Police rod-licence patrol on British rivers
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2013
- Today we are out with officers from Kent police and the Environnment Agency on a joint operation in north Kent looking for people without a rod licence or who are poaching fish.
The shooting fishing and hunting community has to work closely with the police. Firearm licences, rod licenses and hunting within the law bring us all together. However, the Countryside is full of rich pickings -- metal, machinery and animals are all unfair game - which is why rural crime squads exist all over the nation.
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The cop sitting next to the guy with the free marijuana sticker on his seat box gave me a good chuckle right away
At a great fishing venue outside Droitwich the owner, a guy over 70 years old, was beaten up by a gang of eastern europeans who poached on his lakes for carp a few years back. He was so injured that he sold off his lakes for fear that he'd be killed next time. That's no way to end your career.
These people aren't "just" fishing illegally, they are thugs.
In los angeles the Mexican poachers beat up anyone on the phone around them
No mate the people that done that are the pols there the scumbags of fishing
Some people who fish illegally might be thugs*
@@davidholgate123 how?
have your house broken in to and you will not get a copper to come out, but catching a few fish you will get a litter of coppers
Same with writing something they deem as offensive on Facebook/Twitter, they'll be knocking on your door in a flash, mob handed.
I had that happen, i recorded a police incident where it was armed forces involved.... about 40 mins after it happened there ringing me to get the video deleted lol.
Believe me my trout loch is worth more than your house you pleb!
So true... the police always jump at the chance to catch easy so called criminals as its good for figures and low risk
The rules are the rules ..and peeps like you only come out with such quips because you dont like it when you've been caught breaking the law
when The Crown still owns the land, the water and YOU. And you need permission to fish in your own garden pond
Is this a joke page? Please tell me the police don't go to rivers and lakes checking fishermen for a license????? Has the world gone completely insane????
That is answered around 1:00 in
Beats getting real criminals
Here in America we have a separate agency for this ...not the police
gatlincasey1 so do we in the uk, the police were assisting in this case because the environment agency guys had been attacked.
Yes because the Environment Agency guys are treated like shit and end up being threatened or even worse assaulted,amazing what the presence of a police uniform can prevent
Hop in my taxed car, to drive to the garage to fill up on some taxed fuel, maybe buy some taxed tobacco, put on taxed radio 2, pay a taxed tunnel toll, buy my taxed rod license
Salad Days
and all with your taxed earnings!
helps to pay for the government holidays!
And your taxes help to keep the roads that you drive on working, they keep everyone who you meet in your day healthy, they help to pay the wages of people who work to protect society and they also go into helping those in poor socio economic conditions to become more useful members of society. You just don't understand good economic practice.
that is after you payed tax from your wages when you die you are f~~king taxed we require a modern day guy fawks, blow the lot of the money grabbing ba~~~rds up makes your blood boil
Goblin Engineer You will go to heaven for that.............🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Never been asked for my licence in the 40years I’ve been fishing!
Probably best you don't come to scotland then keep that record intact.
nico harkin you don’t need a rod licence in Scotland
Have you ever had one lol
I went fishing first time and got asked
same John, 20 years never been asked, although iv had 1 99% of the time
I'd like to know what they do with the money from rod licences because the waters round here are filthy and untouched
I’ve often wondered that... so I contacted them to ask them. They said in the north of England most people purchase salmon and migratory trout licences so apparently all the money goes into upper courses of rivers that predominantly contain salmon and sea trout. That’s how they can justify only giving a **** about one part of the country/river and not the other.
They spend it on otter reintroductions I think!
The EA are well into their diversity & rainbow training - that's not cheap.
I’m okay with paying taxes for my Texas Fishing and Hunting License as long as that money goes towards conservation.
Nicholas K, I'm in Utah, but I feel if I have to buy a license, then others can buy a license too. Especially because it goes for conservation.
Unfortunately you can’t really hunt in the uk unless you own the land and we have nothing worth hunting anyway 😂
Hunting in the uk is awful compared to the America, hoping to move to the us away from this dreadful country
@@jackharris9 I’ve seen some pretty good hunting or stalking as y’all call it in the Scottish Highlands. Isn’t that where the queen would hunt too?
I think so if you own the land Or know who dose you can hunt I think I wish we had the space America dose to go fishing and hunting in
Have the police got nothing else better to do? Also regarding carp man 2015. Around 12% of your rod licence goes towards fish welfare etc. The truth is that it is just another government stealth tax.
If you heard right on the video,at times something as simple as not having a fishing licence flags up more serious crimes from these individuals so in my opinion that is a result, also it's not just Eastern Europeans who are committing the crimes you have mentioned,far from it
I do buy a rod licence every year, ever since I was old enough to need one,, however, I do begrudge it, because virtually none of it spent on the waters,it is a tax on a tax, it goes into the coffers of the government department and squandered on all and sundry. Furthermore it is one law for them and one for us,, people are prosecuted for transferring fish, and or pollution,, but the E,A are biggest culprits,, I recall a few years ago they released and supplied a huge quantity of deliberately bred fish, from their stock,s, which proved to be diseased and wiped out a lot of private waters they had supplied,,, did they then prosecute themselves ? No is the answer,, and as far as I know, none of the private waters that were infected were compensated either!!
Is it really a police matter anyway ? I don't think so .
alan whitham what do
you mean if you sell sick fish to a waterway EA will prosecute you but not when they do it
And the fact some clever sole introduced the signal crayfish as an “experiment”, nice one!.
@@eaglelegend1 "sole"...is that meant to be a fish pun, or do you not know the difference between "sole" and "soul"?😕
Makes me laugh, thousands of pounds worth of tackle, and yet still many anglers don't buy a ticket. I been asked twice in over 40years of fishing for my license,.but wouldn't dream of fishing without one.
i agree ive had a rod licence since i was old enough too have one ive been checked 3 times in 38 years
It is just a tax on our hobby ,it is like the tele license
Sam Caddick Passmore same here mate twice in 20 years I’ve been asked, I wouldn’t dream of fishing without one.
Exactly what I thought
Lol I'm 15 and iv been asked for mine 3 times and all have been awkward because mine isn't printed it's online BTW I live in Bristol so Bristol council and it took me 30 min of me getting my dad to buy data and then me pulling up the page.
Soon you ll need a licence to take pictures
soon you will not be able to take pictures .
Wyoming you do know that 100% of rod license fees goes to the ea? Thought not.
The way the UK is going it may well happen.
Probably for the sort of pictures you want to take!
Wyoming lets hope so, with those ego tripping selfie mad fuckers today
I pay for my licence every 12months in a hope that the money does in some way go into the water ways, but to use police resources to do the checks on anglers is a step to far in my opinion.
I had a eastern eropean poacher killing carp come at me with a knife when I told him it's forbidden to kill and keep course fish I asked him has he a fishing license and he came at me I did a leg kick push and he was in the canal lucky for me my mate videoed the whole lot he was got hold of by the police didn't turn up to court did a moonlight flitt to Romania so I think it's right personally that a copper should be there to back up environment agency license checks and reports of poaching course fish am I in the wrong here or the poacher just asking TC from Marcus
@@marcusdrew6452 very well put Marcus yes I can understand it from that prospective indeed some very bad people taking our fish and it needs to be stopped.
@@marcusdrew6452 did the poacher nick all the punctuation off your keyboard?
Lol no I'm just msg I'm not writing a letter*"':;!!?*::;!!!!:`•[]lol TC from Marcus 👍☺️
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I buy my licence every year even though I can only get out a few times, The problem is it is like the BBC but worse. You buy a licence but still have to pay for day ticket fishing which is basically pocketed tax free, especially Rivers that mostly are left to nature.
the money is not being spent on rivers im sure
Just can't believe people pay all that money on gear and syndicates but can't be asked to get a license. One in five - its shocking.
true maybe some people think that we pay enough for our fishing already, you didnt need one years ago so why do we need one now... they say its to help look after fish population 😂and you dont need a licence to sea fish....
Taking photos of ducks oh yeah full of hardened criminals that spot
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Getting paid for it, no less.
Licensing serves 1 purpose, taxation which is theft.
@Adam I am not, but I'd rather live in a nation where I don't need to reply on the police for my security.
A yank here. In the US licensing fees are supposed to go for conservation, restocking of fish, etc.
@@guylewis7418 I’d say they do down south.... especially on our “precious” chalk streams. However when you go up north (where I live) it’s all about lining their own pockets to fund the southern chalk streams and the CEOs wages 😡
All I see is big brother poking the peasant in the chest once again.
Ok peasant
@@gbwildlifeuk8269 how did this retarded comment get 52 likes? . ffs
@@lordamercy5609 Go put your facemask on, there's a good chap.
@@onepalproductions go put your tin-foil hat on, there's a good chap
@@lordamercy5609 I made my tin-foil hat from the aluminium in your "vaccines."
ROD LICENCE!! UNBELIEVABLE
I can understand needing a license to fish the rivers in which they look after but we have to get normally a fairly cheap day ticket but when you go to a private day fishery which is fairly expensive why do you have to have a license if someone can help me on this question please do because what I understand the upkeep has to be paid for by the owners
I think its got something to do with viruses and parasites. Helps Stops the spread of diseases amongst fish.
Multiple reasons, rod license revenues don't only go into stocking rivers. The revenue funds coaching, making the sport accessible, virus control, invasive species control and much more.
so how are they controlling the invasion of signal crayfish thats been happening for years and years in the rivers and lakes???
They're not because it's an almost impossible task. Crayfish lay around 200 eggs at a time. You'll never control that.
@@chesterfield5704 hold on a second though. Where I live there are no environment agency coaches or angling/canal river trust coaches. They don’t make fishing accessible AT ALL. I personally know people that struggle to fish because of this... and they don’t care about disease control. A recent case of crayfish disease has shown me that, who did they blame it on? The general public of course. Why should we be paying for a company that’s just lining it’s own pockets. No work ever gets done. It’s always down to angling clubs to police and protect their local waters. The EA and the whole rod licence thing is a complete joke and needs a complete re-work.
The crime rate in Kent must be Zero !
yeah man no murders or drugs there, thats why all the police can fuck about lmao
Lmao
I dont know anything about fishing but if you need a rod licence would it be illegal to fish without a rod? not wanting to do it just seemed a obvious thing? cheers
interesting comment. but they will probably fined you for not having a rod.
Nice to see they have their priorities right
It’s starts with evading the rod licence then they graduate to the school of hard crime. 😂
A rod is an offensive weapon!
@@lobbyskids2 Jack the Ripper was famously known to fish without a license in his youth, well done to the police for cracking down on these future serial killers in the video
There's people walking about selling drugs and just being bad people and you've got police walking around fishing ponds giveing fines out for not paying to fish what's next do you have to start paying for the air you breath what a joke it's not England anymore
The air you breathe ? Correct ☝☝☝✈✈✈🌞🌞🌞....
Someone did not watch the video, police walking around fishing ponds giveing fines???
This is a situation where the police take the soft option,anything else is just to difficult.
"Allo, allo allo. What's all this then? That hair rig is a bit unsporting and that fixed lead does not have a breakaway clip. That line looks a bit old as well. You're feckin' nicked my lad".
I have never had a rod licence in the 50+ years of fishing as I don’t have too, here in Scotland you don’t need them just a specific river permit, land owners permission or a day ticket at a fishery
British politicians are the best at disguising taxes. It's not like there is any specific training or a test that needs to be taken to get a rod licence... it's just a fee that needs to be paid.
So really, it's a fishing tax.
I pay.. Not happy about it but what can you do? I don't want my diawas n delkims taken so what's £25 a year... Yer I believe its my right as an Englishman to fish our rivers And I will usually see my arse if some toffee nose thinks they own a stretch but I catch and release and leave no trace and that's my way .. I do get angry when people think its their right , don't pay, leave beer cans and rubish, have a general bad attitude to natures wellbeing. In the UK we do have a problem with migrants raping fish stocks in certain areas and other wild life, most of these people will never work so continue to take take take and there is only more coming over here so to help prevent the rape of my forefathers waterways I'm not so insular to mind paying for the license and do my part so there is fish to catch in the future.
Lynchology101 Because most of the thefts of fish are done by foreigners from Eastern Europe. The steal our fish & sell it back home for an absolute bomb. Polish Latvian & Lithuanian people's eat a lot of fresh fish, as they are a delicacy over there. Those bastards are trying to rip off our fish stocks as its worth more money than their own.
MarineAqua45 have U seen any of them doing this or some of pure english men told U this....
I have been asked so many times by english anglers to do not realease fish back and give it to them for a diner for 5 kids beeing on bank with them ass well.....shame on U.....
@@czarny31081983 I've seen them fishing in reservoirs killing small perch and pike of all sizes and eating them , when confronted they don't understand English.
@@czarny31081983 ive seen this 15lb of pike lying dead gill nets galore everything from fry to adult spawners all threw into to the soup pot the baliffs dont bother now they cant afford to bring polish speakers because of course me no speak english comes into play straight off
@Hamish McIndy it's true,it's a well known fact, nothing racist about it.
Total bollocks. In the 40 years I’ve been fishing I’ve been asked to show my licence once!
The canals round my way are fished every day by Eastern European’s who take fish home illegally and not one has a licence.
I've been fishing just a little less than you and I've been checked 3 times although mostly when I was a teenager. I guess they had more staff back then.
Ironically if someone gets a tug,it will be you,why?,because you have a home,and your traceable,eastern Europeans are not,even if if they were,their hard work for the so called authorities,so they won’t bother,two,three,or even four tier policing in action.
These guys don't fuck about. There's not such thing as "taking circumstances into consideration" a few years ago, I was new to fishing. I was on a free stretch of a river, had my licence and was fishing for trout with a friend. Along came a baliff and issued me a ticket for using maggots. Apparently there is a bylaw against using maggots. Baring in mind I had the cheapest fishing gear sports direct could supply, and me telling him I just started fishing... After my day in court I got a £327 fine and a criminal record
That is outrageous,and in the meantime serious criminality goes unchecked.
I have bought a Rod License, and the local river one since school. Nowadays I probably get a line wet about 6 times a year If I am lucky. We have suffered from the Europeans netting local pools and streams, and taking the Fish out. They don't get the concept of catch and release. Before they came In numbers, We could fill three or four Large Keep nets full of Fish overnight, After a year of them coming, You are lucky to fill half of one now. Glad they are all heading back. Local Carp pools wouldn't allow them on to Their pools. We don't have a Tackle shop In the town now, They pack up and shut shop cause of them stealing In there all the time. Now I have to travel to the City for kit and Maggots.
I've bought a rod license for the last 35 years, I only fish the local rivers, the Don and Rother. In the last 10 years I've had to contend with gangs of Roma fishing every single day through the week, taking decent fish out, lighting fires on the banks, leaving cans and litter, etc. I put fish back, there is only so many in a given swim and I often catch the same fish week in week out, a commercial wouldn't allow them on, would they? I'm paying to fish, as well as Roma to contend with, I've got Yorkshire water releasing raw sewage in to the river, the bankside trees are littered with tampons!
I go fishing and the only licence I have is a licence to thrill 😚can't do anythink in this country without money being involved
" anythink "...spelling correctly cost nothing at all. Maybe you should stay home and read more instead of fishing illegally.
@@CB-xr1eg tosser
They ask me to pay for a fishing license . As I watch the fishery emptied by eastern European's without one .
A place i used to fish was heavily poached it was a club water and we used to bailiff it but eastern europeans used to put night lines out and pick them up in the morning old bill did'nt want to know
To much like hard work for the bill,they’ll take easier pickings.
I have licence always. However certain waters should be free. Like private farmers land. Environment agency dont care for or stock these waters.
Agreed mate
I have no issues paying £30 for a licence but where does the money go to?
My local canal needs cleaning and it's not been touched for at least 15 years.
Mass lobby the ea. Get enough people and they really do listen. Also if pollution is an issue try to find out who?
depends who run it.
True
It’s like The Interceptors on a nature ramble. I expect they will be having a curry back at the station later.
How could you have 3 rods, a tent and all that gear but not afford a license. You gotta be a prize carrot.
Fishery owners should ask to see rod licence before selling their day ticket and all tackle shops should also check before buying equipment...
never had my license checked not even by club bailiffs they just check the club license and not the EA one
Don’t understand why people would spend 100s if not 1000s of pounds of gear but won’t pay 30 quid for a licence. Stigs.
Dude with 3 rods and overnight bivvy set up didn't pay the tenner for a day license 😅
We need more of this now to protect our lakes and rivers
Amazing people spend £100s on fishing equipment but can't afford or cry about a £3 a month license.
I give em fuck all and I fish 5 rods / no details given / too the greedy fuckers
It's principle like in my case. EA only care about rivers and I don't fish them our club make our own money to pay for upkeep etc no input from the EA at all and when needed help off them they've never come good they just fob you off with bullshit. I won't buy one and refuse to until they decide to start doing their job correctly and stop the polish, Romanians etc getting away with stealing and eating fish that are with thousands of pounds even in cases for one fish and you say we're mad for not paying into that kind of crap. You clearly know nothing about fishing politics..
Your time will come, parasites like you always get caught eventually. I believe the fine can reach £1,000 and you can have your fishing tackle confiscated. Bet you won;t be so mouthy when that happens. You fucking gobshite.
@@CB-xr1eg i have been pulling sea trout out the rivers for years fk the licence if i get caught they can have a £1 pound a month i hate boring fishing anyway i just enjoy the free meal 😏
@@mranonymous8725 With a bit of luck you'll get your kit confiscated and a £1000 fine. Freeloading twats like you are a fucking menace and just take the piss out of those of us who pay to fish legally. I can see why you chose that username but Mr Cowardly Freeloader would suit you better.
Ahh, so good to see plod finding time to wander the banks of rivers, canals and ponds. Nice little job, getting well paid for a riverside walk. Makes a change from plodding along urban areas; many of which are far too dangerous for a walk due to criminal types. Presumably, if they have this much spare time, plod must have cleared the backlog of unsolved crimes (or 'incidents' as they refer to them, to keep 'crime' levels down)? Before anyone asks, yes I do own a rod licence, and have never been fishing without one in nearly 40 years.
Different story if you caught someone turning your house over!, they would be under staffed, assholes need to get their priorities right!!
they nicked one guy because his rod rests were from woolworths
@@daveberry2177 Collector's items now then. Might be worth a few quid one day!🤣
How come the Environment Agency guy is carrying a baton ? ? BRAKING THE LAW WHILE ENFORCING IT ! !
They should do this way more often and no disrespect to polish or Eastern Europe they need to stop eating the carp in our local fisheries
It’s good how the police and environmental agencies are working together to stop this cause all the local fisheries are suffering big time!!
These are lakes not rivers, that said I recognized these as my locals. I'd like to see these guys actually patrol the river system that these lakes sit on- it is rife with out of season anglers and poachers. A once thriving river was at one point almost lifeless.
too hard for em to do rivers, they have to WALK back to the car...they aint gunna do that are they
kerching, kerching, listen to those tills ring, because your rod licence does make a difference, no really, yes it does, another stealth tax
The problem i have with this whole system is that you have to pay for a rod licence to the government, then you also have to pay for a licence to fish a particular water, and you're not allowed to keep any fish! If there's so many licences needed, then anglers should be allowed to take fish.
Why don't you work on the same principle the National Trust works on? People buy a rod licence, and then the government pays the venues where people go and fish.
And i'd also be curious to know what exactly are anglers paying for with all these licences. Is anyone ensuring there are plenty of fish in the waters? ALL the waters? Is anyone ensuring there are good fishing spots set up everywhere? That there are facilities at every fishing spot?
Good points - thanks
"Well officer, before I show you my rod licence, please can I see your plod license?"
at no point are you required BY LAW to answer any bailiffs/police questions, your right to remain silent doesn't begin when you're informed of it.
stellahead wrong, when your fishing you are required by law to prove you have a license to fish. Almost any other time you are right.
Unfortunately, it sounds good on the internet, not so much in front of a district judge who has actually practised law. Acts form part of our recognised legal system along with orders, regulations, byelaws and common law. Judges will still find you guilty and convict you regardless, they may add on a contempt charge depending how clever you are with them.
Madam Le Gray acts are laws
JuliettWhiskeyNiner contempt? For what? A judge? No judge it's a magistrate.
Spud Spud Magistrate courts are three Magistrates or a district judge, chances are you'll get a district judge when playing freeman of the land stuff
I have a licence but it really annoys me that all these posh snobs own all the rights to rivers and use posh judges and politicians to enforce it.
Don’t even get me started on that... kayak up these rivers. If they challenge you tell them to do one because they do not legally own the water or fish... just the banks you use to fish off of them.
0:55 the size of that rod rest head 😂😂😂
Carper at 2:12 ? All the gear, thousands of pounds worth! Can’t get £45 licence for three rods.
I go fishing and would like to see where the money goes as the banks here are poorly kept and overgrown so up date us on where it goes please then it may make people pay more ?
What a lot of people dont know is that you can take up to 15 fish, up to 20 cm long, a day from any river in the UK. Most rivers are stocked with fish, if you have a license the fee's go towards up keep of the water, it also provides permission to take 15 coarse fish, up to 20 cm. 1 pike up to 60 cm. 2 grayling up to 30 cm, I think. and any fish for live/dead baiting as long as they're used there and then.
This is no longer correct and hasn't been for a few years now
That is not actually the case. It depends on local bye laws and fishery rules set by the owner or controlling club.
62 years I’ve fished and never been asked for my rod license…I’ve never had one either. I pay a day ticket to fish.. i don’t not require a license.
In England you still need a rod licence.
Best response is just shake your head saying " No english, no english" and they walk off
if i was working for the environment agency and out checking rod licences id want the police to be with me doing it , some nutters about who think they can smack anyone or drunk while out fishing for a few days and nights and theyre above the law
i get paranoid fishing rivers in places i dont know u never know whos land your own i bought a licence went to fat feild in washington north england i walked up river fishing different spots i ened up on private land in lambton park a land rover defender pulled i had 3 men going crazy with me i generally thought i was going to get beat up
i wont even go out with my old 22 rifle these not even for targets im quite poor a few months ago i ran out of food a few days before pay day and i thought i can go out and get a few rabbits anything i could get but is it really worth the fire arm charge and jail our rights are being took away
Haha adam , you sound just like me , an out and out poacher.
Is it worth it? Depends you couldn't afford food and didn't want to go to jail, that's fair and honest on the other hand you could go to jail and get more meals and luxury than you could probably afford now haha
Always in fatty fishing mate got a class spot where no one goes and no one could spot you if they walked by fuck the fishing licence
£1000s paid for his gear,and can’t afford 45 quid for a licence
both my local waters, and a baby face Ben, from a few years ago. both waters are membership and day ticket and syndicate. The rivers around here have been robbed out for decades now. Nets & long lines, snagging, rows of rods and drunk foreigners taking everything and trashing the place. however stating the facts with evidence, in real time was not PC and frowned upon so not a lot done.
If only they put more effort into county lines
im from america , just moved here a few months ago ...my god it is sooooo hard to find a way to fish...i bought a rod licence ....but trying to get a permit for the local river here seems impossible ....i just want to cry .....ive been waiting many many years to come here and catch a pike ....and it seems like im not going to be able to ..... ;(
Just go on the canal
Look online or (if you can find one) ask at a tackle shop about local club memberships.
Have you seen the price for a rod licence in the UK complete rip off been fishing without a license since I was 14 and I will continue to fish without one till my dying day
Well lets hope you get caught by a bailiff and have all the gear taken off you
Alan Evans there be going in the river before they touch my stuff lol
Hey look, internet hard man alert. You'd fucking shit yourself if you were challenged and hadn't got a licence, and you know it!
@@alanevans8238 narc
The last lake is my local lake brooklands in dartford!
Environment agency with a baton?
I all ways thought cops were ought there to keep are street safe by catching criminals
I don't think they are capable.
They are criminals it’s illegal to fish without a license
Used to be that you only needed a licence to fish for game fish (salmon and trout) - when did that change ?
you have needed a rod license for coarse fish ever since I started fishing in 1966 and likely a long time before that. I think you were likely misinformed.
OI, you got a loicense for your rod and tackle mate?!
I have called the police and NRA when seeing fish being taken by Eastern Europeans
The police told me it's nothing to do with them
NRA said they only have 2 officers that patrol the Thames valley
So the police can now check Thames water licence but can't deal with me reporting people stealing the fish
From canals rivers and private lakes ?????
Yet again picking on the people not braking the law
And not dealing with reports of people breaking the law stealing stocks of fish
?????????
Agreed brian ive seen it myself this never ever happened twenty years ago
Great job guys. Every lake should be checked regular. Keep up the good work 👍
My sister was the victim of a hit and run last year. Got the guy's number plate and car description and passed it on to police.
They refused to investigate, since there were no serious injuries and the case wasn't worth their time.
This video explains it all I guess. Too busy making sure people have paid their fishing tax.
It's not a rod license, it's fishing tax!I don't take a test to pass! When i go to pub i dont need a licence to drink beer.
Call it what it is...
@Hamish McIndy who you calling a moron you fuck wit..It called an analogy. You obtuse fucking idiot...yep Google that word😂😂
Fishing was great round here before the immigrants come here, our local pits and lakes where wonderful places to spend a day
Now every swim is just full of beer cans , rubbish , bog roll and dead lines every where , and whats more these ba#^%#ds have eaten most of the decent fish including all the carp. Sadly it will never be like it was when i was a lad, and until it is policed and stopped i will not be buying another rod licence
fucking sickening mate...Those bastards need beating out of fishing places....When I was a boy it was so different...
The UK was a great place till they came over
Polish round my way poach all the carp we have caught a few on are local canal with bbqs going and dead carp on matts waiting for em to be cooked we have had remove a few and phone police when some have pulled knifes out
Why did we attempt to leave the EU again?
theys no laws stating that a person cant keep as many coarse species as they like get over it....
I don’t go fishing but watching this had been a fishing license is obviously the law but those who don’t have a fishing license instead of you giving them a fine or a caution why don’t you offer them a fishing license and then if they decline then go down the prosecution side of things.
ive been fishing since the age of 10 , im 51 now
10 to 34 fishing in Cheshire
34 to now fishing in the west midlands
ive on ever had my licence checked once
it is stupid not to have one as your tackle cost you 1000's when you start and price it all up
For 7 years I was able to get a fishing license. Now I have stopped, I don't want to, I have lost all interest in fishing because it is private everywhere.
About time good on you guys
Oi where’s your commenting licence?
why would a rod licence fee benefit a private club water,do they do work on private waters??
I can understand public waterways canals and rivers,but a private water in the middle of a remote country location ??
it's a Fu**"' con
I wonder if Plod also checked the car park on the way back for untaxed vehicles?
Wow big crime i feel so safe now
It doesn't happen in Scotland. I've never heard anything as ridiculous in my life as a rod license. Thank god i'm Scottish.
Kip Strange really! Check the river fishing rights in Scotland. Also England pays the rest. Yawn.
It wouldn't be so bad if all the revenue was used and invested back into the conservation of the rivers and waters.
It's mostly wasted on civil servants mostly working from home now.
It should of been handled by a sporting independent body that the government lias with.
i've had a bootlace license for several years now and i don't know what i'd do without it,i'd be back to bare foot again,funny-nice one-laugh,i nearly cried
what a waste of police resources ..
Does one licence cover all rods or do you have to have a licence for each rod you are using? Sounds like a money grab to me. I moved to Australia in 1972 so it's been a long time since I fished my local waters in Surrey. And I would have thought the police have more important things do to. In my day the only official we had to worry about was the bailiff making sure we a day ticket!
One license covers up to two rods. Extra (slightly cheaper) license required to fish a third rod.
@@portcullis5622 I have three rods (a carp, a float and a pole) and I didn’t look at the price and thought it would be more expensive than a 2 rod
@@Mangotherango57 You only need a 3rd license if you are fishing with 3 rods at the same time.
@@portcullis5622 I’d rather have a 3 rod license in case I get a another rod
Up to 3 rods on one
Bloody hell, 39 people checked and 8 of them didn't have a rod licence. 1 idiot tried to buy a licence online but his dodgy wifi let him down. What would happen if they checked 2 venues on the same day? I have been fishing for 40 years on and off and I have never once seen an EA bailiff. They will check another 40 odd anglers in about 10 years time, so the odds of getting caught without a rod licence are about the same as winning the lottery.
Its good plod have resources for this, but when my grandad gets burgled they dont even attend.
too much work for the lazy useless cunts
should always have a rod licence the money off the licences stocks river,ponds,etc
no it does not it goes to government
Mwhahaha no... just no... they don’t do shit for where I live
The EPA are issued with stab proof vests and Asp batons..... WTF has happened to our old Blighty?.
MOOSEDOWNUNDER Is it because they get assaulted by members of the public who fish illegally, like Eastern European peasants, who think our fish is their right to poach?
MarineAqua45 Wow, how things have changed mate. Bloody shame is that. I hope the sods get deported back to their own turd of a country and leave Blighty in peace.
ee imagrants have no problem with taking , eating our fish. and will stab assault any one who trys to stop them. thats why police and EA wear stab vests. i have witness ee netting my local river for fish. they then sell or eat their catch. deports the vile scum suckers.
What is an "Asp baton"? The asp is not a native British fish, but I suppose they could be used as a baton if rigour mortis had set in.
Portcullis Its an American-made baton, which is portable, as it consists of a handle & a retractable metal-pole, which is telescopic, that could extend to 26” in length or more.
@Strange Fruit
Environment Agency fisheries enforcement officers have powers of arrest, carry handcuffs, use a baton and are constables under an act from 1975 (can't quite remember name!). So yes he can caution arrest and strike you with baton. Also we don't have 'rights' in this country,it is called a caution. Miranda rights are in the USA.
A license is required to catch carp?? Lord help us. I can understand licensing trout waterways.
They’re just after my weed. Never gonna find it boys 😂
They found mine lol
Gotta get those little stash- spots sorted John J 👍
Never ever in my experience!!! Used to go to the bank side to smoke weed just to be polite and be away from the general public, would have thrown a whitey when I saw these clowns turn up!!!😎😎
The lisence meme is true hahahaha
Fishing has become a marginalised pastime, thought of as an old persons pursuit.
Water authorities don’t maintain the rivers or encourage fishing, but they certainly know how to charge
for the use of the polluted waters they are supposed to manage ……!
There are ways of dealing with the communities the police officer said cause problems, the government just lack the will.