Cycling on canals
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pogofish said:Occasional certainly & IME, many fishers will pick it up & dispose of it properly or if it is dangerous, inform the owners. Clubs etc regularly organise clear-up days on riverbanks & to pick-up a hell of a lot more than fishing litter.
I was always puzzled by the number of dead dogs floating in canals.
tobyjug said:
Jesus. I said ever tried cycling down a towpath when there is a fuckity fucking fishing match, at no stage did I say fishermen had nothing to offer the economy on the canals.
Rather like have you ever tried driving down the M5 on August bank holiday weekend when it is full of fuckity fucking tourists, if I said that would you have pounced on me and said that I'm having a go at tourists and that tourists are essential to the economy of the south west?
I was just on about them getting in the way.
I'm not stupid thanks.
lizzieloo said:
Whether tourists are essential to the economy of the South West, (given it is such a very fickle trade) has been the subject of very heated discussion in the Bristol and South West forum.
Personally whenever I travel on the M5 in the tourist season I wish I had anti-caravan missiles fitted to my vehicle.
Major Tom said:Bollocks!!
Leaving their hooks and fishing line lying around to kill the birds, and being generally abusive to anyone who dares come near them when they're fishing, including boat-owners.
I have to say most fishermen I've come across on the cut have been polite.
There are wankers, the ones that just don't give a shit, the ones that shit on the towpaths, just leave it there, the ones that are abusive (I can probably count them on one hand during my experience on the cut), the couple that decided to fish off our back deck (
) woke up, went to go out, couldn't cos some idiot was there.I'm not pro fishing by any stretch of the imagination but saying they are generally abusive aint true.
tobyjug said:
This is a completely slack generalisation. Anglers do sod all for the Monmouth and Brecon because they hardly use it, there's much better fishing on the rivers and reservoirs.
The conservation groups, species enthusiasts, walkers, cyclists, and canal/narrow boat enthusiasts are the ones who've sorted the canal and its paths out and kept it that way. The restoration was started in the 60s not the 70s.
So get your facts straight before you start attributing the hard work of lots of different groups to one fairly self-interested one, grandad.
ICB said:
This is a completely slack generalisation. Anglers do sod all for the Monmouth and Brecon because they hardly use it, there's much better fishing on the rivers and reservoirs.
The conservation groups, species enthusiasts, walkers, cyclists, and canal/narrow boat enthusiasts are the ones who've sorted the canal and its paths out and kept it that way. The restoration was started in the 60s not the 70s.
So get your facts straight before you start attributing the hard work of lots of different groups to one fairly self-interested one, grandad.
grandad!
ICB said:
This is a completely slack generalisation. Anglers do sod all for the Monmouth and Brecon because they hardly use it, there's much better fishing on the rivers and reservoirs.
The conservation groups, species enthusiasts, walkers, cyclists, and canal/narrow boat enthusiasts are the ones who've sorted the canal and its paths out and kept it that way. The restoration was started in the 60s not the 70s.
So get your facts straight before you start attributing the hard work of lots of different groups to one fairly self-interested one, grandad.
My facts are straight. Read a few of Hadfields books on the canals. I also took part in a canal restoration project back in the early 1980s.
It is widely acknowledged that anglers contributed time effort and many to care and maintainence well before most restoration projects got off of the ground.
pogofish
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Another general observation on crap anglers might be that IME, the waters most troubled by littering & assholes are amongst the most accessable & well-known. Often they attract folk who might only fish a few days a year, turn-up with a carry-out & a pile of new tackle but with little idea how to use it sensibly or how to relate to the others on the water.
