Caught Poaching Stories

[jok 3,057]

Are you referring to round disks of musical origin ?

[jok 3,057]

I'll give you a story of not being caught if you like my narrative. SEE I can even spell now. Jok.

[timmy k 571]

Me and bosun were out lamping one night, down southport way I think, anyway on the way back home we went the scenic route lamping the fields as we went.

Next thing theirs the blues and twos flashing away, so we pulled over both got out the car and out step one scrawny little male copper all alone, we had a chat asking where we'd been and names and all that, and asks us have we any weapons, which we didn't, so he frisks us anyway.

Now to say that his frisking technique was a little friendly would be an understatement!

He let us go on our way, we both got in the looked at each other and I said "did he touch your dick"

Now I can't remember the exact reply but I was something along the lines of "thank f**k for that I thought it was just me".( I'm sure bosun will be along shortly to tell his exact reply)but we went home giggling to our selves like little school girls, we could of had a threesome with that copper!

[brambles 3,063]

Aye Kieran I've seen it done i actually found a couple earlier on this year on a wee river close to me and I presumed rightly or wrongly that's what they were being used for

[Greyman 25,599]

I have never had permission anywere in my life, unless I was with the guns, in my younger days it was easy to give a false name and address and as long as you had all the persons details and were of a simular age there was no way of catching you out, now I,m old I just play the lost and confused sorry guv card thought I was on the footpath, in 36 years of walking dogs I have been shot, had a few brawls and had several motors smashed up, but never ever been in court for poaching,

[Tiercel 6,986]

Bit of a long one this.

 

Not a rabbiting related tale but fishing.

 

In the early 90's I was fishing for bass for a living, anyway my engine blew on the boat and I did not have enough money to fix it, so was reduced to working for other people on their boats and just taking a third of the catch after expenses. Any how this one night another fisherman called at the house and told me there were a lot of bass up in the banned area where we could not fish. To be honest I would have not gone normally, but the thought of having enough money to get the engine fixed was just too tempting.

 

So he picked me up and we slipped on the dropping tide and motored away from the area we were to fish until the tide dropped enough so that we would be hidden behind the sandbanks when we entered the ban area. We entered the main river about an hour before bottom water and motored up the river about 2 miles before we shot off the nets. We then motored back down to the mouth of the river out of the ban area and waited for the nets to come to us. The nets duly arrived just before low water and we could see there were fish in the nets and as they were still stretched out we left them till the tide started flooding.

 

As the flood tide started we started pulling the nets and there were a lot of fish in the nets, but they were mullet not bass, we had 600 yards of net out and it took a while to get the fish out of the nets and by that time we had floated up the main river back in to the ban area. As we were taking the mullet out of the net, there was the odd bass and a couple of spots (sewin) the first one I came across I threw back as I normally did. He went off his head saying he could have had a fiver for that fish. The upshot was he kept the last two sewin that were in the net. By this time the net was in and we were ready to go back to the slip. I said to go back down the river out of the banned area and approach the slip from there, he was having none of it “It's my boat and I will do what I like.” So we crossed from the main river into a side stream, which by now had enough water to travel through. We motored up to the slip and he dropped me off to go and get the car and trailer, he took the boat off the slip and hid the sewin in some Guy Cotton waterproof smock top.

 

Once I had the trailer in the water, he drove the boat up on it and while I was tying the boat down he transferred the sewin in to the back of the car the car was an old Austin Maxi with the back seats taken out and was used like a van. As were were going up the slip I told him there was a strange disco on the top of the slip that I did not know he said “it's probably shaggers” as it is a quiet spot. We got to the top of the slip and had turned the bend and were on the flat when a bailiff jumped out in front of the car and shone a light in the windscreen and shouted and waved his arms to stop. It was then the sh!t really hit the fan, as he drove straight at him accelerating as he did so. The bailiff jumped out of the way just in the nick of time, we were motoring by now and the trailer and boat was bouncing all over the place, I was shouting at him to stop as there was no way we were going to out run a discovery towing a boat behind us. It was then he reminded me that we had the sewin in the back of the car, I reached back and grabbed the Guy Cottons with the sewin in and as we rounded the corner by the harbour I threw them into the harbour. When we got to the end of the harbour there was another car full of bailiffs blocking the road so we had to stop.

 

The bailiffs were all over the car, boat and trailer like a rash, it did not take them long to find the sewin scales in the net. But as we did not have any sewin in our possession that did not mean a thing. They confiscated the net on the spot ' for further examination' and we were cautioned.

 

Six months later it comes to court and of course the bailiffs lied through their teeth, the upshot of was, we got a fine of £500 for placing a net and £500 for using a net each.

 

I asked for time to pay and was told I had to pay £20 per week. The other chap on the advice of his solicitor appealed. After paying the £20 a week for a month I applied to the court to see if I could have the payments reduced, by the time I had a hearing I had paid off £160 of the £1000 fine. When I got into the court room I explained that money was tight and I did not want to fall behind, but my kids were going without so that I could pay the fine. The bench then asked what the fine was for and the clerk of the court told them a fishing offence. They started chatting amongst each other and nodding heads as they do and the chairman of the bench looked at me and said we think £1000 is too much of a penalty for a fishing offence and we take note that you have paid your fine on time each week. Consider it paid off.

 

The other chap who appealed got stung a further £500, £250 on each account. Serves the twats right as he also tucked me up for the money he had for the mullet, he told me they went off before he could sell them as no one wanted them, when in fact he drove them to Cardiff and had a dam good price for them I found out later.

 

TC

[low plains drifter 9,579]

Me and bosun were out lamping one night, down southport way I think, anyway on the way back home we went the scenic route lamping the fields as we went.

Next thing theirs the blues and twos flashing away, so we pulled over both got out the car and out step one scrawny little male copper all alone, we had a chat asking where we'd been and names and all that, and asks us have we any weapons, which we didn't, so he frisks us anyway.

Now to say that his frisking technique was a little friendly would be an understatement!

He let us go on our way, we both got in the looked at each other and I said "did he touch your dick"

Now I can't remember the exact reply but I was something along the lines of "thank f**k for that I thought it was just me".( I'm sure bosun will be along shortly to tell his exact reply)but we went home giggling to our selves like little school girls, we could of had a threesome with that copper!

Should have spit roasted the little mincer til midnight

[Daniel cain 43,087]

Enjoyed that...have a .atb dc

[Kieran Ritchie 340]

Aye Kieran I've seen it done i actually found a couple earlier on this year on a wee river close to me and I presumed rightly or wrongly that's what they were being used for

does it work different form normal lamping

[timmy k 571]

 

Me and bosun were out lamping one night, down southport way I think, anyway on the way back home we went the scenic route lamping the fields as we went.

Next thing theirs the blues and twos flashing away, so we pulled over both got out the car and out step one scrawny little male copper all alone, we had a chat asking where we'd been and names and all that, and asks us have we any weapons, which we didn't, so he frisks us anyway.

Now to say that his frisking technique was a little friendly would be an understatement!

He let us go on our way, we both got in the looked at each other and I said "did he touch your dick"

Now I can't remember the exact reply but I was something along the lines of "thank f**k for that I thought it was just me".( I'm sure bosun will be along shortly to tell his exact reply)but we went home giggling to our selves like little school girls, we could of had a threesome with that copper!

Should have spit roasted the little mincer til midnight

 

Bosun wanted to, but he wasn't butch enough for my taste

[General lee 979]

I remember being about 8 or 9 and walking with my cousin who would have been around 17 at the time through some country lanes about a mile from home we come to the end of where we always walked this was a fence with a bramble hedge so today we decide to venture further when we get through there is a small woods and what seemed like miles of open fields we start walking and we spot a hare he tells me to stay low he's going to run it so he slips the dog a saluki greyhound who puts in a few bends and misses as the dogs walking back we spot another one so we run that one the dog again misses as you can probably tell the dog wasn't a lot of good but he was all we had we are now about ten minutes in and about 400 yards into these fields as we are waiting for the dog to get his tongue in we realise we can see at least another five hares well we can't believe our luck thinking how has no one found this spot when we here a engine we look up to see 2 gamekeepers in a land rover heading our way they pull up start shouting usuall story going to shoot the dog we shouldn't be there I'm scared to death and my cousin is trying to talk his way out of it well it turns out we were on a Arab mans estate and he was having hares put down to shoot we were escorted off but now the estate has been sold and there are still some of these hares about but no gamekeeper now

[Qbgrey 3,990]

as a kid up to about 15yrs old i used to terrorise the local syndicate pheasant shoot,shooting roosting pheasant with a 410,and even a 12 g sometimes,wandering everywere.i even used to stand in my dads paddock on thier sat shoots and shoot their missed birds over our ground,it used to infuriate them.anyway one day thiers a knock at our door and it was sir alfred alexander a nieghbour a few houses up the lane." would you be my guest on sat youngman,pheasant shooting" well the ole boys thought we must stop him somehow,anyway i went along and...............now im the gamekeeper on that shoot

[lurcherman 887 12,723]

Same happened to me and brother used terrorise local phesant farm then started doing bit beating and squirell drays ect until me dad stopped us becasue he thought the keeper was a nonse lol

[jok 3,057]

Kieren Ritchie. It works well. One thing to remember (among many) when the fish are running,generally the cock follows the hen, therefore you take the front fish first and then have a dram or two waiting for the cock fish to come over the plate. If you get lucky get the hell away from there and collect your booty the following day, They can't get you for possession if you don't have the tools in your motor. 'I found them lying there' is as good as you give and they will defo confiscate but at least your not going in front of the beak. Jok.

[Gilbey 1,410]

Never heard of plates before, surely it was a dead give away?