Fished Johnson's Today...20.12.06

[Guest]

Fished Johnson's at Marsden today from 11am till around 2.15pm...landed 1 codling around 2lb and flounder about a pound-ish....the annoying thing is I lost two what felt like decent fish, and couldn't understand what I was getting snagged on! On closer inspection in the water, in front of me were, what can only be described as very small objects floating on the water. They were around 40yds out, and if you weren't looking for them, you wouldn't see them! They were obviously connected to a rope and I presume they were pots laid there?
Spoilt my day....because some muppet has cast pots that close in. I wouldn't mind if they were marked properly, I would have moved elsewhere - to be honest, I really thought they were a couple of sea birds in the water when I saw them, but when they didn't move after an hour or so, the penny dropped! I think they were also coloured black and white, but very very small!
Watch out any one fishing Johnson's just in case they are still there....
What a muppet!

[codonly]

paul,fished a club match on the same rock a few weeks ago in the dark 4 casts 4 snags half way in so i moved and still caught nowt.
hope had your passport stamped by the way lol

[Penn525]

hope had your passport stamped by the way lol

Sneaked in the back door mate - don't think anyone saw me!!!

[Penn525]

....thing is, I couldn't see them when the tide was right down - and fished without any problems - soon as the tide got well up - it all went pear shaped...

[sless]

you will find its a bloke called scottie from boaties bay
he has his nets right close in
he takes lobsters as small as prawns
he has been prosicuted aswell
but cos he is on invalidity or what ever
he only got fined a few bob
seemingly he has a licence now though

parasite

[Penn525]

Parasite - I'll agree with that!
Don't think I would ever dare go that close in to rocks with a boat...
Not only will he take lobster's as small as prawns, he'll also have my two decent codlings, and anyone else's that were unfortunate enough to catch his rope......nothing but pure greed fuels these people!

[marksworld]

well done on the fish you landed though penn 525



cheers
mark

[tony.codling]

Here's a picture of Johnsons off a couple of weeks ago, if you look
closely you can see the dans
But it was definately a gill net.

[mark]

take a spare reel loaded with 80lb braid

you'll be amazed what its capable of pulling in if you take your time

Still looking to buy a few spare pots by the way ;-)