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Angling rubbish left at shoreline.

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#1 ·
I know its probably been done to death but why do anglers still leave there crap behind.
So this morning i went for a recon to a local river to check out a spot i have wanted to fish for a while. Upon my arrival i found the usual crap washed up the odd bottle here n there and other bits n bobs but nothing to say it couldn't be a fish holding spot.
Anyhow as i turned around to leave i spotted half a dozen Tronix bags a couple of empty bottles and usual crap associated with a session on the beach.
Why oh why cant people just stick this stuff in there bags and take it home its not hard is it.
As if us anglers havent got it tough enough without having to put up with dumb t w a t s like that.
Honestly it does my head in.
Yes i did pick it up and take it home but why the heck i should clear up after them is beyond me.
 
#5 ·
Any food item sold in disposable packaging should be taxed to the feckin hilt. It's time to get radical before it's too late. We are turning the World into a shlthole.

And large on the spot fines for people caught littering. It's time to get tough, not pussy foot around.
 
#6 ·
Here we're in the middle of nowhere to start with, yet go to a remote rock mark in summer and you'll find trash everywhere, including Ammo bait packs and uk newspaper wraps. People spend a fortune to get and stay here then treat it as a shithole. Some landowners have had enough and are stopping access for any anglers, including us who live here! So unless you have the permission of the landowner and leave no crap, feck of back to the UK and leave your sh1t there.
 
#11 ·
Same here mate, angling related litter we find is no more than 2%. Still 2% too much but I have always said littering is a society problem and should not be pinpointed towards angling. The general public, including some anglers, seem to have lost respect for our freshwater and marine environments and it is going to take much education and heavy fines to turn that around.
 
#9 ·
"the macky are in"! Usually starts it here! I've carried bags of rubbish off a mark here! So when it's silly season I fek off out on the boat away from the idiots!
 
#14 ·
The crap left with us is often at remote marks, where tourists (except walkers) just don't go. There is no rubbish that isn't from anglers, just bait packets, last weeks UK Sun, line, broken traces (still with hooks), spliff butts, beer cans, hook packets etc. I've even found a pile of dead doggies with all the other crap. A lot of people who come here on holiday just don't give a sh1t and have the typical 'brits abroad' syndrome, ie I'm going to do my thing and don't give a feck if it spoils it for everyone else. It hasn't gone unnoticed here with locals, and tourists from the UK are catching (even surpassing) the German reputation for an attitude of rudeness and inability to ever give way on single track roads.
 
#15 ·
I know its probably been done to death but why do anglers still leave there crap behind.
So this morning i went for a recon to a local river to check out a spot i have wanted to fish for a while. Upon my arrival i found the usual crap washed up the odd bottle here n there and other bits n bobs but nothing to say it couldn't be a fish holding spot.
Anyhow as i turned around to leave i spotted half a dozen Tronix bags a couple of empty bottles and usual crap associated with a session on the beach.
Why oh why cant people just stick this stuff in there bags and take it home its not hard is it.
As if us anglers havent got it tough enough without having to put up with dumb t w a t s like that.
Honestly it does my head in.
Yes i did pick it up and take it home but why the heck i should clear up after them is beyond me.
I think the issue is deeper than this. On the river Thames in London where I live there are tones of rubbish flowing on the river everyday, so 99.9% of the rubbish is not from the anglers. I run a catering business and I visited my sister family in America nearly 10 years ago, in America at the time when I visited you get paid for recycling your bear bottle and other objects, so they never throw any of these away but take to the recycling point to get some money back, but over here catering business has to pay for recycling stuff and it is not cheap. In South East they are very much buying everything including metal...the bottom line is that in Europe we are too rich otherwise people will take all their rubbish home if they don't then I am sure some poor people will do that.
 
#23 ·
Just look at my original post. How simple is it to put something in your bag or pocket at take it home to discard it. Its the same as every slip road onto a motorway the bushes are strewn with ****. Oh and not forgetting the **** bottles as well. Why do drivers who smoke chuck there filters out the window when the car has a perfectly good ash tray. Why do people who chew gum spit it out on the floor for others to tread in. Dont get me started on lazy w ankers and dog c rap bags.
The list goes on and on and on.
Can you imagine what would happen if ypu lobbed all your rubbish on a repeat offenders doorstep. I can.
 
#25 ·
I have fished many locations and in general and from what I have seen, I think most anglers do take their rubbish home, obviously in every aspect of life there are few exception anglers who were lazy after a tired session or didn't see the important of keeping the place tidy. It is good to keep raising this issue for people to be aware of, especially new anglers. Don't forget there are thousands of anglers who do not use this forum. I have seen some anglers who posted their fishing sessions on youtube and raised this issue by tidying their place after the session as an example for others to follow.
 
#28 ·
I have fished plenty of locations and they tend to be pretty clean, I always carry a few carrier bags in my tackle box for rubbish after I have finished. Sometimes ill take a walk when the tides gone out and end up finding loads of snagged rigs, I keep the weights but cut up the rigs into small bits and throw them in the bag too. I've had people fish next to me and their rubbish is left everywhere!
 
#29 · (Edited)
@ Sdfish Say what Dude ?
I live in Northern Ireland.
Please explain to me a person who can trace their roots back to living in Ireland over 400 years your above statement.
And just what it has to do with fishing litter left by both locals and those from abroad.


Mark...
 
#35 ·
Thanks Peter😀
I would tell ye my second name buts it's rather a rare one👍 although my ancestors hail from around the shores of Lough Neagh. I'm Belfast, born bred an buttered 🤪

Shaw's, hmm? The sweet people😎


Mark...👍
 
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#42 ·
Hi Blakdog. As I've iterated before, it's the specialist marks, with a long treck, that are being littered MOSTLY by UK anglers. Where would Irish anglers get bait packets, tinnies, newspaper, rig packets, line spools etc with £ labels? Public marks are full of sh1te from locals, visitors and holidaymakers. I haven't said or implied anywhere that all UK anglers leave litter, neither have I said or implied that the Irish anglers are 'whiter than white', but they don't generally fish the hard to get to marks. I'm just p1ssed that I can no longer fish several of my best marks (year round) thanks to MOSTLY uk anglers.
 
#44 ·
Next time I travel Ireland fishing I will get the local shop to dig out one of those old pricing guns for the packaging.
It must be a specialist one that works for frozen bait packets.

and it must pointlessly add a pound sign.
Because they do that.

once arrived with the now soggy useless bait still intact with a paper and ink 1980s coop ink price label I will walk miles as a ‘serious’ angler to a ‘specialist’ mark laden up with beers, a disposable Barby and a heap of beefy chips.

despite being ‘specialist’ marks for ‘serious’ anglers across private land it’s easy to find no problem at all.
Once there, despite being a ‘serious’ angler I will spool my reels once perched on some rock. It’s easier than doing it at home, if you’re a pro, and make the most of pre made rigs which may or may not be ok, dispute the huge travel and expense I’m prepared to use dodgy knots and cheap hooks and now badly rotten bait.

Or…..

Maybe it’s mail order as there isn’t a local shop.
 
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