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Shouldn't the money have come from those that wanted reintroductions of otters and been spent on finding out if our river systems were capable of sustaining themselves after the introduction of otters? Just a headlong rush to do what they thought best for them and otters before moving on to...

Just read this quote on Tim Paisley's facebook page about this. 'There's been too much pussyfooting around on the issue of predation of inland fisheries by both cormorants and otters.' Former MP Martin Salter, Angler's Mail interview, 2011.

Read it, unbelievable doesn't describe it. Yet another reason for not contributing towards this self appointed group.

Others maybe but I don't see how the trust can while they continue to take money from TW as sponsorship

Thrumpton is probably their best stretch.

I will never understand the EA on their FB page they are posting pictures of "woody debris" (fresh cut tree trunks) that has been placed into water courses to slow water down while at the same time destroying habitat on rivers at great expense to speed water up, and these are the people we trust...

IMO for the price they are a good tool.

I would have loved to see their faces :D

Did you report it Mark? although if the information I received from the EA about how many reports they attend is anything to go by I wouldn't blame you if you didn't mostly a total waste of time with very few attended.

That about sums it up Robert.

IMO the EA is to large with all the departments having their own agenda's that don't dovetail with others, nothing changes.

This is a reply I received from the EA in answer to an enquiry I made about cutting trees down and what the reasons were. Dear Mr Young On designated main rivers we undertake channel clearance and other works to a planned schedule. This doesn’t mean we own the watercourses classed as...

Steven that would be great but from a FOI I sent to the EA enquiring how many of the illegal fishing reports they had actually attended out of the iirc 171 reports from just one area, the answer was again iirc around 3% of them. What they say they do and what is actually done is very different...

Isn't it a tad hypocritical to want the closed season to remain on rivers for whatever reasons but then to continue to fish still waters? If rivers and their inhabitants deserve a rest then surely all fisheries do or is this closed season debacle just about money coming in year round for some...

It never ceases to amaze me that clubs choose the closed season to carry out work parties, its just the time when as others have said creatures other than fish are breeding. This is not a dig at previous posts mentioning work being carried out its just a generalisation. I suppose it depends...

Outdated, isn't used for what it was originally brought in for and depending where you live its easy to get around quite legally making it even more ridiculous, lots of anglers? ignore it and continue fishing rivers safe in the knowledge that the chances of being held to account even if reported...

Maybe if more anglers did that the attitude of this chap and anyone else with the same would change, maybe he should think about where his salary comes from and that he is in a service industry.

Sounds like a proper jobsworth to me, there is as far as I can find out no law saying a rod licence is needed to own a rod set up or not, he should have concerned himself solely with the rods you were fishing with nothing else. Does he do this at fishing matches when an angler may have 3/4/5...