Elton 145 Posted July 15 EA news release added here --> https://www.anglersnet.co.uk/news/new-equipment-to-help-combat-illegal-fishing/ Anglers' Net Shopping Partners - Please Support Your Forum CLICK HERE for all your Amazon purchases - books, photography equipment, DVD's and more! CLICK HERE for Go Outdoors. HUGE discounts! FOLLOW ANGLERS' NET ON TWITTER- CLICK HERE - @anglersnetPLEASE 'LIKE' US ON FACEBOOK - CLICK HERE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Martin56 176 Posted July 15 Just catch 6 poachers at the Max' penalty & it's paid for itself All guilty as charged - Win, Win. Fishin' - "Best Fun Ya' can 'ave wi' Ya' Clothes On"!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tigger 540 Posted July 18 I bet that gear gets used once then stuck in a cupboard, the E.A hardly ever bailiff during the day. I could rhime off several incidents local to myself where they were tolf of groips of EE's poaching and they said there was no one available to come out, as they were on holiday, or they just didn't come out.....total wasters! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chesters1 1224 Posted July 18 (edited) I wonder how much of that kit will ever see a bank but strangely will be missing in an audit in a decades time? No night vision camera for getting evidence thoughi guess any poachers will hear the "officers" coming miles away and be long gone in anywhere but easily got to areas where they can lie in wait and watch from the comfort of their landrover getting overtime. Edited July 18 by chesters1 Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle Mathew 4:19 "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ken L 878 Posted July 18 New Equipment To Help Combat Illegal Salmon Fishing There. Fixed it. Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace. Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel. Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp. Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak. Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chesters1 1224 Posted July 18 (edited) Most probably if trout are involved aswell ! The EA with regularity empty the stretch i fish in ,all the trout are not removed for some reason as if its some sort of natural river full of natural brown trout ,strange the ones they return are rainbows who ofcourse have been stocked in enough numbers to starve any wild brown trout long ago. As soon as the course fish get to any size to make it worth fishing the buggers charge up the batteries and electrofish them again ,its hardly worth the effort the wey between tilford and farnham is devoid of anything worth catching except in the odd pool the boat cannot get to ,one stretch fed 20 or so cormerants until they turned their attention to the lakes where food was more plentiful. Where were the ea them? And their water management a joke ,the weir at Waverley abbey stands 8 feet high the water behind it less than a foot deep because it's silted up because they are useless as slow water deposits silt so the bloody weir needs lowering or removing completely so the river speeds up to remove it In the 70's they did an archaeological dig in the river below the weir and found the river bed in the 12th century was 4-6ft deeper than it is now and wide enough for barges to transport the stone to build the abbey it looks like what was obviously a decent river full of fish has gone downhill with the ea (and the preceding waterboards) turning it into a fishless stream fit for nothing but the entertainment of monied fluff chuckers who only appear to use 500 yards on one bank i have the use of the opposite one ples a few hundred yards below and above inc the fishless mud hole that used to be fantastic Edited July 18 by chesters1 Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle Mathew 4:19 "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson Share this post Link to post Share on other sites