Have Eastern Europeans stolen 'my' fish?!

[mistergixer]

I regularly visit my local arm of the Grand Union Canal (Apsley Mill to Winkwell) to indulge in my favourite pastime of predator fishing - i catch Pike, Perch and Chub on lures, spinners, flies etc.
Through my own observations and conversations with other anglers, boat owners, dog walkers etc i've noticed that there have been an unusually large amount of Eastern Europeans fishing on the canal over the last few months.

Now, it may just be a coincidence, but suddenly all the larger fish (especially the Pike) seem to have disappeared.

There's been a lot of press recently (and even a court case) about Eastern Europeans poaching and cruelly decimating fish stocks with fixed lines, gill nets etc.

Am i being too suspicious, or do you think it's worth reporting my concerns to the Angling association (who hold the fishing rights), or to the EA or similar??
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[mooserx]

quite possibly would be worth reporting it,

we had some eastern european gypsies set up camp near one of our local club waters, they emptied the place of all the carp, pike and big bream, the srtung nets across the pools and waited overnight then nicked all the fish. we reported it and all that happened was the gypos were moved on by the constabulary, leaving the club members to raise money to buy more fish stock.

oh yeah, the gypos also killed and ate the 2 families of swams on the pools and the coppers did sod all.
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[Skudd]

I went fly fishing once on that stretch of water. Caught a 4lb Blue Bottle.
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[hellkat]

Yeah grass them cnuts up.
Let them go and fish their own fukkin rivers dry.
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[Blau Zedong]

I know it's a problem over here and in Ireland. Bastards eating coarse fish which is theft. They just pull the "do not understand" trick so beloved of our Baltic friends when confronted, or dissapear if the Environment agency ever charge them. Makes me bastard sick. If I had my way they'd be shot on site - they can't say there's no fucking evidence when they are in possesion of a big pile of dead coarse fish. They good news is that alot of commercially farmed sporting fish are treated with formalin / malachite which is banned for use in fish for the table as it's carcinogenic
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[rotax81]

its a big problem here in northampton. they take carp, pike etc. basically anything that they catch.
peasants!
we put a stop to it by my mate becoming a bailiff and we chucked them off. check for their rod licence, i bet they have not got one
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[Harold_Shand]

I used to live on a narrowboat on the grand union, but closer to London. We'd see them fairly often, but a lot of the time they would dissappear into the bushes. They must have thought I would be bothered to do something about it. It could be a problem in the future.
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Harold_Shand's theory might be the best explanation.

[Fisty]

Im a pike fisherman too, out local canal has been fished pretty much dry of big pike by our polish invaders.

One nasty piece of work in paticular uses goldfish as live bait. He has been prosecuted twice for no license but just goes straight back to it. He has also assaulted a bailf.
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[garyd]

I remember using goldfish back in the 70s .bloody brilliant!! bright orange thing down in 3 mtrs of water aint going to go un noticed for long,used to have a field day,accounted for some good pike,biggest of 22 lb,out of a small lake near Nottingham.
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[MinhDinh]

i went mackerel fishing recently and it was cool. sorry that's all i know about fishing. dover was really nice
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[Fahd]

Report it, I recently watched a group of Eastern Europeans catch two large Pikes from a local canal then bash them against a concrete wall to kill them (although they were still flopping around a good 10 minutes after, which is shocking) so that they could take them home a eat them.
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[mistergixer]

Sorry to dredge up an old-ish thread, but thought i would update it:
At the weekend i had my rod licence checked (for the first time in ever!)by an EA representative, upon chatting to him for a while it transpired that they had been finding large numbers of tethered lines all along the canal - he remarked that he had found 30 in a short pound between 2 locks just the other day.
So, it seems my suspicions are/were correct and there is a fair bit of poaching going on - having said that, the EA guy told me that (on 'open' waters)you can legally take up to 2 fish of each species, provided that they are caught on a rod and line, so it's more the people setting fixed lines & nets that they are after.
Carry on the good work Mr EA rep man!


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[garyd]

Biggest load a bollax ever was doing away with the dog licence but stopping kids from fishing by keeping the rod licence ,feckin great way to get youngsters interested!! to kids that was alot of money,never had one ,never will,.......................nazi state
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