SAMUEL COX

Has anyone concidered this point, the angling shops local to our area get all there herring, most of their mackerel and some of their peeler crab from local commercial fishermen. So maybe they wont want to rock the boat to much.

Sharkbyte - why not ring Froggie up and hasve a propper go at him about the last lot of small dead worm you got from him. I dont get bad bait from Froggie, this is because I moaned at him man to man. I do think ypu got a bad deal with the 70 quids worth of small dead worms but I do think you should of had it out with him. [edit note: content modified slightly. Newt]

Hello jabee, I was in Kerry at a small town called Sneam. My farther has a very good angling pal named John Quinnlan who is a angling guid. As it was a family holiday we couldnt pick the best tides, but had some very interesting fishing.

As allready stated the only way that I would except any restrictions on my angling activities is if the commercial fishermen were to be restricted. The golden mile would be a fine example of a restriction one commercial activity that would have me agreeing to except bag limits. Anouther important subject that deserves sensible responses.

Thanks Norrie. essexboy, it was good to meet you o the Admiralty last Saturday! Even if this dross does happen (and I think thats doutfull) it wouldnt affect the use of pout as live bait as pout have no MLS. But it could push the price of the worms that we use to catch the pout through the roof.

On my best behaviour as this is an important topic Norrie me ol mate. Ireland was good, I will post a pull report if the powers that be let me. Back to the issue at hand, I have copied Leons first post and tomorrow will drop it into Froggys on my way to work ( our local bait merchant). Froggie can then show it to all his diggers so they can then decide wheather to attend the meeting or write their objections. This is a serious issue to anglers and bait collector of Essex and should be treated as such.

Had to add my pennithsworh to this. Paul Gillson is a commercial fisherman local to myself. From what I can gather he is trying to combat the conservation measures put forward by anglers with his proposals and by writing in the fishing news (the commercial fishermen’s paper). I think it was him that reckons all the immature bass in the Thames Estuary are eating all the food that other fish would normally feed on and that’s why the fishing is so bad. Personally I can’t see these proposals being taken seriously by DEFRA but wouldn’t be surprised if anglers got out voted at the SFC. I think it could be cool if as many anglers as possible was to attend the meeting to show a sine of strength. I also feel we should expect to be bombarded by similar ridicules proposals from commercial fishermen in the near future.