Geoff's Rants

One of the things that does get my goat is rubbish left behind by so called anglers. Yesterday I did one of my regular drives around just to check what is happening in and around my area. I was accompanied by two visitors who are staying with me for a few days. Almost everywhere we went was littered with crap. Empty Sensas and Van den Eynde bags, hook packets, discarded fishing tackle including line, some of it with hooks and shot attached, coke and beer tins plus discarded fag packets and food cartons. The dirty pigs that leave this stuff behind are not only littering our fabulous countryside with s--t but are risking local farmers shutting up shop to all and sundry. Indeed one place where we often fished is now closed to anglers. I spoke to the farmer about it, who is a reasonable guy. He told me that one of his prize cows had eaten a plastic bait bag which it couldn't digest. The animal died and the owner quite rightly so was seriously p-----d off. Wouldn't we all be under the circumstances. I ask the question, why leave an empty container on the bank when you carried it there full. My message to all that do. Stop bloody well annoying me and more to the point the folk who own the land who are kind enough to let you go there. All that should be left behind is flattened grass. 3rd of August 2009.