flat fish worries

[fishingtom123]

Me and a friend have been trying to catch our first flat fish but I was speaking to my dads friend yesterday and he was saying that he is always a bit worried about flatfish. This is because he says some of the stuff they feed on creates cancer in parts of there body’s not shore what bits. I thought this was a slightly worrying point and just wanted to know what every one though about it. Has any one herd anything about it before or is it just made up?

[pingu]

first i've heard
love flatty hunting but has been another poor winter here

dave

[breiflabb]

Dont you know that just about everything will give you cancer today

[fishingtom123]

maybe nothing just wondering if any one had herd anything. its probably one of those thigs thaat come out of no where.

[fishypaul]

you have nothing to worry about mate,its a load of baloney,

[fishingtom123]

thats good to know sorry for wasting your time then

[geejayy]

i musta ate dozens of flounder from sotton in the 70's when the river was supposedly much more polluted than now. don't seem to have done me any harm.
often caught them with dark patches on the underside which were known as oil spots by dad n unc' vic, fawley got the blame till later i realised it was just some random pigmentation and not oil.

prhaps this cleaner estuary enviromentally friendly approach is whats driveing the flatties away ,
the food chain is driven by bacteria & micro organisms. why eradicate them in the name of cleanliness.

[philipn]

nah he must be on about the number of ciggys you have while waiting for a bite

[ninjamonkey]

Originally Posted by philipn

nah he must be on about the number of ciggys you have while waiting for a bite

hehe, nah we healthy boy's . Does sound abit worrying but as breiflabb said everything seems to give you cancer nowadays...