Kevin Daly
Senior Member
To report two blokes fishing a tiny Thames trib. Asked them to pack up but they just ignored me so I phoned the EA, got the all-important incident number. Unfortunately I couldn’t wait around to see the outcome.
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To report two blokes fishing a tiny Thames trib. Asked them to pack up but they just ignored me so I phoned the EA, got the all-important incident number. Unfortunately I couldn’t wait around to see the outcome.
To report two blokes fishing a tiny Thames trib. Asked them to pack up but they just ignored me so I phoned the EA, got the all-important incident number. Unfortunately I couldn’t wait around to see the outcome.
To report two blokes fishing a tiny Thames trib. Asked them to pack up but they just ignored me so I phoned the EA, got the all-important incident number. Unfortunately I couldn’t wait around to see the outcome.
Kevin,
If the same two blokes were fishing a still water then they would have been considered as doing nothing wrong. Just another example of a ridiculous law....if it were me I would have turned a blind eye.
I wonder, if we were promised the protection of our fisheries during the close season, how many would stomach a rise in the licence?
I wonder, if we were promised the protection of our fisheries during the close season, how many would stomach a rise in the licence?
Richard
We in the affluent South East are about to start enjoying the fruits of the voluntary bailiff scheme. That is because my fellow moaning old gits and I here in the affluent south east have long bent the ear of the authorities about protection of our very expensive fishing. You on the other hand in the poorer deprived arias where you depend on tourist money for a living have cheap poor quality fishing; I believe you actually travel miles and miles to put a decent bend in your rod. If you were to start to protect what you have neglected for years perhaps all that money spent on petrol could pay for fishing of the quality Graham and I enjoy on the Wasing and the other syndicated waters I fish. In my back yard where we pay dear, we value our fishing. You and others pay little and see your waters as valueless. Why should any others see them in any other way? Bailiffing is the only way we can maintain our sport. Government, local or national, blue or red will not fund the protection our sport desperately needs unless it is documented and proved that the protection is needed.
Ridiculous law maybe, but as a law you must live by it.