Please take care when handling fish. We have recently lost a good size barbel and would like to remind members that when caught they should be rested in the net to recover before releasing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
All fish should be returned to the water as soon as possible, should never be held above knee height and always over a suitable unhooking mat. Always wet your unhooking mat before laying the fish down and never wrap in a towel (wet or otherwise) when unhooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These simple steps will help to prevent fish losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Please take care when handling fish. We have recently lost a good size barbel and would like to remind members that when caught they should be rested in the net to recover before releasing. All fish should be returned to the water as soon as possible, should never be held above knee height and always over a suitable unhooking mat…. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dellangling.co.uk\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dellangling.co.uk\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dellangling.co.uk\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dellangling.co.uk\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dellangling.co.uk\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dellangling.co.uk\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/www.dellangling.co.uk\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dellangling.co.uk\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dellangling.co.uk\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dellangling.co.uk\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}