Guy's,
It is not putting us anglers in a very good light by ''having a go'' at everyone and everything that we think are destroying are fisheries (the angling press are not helping in this matter!) Don't forget there are folk that think we are cruel barbarians for sticking hooks in fish, and not all EEs are bad folk, in fact, the polish are the least of our worries (don't forget we liberated them from the Germans, and they have never forgot that.) I have this week witnessed a dead swan that had been shot by a gang of lads from a posh housing estate in Chorley, and YES, they were English (A local ranger told me who had done it)
The matter about the police not being bothered was put in to prospective for me personally a few weeks ago. I was sat having breakfast on a Sunday morning about 10.00am when someone outside discharged both barrels of a shotgun right outside my girlfriends house!
I called the police and told them what had happened and what they responded with shocked me! They asked me if I was sure it was not fireworks, I told them that I knew what a shotgun sounded like (I have held a certificate for years) and then they asked me if it was not someone doing pest control...in the middle of a housing estate...yeh, right! They said they would send an officer round to have a word with me, and guess what, they never came. To much paper work I guess!!!
Mark