S.S Pier 25.04.07

[northeast1]

Well I had a few days off work so headed along the pier as the weather was fantastic, I never expected to catch much because it was a very, very small tide and I was not wrong.....but to make the fishing just that little bit more of a challenge, a potter boat had put his pots out both sides of the pier just about the full length, right upto and almost around the drum at the top.

You might think well that’s all my bad luck used but wait lol out goes the dregger and starts dregging the south bank of the river mouth and owwww what a lovely colour brown the water goes

Right after all that the catch report....Using bait I caught 1 colie about 14" and a codling around the 1lb mark, using spinners and redgills I caught 3 colie and 3 launce, also caught the sun.

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[JohnMc]

Good report! Shame about the D$%khead in the boat which i bet me wages on it that it was a red coble style boat. The man is a pure wa&$er his boat needs sinkin! Shame the dredger didin't bring the fish on. One year it dropped it's load a couple of hundred yards off the pier and the fishing was mental. coddling after coddling.

[willywetegg]

Bad luck Richie mate, still a few fish is still better than being stuck in the house.

Jim.

[Davey.adair]

Good report! Shame about the D$%khead in the boat which i bet me wages on it that it was a red coble style boat. The man is a pure wa&$er his boat needs sinkin! Shame the dredger didin't bring the fish on. One year it dropped it's load a couple of hundred yards off the pier and the fishing was mental. coddling after coddling.

I'd bet my wages on it to John, had the same problem last year, the rows of pots kept getting longer and closer to the pier.

I contacted DEFRA to see if there were any laws as to the maximum number of pots that could be set by one boat, and also if there was a minimum distance that there were allowed to be set to the pier. After about 20 e-mails, getting bounced from one person to another and still not a straight answer, I gave up. So it looks as though the crab potters can do what they like, and get away with it.

[northeast1]

I mean I feel they have as much right to put pots out as we do to fish but if someone asked me what parts of the pier I like to fish best then I would say its all the parts the pots are...sods law you may say.

I just hope for the fisherman sake and the potters boat's sake, that come the mackerel season they get moved....I can see it now, boats sinking from hitting the mass of leads and daylights tangled around the boys, the potter boat when going to empty his pots will look like a scene from SAVING PRIVATE RYAN with leads flying at him from all directions. Seen it before and I am sure I will see it again.

Worst I have witnessed was when a small boat was drifting for mackerel about 40 yards off the pier and someone hit him in the upper body with a 5oz lead, ow he went down fast and after a argument vanished back to land.