people giving us all a bad name

[southaussie]

hi everyone just wanted to rant a bit at how disgusted i was the other nite after sharing a pier fishing it was late enough but when a group of 3 or 4 guys left, they left behind all their rubbish half spools of birdsnest line numerous plastic bait bags and mackeral carcases , for **** sake all they had to do is kick tha mackeral into the water their was a bin at the end of the pier.it drunk me off took me 2 mins to clean up and as a bonus found their filleting knife and a full pack of rag under all the rubish lol

[spiral]

How bad?? a free filleting knife and a pack of rag. Still this is a problem for anglings image. Monkstown wall in Cork suffers from this problem but its been better in recent weeks. Still littering is a big problem here in Ireland and its down to nothing but laziness.

[Mick001]

Southaussie
Well done for clearing up the mess and you deserved the bonus for your efforts.
I always amazes/annoys me how much disregard some people have for their enviroment, public places and genreal common sense.
Will these people ever learn - probably not..

[Dave Jolly]

I was fishing the wall in Monkstown today, and nearly killed myself sliding on a piece of seaweed in the middle of the pavement, I walked a hundred metres each way from my peg throwing in lump after lump of seaweed just dumped on the path, all we now need is for a kid to slip and hurt herself and then the fishing will be banned.
I went up to a guy who had a bloody big ball of weed and kelp at his feet, when I asked him to throw it back in, he replied "it's not mine", I said it doesn't matter who's it is, just please throw it in before someone slips on it...
20 minutes later I went up to his peg, picked it all up and threw it in as he hadn't bothered, I'm not for a minute saying it was his and it's very possible that it was there from earlier but as I always say if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem...
or maybe because this angler had travelled up from Kerry he felt that he shouldn't be asked to clean up someone elses patch ??

[Mohawk]

I was fishing the wall in Monkstown today, and nearly killed myself sliding on a piece of seaweed in the middle of the pavement, I walked a hundred metres each way from my peg throwing in lump after lump of seaweed just dumped on the path, all we now need is for a kid to slip and hurt herself and then the fishing will be banned.
I went up to a guy who had a bloody big ball of weed and kelp at his feet, when I asked him to throw it back in, he replied "it's not mine", I said it doesn't matter who's it is, just please throw it in before someone slips on it...
20 minutes later I went up to his peg, picked it all up and threw it in as he hadn't bothered, I'm not for a minute saying it was his and it's very possible that it was there from earlier but as I always say if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem...
or maybe because this angler had travelled up from Kerry he felt that he shouldn't be asked to clean up someone elses patch ??

This is brought up regularly in meetings of the Passage West / Monkstown town council along with complaints from pedestrians of rods even cars obstructing the foot path down there. To quote one of the local councillors "These people bring nothing to the town only problems" This same councillor walks down through the anglers more than once every day don't give him the ammunition he's looking for.

[Stephen8wood]

I think you are preaching to the converted on this site. You can do very little else than clean up after them and try to lead by example.

[Martin Mc Gowan]

how do you know the angler that would not toss in the weed was from co kerry and did
you get his name by any chance DAVE

[bigguy1977]

damn right.... di...y bas....ds

[taz]

good man for cleaning up nice to be rewarded

[hugo]

I think you are preaching to the converted on this site. You can do very little else than clean up after them and try to lead by example.

Well said. Sadly there are a good few people out there stuck at the rebellious adolescent "nobody's gonna tell me what to do" stage, and tackling them head on only makes them dig in.

[immunecfg]

I think most of us have been in that situation, having to pick up some clowns rubbish, ive also been rewarded with left behind tackle

[daminim]

anyone else get told where to go when actually confronting these scumbags? Its unfortunate, as it has happened me once - very nasty reception! blood boils... And its always the environmentally conscious anglers (the majority) who get further grief from walkers, ramblers and locals as a result of some meatheads' behaviour!



Conor

[Dave Jolly]

Martin celticfc, I actually do know the angler and his name.., and he is from Kerry (not a million miles from you) and because I know him (albeit not very well) I would give him the benifit of the doubt that the weed may have been there before him, I just don't understand why someone wouldn't pick it up ??
If there was a dogshit in your garden and your kids wanted to go out and play would you wait for the dog to pick it up, or would you just clean it up yourself ???

[JOHN1]

If there was a dogshit in your garden and your kids wanted to go out and play would you wait for the dog to pick it up, or would you just clean it up yourself ???

a lot of lads would tell the kids to tell mammy there is a job needing attention in the garden