honest, I would be more inclined to believe it, if he claimed Santa had brought it to him. You can believe what you want. The only reason the fish is being reported is because he wants his picture in the paper. If he said it was caught in the sea, there would be no chance of that.

[dexs7]

Thats unreal, lucky man

[lugworm]

i work in graphic design and that picture is definitly not photoshopped i could tell strait away, there is always tell tail signs if something is tamperd with, be it backround fore ground or layers in the photo, colour tempeture, r what have ya, whos to say that this cant happen? jus because statistics or studys show this and that, so what!!, theres always one ha ha NEVER UNDERESTIMATE MOTHER NATURE i say fair f***ks to the lad and feck the begrudgers!!!!!!!! after all we are all anglers cant we all jus be happy for one another lol.............

[bigsod]

Looks genuine to me. Why would he make this up? its a stonking fish either way and if he had caught it from the open sea its still a remarkable catch.

[johnwest]

This is the bit that concerns me most; "Had Eddy kept hold of the bass he could have sold it for about 100 pounds to a fish restaurant".
I suppose you all think that my pictures are photshopped too....
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1iWpWXO8y

[dbrock]

Is it illegal to sell line caught bass in the uk?