15th March to 15th June close season (UK)

People must realise that they should not be fishing in the Rivers for coarse fish during the close season for coarse fish this is 15th March to 15th June inclusive. If you do you will face prosecution."

It is important to enforce the coarse fish closed season as fish need to be allowed to spawn successfully without being targeted by anglers. Fish become vulnerable to handling damage at spawning time and can fall victim to disease if handled."



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It amazes me the amount of people that actually think you can fish on the 15th, i even caught people fishing on my local drain. I spoke to a few anglers about the close season, and most thought you could still fish on the 15th, this included guys in their 60's. EA should perhaps make this a bit more clearer.

i hate to dissagree with you but as long as it is useing worm and ledger its quite legal no float or maggot but it has allway been told to me that way thirty odd years :|

Worm and ledger tactics and fly fishing are allowed all year apart from a couple of months for the migratory trout if you catch a course fish by accident you have to hold the line and use a disgorger and not touch it and return asap!
i fished the dane today and caught 3 brown trout

thing to worry about isn't the odd brit who thinks he,s being clever its the east europeans who don't care about licences just eatting our fish and the EA being to scered to do any thing i court three at it last year phoned the EA hot line and was toldthat as there was more than one it was a danger to there men and wouldn't come i took pictures and every thing this happend on 3 nights out of 4 i the end it fell to me and a big bank stick to disscorige them.So i'm not saying that the smart ar5e who starts a day early is any better but the is bigger thing to be concernd with.

ciderman wrote:thing to worry about isn't the odd brit who thinks he,s being clever its the east europeans who don't care about licences just eatting our fish and the EA being to scered to do any thing i court three at it last year phoned the EA hot line and was toldthat as there was more than one it was a danger to there men and wouldn't come i took pictures and every thing this happend on 3 nights out of 4 i the end it fell to me and a big bank stick to disscorige them.So i'm not saying that the smart ar5e who starts a day early is any better but the is bigger thing to be concernd with.

Dont start that one again