Ben,as a bailiff on our club water, which is enclosed and is a protected property ,I can tell you from years experience,trying to keep waters clean of rubbish is impossible,and that’s from our members,let alone from d**kheads who get onto the water to get p*ssed,do drugs,even try to fish,we find all sorts of their stuff,discarded tackle,which they leave when they get chased off,line that would tow a barge along our local cut,rods that wouldn’t look out of place on a beach,with Harthill having public access that’s half of the problem,also it would be from the local non anglers who meet up for a jolly up,and leave their crap behind.
I can agree to a certain extent Ste but 90% of the bin bags I’ve filled up have been mainly bait bags and other angling based litter. There’s been times when I’ve found the odd beer can stuffed in a hedge which like you say will be from a Walker but most of the litter has been bait and tackle rubbish. If you have a scroll through my videos you’ll see where I cleaned the venue up after the previous head bailiff stressed he wasn’t interested in keeping it clean. I spoke to him directly and he said that when they’ve cleaned it up in the past the litter just comes back. We all know it’s a full time job running a fishery and unfortunately the last chap in charge had himself a day job besides agreeing to the lease of the reservoir. The bulk of the litter was day session bags. A lot of them I opened to find them full of bait bags, BBQ’s, tackle wrappers, takeaway boxes and a mountain of poo bags inside them. I live right next to Harthill and have spent many hours down there rescuing fish, tidying up and seeing to other miscellaneous emergencies. I’m still yet to break a sweat.
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Ben,as a bailiff on our club water, which is enclosed and is a protected property ,I can tell you from years experience,trying to keep waters clean of rubbish is impossible,and that’s from our members,let alone from d**kheads who get onto the water to get p*ssed,do drugs,even try to fish,we find all sorts of their stuff,discarded tackle,which they leave when they get chased off,line that would tow a barge along our local cut,rods that wouldn’t look out of place on a beach,with Harthill having public access that’s half of the problem,also it would be from the local non anglers who meet up for a jolly up,and leave their crap behind.
I can agree to a certain extent Ste but 90% of the bin bags I’ve filled up have been mainly bait bags and other angling based litter. There’s been times when I’ve found the odd beer can stuffed in a hedge which like you say will be from a Walker but most of the litter has been bait and tackle rubbish.
If you have a scroll through my videos you’ll see where I cleaned the venue up after the previous head bailiff stressed he wasn’t interested in keeping it clean. I spoke to him directly and he said that when they’ve cleaned it up in the past the litter just comes back. We all know it’s a full time job running a fishery and unfortunately the last chap in charge had himself a day job besides agreeing to the lease of the reservoir.
The bulk of the litter was day session bags. A lot of them I opened to find them full of bait bags, BBQ’s, tackle wrappers, takeaway boxes and a mountain of poo bags inside them.
I live right next to Harthill and have spent many hours down there rescuing fish, tidying up and seeing to other miscellaneous emergencies. I’m still yet to break a sweat.