new rod to the test

[toomanyhounds]

our beautiful mersey is much cleaner than it used to be. its not the pollution keeping fish stocks down, its the years of overfishing by the trawlers. when the mersey was a septic swamp 20 odd years ago, our coast was absolutely rammed with fish in comparison to today.

[pompy.bass.man]

oh, trawlers really do ruin evrything dont they, bluddy hate them but if they weren't there we would not be able to buy our fish from asda fish counter when the fishings crap and you cant bring home a good fish

[philipn]

youve not tried it so dont knock it were quite proud of our mersey up here its not much but its ours

[pompy.bass.man]

good on you mate, im not slagging off were you live im just saying a couple of years now the cod trawler men took the p*ss abit with cod and only a couple were caught, 5 years back there double figure cod bieng caught everyday down here

[toomanyhounds]

well said philipn, I drive along the dock roads pretty much every day and love the mersey skyline(the buildings set against the sky, not the R34 nissan) makes me proud to be a scouser. every generation of my family have lived here since they came over from ireland way back. most have worked at camelllaird's and all have been proud of calling liverpool/wallasey home.
"you'll never walk alone" (or are you more of a "z" cars man?)

[philipn]

yeah i agree with you there tmh used to fish alex wall and not be able to get the cod up the wall cos they were to big now your lucky to get a two pownder erm do we need more sh#t in the river or what

[pompy.bass.man]

well sed mate i respect people that respect there local enviroment

[philipn]

old shankly boy me

[pompy.bass.man]

what?

[toomanyhounds]

nice chatting with you lads but there is a pint out there with my name on it and it could be getting warm and flat as we speak. catch up with you next time.

don't tell me, the pints you get down pompy way are actually more like litres?

Cheers

TMH