Bob Roberts
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I work in the proximity of 25KVA cables on a regular basis. We are trained not to go within 9 feet of them, or allow anything we may be carrying go nearer, irrespective of weather conditions. It's still 9 feet in torrential rain.
Signs that appear on rivers after 25 years without a single problem are clearly their to protect the backside of someone who sits in an office miles away, not to protect the angler on the bank.
I defy anyone to fish beneath these wires and get anywhere near them with conventional fishing tackle. It might, and I stress might, be possible to deliberately cast a lure over them with a bit of effort but to do it accidentally would be impossible.
But if casting over them with a nylon fishing line constitutes a risk why are there no signs suggesting that kite flying nearby is equally dangerous and therefore banned?
I agree that fishing should be restricted in the vicinity of dangerous wires but wires that are 100 feet above the river do not constitute a danger in my book. Errecting signs willy-nilly will encourage vandalism and anglers will flount the rule anyway. The real danger is that the practise will spread and all signs will be ignored. Even those where wires do constitute a risk.
Common sense is vital, otherwise we need to see twin rows of 'no kite flying' signs spaced 20 yards apart beneath every overhead wire in the UK.
And that is madness.
I work in the proximity of 25KVA cables on a regular basis. We are trained not to go within 9 feet of them, or allow anything we may be carrying go nearer, irrespective of weather conditions. It's still 9 feet in torrential rain.
Signs that appear on rivers after 25 years without a single problem are clearly their to protect the backside of someone who sits in an office miles away, not to protect the angler on the bank.
I defy anyone to fish beneath these wires and get anywhere near them with conventional fishing tackle. It might, and I stress might, be possible to deliberately cast a lure over them with a bit of effort but to do it accidentally would be impossible.
But if casting over them with a nylon fishing line constitutes a risk why are there no signs suggesting that kite flying nearby is equally dangerous and therefore banned?
I agree that fishing should be restricted in the vicinity of dangerous wires but wires that are 100 feet above the river do not constitute a danger in my book. Errecting signs willy-nilly will encourage vandalism and anglers will flount the rule anyway. The real danger is that the practise will spread and all signs will be ignored. Even those where wires do constitute a risk.
Common sense is vital, otherwise we need to see twin rows of 'no kite flying' signs spaced 20 yards apart beneath every overhead wire in the UK.
And that is madness.