stavey

Why dont you hastings commercial boys tell the sfc and get the stupid bylaw updated so that these cowboys wont bother to steel your gear and operate from the beach anymore, the bylaw about headroom depth is only in operation from may to september, it needs to be extended to all year round, i suggested it to the ssfc a couple of years ago and i got told to pretty much **** off, now if it came from a commercial it may be viewed differently? i think you will find most beach anglers would support it, cheers........

Yep thats good old commercial fishermen, sums them up realy dont it

No, but what are you or anyone else gonna do about it? get rid of them in a couple of years time and replace them with what? i am not voting in an election ever again (wont achieve anything i know) but atleast i will know it was not me that had given them a mandate, if everyone did not vote at all i wonder what would happen?

Empty now glen

Oh realy wurzel i suppose you mean our continental friends maybe? i can see those problems getting even worse in the not to distant future. still that will be your problem i am pretty much past caring nowadays infact i dont realy know why i am on thses forums anymore cheerio.

What food resources we allready import most of it jaffa

Well i never! a commercial fisherman blaming other commercial fishermen for the lack of fish, quick make a frame someone

Hello steve, the dole fiddling rod and line bass bashers i am refering to are not a commercial rod and line fishermen or an rsa imo, just your regular w**kers cheating the system and there are quite a few of these from boat and shore, they also use nets to steve cheers.........

Hi hastfish, eastbourne was once a good place for bass but that was many years ago, and i am not on about those immature schoolies that you and eastbournes dole fiddling rod and line boys catch either, cheers..........

Hi hastfish, this byelaw is for the months may to september only the rest of the time the beaches can be netted up to the high water mark, it was put in because of the game anglers ie, sea trout i think? anyway its for fixed nets not for drifting, trawling, sein, etc, fwiw its a crap byelaw imo. the golden mile would be good for both commercials and anglers down south, even if it does not provide one extra fish for the beach anglers? atleast commercials and hobby netters wont be getting the blame for it as they do now, so much. it could even repair the damage that has been done with the overall relations between the two and lead to better understandings etc, so what you got to lose hastfish? as far as i see it you and the other commercials in this area have a chance to gain from it.

Hi hastfish, why dont you start a new thread and see what people have to say about it? i will give you my answer why i think its a very good idea there cheers........

Crikey!! that did not last for long

Thanks jaffa for reminding me, is that meant to make me feel guilty in some sort of way? how about what you think chris? do give a fig?

One word (which includes the fishermen that participated and still do) BASTARDS!!!!!!!

Well there you go good on ya leon, i picked up a guitar because i saw how jimi h and eric clapton done the biz so you can guess what style i ground my teeth on, i liked chet atkins and messers travis and co, and les paul himself i think was a very underated fingerstyle player, as john miles wrote music was first love, ditto here leon, and keep on playing the real thing, cheers........ ps.I had an hofner to when i was a kid but i remember mine was awfull to play like an old vox teardrop i also had.

As a guitarist playing in pubs and clubs since the mid late seventy's, imo the introduction of the smoking ban has definitely changed things for sure, some local pubs to me are losing over a grand a week in takings others not so much, i found that the outside smoking facility standards, does make a big diference ie, if there is a shelter then its not such a problem (it can have a roof and three sides apparently) but if your in the street then its a big problem. fwit, they should have left the decision down to the pub owners if you want smoking then have if not dont, what ever i will carry on playing in pubs and clubs and smokers will come out for a puff in the breaks along with the band members for a civilised chat along with a surprising amount of non smokers, and no w*****g government are gonna stop that, cheers.........

Yeh right leon, i'l get rid of my gibson les paul and sg then, if you ever consider learning the real thing? pm me and i'l see if i can fit you in for a few lessons, your never to old to rock! begginer to a band in six months, theres more chance of this than a golden mile cheers.....

No point colin mr shaw has no brain, and my mp is anti sea angling

Well they got there own way once again with a 1000 kilo a month hike, typical we ask for 4cm's and get jack they ask for a ten fold increase and get it.

naturaly bob i would say

Try this article barry even though it was written in favour of the two chaps who got done, whether fairly or not? it also says a lot for sfc's

Hi wurzel, do those hastings boys still have a bigger sole quota then you nowadays? or am i thinking of something else?

nigel waterson my mp i think has a vested interest in boats so i have been told? paticulary on the insurance side of things whether that makes a difference or not i dont know? as for mr joy? well just do a google search about landing illegal cod and a fine. apparently joy and his merry men are being backed by the local ssfc no surprises there though ken, cheers........

Hi bc, atleast you have an area that has some sort of protection from the trawlers we have very little here and the beamers trawl up to the shingle all the way along and its nice and easy for them to, no rock hopping gear needed, i think this adds to problems in more ways then one for example the under tens have to put their set nets awfully close to try and avoid being towed away so its not just the anglers that suffer, but there you go, cheers.......

Fair comment chris, as you say policing and enforcement is the thing that seems to let everything down in the past and nowadays, its a shame about the golden three miles as you put it was not allowed a fair go, i am sure the clyde would be brimming with fish now maybe, and us southerners could have learned something off you guys up there, yes i know about what has been proposed by the trawlermen up there with laying off areas where they encounter a lot of juvenile fish but i have my doubts about that, cheers......