Rubbish!

[scottyds]

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....

 

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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

 

[DaveyP]

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.

 

[09gmarsh2009]

totally agree with you scotty m8,it makes the coast/piers ect look very dirty and these are tourist attractions,could do with bins on piers too,

 

[dranson]

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.

 

[Rod_bender]

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

 

[waco]

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

 

[sless]

they all got set alight bob

 

[clarky]

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!!!!!!

 

[5150]

Take only photo's, Leave only footprints

Geocacher/Urbex'er by any chance?

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.

 

[adam123]

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

 

[waco]

they all got set alight bob

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

 

[snatcher]

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

 

[mallconpak]

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!

 

[scottyds]

Those photo's are shocking i cant believe people would catch fish then just leave them to die on the shore

 

[snatcher]

Those photo's are shocking i cant believe people would catch fish then just leave them to die on the shore

Yes Scotty it is a common site over on the Mull of Galloway. It is true that some days its a dogfish a chuck and they can be a pest when after other species. Its no excuse to kill them though.

I was at East Tarbet a couple of years ago and found a dozen or so had been chucked well above the high water mark by a bunch of angling yobs.

Sadly they were from this neck of the woods as I later found out. The same yobs were also trying to shoot sea gulls with air rifles !!!!

A total disgrace to mankind never mind angling !!!

John

 

[canman]

Trouble is, you can't teach the them if they haven't got a brain, It's easier to let some conscientious prat like me to pick it up.

 

[snatcher]

Trouble is, you can't teach the them if they haven't got a brain, It's easier to let some conscientious prat like me to pick it up.

I know some anglers have the attitude "well its not my rubbish why should I clear it up". I understand their stance on this but imagine the state our marks/shoreline would be in if everyone though like this. No I care too much for our sport and our lovely coastlines so will always do my "wombling act" when out on the shore,fishing or not !!!

John

 

[dt1]

Picked up over 10 bags of rubbish mainly plastic and beer cans between blyth pier and the car park during the macky season whilst walking the dog along there. Makes it a more pleasant and safer walk plus i feel ashamed of the impression it leaves of so called anglers,preaching to the converted on here hopefully ,still more to pick up since then ,ongoing unfortunately....rant over............Dave.