Did they catch much..,?

 

What was the out come did they get captured....any more info man

 

All I know is they tried to put out a net, "couldn't keep it on the bottom" according to them.
I would have had a right go, but I wasn't there.

 

Is what they were doing illegal..?

 

depends on the net.
Illegal or not I would strongly discourage it. Strongly...

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1907/made

 

Maybe they were after sandeels

 

Is what they were doing illegal..?

Probably not but it depends what they were after

Maybe they were after sandeels

Unlikely as they tend to be shot and hauled, but as there was a post recently (not getting at the poster at all) about what he had caught there, it possibly had something to do with that?

 

If I had a net I would use it..saves wasting time standing on a beach all day.

 

Salmon/sea trout netting season. I can vaguely remember a news article about a couple of guys getting lifted there a few years ago.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-23769073

 

https://www.salmonfishingforum.com/forums/threads/salmon-poachers-arrested-at-arbroath.67602/

 

Why waste time and effort if the nets not going to work properly,big tides mean weed,net doesn't fish right.

 

Could've been after bass, I was out the day before at Elliot had half a dozen schoolies, all returned. They were close in, hardly 10 yards.

 

All netting on the Tay estuary was bought out years ago so all netting is illegal just take a look at the last clown and his son that got caught with boat and net's at Eliot beach.

 

The last clown had 16 fish and got fined 300 quid, hardly a deterrent is it ? There is next to zero enforcement of the rules in inshore waters. Compared to most other developed nations the UK is a disgrace in this regard.

Every single generation in the UK has had less fish to fish for than the previous generation and given the short termism of our modern day politicians i don't see that ever changing.
SD

 

That's true enough, they used to use those sweep nets. But that was stopped a good while back now. Netting of any form would be illegal. You'll always get some half-wit trying though.

 

if bass

Could've been after bass, I was out the day before at Elliot had half a dozen schoolies, all returned. They were close in, hardly 10 yards.

if bass see weed on a mono net there gone

 

The last clown had 16 fish and got fined 300 quid, hardly a deterrent is it ? There is next to zero enforcement of the rules in inshore waters. Compared to most other developed nations the UK is a disgrace in this regard.

Every single generation in the UK has had less fish to fish for than the previous generation and given the short termism of our modern day politicians i don't see that ever changing.
SD

said it in one mate
i campained about cod in there 70s
look were thats got us
not seen a cod in the thames in five years
ok other factors havent helped
but sure didnt do them any favours bazzer

 

Totally agree with that !! Enforcement is NIL !!! On numerous occasions I've seen the massacre at Torness, of WELL undersize Bass. Guys with up to a dozen small fish in a carrier bag.
Just last year I saw 2 guys by the lighthouse at Montrose with 20 or more juvenile Cod all rattled on the head !!
I know that throughout the decades I've fished there's been a rapid deterioration in stocks. You can't fail to notice.

 

Totally agree with that !! Enforcement is NIL !!! On numerous occasions I've seen the massacre at Torness, of WELL undersize Bass. Guys with up to a dozen small fish in a carrier bag.
Just last year I saw 2 guys by the lighthouse at Montrose with 20 or more juvenile Cod all rattled on the head !!
I know that throughout the decades I've fished there's been a rapid deterioration in stocks. You can't fail to notice.

Your right mate once seen a east European guy knock a sea trout on the head and it was only about quarter of a pound if that. I asked him what he was doing he then put it in a carrier bag that already had about seven baby flounders inside his responce to me was soup soup good soup. My response to him was something like if I had my way I would fxxxxg jail you.