SS pier 3 july 2010

[jonny_s]

Fished SS pier this morning 6-8.30. Started near end fishing into river on wheel then moved right to end casting straight out.

Not much to report fish wise. Caught loads of small coalies and sandeel / launce. All caught on spinner. Lost one good size fish when bringing up the side, it was really going for it I think it felt like a mackerel.

The pier was pretty busy at 6 and gradually filled up. I picked a spot which was not to my liking but I was considerate to the other anglers and made the best of my position. As soon as I started catching coalies I had people moving and casting over me

After witnessing a few people keeping well undersize fish, leaving them to flap about and die in a carrier justified by I quote " they are not that big but there is a few of them ". A bottle of Vodka appeared and the air was full of lead, hooks and loud bull****. Time to leave.

Had a chat with a couple of guys further down the pier who decided to give the end a miss. We ended up talking about the need for someone to police the piers, monitoring fish size and possibly behaviour.

Apart from that it was a lovely morning. Only saw one mackerel landed.

Jonny

 

[parker]

Think maybe the police should be informed am a right in thinking u cant drink in public now also because the general public use the pier for walks, familys oaps, going along pier to find load of pi**heads chucking fish about and 6 oz leads flying about its just not right Also read some were another anglers idea to charge for fishing busy peirs so it could pay for a pier warden :exclam: maybe this idea should b looked at a would pay pound pound 50 a time to make sure the numptys werent there :red:

 

[gary2010]

i was there last week and seen some guys keeping tiny coalies aswell they wouldnt even of got a fish finger out these poor fish. i was bait fishing an caught a just undersized condling and 3 nice size plaice and threw them all back and they were atleast twice the size of some of the coalies i saw getting kept. disgraice keepin them that size. i wouldnt keep nothing but nice sized codling