Anyone ever find dubious stuff left in the river. To day I found a baited colapsable lobster pot - obvioulsy for eels. the b@stard thing is now sitting in my shed..... perhaps I should have photographed it and reported it.
I found fixed lines and also some more industrial looking traps that I also destroyed last year. Just wondered wether this happens regularly elsewhere?
A year or so ago I was fishing the tidal Trent, as the tide went out I saw a fyke net, inside were a couple of small perch. I let them go and the net is in a skip- sooner there than indiscriminately killing fish!Years ago there were licensed eel netters who were ligitimately on the river but as I understand it thats all gone.
Last year I found a box tethered to line in the margins of the same venue, it was a trap of sorts-- eel, fish, mink- not sure but later in the day a strange looking fellow just came up and cut the line and it just drifted away.---- and theres more-----
Same venue-- five orientals get out of a big "lovejoy" volvo -- its dark and i,m on my own, these guys proceed to sling out hand lines with multi baited hooks, I ask what they are doing and they say "we fish" I try to explain that such gear is illegal but then the mood changes so I leave it and pack up but not before I take a reg number-- it turns out that the car was owned by the owner of the local chuinese takeaway!!! Take care what you eat in the Newark area lads-- could be what you,ve spent all day trying to catch yourself!!.
PS- Chav-- wheres Oxford???????