Cogden ( 26 /09/09 )

voguev8 said:

Hi
Just a quick report from last night...Fished our club comp 7pm until midnight, tide 11.30 ish...
Warm and sunny, very calm...Had high hopes of some nice Plaice/Soul,
but walked over the beach and could not believe the number of nets, some were no more than 100yards from the shore...
I caught plenty of Makerel,Scad but nothing else!!
At our weigh in a few Soul managed to reach some anglers baits. But I would imagine the commercial boys bagged up.

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100 yds would be great, my fave spots get netted from 30ft of shore...
regularly drop more than 1... blocking the fish runs completly...
we all need to make a living but if we all stop bothering to fish how many tackle shops etc are gonna go, the knock on effect could be the complete demise of sea angling :g:

you both make good points and i agree completly...
surely though if you want to sit at the sea for hours on end then people will take a book and a bbq... and not hundreds of pounds worth of fishing gear.
yes netting has been happening 4 ever but the nets have fewer fish these days and how many anglers say " 10 yrs ago we could catch a dozen cod/bass... whatever fish... in an eve... or it aint like it used to be..."
i aint a Green or enviromentalist, and i think the fishermen would agree that things need to change as we are visabley on a increasingly downward slope... :sad: