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Hi all
I think there's one or two members of this forum fairly knowledgeable when it comes to fish and fisheries, so hopefully you'll be able to answer this (it generated quite a debate when it came up at our last club meeting)
About 10 or 12 years the Brickyard Pond at Amotherby in North Yorks came under new ownership and one of the first things the new owner did (after advice from the then NRA) was to ban sweetcorn. I asked him why and apparently he'd been told by them that it was harmful to bream (and to a lesser extent to carp)
According to the fisheries guys at the NRA, bream get no 'goodness' from sweetcorn, they can't digest it and it just passes straight through their system. So the fish eat the corn, think they're full but in actual fact if they eat nothing else they'll actually lose weight.
At the same time there was a groundbait ban imposed on Castle Howard lake and the 'method' became to use peat as a binder, form it into balls packed full of sweetcorn and catapult it in. The bream used to average around the 4lb mark, but after a year or so of the groundbait ban they became horrible skinny, almost emaciated things only weighing a couple of pounds.
I met one of the EA fisheries officers about five years ago when they were doing some work on one of our club waters and he also confirmed that sweetcorn can damage bream.
So basically I want to know - is this true?
Is sweetcorn 'bad' for bream (and possibly carp) if they eat little else?
I await any replies with interest!
Simon
I think there's one or two members of this forum fairly knowledgeable when it comes to fish and fisheries, so hopefully you'll be able to answer this (it generated quite a debate when it came up at our last club meeting)
About 10 or 12 years the Brickyard Pond at Amotherby in North Yorks came under new ownership and one of the first things the new owner did (after advice from the then NRA) was to ban sweetcorn. I asked him why and apparently he'd been told by them that it was harmful to bream (and to a lesser extent to carp)
According to the fisheries guys at the NRA, bream get no 'goodness' from sweetcorn, they can't digest it and it just passes straight through their system. So the fish eat the corn, think they're full but in actual fact if they eat nothing else they'll actually lose weight.
At the same time there was a groundbait ban imposed on Castle Howard lake and the 'method' became to use peat as a binder, form it into balls packed full of sweetcorn and catapult it in. The bream used to average around the 4lb mark, but after a year or so of the groundbait ban they became horrible skinny, almost emaciated things only weighing a couple of pounds.
I met one of the EA fisheries officers about five years ago when they were doing some work on one of our club waters and he also confirmed that sweetcorn can damage bream.
So basically I want to know - is this true?
Is sweetcorn 'bad' for bream (and possibly carp) if they eat little else?
I await any replies with interest!
Simon