They're not listening

[terry t shirt]

When in the tackle shop today a gentleman came in from an eastern european culture he was looking at landing nets and thought i worked there and started asking me did they sell bigger nets than this. Not really realising what he was on about (mind far more pre-occipied with images of giant bream) i just told him i didnt work here and pointed him in the direction of the owner. Listening in on the convo as you do in a tackle shop it became very apparent that he was after a casting net or drag net. It was pointed out to him that they werent available and the taking of fish from waters and using nets like this was illegal and the rules were explained to him. his English seemed very good so we assumed he understood. Then just as he was about to leave he asked where he could get one of these nets locally or would he have to buy one online. I hate to typecast but dont they listen or do they just blatantly flout our laws and rules.

[Darren T]

neither is anyone here apparently, how infuriating!

 

I have to say that on my second day out fishing the bailiff came around and i showed him my day ticket and my rod licence and he just said "yeh its good you have that because we do get the police and so on down here checking".

 

The problem is of course that there are thousands of miles of waterway in the UK and probably not enough police to have one mile each.

[Ken L]

You might as well save it Terry. You'll only end up being called a racist buy those who refuse to acknowledge what's happening to our waters.

[chesters1]

just put up two signs with drawings of someone carrying a fish and another with a fish on some flames with bold red bars across them,clubs dont fork out for signs without any reasoning behind them.

i could ofcourse provide pictures of them in situ for those non believers ,i didnt ask for them even being a bigot and racist according to some

Edited May 17, 2008 by chesters1