fished the lower derwent last night (sat) on dcac waters, with a mink hunt in full flow.

Hunting anything alive with more than 2 dogs is illegal as far as I can make out.Mink as vermin may be different.

Jim

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10 men with 10 hounds?

Mink hunting on rivers is legal in the uk. As many hounds and hunters as you want.

Scotland as well..I'm not sure.

Jim

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Are you a Scottish Nationalist? Illegal there after Scotland's Protection of Mammals Act 2002.

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Save the softmouth trout

I was fishing on the Suir in Tipperary a few weeks ago and there was a mink hunt going on with I'd say 15-20 hounds. 1 mink spotted - none caught. The river was thick with suspended silt for hundreds of yards downstream.

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"There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." Paul O'Neil

Sorry gentlemen, I didn't think when I wrote uk. In England, which is all I know about, Mink hunting IS legal.

Mink hunting was spawned from Otter hunting when the Otter became protected in England and Wales 1978.

Basically the Mink filled a slot for the then Otterhounds.

I should think fox hunting is as good as legal again now.

Do not think that hunting any animal with dogs is in any way sporting.
Vermin or otherwise. There are plenty of better methods of control but then it is not all about, control, is it.
Me I would put the hunters down the hole & send the dogs in. I am with the fox every time.
Sorry guys but that is the way I feel about the subject.
Tight Lines

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