Ask For Rod Licences?

[liverpolcrew2020]

I am somewhat amazed at how often our Rod licences are checked or should i say NOT checked.

In more than 3 years of fishing i have only ever had my rod licence checked once and that was by the local bailiff not EA so what i think needs to be done is the Fisheries/venue owners ask for your rod licence BEFORE you pay your day ticket or peg money,would this be a better idea than the one we have now i wonder after all the only people that can complain really are the ones that DON'T have a licence anyway and they should not fish with out one simple.

I think it is time that venue owners started to take more interest in the rules and law of fishing rather than just plain money in the bank after all they go up in arms over poaching(and right they are) but they are more than willing to allow anglers fish WITHOUT a licence which in my books is just the same thing( law breaking) because they are not bothered about checking for them,do you think this is a way forward or a step backwards

So how many times in your life have you been asked for your licence??

I live up north in liverpool and i dont think i have ever seen 1 so its none for me

[pingu]

with the EA being based not 1/2 mile away from canal loads

and local licence even more



dave

[dave fish]

i fish canals all the time and have never even spoke to a bailiff never mind been asked for my licence

[paddy2k7_red4life]

i have been asked once but at all the the fisherys i have fished at never been asked so some people taqke the chance and dont buy one and they should because it helps fishing

[asp383]

i've been fishing since i was quite young, possibly 5 or 6, apart from a break between '97-last year, but i've never been asked to produce my licence & have only ever seen a baliff once (earleir this year), but always carry my licence & money (if at at a pay to fish venue) just in case.
fully agree though that despite the tv adverts, there are people getting away with fishing without licences, especially those fishing out of the way or overnight on open waters

[KABBYCHRIS]

ive fished for over 28yrs and never been asked for my licence but i still buy one just in case, and because i do think they do a good job in keeping our waters pollution free

[Stumps]

I normally fish the Nothumbrian Water fisheries and they ask for your licence every time i go. Otherwise my local angling club, once they know your face, never asks for one.

[Banana Steve]

As a rule in the Warminster Angling Club, we will not issue a membership unless you produce your rod licence. and as for the EA checking, for some reason over the last 3 years i have been checked at least 3 times each year. I think in this area they are on the ball.

[luremaker]

personally i dont like the idea of the national rod licence as is a view shared by most,however if the EA is to enforce the licence it needs to do it properly,ie it should be every club and day tickets responsibility to check that a valid NRA licence is held before issuing a day ticket or club membership,this would ensure one is held by all anglers .

also a bone of contention is that the EA says the money is to ensure the rivers are preserved and kept in good order and yet it is still up to the club or owner to cut weed shore up erosion on banks etc.

I would like to see all users of our waterways ,rivers canals and still-waters to have a recreation licence that way the canoeists and boaters would be sharing in the cost of upkeep,why should anglers bear the full weight of the funding?

[geejayy]

Originally Posted by luremaker

also a bone of contention is that the EA says the money is to ensure the rivers are preserved and kept in good order and yet it is still up to the club or owner to cut weed shore up erosion on banks etc.

the weed grows and banks errode , stopping that is like trying to hold back the tide

i'll agree with your comments to a certain extent,
i worked for an estate in the test valley for several years as a waterkeeper
& while it was down to us to maintain banks and cut weed the then newly formed EA, took an active role in areas where they had a vested interest which was mostly surveying & improveing the test & itchen salmon population.
a great deal of effort was put into improveing the spawning areas, by cleaning gravel bars, & reduceing the with of the river at some points to increase flow over the gravel beds to help prevent silting up which would stifle the redds.
populations of parr were recorded + the introduction of thousands of salmon fry/parr which had been farmed specifically from river test test brood fish and micro tagged for tracking purposes, (salmon with clipped adipose fins contain a micro tag in there heads, or they did through out the 1990's.)

weather all this did any good is a moot point but pehaps understanding of the specie improved as a result

as to weed cutting its the responsibillity of the riparian owner,
but the ea are responsible for stretches that are owned by the state or no one has title to.
where the wallop brook runs through broughton, there is such a stretch where no one looks after it & it runs wild, some years the weed growth backed up the river & threatened to flood some of the houses lineing the river bank.
when this occurred the EA would cut the weed as an emergency measure to prevent flooding. ( usually outside agreed weed cut dates that the EA were supposed to enforce, but hey - its an emergency.
job done, but it would hack off any one fishing immeadiately down stream for a day or two.)
rambleing on about the brook, it was the EA, who supplied equipment & man power to assist the rescue the fish trapped by drought in the dry years of the ninteys when the brook ran dry.
and the commisioning of the construction of a gaugeing station where the brook joins the test to record summer flow data for analysis.

not to mention the restocking of various waterways , a section of the K A cannal at some point was renovated & drained , part of the restocking program envolved the netting of the estate lake & removeing a large number of silver fish by the NRA as it then was.
then holding & testing these fish for disease or paracites before the final stocking. as these fish were being moved between catchment areas.


sorry it a bit long winded but i s'pose in short , what i'm trying to say is-
the EA, do quite a bit its just that no one notices.