JennyMorgan

Wholly irresponsible, how hard is it to sanitize a wipe clean, plastic dayboat?

When the famously failed Broads national park Bill, and the subsequent Broads Bill, went through Parliament both were touted as 'safety Bills,' rather than the 'unacceptable level of control' Bills that they were. What a missed opportunity! The wearing of lifejackets, like car seat belts, should have been made mandatory back then, at least when mooring up and working on deck. We, the great unwashed, resisted the mandatory wearing of seat belts, now it comes as second nature. So what now, a bylaw perhaps? A few deaths a year has generally failed to persuade people that wearing a lifejacket is a wise precaution, it will take a change in the law, of that I have no doubt.

Mention of the Angling Trust & Fish on various posts, this is they: https://anglingtrust.net/about-us/about-fish-legal/

Are you sure? A denialist within perhaps!

The answer might be within! https://www.helpforhoarders.co.uk/

Best time of the year for Broads angling. Two weeks going nowhere, lovely, enjoy!

For all too many hirers it is all rather baffling. It is all very well telling newcomers to face into the tide when mooring but what is 'tide', what is a mooring? Obvious to all us clever Richards, but I have spoken to hirers and many don't moor, they park their boats. As for tides, errr, what are they? Yarmouth & Reedham could do with a few arrows saying 'park your boat facing this way', the arrows being adjusted by the rangers as the tide changes for example. A few 'lifejackets MUST be worn when mooring/parking' notices wouldn't go amiss either.

I understand Andy's caution in regard to the River Yare but the River Ant is well sheltered.

Admiral Nelson was prone to sea-sickness! Just don't throw up into the wind. All good advice, so far, go out and enjoy your day.

HGB was grabbed by the Blofield family who own the banks and the bottom of the Broad but do not and cannot own the tidal water that runs through the Broad. Presumably they didn't wish to have us hoi-paloi traipsing across their garden pond!

Okay, not from the EDP! Actually from James Knight of the Waveney River Centre. A pretty level head individual and a Broadlander through and through. Another 'interested party'! "If you love the Broads then please sign this petition. Already millions of pounds of public money have been committed to dredging this private Broad without restoring navigation rights. Now the Environment Agency have ignored all the science and agreed to close the Broad to fish as well, despite it being the primary spawning ground for bream. This will create a long-term catastrophe for angling, tourism - and the fish themselves. Sign and share!" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334111

More on this topic: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/petition-to-reverse-norfolk-hoveton-great-broad-fish-barriers-1-6799053

Indeed there are but it's Natural England's long term aims that concern me!

Unless I have misread the information then there are several interested parties, not just the BASG. The EA is certainly an interested party and during my time on the BASG committee I was well aware of their research regarding fish movements on the Bure & Thurne, and the possible implications for Broads Angling. A man called Steve Lane (EA) had/has highly detailed sonar pictures clearly showing vast shoals of bream transiting HGB. As happens with Broads related quangos evidence can be withheld or presented with preferred end results in mind. It strikes me that none of us be can entirely confident in what is presented to us but having seen Steve Lane's sonar results with my own eyes I have to believe what I very clearly saw.

May I respectively suggest that you read and inwardly digest rather than just browse the information from BASG etc..

What worries me, apart from the ecology of the Broads, is the the power of Natural England. They are not just advising on this project, it has become theirs. Despite all the best scientific advice they are ploughing ahead, come hell or high water. It is an abuse of position, plain and simple. Natural England, another quango with an agenda, this is not good.

Suppose it could be delivered by a white, soft top BMW driven by an artificial blond!

In my experience a suitable sized Bruce is excellent for holding in mud. Indeed I also carry a 5kg one that I can lob a fair old distance in the event of my running aground & wishing to kedge my way back into deeper water. A 'fisherman' anchor is next to useless in Broads mud but by heck they hold well when lobbed into the reeds.

You can only try and hold a good man down!

https://basg.online/hoveton-petition-launched-to-save-our-fish-stocks/

Which is why 'skinny dipping' is not to be recommended, those pesky pike like a tasty tit-bit!

I'm not a great fan of eels but a biggun is something special, even I'm impressed when an eel is six pounds plus. Bait? Bacon, never fails. also ideal bait if you want to catch crabs at Yarmouth or at Lake Lothing, Oulton Broad. You know that you have had a good time when you catch crabs at Yarmouth!!

I'd be surprised if Angling Direct didn't sell bait, their other branches do. However, these people definitely do and they are really helpful plus give out loads of good information on where's fishing well: https://bass-online.co.uk/index.html As for bait, bread, sweet corn and maggots are generally successful. Please, advice if you are a novice, don't pick up fish with towels and the like, wet hands is best, indeed the ONLY way! Please, when you catch, and you will, refrain from stuffing them into keepnets, especially in this weather. ,

At a committee meeting of the Broads Society, when the CEO of an unmentionable local authority had been invited to attend, a BS member asked how that authority viewed itself? It was suggested that they were actually public servants, that did not go down well, as you might imagine. Their roll was not one of servitude, that much was made abundantly clear and, to a degree, I do understand that. However, as with all public authorities, we are their customers and I remember making that clear to the CEO although I'm not convinced that he agreed. Accountability really is the issue but that does seem to have been forgotten by all too many of our public & civil servants, and especially unelectable quangos. I suppose the clue is in the word 'authority', not just as in Broads but also in municipal and local.

I'm sure that's true but if my local recycling centre is anything to go by then I'd suggest the next biggest problem is the management that has created a culture of unhelplessness at recycling centres. On top of that our local collection services are distinct from the sorting centres. I can only describe the attitudes of management as being ones of sheer bloody mindedness. A recent example for me concerned three broken bricks that I had dug out of my garden. Sheer audacity on my part, I had put them in my black bin, you'd think that I had had unnatural relations with the Mother Superior thus my bin was left un-emptied. I phoned the relevant council office to be greeted by an aura of aggression and sheer outright pettiness. I was immediately told that I had put builder's rubble in my bin!! Three broken bricks that I had dug out of my garden, I should have taken them to my local recycling centre for disposal! Sod that, thinks me, so I put them in a shopping bag and pushed them deeper into the bin so they weren't visible. It worked, a fortnight later my bin was emptied! I am diligent with my blue recycling bin and equally so with my black non recycling bin but I hadn't bargained on the brain-dead jobs-worths that three bits of brick so upset.