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Dave Gladwell's Fishing Tips

You may like to know that through local By-Laws the Closed Season for Fishing on the River is from 14th March until it opens again on the 16th June. That affects all the Diss & District AC Platforms in the Diss Mere and Ditchingham Lake as well. Weybread Pits Fishing starts on the 1st June closing the end of March. Barford, Elingham and other Commercial Fisheries are open all the year round but some are closed on Mondays.

A word on your welfare

YOUR SAFETY AT THE WATERSIDE - learn to swim as soon as you can

Every angler falls in now and again and is off for an early bath ! It is a tremendous joke for everyone if you can swim but a tragedy to lose a darn good mate if you cannot. Besides this if you cannot swim you may put in jeopardy the lives of your friends who may have to try to get you out.

Avoid steep slippery banks

Messing about running up and down the bank, making too much noise, shouting out, is not proper fishing !

The Eye-shield can save you squinting into the sun. Proper polaroid glasses refract the light and you can actually see right into clear water on a fine day like a magic trick– try it!

Then there are a few things you do not want to catch – one is

WEIL’S DISEASE
Pronounced as “V” to start with, this comes from Rats who visit the venue as scavengers. They have a “pee” here and there and it is this carrier which causes the infection. The latin name is Lepto Spirosis

Symptoms are similar to “flu” with high temperature and muscle pains, runny eyes and yellow jaundiced skin. Whilst rare it is a lethal from kidney or liver damage. Catch this and you will be in hospital instead of fishing so:

take care always !

Cover scratches, cuts and sores with waterproof elastoplasts

Try to have clean hands to eat with if you take food with you or keep the piece you are holding covered. It is best to throw that bit of sandwich held in your fingers away into the water. Keep fingers away from mouth and nose when fishing.
Do not touch or pick up dead fish, animals or birds at the waterside. Leave no rubbish to attract Rats!

Dave Gladwell

www.bungay-suffolk.co.uk