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  • 12-11-2014 3:59pm
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    gumbo1
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    Just wondering if many of you have seen the Facebook pages sharing photos of suspected poachers? Can a group of concerned anglers set up a group, kind of like the community watch schemes in the 80s and 90s, to patrol their local waterways looking for any illegal activity? I'm not talking about a group of mindless thugs or vigilantism!!


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    He Who Dares Wins
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭He Who Dares Wins


    gumbo1 wrote: »
    Just wondering if many of you have seen the Facebook pages sharing photos of suspected poachers? Can a group of concerned anglers set up a group, kind of like the community watch schemes in the 80s and 90s, to patrol their local waterways looking for any illegal activity? I'm not talking about a group of mindless thugs or vigilantism!!

    Yes I have seen said pages. It is absolutely shocking. There are some fish there that anglers could spend years, their whole life in fact fishing for. To think of the scale that this is happening is scary.


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    DANNY22XX
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    Shocking to think this is happening in Ireland :(


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    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 4,897 ✭✭✭malinheader


    gumbo1 wrote: »
    Just wondering if many of you have seen the Facebook pages sharing photos of suspected poachers? Can a group of concerned anglers set up a group, kind of like the community watch schemes in the 80s and 90s, to patrol their local waterways looking for any illegal activity? I'm not talking about a group of mindless thugs or vigilantism!!

    Seems to me in any of the pictures i have seen it is mindless thugs who are doing this, so a group of concerned anglers patroling a waterway would only end up in slanging match or much worse. These people have no morals when they are doing this


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    danbrosnan
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    Lads if you want to do something noting can stop you only yourself..


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    dodderangler
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    DANNY22XX wrote: »
    Shocking to think this is happening in Ireland :(

    Really? Not one bit shocked. Seen it happen for years but reporting it is just a waste of phone credit


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    Kingfish
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭Kingfish


    I have been fishing for 10 years in places in the middle of nowhere to places in the middle of a city or town and have yet to come across nets (thank god ) wat are the names of some of these facbook fools only once did I type in on YouTube tench fishing in Ireland and came across this lad with a massive bag of tench and bream and he just dumped them on the ground and stud on them and then released them that's the closesed I've ever seem poaching only joined fb recently so havnt seen any on it


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    dodderangler
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    It's not just about nets man. Lads catching dozens of tench pike perch bream trout and salmon and keeping a significant amount. I'd class that as poaching


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    kildare lad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    yougot caught poaching and fishing ireland catchandrelease check them out


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    .red.
    Registered Users Posts: 3,338 ✭✭✭.red.


    Poaching? In Ireland? Never!


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    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 4,897 ✭✭✭malinheader


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Really? Not one bit shocked. Seen it happen for years but reporting it is just a waste of phone credit

    Total waste of phone credit is true,the goverment or water ways management dont seem to care about coarse fish stocks. Check out Catch and release whos killing the fish in the grand canal Ireland.Its on you tube.


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    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    A sledgehammer to the face wouldn't go amiss for some.


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    bitemybanger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,475 ✭✭✭bitemybanger


    This thread is a troll magnet. closed


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