What good are rules....

.......if nobody checks them.

It's been said on there enough times that licences don't get checked often but what about fishery rules.

How many times as a bailiff checked your club card or sold you a day ticket but never bothered to check you are fishing within the rules?

Why bother to state " No barbed hooks, No bloodworm, No boilies, No fixed set ups, No braid " etc if the bailiff doesn't bother to have a quick look at how you are tackled up?

If you are already fishing would it be too much bother for the bailiff to check that the rules have been followed.If you're trotting on a river the bailiff could wait a minute till you reeled in for the next trot down. If you was ledgering and it had took time to get the bait in the correct spot and fish were over the bait then maybe the baliff could ask to see your tackle, hooks etc and if he found anything that gave him concerns he could ask you reel in then to check you are within the rules.

Paul, there,s a lake near me with loads of rules and the owner watches you fishing thru binoculars to make sure you,re abiding by them

the good thing about rules is breaking them ..........

....true Ed sooooo true

Jim ,do you fish a small lake near Canterbury in Kent ?

Is there a problem?

Yes Baz get bailiffs to do more than check ticklets - they should be checking bait tubs so only approved bait is used, hooks so only barbless are used and line so only approved lines are used.

Les, no, the lake is in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, more rules than you can shake a stick at so I dont fish there very often

If it wasn't for people breaking them, there'd be no need for rules.







As you were, men!