Hi guys

Can anyone confirm my suspicions

Today whilst out 'looking' I came upon some line in a tree......now this line was ,I would estimate, about 25lb breaking strain mono and attached were what looked like sultanas/raisins on a hook.

Now I've seen this used for catching birds plenty of times......but fish!!!!

Its now a bit too common a 'find' to have no substance.......can anyone explain the practice/method........it may help me to catch up with the culprit.

Is anyone else seeing this 'practice' evidence.

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Sounds like a variation of the method used by the boy in "Danny, Champion of the World" by Roald Dahl, to poach Pheasants, not sure it'd work for fish but if the line's in the water they aren't trying for Pheasants.

SharkeyP

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they are trying for ducks,

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Alex you hit the nail on the head,the pheckers were using that method on the local rivers here and were caught red handed by the baliff

Pheasants are suckers for sultanas and raisins. I was taught to poach pheasants by putting sultanas in a hole in the ground and covering the hole with a bit of cornflake packet with a small hole in it. The size of the hole is critical and the idea was that a pheasant put its head in and couldn't get it out again.

Unless these were in the water they are after pheasants in a fairly cruel way.

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Hi' SB. Now there's a coincidence -- it was a Welsh lad who told me about catching pheasants on raisins, 56 years ago, while I was serving with the RAF in Northern Ireland. He preferred to scatter raisins soaked in spirits near their roosts. He reckoned you could pick them off their perches!!
Where I was raised as a lad, Alston Moor in extreme north-east Cumbria, we didn't have pheasants, so I never tried it. The baiting of set-lines with raisins for birds is barbaric. Anybody who does that should be thrashed. Bring back the birch!! Cheers TC

Thanks guys

I did mention that I was aware of the 'bird' trick......having been a keeper for 18yrs........but I never considered the ducks....cheers Alex
That could explain the 20yds of line found each time.

So who's got the method...is it a set line?......daylight/moonlight?......beachcaster?

Somewhere deep down I still suspect it could be for fish..a previous discovery had a swimfeeder attached(full of raisins).

Then again I don't suppose we will have many 'European' members willing to divulge this type of information either.<intimation as its not a known British technique>

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I heard there were Eastern Europeans catching Swans in my area.

Yes, that was also in the Daily Mail- it must be true!

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Yes, Over here in the west we have our own problems. The Clara river is plagued by all kinds of tactics. I witnessed one day in a tackle shop a man (non-national) wanting to buy a landing net, the bigger the better. When questioned why he wanted it, the statement forth coming was unreal. He stated that he wanted to catch the local pigeons around the city that were hurt and help them?? He was told politely where to go.

A more recent ploy is trying to catch the mallards in the canal with pieces of bread on a hook.

And finally use longlines baited with all sorts in all the local rivers. They don't care if they take salmon or trout out of season. Something serious needs to happen.

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