Dead Fish

Member Joined: Sep 05, 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Penzance

Rod licences wont solve anything, where would the money actually go? into mr Browns pocket!.

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:32 pm

Sea license no. Why should we pay for our hobby?
More patrols, easier convictions and tighter laws is what we need.
People get away with littering, yet about a year ago a mother got fined 250 quid i think it was coz her baby dropped a quaver crisp.

If they fine people for that then why arent they fining those littering our fishing loactions? It pathetic

Occasional Joined: Apr 09, 2008 Posts: 137 Location: kent

i fish dungeness quite often and st marys bay and this weekend for the first time hythe at dungy theres rubbish old line beer cans at st marys the same plus loads of dog shit so not just fisherman to blame there and at hythe i picked up mackerel feathers with hooks lines dead fish and heads so if we get banned from the beaches whos to blame and i agree with alan yates maybe a fishing licence would help and keep this person of the beaches

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:18 pm

You say licences is maybe the way forward but howthey going to regulate it they have a hard enough time regulating the controls they already have in place. The marks I usually fish in Plymouth are generally kept clean but this is down to us regular anglers tying old carrier bags to the railings and then putting our rubbish into them. The local council occasionally put one of their bags there but are happy to take our full carriers........Colin

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:16 am

found 3 dead dogfish down the warren the other day not a nice sight although i dnt believe they had been left to die az the tide had jus gone out !

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:58 am

I reckon that over the last few years it really has become socially unacceptable for people to drop litter in the streets, perhaps helped by people being prosecuted/on-the-spot fines for minor littering offences and a better provision/emptying of bins.

Perhaps a solution would be to make the local councils more responsible for maintaining their shoreline to an acceptable standard. For instance it would perhaps be easy for them to work with local tackle shops to get codes of conduct on carrier bags as suggested earlier, and put adequate bins and signs up near the shore advising visitors how it must be treated. And prosecute the idiots who ruin things for other people - I don't see why dumping dead fish/tackle/beer cans shouldn't get an on the spot fine just the same as it would in a town centre.

Worst thing of this nature that I've ever seen is fishing through the night ,at a location I won't name, on my own, when at about 7am the sea gradually became covered in carrier bags. Very puzzling I thought, until I saw the man (employed by the local tackle shop/ticket seller for the location) who was supposed to be emptying the black bags that they tie up on the railings. I wish that I had seen him do it but I think that he just went along and dumped the whole lot into the sea. Could have been an accident so against my better judgement I didn't take it any further
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:26 am

This argument will go on and on and on. The sport is costly enough without imposing more costs.

Work it out for yourselves.

Fuel to get to the venue
rigs
line hooks
sinkers
rods
reels
tripod
bait
pier fees

AND FOR THE BOAT OWNER more costs
fuel for the boat
registration fees
launching fees
extra fuel towing it

Doesn't make pretty reading does it?

If they want to introduce rod licences then for Christ sake put something back into the sport because that what it is A Sport

Other sports get backing, grants ect
What do we get? I'll tell you RIPPED OFF! angry

I apologise to the members for sounding a grumpy old man but enough is enough.
Now that I have got that off my chest I can put a smile back on my face and get on with the rest of my life big grin