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Come on wake up. EA =Environment Agency IFCA =Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authority Didn't need explaining to the lads on WSF, You boy's need educating.

The EA lost it's jurisdiction over coastal enforcement several years ago when this was taken over by the IFCA's and you are right, since then coastal enforcement has been ineffective principally because the IFCA's do not carry out coastal enforcement patrols.

Ok can do, i retired about 5 years ago and things have changed since ,some things operational i won't be able to talk about but i can give an overview.

True and true

I like Bass cooked the Mediterranean way, the recipe is a bit lengthy but here goes; heat some olive oil in a pan,add a squirt of tomato paste,sundried tomato paste,garlic paste,chile paste and a pinch of dried mixed herbs,fry gently for a couple of minutes. add skinned fillets of bass,or any other white fish and fry gently for a couple of minutes each side. add a tin of tomatoes,stir in, then add a tin of butter beans or cannelini beans,make sure you rinse the beans off in cold water to remove the starch before adding them. add salt then cover the pan and simmer gently on the lowest possible heat for about an hour to soften the beans.

No i don't get easily offended,ex Police Officer and Fisheries Officer so i have a pretty thick skin.Came across this site when i saw a reference to it on WSF.

Am based on the South coast but get up to the North coast when the Bass are there.

Found this forum yesterday and really like it, hopefully it will prove to be a very popular one. I fish for Salmon, seatrout, trout, Bass and other sea fish and have been lucky enough to fish all over GB and Ireland ,Canada the USA,Chile and Argentina. I have my own boat an Explorer Elite and get out on it as often as the weather permits here in Cornwall.I spent over 25 years of my working life as a Fisheries Enforcement Officer with the NRA and then the EA working on the Salmon rivers of Devon and Cornwall and as a boat skipper patrolling the coast.I retired at 54 taking VERS and since then have been lucky enough to guide and host flyfishing trips to the USA and Patagonia which will hopefully kick off again once this Covid has passed.

Will certainly try to post some pics,but have to admit to being a bit of a technophobe and incidentally,i think Sid explained things very well !

Yes i'm a fly fisherman,Salmon,Seatrout and Trout,although the Salmon and Seatrout are not around like they used to be. Pre- Covid i was lucky enough to guide and host fly fishing trips to Patagonia and the States for a few years but the future for that is pretty uncertain at the moment. Also fly fish for Bass and Pollock from my boat and Pollock on the fly certainly put a bend in the rod. As for methods etc,Sidfish has that pretty well covered.