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Hi all, first post......im still new to fishing but the amount of times i have been and found old line, cloths, plastic bags, cans etc lying round is amazing....
I know 99% of people take their rubbish with them just amazes me how some people dont pick up after themselves....
A bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at the office !
Hi scotty mate and welcome, if you think the rubbish is bad now wait till the macky bashers start, i know from experiance that REAL ANGLERS will always clear their rubbish, but its the minority that spoils it for all.
steve
I'm with you lads.
If it's one thing that boils my pi55 is rubbish. I've seen some great marks spoiled by cans,plastic bags, bottles and discarded fishing line. It takes nothing to put it in your box and take it home.
Sorry to be cynical but... Bins on piers??? How long do you think they would last? The only reason the pier is still there is because concrete doesnt burn.
Sorry to be cynical but... Bins on piers??? How long do you think they would last? The only reason the pier is still there is because concrete doesnt burn.
Haha. A sad fact, but funny the way you put it...
Take only photo's, Leave only footprints
It's a thin line that seperates an Angler from a madman standing on the beach in january at midnight in -5 degrees with a northerly wind blowing in your face
Sorry to be cynical but... Bins on piers??? How long do you think they would last? The only reason the pier is still there is because concrete doesnt burn.
bins have been on shields pier bout three years now and seem to be working well with the considerate angler who i have seen walk 40 50 yards to put their rubbish in bins, but there is a certain element who won't even walk a 2 or 3 yards to a bin with their rubbish, i would still like to see a few more bins on the pier and other such places and maybe there would be even less rubbish lying all over the place , and ano in a perfect world people would and should take their rubbiish home with them when there's no bins, its not so maybe the answer is more bins
I fished the seaham council open the other week, and the amount of anglers i passed on beach leaving all their rubbish either under a rock or putting a bit of sand on top was unreal.
dont they realise that when the tide comes back in it just moves what ever they've put on top, and the rubbish either gets moved up the beach or to another beach or worse, like wildlife getting tangled up and dying
What ever you brought with you in carrier bags/containers/etc its obviously heavier when you carried it down with you, so surely its even easier to carry it back when empty!!!!!!
I know when I spoke to Blyth harbour guys about the pier they were very clear on the point that the pier at Blyth is "not dedicated to the public" so going onto it was your own risk and it's entirely upto them if they want at some point to turn around and close access to it. Dunno about other piers in the region, but I'd imagine the same will be said for the majority of them.
the thing that boils my p**s the most is at the quayside some non anglers eat fish and chips or pizza's in their car and just hoy it where people fish so giving the impression its the anglers that leave that rubbish
ano a couple got damaged by the sea and a***h***s a while back but they got replaced an a few more added, so your saying there all been damaged sless,
P S a have got another couple of books for you, will drop them off when i am passing
This seems like a good point to add a few of my "anglers litter" pictures. I know it is old hat to most of us but if the images just shock one new/young angler into not leaving rubbish when they have been fishing it has been worth it.
The wife and I spend most of the summer over on the Mull of Galloway,a regular fishing spot for a lot of NE anglers. I always take a couple of bags with me to tidy up each mark before I leave it. Here is the Hall of Shame then !!!!!
This lot I collected at Lagvag,a mark right on the end of the Mull of Galloway
This next lot I collected when out for a walk with the wife on Terally beach
They are just mindless morons that chuck dogfish up the beach to slowly die
This lot was collected at East Tarbet beach at the end of last summer. Three bagfulls of mainly,cans,bottles,bait wrappers and disposable bareques.
I am not a great lover of sea gulls it has to be said but this is what can happen if you discard baited rigs.
Come on lads,it only takes a minute or two to tidy up before you leave a mark. Sadly this sort of behavoir by the ignorant few spoil it for the rest of us resulting in bans being put onto piers,jetties and other marks.
John
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
Your so right mate. A beatufull place getting spoilt by so called anglers. Used to camp west tarbet and bag everything after a night there and take the rubbish to drumore to put in a bin not hard to do!
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