Tackle shops to stock livebaits

spot on that beej, its been ok how it is .

who will moniter these " bought lives " on the bank? the theory is good but as for cost, transporting and monitering i think its a joke.

America has been doing this for years so it was only a matter of time before our tackle shops went down the same route, in a way its a good idea if like me time is against you but the shops will sell them for a fortune, just look at the price of a pack of joeys in tackle shops and they dont need checking buy a vet or need feeding, you could pay well over 3lb for a live fish.

blower wrote:who will moniter these " bought lives " on the bank? the theory is good but as for cost, transporting and monitering i think its a joke.

ive not seen a bailif checking licences since i was about 12 so whats the chance of having someone come and check my bait, if they do it will majorly take the biscuit and they would need to sort their priorities out

Woodchucker wrote:America has been doing this for years so it was only a matter of time before our tackle shops went down the same route, in a way its a good idea if like me time is against you but the shops will sell them for a fortune, just look at the price of a pack of joeys in tackle shops and they dont need checking buy a vet or need feeding, you could pay well over 3lb for a live fish.

Typical northerner...

sardarel wrote:

Woodchucker wrote:America has been doing this for years so it was only a matter of time before our tackle shops went down the same route, in a way its a good idea if like me time is against you but the shops will sell them for a fortune, just look at the price of a pack of joeys in tackle shops and they dont need checking buy a vet or need feeding, you could pay well over 3lb for a live fish.

Typical northerner...

yeah he meant 3lb of ones and twos

you doing them mail order Gaz

hell yeah if you dont mindpaying 375.00 per pristine fresh truck delivered roach to your door

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Consider the current DEFRA stance on feeding live food to captive animals:
Although the Protection of Animals Acts 1911 to 1964 do not prohibit the feeding of animals with live prey, the live feeding of vertebrate prey should be avoided save in exceptional circumstances, and then only under veterinary advice. Where any live prey must be used, its welfare must be considered as well as any potential injury which might be caused to the predator.

I will aslo add during the years Ive spent abroad Ive see enough tackle shop live baits to be worried.They are often in very poor condition, As stated what’s to stop them topping up with free fish.

I can see the animal rights lot getting into this one I don’t think it’s any good for fishing at all just another excuse to say were blood sucking murderess.

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Consider the current DEFRA stance on feeding live food to captive animals:
Although the Protection of Animals Acts 1911 to 1964 do not prohibit the feeding of animals with live prey, the live feeding of vertebrate prey should be avoided save in exceptional circumstances, and then only under veterinary advice. Where any live prey must be used, its welfare must be considered as well as any potential injury which might be caused to the predator.

I will aslo add during the years Ive spent abroad Ive see enough tackle shop live baits to be worried.They are often in very poor condition, As stated what’s to stop them topping up with free fish.

I can see the animal rights lot getting into this one I don’t think it’s any good for fishing at all just another excuse to say were blood sucking murderess.

One lovely dead bait Maaaaaaaaaaaha



no must say the animal right lot will love this one

I agree that this has it's pro's and cons, you can never please everyone. I think the health of a venue and it's fish stocks should be put first though and as Beej say's using fish from the same venue is an ideal solution but in most circumstances rarely done as you can never guarantee you are going to catch at all and if you want to target pike or any predatory fish you don't want to spend all day trying to catch bait. This sounds like an ideal solution if it's done properly but look in tropical fish shops, some are terrible and we all know tackle shops where even maggots look like crap and smell like it so I suppose we'll just have to see how it will be done and what it will cost

Years ago.(here I go again, I'm begining to sound like uncle albert) We used to fish a large pit in the Lee Valley, (Stotty probably knows it) for Pike. It was very very difficult if not impossible to catch livebaits from the pit. So we would buy them from a lock keeper who just happened to bailiff the pit. In the garden of his lock keepers house he had a pond, and he'd go to a stretch of river not far away, and catch lots of Roach and Dace. He'd transport them back to the pond by the bucket load. Almost everyone who Pike fished there would by a few. But It must be remebered this was in the 60's and 70's and we were much less enlightened than we are today. And I would say the moving of livebaits was quite common. So we can see that we have taken great strides forward with the care of both fish and fisheries since those far away days.

Cheers Ken

longshot wrote:Years ago.(here I go again, I'm begining to sound like uncle albert) We used to fish a large pit in the Lee Valley, (Stotty probably knows it) for Pike. It was very very difficult if not impossible to catch livebaits from the pit. So we would buy them from a lock keeper who just happened to bailiff the pit. In the garden of his lock keepers house he had a pond, and he'd go to a stretch of river not far away, and catch lots of Roach and Dace. He'd transport them back to the pond by the bucket load. Almost everyone who Pike fished there would by a few. But It must be remebered this was in the 60's and 70's and we were much less enlightened than we are today. And I would say the moving of livebaits was quite common. So we can see that we have taken great strides forward with the care of both fish and fisheries since those far away days.

Cheers Ken

The North Met Pit or Nazeing Meads i think there is over 30 gravel pits in lee valley