Thoughts on Crab Traps

[Derek Wood]

well thanks lads. good to see that ive provoked some mature, sensible debate about an important issue. reading your clearly 'harkes' back to my high school days (you like my seasonal pun - i guess that kind of humour has amused the chattering classes amongst you for most of today).
guess we should just stick to conforming to the administrators pleasure - the sycophants in tow...

Reading this thread brings back a few memories. I remember me and my mate Doj (Sean Brunton) had some 100 or so tyres on the quay beach as kids. We put them down when we were 15; hauling them over the the garage on Tanners Bank and digging them in late on a school night, eager for the reward that our prizes would bring as we fished those matches; keen proteges we were of the Bill Davidsons, Alan Charltons and Dave Hayleys in the apex years in Tynemouth club. Good men who taught us a lot. One thing Sean and I still remark on is the rerward of our endeavour. It was an honest endeavour. Yes, the crabs may have moved into the adjacent rocks, but they also may not. And our lines of tyres may have been the focal point in the first place, attracting crab to that particular area of the beach. The top and bottom of it is, is that we did a little bit of our own back to further our fishing efforts.
MickyM, reading your posts I can see a point - of sorts - but I think you would be better advised doing something independently yourself in terms of setting your own traps down. We don't live in a perfect world (certainly not in terms of how we anglers manage our bait gathering as this debate will show) but responsibility surely rests with us as individuals and we are charged to adopt an approach which rubs the least ammount of our peers backs up.
Maybe you started this with a point and this has got lost a little in a somewhat circular debate. Any maybe other contributors in this forum have been a little flippant - I don't know. But I also hope that that those people who 'profess' ownership to traps can also display some degree of latitude (I can say this as a former owner of 5 score or so of them) and that they too realise that the history behind the simple rubber rings they scrape through every other tide or so was owes as much to someone else as themselves.

[Oblickta]

I love plebian buzzwords, there should be a thread dedicated to them! Well I'm feeling tired now so I'm off up the "foot propelled bi-directional transport asset" to bed

[mark]

guess we should just stick to conforming to the administrators pleasure - the sycophants in tow...

well out of order

if you'd bother to read the posts, and look at the other threads suggested you might have learnt something

once again:

we've been there before, got all shouty about and then got over it.

I guess what you're really interested in is not both sides of the debate, but an argument

sorry we've disappointed you

[MickyM]

well out of order

if you'd bother to read the posts, and look at the other threads suggested you might have learnt something

once again:

we've been there before, got all shouty about and then got over it.

I guess what you're really interested in is not both sides of the debate, but an argument

sorry we've disappointed you

eh mark think someone has rubbed you n up abit too much. maybe thi blind following the blind? either way jus tan opinion

[The Great Wallsendo]

It's all fine and well throwing a link at me Greg and saying "it's all been debated before" - when a cursorary glance at your link shows nothing specific on the talking point I raised. And may I ask, where did you learn your moderation skills from? This has been a perfectly nornmally put issue in the hope of provoking sensible debate - and already you're threatening to take it down?
Where do you do your fishing Greg: the Peoples Republic of China?

Comments like this rub people up the wrong way mate....reactionary and ill concieved (something I'm never guilty of )

having been on "other" forums (not just fishing) the moderation of this site is considerably more lenient and less biased than others out there...try the BBC Have Your Say website if you want an example of one sided and tailored arguments (in my opinion)

[MickyM]

Comments like this rub people up the wrong way mate....reactionary and ill concieved (something I'm never guilty of )

having been on "other" forums (not just fishing) the moderation of this site is considerably more lenient and less biased than others out there...try the BBC Have Your Say website if you want an example of one sided and tailored arguments (in my opinion)

eh - your point is not well made. the bbc is the same as china. ur point son?

[MickyM]

eh - your point is not well made. the bbc is the same as china. ur point son?

lads sorry im av had a bit to drink. sorry