What advice was that then??? i did not read any advice, just a little bit of a pop at Mazza !! (and now townies,,tut tut)
Mazza, and MikeR by the way are other townies like myself who already fish at port dock and we are pretty regular visitors to the west pier extension, I cannot see y u would have a go a townies who travel to places like Mulgrave, Ive been fishing there all my life (i was brought up in Porret lane in Hinderwell, we used to have a boat down there \"LENA 2\" and my cousin still has one), so Im only half a townie maybe a villagy eh????
I never posted into this thread to have a go at anybody (not like some), I was trying to inform people of the genuine risk of loosing their gear to a wayward trawler, wink wink.
If you read the posts you will observe that we were talking about fishing from the end of the extension casting either left or straight out (either way when the tide is running your gear nearly always gets pulled round to the right). I admitted to my mistake of chucking right and not taking enough care and attention.
But you have read from 3 different anglers who fish the west pier and we have all had the same experience, we know that sometimes we cast and the lines cross the harbour mouth, but we do try our hardest to retreive our gear before the boats reach us, its the boat skippers that get a kick out of aiming for our lines that get our backs up (which does not mean all of them).
But obviously you know that they never do that eh?????
If you dissagree with anything that I have posted , dont be a gobsh!te, keep your sarcasm for pm\'s mate, a lot of people who use this site have seen all this kind of banter before and dont really approve, lets try and not get too personal.
If you want to have a go just pm me... its free after all....
By the way, the sign at the top of the steps does say you cannot cast into the harbour it also says no lines to cross the harbour mouth as sailing craft have right of passage (or summat like that). As for fishing from the top platform Yes scarborough borough council do frown on this during daylight hours esp during the holiday season, but during the winter at night even the harbour master turns a blind eye, in fact he came and had a word with me not long back to tell me he was shutting the storm gate and that i would be ok to carry on as long as i did not go down to the
lower platform
MERRY XMAS :exclam: :exclam: :exclam:
ps.. Jim,, I really dont know what they get out of it
(boat owners, skippers), it may be a bit of a giggle that last for about 2 mins, but some rods can cost hundreds and hundreds of pounds and there is a very big risk of them getting pulled into the drink.
Have a gd xmas mate and lets hope you get into some nice big fish soon..
[Edited on 5/1/2006 by tala]
