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I was going to go on the taff tomorrow to try for trout on the fly or spinner as its allowed at the moment. however a reliable source said that he was by the river today and saw a guy in a wax hat...
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If people are blatantly fishing the Thames it begs the question "where are the EA".
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I have been fishing for over 20 years mainly on the thames,( as it is on my door step) in all this time i have been ascked for my licence twice both times on comercial carp waters never on the thames,...
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Interestingly this matter was raised at the Barbel Society AGM. One angler said that he rang the EA and they were on the spot within half an hour and dealt with it. Chris Plumb on another thread also...
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Graham It makes me wonder Re: Below Dave 4 5 weeks back whilst walking the Taff around the brook area witnessed 3 men openly fishing with feeders, maggots (ect) did report the incident to the E A...
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Malcolm Yes, bit strange, maybe it's a Welsh thing? Read the thread on river reports, Kennet and see what happened in the case Chris mentioned. Personally I would drop a letter to say Anglers Mail,...
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Graham This incident took place at about the same time as Chriss post, which I had read at the time hence the disappoint, that there was no follow up from the E A. But as I stated did/could not hang...
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it was behind sophia gardens where this bloke was so he could have been after carp or barbel. incidently he was fishing a known salmon haunt
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I have had occassion to call the EA 5 times since March all for blatant abuse of the close season. The first call got a response within twenty minutes. The "manager" phoned me and asked for specific...
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Interestingly one of the odd occasions I have seen an EA bailif was whilst feeding a rather large barbel near a road bridge on the B Avon, they just popped down to check that I wasnt fishing. Never...
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As with most goverment run bodies, the staff at local level do the best they can with limited resources. We have the same problem in this region with anglers "trout" fishing, usually with all of the...
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I crossed the Bristol Avon today and guess what i saw? Yup, two people, rods in hand, fishing for course fish by the looks of it Nearly crashed my car whilst shouting obscenities out the window. Tony...
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Guys Just had a call from the Lawman who was out for an evening stroll along the Thames and guess what??? Yep, 3 people fishing!!! Gave him the EA hotline number. Don't know the outcome. Cheers Neil
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Called the EA and left my name and number, but no return call. It's an obvious statement, but it just hacks me off. The worse thing is they look at you with genuine surprise when you tell them they...
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The EA obviously think it's a pretty pointless regulation and not worth enforcing.
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Walking the Mole today and saw evidence of people having been fishing and whats worse a dead Chub in the swim. Waded and managed to hook it out only to find line trailing from its mouth as it had been...
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Mark, fish are lost and subsequently die throughout the year. Why should this be any different? Just because of an arbitary, anachronistic regulation?
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Andrew, You're right about fish dieing because of this sort of thing through the year and yes it does happen, its bad enough when it happens during the season, but in my opinion even worse in the...
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here, here Mark, i'm with you on that one Tony Premiership runners up 2003 and FA Cup WINNERS 2003
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