Broadland Pike Intro

Broadland Pike - Intro & Chapter 1 - History
In this introduction and first chapter of Broadland Pike we look at how Pike has become a species in peril. We also delve into the history of fishing on the Norfolk Broads and its importance as an ecological site.
With contributions from Stephen Harper (Pike historian/author), Graham Booth (Pike historian), Martyn Page (author/tackle dealer), Steve Lane (Fisheries Technical Specialist, Environment Agency) & Chris Bielby (Broads Water Framework Specialist, Natural England).
Broadland Pike is a film about the conservation and preservation of Pike as a species on the beautiful Norfolk Broads.
The film is also out on DVD, it is attached (free of charge!) to a fishing themed magazine called Broads Angle. It has been produced by the Broads Angling Strategy Group (BASG) and the Pike Anglers Club of Great Britain (PAC) with support coming from the Environment Agency.
Look out for your free copy of the magazine in your local fishing tackle shop or on boats in and around the Broads.
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[@RSR423]

You can now kiss goodbye to all specimen size, even average size, fish because the biggest threat to fish today is not otters, cormorants, mink etc, or even pollution, but the fact that the country is now flooded with Eastern Europeans, all of which fish for one reason only, and that is to take away the catch and eat it. All the local waters around my area have been decimated by this type of poaching by foreigners. Even the local canal system is regularly fished with such methods that have become common place, and are notoriously the method of these people, such as house bricks with 40lb line and a large baited hook, left over night in the water with the brick hidden in shrubs at the bank side, or heavy breaking strain line just tied directly to fence posts, tree trunks, branches or stakes, with the other end baited and left in the water. I've found them with fish on, ducks and other waterfowl caught on the hooks, and some already dead. The fishery knows its happening, but most are to scared of the race card excuse, and other such discrimination tactics being used against them, that they do nothing. Another massively overlooked reason, that videos like this don't grasp, when you hear anglers, like myself, who are in their late fifties or in their sixties, talking of how good it used to be, and how its not the same today, as in numbers of fish etc, is the fact that industrial pollution is involved in waterways so much more today, than it was in the times we remember as the good old days of fishing. Forget otters, because otters were in their tens of thousands in the "good old days" so the otter was never the problem. Its pollution and loss of natural waterways, but pollution from industrial spills and run offs more than anything else. It will never be like it used to be, no matter how many conservation groups get together. Too much money changes hands at high levels, and you just can't beat that kind of corruption.

[@rapsy1699]

Never a truer word said. Same is happening in the fens. Forget the notion that the fens is a pike fishing mecca now. The eastern Europeans have truly screwed the place. Worst is that the environment agency know about it and do next to nothing.

[@pinkypete6079]

good old nick peat at 1.15 that man has caught some truly epic fish

[@stuntmansynyster]

I'm not ashamed to admit it..............nick peat is my idol!! :-)

[@flashgibbons]

Ireland has WAY more history will u stop..!! 😂