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Pretty much of all of Western Britain and Ireland is now affected, as is the English Channel running
around into the North Sea. Less so further up into the North Sea where cod and ling dominate, though
there are increasing reports of LSD's in that area too.
What the reason is has yet to be officially identified and corrected, and I fear might take a lot of scientific
input to accurately resolve.
For my part, I suspect that extra food made available by commercial species being over-cropped is at
least part of the problem. In addition to that, LSD's are hardy fish which nobody takes; they lack
widespread predation, and are willing to eat almost anything.
Like the supposed survival of cockroaches on land after a nuclear war, LSD's look set to out-survive
everything and inherit the seas. What's left in the sea that is after all the plunder, pollution, dumping,
and temperature fluctuations have done their worst.
For those that do want a bit of advice on deliberately catching LSD's, and I'll wager there can't be many,
then you' have definitely come to the right person here.
I remember a session dinghy fishing in the Sound of Mull when collectively we had twenty four LSD's
onboard of which I caught twenty three.
On another occasion, again dinghy fishing this time out of Ballycastle in Northern Ireland looking to
see what might be lurking at depth around Rathlin Island, I managed to haul one up from well over five
hundred feet.
Similarly, fishing the Sound of Jura for common skate and hoping to pick up a black mouthed dog on
squid baited feathers. While others around me succeeded, again all I could get was LSD's. So I have
something of a track record here. If I can't catch them, then usually nobody can.
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