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b0ogaloo · Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 71 Location: Belfast

On Sunday I took the dog and fly rod up to Woodburn dam's

I fished for a few hours at the middle dam, but only saw one fish rise

So with the fishing being a bit slow I used my trusty litter picker and cleaned up the southern shore ,

Two black bin bags full of beer tins, Worm tubs, coke cans etc etc etc

Before

After

Carried it all down to me landrover and deposited them in the skip in work

Why did I do it ?

Woodburm is a lovely location to fish, its 15 minutes up the road from me , I've seen signs up at other DCAL waters threatening to close the waters to anglers if the littering situation continues. I don't want that to happen to Woodburn

Andy

ChrisDickey · Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 213 Location: Ballyclare

well done andy, its a pity all anglers arent as conscentious as you are, seems like DCAL arnt willing to clean up their dams
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harry_lfc · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject:

i would email this to the dcal or phone to let them no that its not anglers that is doing this it really annoys me i was at the top dam with fish rising infront of my then splash a big bloody dog jumped in and spooked the fish then 3 boys came up on very load motorbikes (pitbikes) while i was enjoying my fishing Twisted Evil

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b0ogaloo · Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 71 Location: Belfast

But why should they ?

What the hell is wrong with people, I mean , what goes on in peoples heads?

Do they arrive at the venues and say to themselves ,, " hmm nice spot but not enough beer tins lying about the place "

DCAL shouldn't have to clean the place up, there should be no rubbish left behind by irresponsible f***wits

"Take nothing but memories leave nothing but footprints "

that my motto

Andy

b0ogaloo · Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 71 Location: Belfast

FIREY BROWN · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 582 Location: belfast

Fair play to you Andy

if it were me i`d be posting the bin bags straigt to DCAL or leaving them on their door step with a strong letter,,

why is it that people think its the anglers that leave this litter ?? when in fact its the POACHERS they see and think they are legal anglers,,surely DCAL most know this..

FIREY BROWN
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david reid · Joined: 23 Feb 2008 Posts: 89 Location: bangor

fair play to you andy portavoe is my local dcal water its wild with litter also the foreingers are there every night and now the dcal have pulled out of the resivoir so thats it closed its up to the land owner as to what is going to happen sad realy

fossil-fish · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 668 Location: Carrickfergus

Andy,

Well done, something far better than just complaining. The litter is one of the issues on these places that I find absolutely heart breaking.

Part of the problem is lack of control of these places, no baliffs, no wardens no official checks, presence or policing of any sort. People are free to do as they please. The only answer, in my opinion, is to have these waters run as a business venture with the angler carrying the costs for the management of them. Paying for them would allow control and investment. Just look at the difference with the private run fisheries.
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sydb · Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 167

Thats a real pity about Portavoe David - are they still up every night?

Watty's Rock · Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 324 Location: Co. Antrim

Unfortunately its the same at Killylane which is 5 minutes away from me. The last time I was up, it was the same story, and someone had dumped a sofa and an old cooker in the car park. "anglers" or fly tippers, I don't know. Evil or Very Mad

Makes me wonder about taking the DCAL permit next year. Crying or Very sad