Breede River Conservation

[Tuna fish]

Hiya Chaps


The Lower Breede river conservancy is asking for our support and restraint this year with the up and coming Cob & Grunter season. I have attached their quarterly news letter which make some interesting reading. Lets limit our catch and not catch our limit this year and start a Breede River tag and release thread with only pics of Tagged fish. What do you guys think who fish the Breede regularly ?

Cheers

TF

 

[Johnny Swart]

Ja dis n baie goeie voorstel net jammer die verkragters het alreeds weer met hul rappalas toegeslaan.Saterdag een boot 7 kabeljou.Een boot drie dae in n ry n groot vis uit gehaal.Hy is wettig mag 1 vis per dag vang,hoe verander mens so iemand se denke.

 

[FRITZABU]

Johnny Swart wrote:

Ja dis n baie goeie voorstel net jammer die verkragters het alreeds weer met hul rappalas toegeslaan.Saterdag een boot 7 kabeljou.Een boot drie dae in n ry n groot vis uit gehaal.Hy is wettig mag 1 vis per dag vang,hoe verander mens so iemand se denke.

Easy sink their boat !!

 

[Tuna fish]

Howzit Johnny

The only way i see this form of fishing being outlawed in the rivers is that all concerned fisherman petition to for the ban of all trolling of rivers between September and February as stated in the LBCT news letter.

Really any num nut can troll and haul fish, you might as well go fish in an aquarium or use dynamite because there is no skill set needed ! what freaks me out the most is that most of these buffoons do even keep the riet bulle they catch, they either sell them or just dump them on their mates and if this mind set carries on for much longer catching fish over 10kgs in the river will be a a forgotten memory.

 

[Tuna fish]

Howzit Johnny

The only way i see this form of fishing being outlawed in the rivers is that all concerned fisherman petition to for the ban of all trolling of rivers between September and February as stated in the LBCT news letter.

Really any num nut can troll and haul fish, you might as well go fish in an aquarium or use dynamite because there is no skill set needed ! what freaks me out the most is that most of these buffoons do even keep the riet bulle they catch, they either sell them or just dump them on their mates and if this mind set carries on for much longer catching fish over 10kgs in the river will be a a forgotten memory.

 

[Tuna fish]

Howzit Johnny

The only way i see this form of fishing being outlawed in the rivers is that all concerned fisherman petition to for the ban of all trolling of rivers between September and February as stated in the LBCT news letter.

Really any num nut can troll and haul fish, you might as well go fish in an aquarium or use dynamite because there is no skill set needed ! what freaks me out the most is that most of these buffoons do even keep the riet bulle they catch, they either sell them or just dump them on their mates and if this mind set carries on for much longer catching fish over 10kgs in the river will be a a forgotten memory.

 

[jules33]

Hi

I have read the news letter and its a real shame to hear how people can abuse such a good thing like fishing.

What people dont realize is what they do affects us all .

I also think that their should be clinics on catch and release teach everybody not just the newbies.

Well that my ideas and my contribution is catch and release and try and educate more.

Good luck LBRC

PLEASE PRACTICE CATCH AND RELEASE i want my kids kids to see a dusky too.

 

[Bushbuck]

it is in the tidal zone, cant tey drop some concrete blocks with chains on , 60 gallon drums. will catch all the rapalas and will create structure on the bottom. And there are very few pple i know that are going to go dive them out :ssswim:

 

[Tuna fish]

Now there's an idea !

 

[will101]

On the tagging subject - I heard somewhere that tagging in tidal river systems are not always a good thing for the health of fish because infections set in much easier in these conditions?  

 

[Johnny Swart]

Ek wil n beroep doen op almal wat gekant is teen sleep van enige kunsaas in Breerivier n skrywe rig aan die LBRC en hul misnoe te kenne gee.Met so n aksie kan ons hul vra[dwing] om onmiddelik op te tree.As kuns aas sleep verbied word is die beskerming van groot kabeljou 80% gewen.Ons weet kabekljou kom September Breerivier in en verlaat sisteen weer helfte April.Die rappalla gang weet dit,en is elke naweek op die water,asook sekeres in die week.Soos vis in die seisoen inkom hark hulle alles op.Ek het verlede seisoen gesien hoe drie bote saamwerk en langs mekaar sleep,hul het 11,9,en 9 stokke mee gelyk gesleep,waar kan n rivier sisteem dit hanteer.Vanoggend gehoor hoe ook 3 bote Maandag saamgewerk het om te sleep.Natuurbewaring probeer hul uiterste bes ,maar selfone waarsku die klomp as hul boot op die water is.Vis word oor en weer gelaai,kinders word saam geneem vir die een vis per persoon skiuwergat waarmee hul wegkom.Weer vra ek almal wat Breerivier gebruik of nog wil kom en jy is teen sleep van kunsaas per boot teken beswaar aan,jul kan dit vir my ook stuur en ek sal dit by die lbrc bestuur kry en vir n skriftelike antwoord vra wat hier gepubliseer kan word.HELP BREERIVIER ASB

 

[Tuna fish]

Count me in JS , Ban trolling out right in the river for good.

 

[Flippie]

Oom Johny hulle fok dit kla op ek weet va 19 visse al.
En al wat hulle te se het is dat hulle wettig is met vrou en kinders op boot dan vat hulle 3-5 broei visse vir een familie.

 

[jules33]

BAN TROLLING

 

[KLIPVIS]

What the Guys dont realize is and with the current state of affairs in SA , an outright banning of fishing in the river can also happen , ie a marine protected area.The more bad publicity the more the decision makers might just say lets ban cob fishing for 3 months and then what ?

By all means catch fish take a lekker picture and put it back , keep the small fish for the pan.

 

[will101]

Some contact details for what it's worth:
http://www.breede-river.org/home.php?page=14
Email lbrconservancy@telkomsa.net
Office: 028 537 1296
Location: Main Road Witsand
Witsand
South Africa

 

[twinkeltoe3]

Why ban trolling????

 

No need for that!! Trolling is part of fishing!! I think they should try to make a rule that all fish above 10kg should be released!! if the trolling stops they will find other ways.. believe me i know the locals.. they know all the tricks and have been fishing the river for years now..

If you ban trolling to them it would be like banning using live mullet for bait... not nice.. the breederivers mcm should be much more stricked as this is according to me, the kob source of the western cape.. If we dont do something the river will be closed for fishing soon.. not nice..

just my 2c

 

[San Remo]

I say ban trolling and NAME AND SHAME boats and fisherman who 'play' by the rules but still rape the resources. (Children and wives on the boat to allow one each etc)
What a shame........ And I bet they sell the fish too.
But we need 'laws' to enforce this I'm afraid.
So Sad !!!

 

[Johnny Swart]

Twinkletoe 3 die probleem met trolling is nie net die hoeveelheid kunsaas wat per boot gesleep word nie.Probleem is op hierdie is dit die broeivis wat geteiken word,met sleep van kunsaas word hierdie vis geteiken,meeste oor 10kg.Kabeljou word gefoul hook met die 3 angels of kunsaas sit ingesluk deur vis,hoe release jy n vis van 30kg wat n kunsaas gesluk het,baie van die kunsaas vang die vis aan die kop[oe] of in die lyf,as jy dan release is daar n gat wat gaan parrasiete inkry en vis vrek.Met aas soos live bait,sardyn,chokka,seekat word baie minder vis gevang.Die slagters gaan nie elke naweek 200 tot300km ry om met aas miskien een vis te vang nie.Met kunsaas as hul 7 visse op n naweek vang , kom hulle.Vra jou wat maak jy met 7 visse bo18kg [ligste was 18kg],en volgende naweek kom jy weer en vat maar weer weg wat jy vang.Watter boer slag sy aanteel ooie en oor n jaar het hy geen lammers om te verkoop nie,dis wat nou gebeur,roei die broeivis uit en wanneer Breerivier gesluit word vir kabeljou hengel dan huil almal.

 

[will101]

Having gone through the LBRC website and read the newsletter, it is clear that they have been doing quite a lot of work in this regard already for which the LBRC should get huge credit. But knowing DEAT and all other gov depts, this is where the problem lies. The difficulty is getting laws passed and without laws, no-one has any leg to stand on. It will be left until a total ban is passed and then we all loose out, just like the cray quotas and the perlies. The poachers cause all the k a k and the public gets punished - that's how it works.