One of the most relaxing and informative things i have ever watched, the poacher is as important as the animals and the countryside itself. The old one for the pot poacher. Just holds a romantic long held memory for some of us.
I come from a Romanichal gypsy line that goes back to 18th century Suffolk. My grandfather was a poacher from long old line of poachers, harkin round Hopton and Blo’ Norton way. He’d take one good jook that rarely barked, set out cross the poove into the wesh, and set his snares. Ghillies and gavvers never got bracelets on him, tho they were plenty tight on ye back them days. He’d take mandi along usually to scrump pobbles and ankas and such (picked out by divvus) for supper and pudding! Cushti times them.
Grew up poaching lochs and rivers all round SW Scotland, some of the best nights of my youth was a lamp connected to a car battery in a rucksack and away up the local burns catching salmon with a gaff or net. Salmon were plentiful back in the 90s though i haven't done it for 20 odd years now. Catch them with a rod and release them now
Love this document! I still poach today and I’m young. my pass family was poachers around ww1 time also decades before that! I work really hard & still struggle to live today. I love the tradition side of it. But also get a treat for myself and animals..
Poaching comes from within your either got it in your blood or you haven't..this fella knows the score..I once got caught at 12.and got done for pursuit of Coney on a Sunday under the 1865 act .back in 1980..three old bill. To arrest a 12year old.only made me worse..
@@noelfleming3567 fair play to you sir.. definitely worth it..think we probably seen the best of it..the countrysides a different place now .. hardly see a rabbit now..good luck.👍
As a boy my grandad took me out at night with the gun and told me to look for tennis rackets in the big hawthorn hedges which he shot and i clmbed up and got them down.Loved it.
Great to watch it was worth it back then, today they dig holes and Bury them must cost around 30 pounds to put a bird over a gun today I remember when they used a lofting pole with a snare on and a torch didn't need a gun how things have changed
I’ve hopped a few hedges in the past 😉 But poaching now? Don’t bother, go to the local shoots get paid £30/ £40 for a days beating more often than not you will get dinner thrown in as well 👍 and walk away at the end of the day with free pheasants as well. Game keepers are high tech now they have camera traps, night vision, thermal imaging equipment just not worth it. Local shoot caught two guys with lurchers, the keeper was watching them with night vision and filming them 😳 the cops turned up, confiscated their car, they spent most of the night in the police station and when they were released had to pay for the train to get home , convicted and fined as it was a open and shut case (every thing on film).
I have watched this loads of times and couldn't agree more with the poacher ,I have some permission but also have a root were I shouldn't but never go near the bird pens they get law . The ones who kill for killing sake I cant abide ,,why kill it an throw it under the hedge,,,eat it ,you can't beat game on your plate I prefer it to asda Tesco even your local butcher ,by dog or by gun it tastes that bit better an your not gonna get more natural than what you catch out in the fields.
@@leecoomber3877 this was before the twitter outrage mobs and pc gone mad. And a lot of the stupid laws ie the hunting ban the pistol ban. EU regulations and before poaching turned into a enterprise for crinimals from the towns and cities. Not many locals and I have had a lot of poachers in my family
@@tiernanwearen9499 I know can tell by its from back in the day just by watching it ,,,as for the poaching and poachers in the family , I have no idea what you are on about squire
One of the most relaxing and informative things i have ever watched, the poacher is as important as the animals and the countryside itself. The old one for the pot poacher. Just holds a romantic long held memory for some of us.
Is there any more good books or film on this matter?
Rule of the poacher is only take what you need to feed your self or to sell or swap, never be wasteful and never kill what can not be used
I come from a Romanichal gypsy line that goes back to 18th century Suffolk. My grandfather was a poacher from long old line of poachers, harkin round Hopton and Blo’ Norton way. He’d take one good jook that rarely barked, set out cross the poove into the wesh, and set his snares.
Ghillies and gavvers never got bracelets on him, tho they were plenty tight on ye back them days. He’d take mandi along usually to scrump pobbles and ankas and such (picked out by divvus) for supper and pudding! Cushti times them.
Proper Romany chat !
Grew up poaching lochs and rivers all round SW Scotland, some of the best nights of my youth was a lamp connected to a car battery in a rucksack and away up the local burns catching salmon with a gaff or net. Salmon were plentiful back in the 90s though i haven't done it for 20 odd years now. Catch them with a rod and release them now
Great days plenty of salmon and trout not d case now glad ur catch and release but its lovely to get a good spring salmon
Your words and sentiments are so true.
Thankyou for this atmospheric documentary.
Love this document! I still poach today and I’m young. my pass family was poachers around ww1 time also decades before that! I work really hard & still struggle to live today. I love the tradition side of it. But also get a treat for myself and animals..
Poaching comes from within your either got it in your blood or you haven't..this fella knows the score..I once got caught at 12.and got done for pursuit of Coney on a Sunday under the 1865 act .back in 1980..three old bill. To arrest a 12year old.only made me worse..
well told. nowadays they will send up a helicopter at a cost of thousands of £. to catch a boy down hear in Dorset. and also Drones...
Know d feeling but poaching is a great buzz mu knees are crippled now from wet and cold but it was worth it
@@bwghall1 I know mate.ive even had armed response unit called out on me.. good hunting 👍
@@noelfleming3567 fair play to you sir.. definitely worth it..think we probably seen the best of it..the countrysides a different place now .. hardly see a rabbit now..good luck.👍
One man wants to own it. Another man wants to eat it. It was put here to eat.
Something for the pot is a tradition in the countryside. And to be clear they are not taking game for profit they are eating what they kill.
Been a keeper and a poacher it's the luv off the English country that make it a very special place and I still eat like a lord!
True words from a gentleman
A catapult was my poaching choice as a boy,,,,,,,,,
Started me shot all my life loved it especially d clays
@@noelfleming3567 💥💥👍🍻
As a boy my grandad took me out at night with the gun and told me to look for tennis rackets in the big hawthorn hedges which he shot and i clmbed up and got them down.Loved it.
What do you mean ‘tennis rackets’
@@izaakfrost4186 🙃
@@izaakfrost4186 think..he's meaning the shape of pheasant
I read the last of the English poachers when I was in jail, great book
@jeflynnenut cheers pal
@Tiernan Stanley-Wearen no I don't , just enjoy the romantic aspects
@Tiernan Stanley-Wearen 9 months in Hmp humber mate
Who's the author
Brilliant film thanks for putting it up
"no matter how much you feed him he will keep looking at the forest" old Russian proverb
Great film thanks.
Been looking for this for ages. Good shout.
Any idea who the vocalist is in the opening song (I think the song is "Bad Squire")?
I met some poachers a time this song the only words
The rest of the evening they spoke in bird song .
True everyone had their own signals
"no matter how much you feed him he will keep looking at the forest"
Old Russian proverb
Great to watch it was worth it back then, today they dig holes and Bury them must cost around 30 pounds to put a bird over a gun today I remember when they used a lofting pole with a snare on and a torch didn't need a gun how things have changed
Don’t get pheasant poachers no more.Last season couldn’t get 50p a brace from the game dealer for shot birds.
Diets have changed my children ate all game growing up now if mention pheasant or rabbit now they tell me I'm some kind of freak I don't eat takeaways
I’ve hopped a few hedges in the past 😉
But poaching now? Don’t bother, go to the local shoots get paid £30/ £40 for a days beating more often than not you will get dinner thrown in as well 👍 and walk away at the end of the day with free pheasants as well. Game keepers are high tech now they have camera traps, night vision, thermal imaging equipment just not worth it. Local shoot caught two guys with lurchers, the keeper was watching them with night vision and filming them 😳 the cops turned up, confiscated their car, they spent most of the night in the police station and when they were released had to pay for the train to get home , convicted and fined as it was a open and shut case (every thing on film).
Ya it's a dangerous task nowadays
And the King stole the land of the people
FACTS
@@johnburns748 It is the biggest fact of them all, royals steal to help get to where they are. They are no better than the Mafia
One man wants to own it. Another wants to eat it. It was put their for man to eat.
In front of life, you can care it or, you can kill it. That’s make you a kind tipe of person or not. Only you, chooses!.
I have watched this loads of times and couldn't agree more with the poacher ,I have some permission but also have a root were I shouldn't but never go near the bird pens they get law .
The ones who kill for killing sake I cant abide ,,why kill it an throw it under the hedge,,,eat it ,you can't beat game on your plate I prefer it to asda Tesco even your local butcher ,by dog or by gun it tastes that bit better an your not gonna get more natural than what you catch out in the fields.
@tiernan wearem late 70s early 80s.
@tiernan wearem by the way it does still exist .😜
@@leecoomber3877 this was before the twitter outrage mobs and pc gone mad. And a lot of the stupid laws ie the hunting ban the pistol ban. EU regulations and before poaching turned into a enterprise for crinimals from the towns and cities. Not many locals and I have had a lot of poachers in my family
@@tiernanwearen9499 I know can tell by its from back in the day just by watching it ,,,as for the poaching and poachers in the family , I have no idea what you are on about squire
@tiernan wearen cant beat it ,when the sun goes down ,
I own the land.👍
40 years ago we done poaching llads of fun.
Maxwells were cattle rustlers
love it, great video sir, what's the opening song called ?
Mike Clarke ua-cam.com/video/Na0SyJScrQo/v-deo.html there you go...
Greg De-bakers , thank you
Mike Clarke it’s a poem by Charles Kingsley called the bad squire
@@stevenjohnson5126 Thanks for that. What a fantastic poem
The royal family should be ashamed
Yes if they knew what the word meant, After Andrew i think shames not a word they know to well.
My mates fatha still gans poaching hes 84! Lol
Sound is bloody terrible.
a sponge and a desert is right
Are this documental justifies to poachers ??.. bcos criminal it’s a criminal. No doubts.
You ran out of pants to sniff🤣
@@johnburns748 is that referring to the line from snatch?
@@johnburns748 aye and stay away from the gavvers and the kani when you're running them
@@johnburns748 aye jukels can be devil's with kani. Do you keep any kani?
@@johnburns748 game kani?