Ed, hazon burn lakes Alnwick .
Baz,to right mate!ban em and they will just go to next fishery down road and create havoc there....no imbarrass em and next time they might think about what a plonker they may look if found out!
Ron,dont think the big,uns make very nice eating mate,much prefer a 1 1/2 lbr myself,but like you say smoking is the way to go,and smoking is what will be done with this one!
most anglers up here seam to prefer fishing bung with buzzers,cant really ban em cos most of my anglers use em! also ,yes trout may gorge on a static buzzer,but as most popular buzzers on my lakes appear to be of the smaller black variety.if the fish does swallow it its not going to do it any harm to cut the line and leave it in, which is impossible to do with a size6/8 boobie as if the hook is left in ,with all its accompanying polystyrene and gubbins fish will probably die before it can get rid of it?