I don't think they'd get a Wingham membership !

[Tigger 625]

Gent's, I've removed the video as it seems to be causing too much upset.

Edited June 3, 2015 by Tigger

[Steve Walker 940]

[lyn 8]

Hope that wasn't in the UK.

[Phone 626]

All,

 

Can't see Tigger's post

Was it this one?

 

 

or this one?

 

 

 

Phone

[Ken L 936]

Interesting comments on the original video.

[Paulg 47]

I don't quite understand that.....the video initially put up by Tigger is identified as "Part 1", and once it finishes, amongst other videos, there is a link to a "Part 2", which shows a load of tench being released back into a lake....and from what I saw, it looked like they all swim off.

 

It has the same date, the same "angler", and what looks like the same herd of cows? If correct, then that is one hardy catch of tench....they get hauled out of the water, dragged over stones in the keepnet, unceremoniously dumped onto some grass and left for a while, before being chucked back in the keepnet, dragged over the stones back to the lake...and released?

 

Or was there a second keepnet?

[gozzer 924]

I'm sure it was the same net full of fish Paul. I've seen it back in the 'bad' old days, with over 100lb of bream, or chub in a keepnet. They too were laid out to be photographed, and they all swam away. Tench are pretty hardy fish, although I did see a couple of bream in there. Although to us it seems very wrong, I don't think we should be too quick to judge. The old, glass houses and stones saying often applies.

 

John.

[Andy_1984 275]

Thats horrible. They might have swam off ok but with that amount of slime going missing I wouldnt be surprised if they picked up some infection not to mention how shite they will look after all that.

[lutra 88]

Rough handling it may have been, but I'd still bet that was a walk in the park for them compared with the life many UK fish have on our heavily stocked and fished waters.

[Tigger 625]

I've no problem with the fish being on the grass but there was no reason to leave them out of the water for such a long time and to go videoing their fishing gear with the fish still flopping about on the bank was pretty ignorant imo. I reckon if they where seen treating fish like that on any heavily fished commercial they'd get their marching orders pretty sharp'ish.

Edited June 1, 2015 by Tigger