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It worries me that he's quoted as an authority. He's without doubt a decent angler and I do enjoy listening to him but I find he can be prone to contradicting himself now and again.

mmm none of those do away with watercraft though , I was fishing the other week only 6 acres or so walked round thought I saw some reeds moving so set up rigs out etc . A little while later a guy turns up starts casting his deeper out all over the place , then sets him self up next swim along from where I am . Using a fish finder is not fishing IMO .Would he have still setup and fished if he couldn't find them on his fish finder . Just not for me . P.s we both blanked LOL

Well I use my Deeper for Map Making Spot Finding I use the Deeper on days when I'm not actually fishing , but just want to be at the lake / only have a few hours available to me / the weather is too cold and/or wet . I wouldn't use the Deeper if there was anyone on my part of the lake as I wouldn't like it if I was fishing and someone was casting their bolt rig out every 5mins. 😃

1g of salt per Litre is what it is. One teaspoon of salt weighs around 5.5g. Let’s get very rough here, it’s the same as putting just less than half a teaspoon of salt in a 2L bottle of water.

If it's for an angling charity get the handles over to me, Nick. I'll sort them and get them back to you FOC. Ian.

I dont think even the scientists know about salt turnover and replenishment. I think you'd be looking at small amounts at any one time. I did look it up with my research but what's out there is very minimal to be perfectly honest! My guess is that the more active a carp is, means the more salt it needs? Research out there suggest that things like caddisfly, mayfly, etc larvaes are not tolerant of salinity at all whereas shrimps, snails, etc. actually can tolerate it. This study actually found that at low salinity levels and at over 8ppt all freshwater inverts sampled had higher mortalities however at levels between 1.5 - 2.2ppt there was no more moralities than at freshwater. Again the tests are done with salt water, not salt laid bare on the ground. I am with you and think that a large deposit of salt crystals laid direct on the lake bed will basically burn it and create a dead zone.

I’d say a vast majority of lakes are freshwater. Definition being 0ppt. Freshwater Fish have a naturally high salt concentration in their body. The salt wants to transfer over to the weaker solution, that being freshwater as it has no salt in it. Freshwater fish tend to lose salt and absorb water. This is why they have efficient kidneys which can excrete water very quickly. Sources of salt for freshwater fish are mainly reabsorbing it from their urea before it’s excreted, clay & food items. I would assume that it is not necessarily sodium chloride that is required, more so just sodium in general to maintain the sodium:potassium balance required for osmosis.

Freshwater is 0ppt. Sea water is around 32/34ppt. Anything over 2ppt I found had significant negative impact. I agree, the danger is not to carp. It’s to the invertebrates and plants and the rest. I don’t think the consensus has been that salt will damage carp, I thinks it’s always been that it’s the smaller organisms which will be affected. I look at it this way. If someone is hung up on if a bit of salt kills off a 30cm square bit of the lakebed then don’t try and put a bit of metal in a fish’s face and drag it out of the water so it can’t breathe just for your own enjoyment. There’s a fine line in there somewhere I guess. In my opinion, and my career is river ecology and restoration, anglers look after the environment more than any other user leisure or commercial user of the rivers.

Nick, put some photos up years back of a pile of pellet that was dumped in the margin . Killed the lake bed as it rotted down , left in bare . Point being lots of items lobbed in lakes in high quantities have the ability to cause the effects you mention , if they weren't eaten or disturbed . Not a salt user myself so not trying to defend anything. Really good read so far 😎

"Why pick on the poor old salt granule" Because, unlike bait or weed removal, the evidence I have seen suggests salt has an accumulative effect. Bait disintegrates, weed grows back but salt just goes on building up. People thought a few bits of plastic would have no effect on the vast oceans - well we are better educated now ---- aren't we? However I proudly accept your criticism that I over think things. Yes I do.

@carpepecheur I admire your thinking but I think your over thinking the situation . You could argue that even putting any bait in or removing any weed or silt is messing the ecosystem up . Why pick on the poor old salt granule.

I always angle the pegs aswell more force required to pull them out then imo