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7 Jan 2 19:19:45
bob jones
bobjones@hotmail.com

fag

19 Dec 1 23:36:34
Tom Kenefick
tkenefick@mn.rr.com

What a wast of fish

19 Dec 1 10:27:47

 Shame to this people who don't know anything about fishing !!!

I'm a french pike angler, and I'll come fishing on loughs Corrib and Mask in march 2002. I hope it will be possible to catch some beautifull pike on this to big lakes well know in the wolrd.

Please let the ecological system working himself.
Name = didier simon
Address = 2, rue du moulin
Postcode = 57560
Town = Niderhoff        
Country = France
 didiersimon1@aol.fr

30 Nov 1 17:50:37
JIM ALLISON
JIMALLISON57@AOL.COM

I am a Belfast based pike angler who fishes for pike as humanely as I can having invested in the proper equipment to ensure the safe capture and return of the fish I catch. Like many other like minded pike anglers I have had to endure watching the destruction of pike on the Erne system and the Bann by careless anglers and so called tourists who kill their catch and also commercial netting and pollution kills. Now I discover that those in fish management are ignoring informed advice and slaughtering the already depleted stocks of the western lakes.Will our fisheries management personnel ever leave the dark ages and realise their responsiblity to preserve pike and take all viable steps to reverse their decline.
As I'm attempting to protect the Irish pike by corresponding with government departments and concerned anglers I would be grateful for advice or helpful correspondence.
Thank You,
Jim Allison  

 20 Aug 1 22:29:00
Martijn Jansen
  M.vd.Eerden@vt4.net

Stop het moorden. Pike-culling is bullshit.
Wat voor meerwaarde heeft forel tegenover snoek?
Als op deze manier de Ierse/Engelse tradities in stand gehouden moeten worden dan wordt het toch eens tijd dat ze aan de andere kant van het kanaal hun verstand gaan gebruiken.

22 Jul 1 22:23:26
Phil Taylor
  P.Tylor@aol.com

opinion = Surely things like this cannot go on in the year 2001.Are the W.R.F.B. living in the 18th century.
This cruel practice must be stopped.

27 Jun 1 09:14:15
Niall OBrolchain
niallob@esatclear.ie

Great Site! I am the Green Party election candidate for Galway West and your campaign has my full support.
I will add a link to your site from my own.
Regards,
Niall OBrolchain.

14 Jun 1 20:38:23
Fergus Mannion
fpmannion@oceanfree.net

The only proper form of culling on pike is done by pike themselves.The elimination of large pike leads to the proliveration of smaller ones.All types of fish have lived in harmony since time began why does man have to interfer with nature.

7 May 1 20:44:43
Benny o Dea
bcodea@hotmail.com

I agree with you totally on the gill netting issue and I would like to keep up with the new's on same.

6 May 1 14:25:53
ALAN FERGUSON
BIGAL5@FISH33.FREESERVE.CO.UK

11 HIGHFIELD,ALTRINCHAM,CHESHIRE,WA15 7PH

5 May 1 11:57:46
lode
m.lagrange@skynet.be

dat project dient gestopt te worden !!!!!!!!!!!!

11 Apr 1 00:14:19
Brendan Taaffe IPS.
brendan.taaffe@ipaper.com

The WRFB need to look at introducing a bag limit/catch&release program for trout anglers in order to help sustain trout numbers. Poorer water quality is not helping the situation either. Removing the specimen pike from the loughs serve only to encourage an explosion of jack pike. The only effective method of controlling jacks is to leave the larger pike alone to predate on them. Nature looked after its own before man (WRFB) decided to interfere.

5 Mar 1 19:56:52
Rene Martens
r_martens@chello.nl

I've been fishing for pike last week on the corrib and on some smaller lakes near the corrib.
In a week fishing me and a friend of mine caught
only 1 pike!
so stop the gillnetting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pike is a beautiful fish why kill them??????????????????

27 Feb 1 19:21:47
Brian Joyce
bjoyce@indigo.ie

Bad news.....The Gillnets are back on Corrib and Mask (w/e 24 Feb)Some of the nets have been unchecked for four days. Dead pike and trout can be seen in the nets with seagulls attacking their carcasses. Many nets are set across river mouths creating a hazard for trout returning from spawning. The fisheries board say that the pike are being tagged and transferred or released. Apparently no European money is being used only Irish tax payers money.

29 Jan 1 22:41:14
michael robert marsh.
mike@underwood97.fsnet.co.uk

I HOPE TO VISIT YOUR BEAUTYFULLLAKES THIS YEAR.

16 Dec 0 22:34:38
Michiel Spek(Rozemijer fan)
mspek843@freeler.nl

I think you are doing a good job. in Jreland they just don't know how important pikes are for a healthy total number of fish. (But you do know that...)
Good luck,
Michiel Spek (The Netherlands)

12 Dec 0 21:07:10
jason kearney
MICHAELTULLY@NTLWORLD.IE

I love pike fishing ,And have fished since i was
 6 years old. So i think whot yous are doning is
 great ,Its about time we gave the fish the
 respect it deserves . 13 KILTALOWN CLOSE
                          JOBSTOWN
                          TALLAGHT
                           D-24

17 Nov 0 21:12:51
ALASTAIR RAWLINGS
alastairrawlings@iolfree.ie

MAYBE ONE DAY THE WRFB WILL LEARN THAT A FISHERY NEEDS A NATURAL BALANCE, WHICH AS WE KNOW, CAN NOT BE ESTABLSHED WITHOUT PREDATORS SUCH AS THE PIKE. BUT WHEN WILL THEY LEARN,

13 Nov 0 16:19:51
Sarah Conaghan
jconaghan@eircon.net

Fantastic site.

10 Nov 0 12:24:05
b brennan
thomb1998@eircom.net

mind them lakes!!!!!

8 Aug 0 13:42:21
Peter Hoogeveen
peter@mediamedia.nl

What a waste of pike & money. Disgusting

22 Jun 0 00:45:29
John Rooney
esox@eircom.net

Glad to see that the nets are put to bed for the time being.Over the last few months I have been trying to pursude the ifpac to issue a clear statment re thier stance over the kill nets.As you are awear I have had some heated heads to heads with one of the FEDS lackies.While all I wanted was a committment from the ifpac that they would no longer sit on the fence on this issue,and support the cry that was ringing all over this country at the slaughter of our pike.Not only did I fail at getting a statment from the ifpac,but I got threathened with legal action if I carried on with my actions.This is the type of people we are dealing with,they are prepared to see me in courth,rather than admit their guilt.But thank god a few of the ifpac members had the botttle to approach me at the recent Angling Expo and say how sorry they were to hear of the dirty deed that the head honchs with in the ifpac pulled.I will now drop this subject, as I have exposed the ifpac for what they really are.The IPS need your support to help over turn this crule chapter in Irish Piking,dont delay,join today.

13 Jun 0 08:36:02
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

Just a short note to inform you all of the huge success that that the Irish Pike Society achived at the recent Angling Expo.We were at the centre of the Expo and we even recorded more hits than any other stand.I was manning the stand all day Saturday and was amazed at the support that the IPS were getting from all sections of our sport.Also a big thanks to the IFPAC members that vented there disgust at the recent behavour of there committe.

11 May 0 22:59:05
James Stewart
James@Cameron8888.fsnet.co.uk

Would I be right in thinking that those who don't give a damm about the fate of these waters and those who inflict such destruction don't try and defend their indifference or the actions in which they put so much faith and conviction.
They certainly don't reply to letter of protest or trouble themselves unduely with valid criticism
The fisheries boards concerned have a brass neck and those who employ them should be asked to go check on what is going on , are you all crazy have you no wit at all ?

11 May 0 16:32:37
J.Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

At last the IFPAC were exposed for what they really are,turn coats that would sell there mother in order to clime the ladder of success.A crowd of yellow belly cowards that seek comford from there chairman when the heat is turned on.We the concerned anglers, have achived what we set out to do,and that was to show the world just how low the IFPAC would stoop in order to keep there chairman on the ERFB.DEAD PIKE = IFPAC.

10 May 0 22:57:51
Valerio ZUODAR
valerio.zuodar@span.ch

I am the president of the "FEDERATION GENEVOISE DES SOCIETES DE PECHE" (Geneva's anglers federation) and I want to tell you that you have all our support in your fight against the killing of your pikes. The world looses every day a lot of fishes, and no mather of wich species, at a point that we are no more able to face our obligations for our future generations.
Killing the pikes or any other fishes will never be accepted and can never be justified to save another kind of fish. Today, we can destroy a whole river in a minute but we still are not able (and we can go on the moon!) to give back to the river all her capacity to make live and naturaly reproduce all the fishes and water animals she had by the past milleniums.
All the fishes are part of the "life chain" and every kind of fish has his predator. So we must let them live their life and try to be (as we are) their latest predator and the ones that never should be responsible of their destruction.
For that, no one fisherman disagrees to follow the fishing regulations if  they are positives to maintain the quantity and the quality of the fishes that are in our rivers, lakes or seas.

8 May 0 03:05:46
James  Stewart
James@cameron8888.fsnet.co.uk

opinion = I.F.P.A.C. remains silent. I don't really care if Mr.Chamber's remains on E.R.F.B. or not , its what his Federation won't do that annoy's me and what W.R.F.B. are doing that is the real crux of the matter.
The Federation's view of things as reported via their own notes in "Angling Ireland" is very divorced from reality , just planet do they inhabit ?
I liked what David Overy had to say regarding the "Mantra" as recited by the fisheries board when engaged in disucssion with the P.A.C. .
The sad fact is when you employ this "Broken Record technique" you can often actually believe the bulls**t that you are saying , that would appear to be exactly where W.R.F.B. are at present.
Once again the Federation must take note , this cull will not end until thereis no cash or until there are no Pike.Please remember those two words , NO PIKE....IN THE WESTERN LOUGHS.
Please Mr.Chambers search your soul and say something which just might amount to something.

7 May 0 23:03:59
Paul Kennedy
paulakennedy@eircom.net

Very good site...will be recomending to my friends etc.....keep up the good work

4 May 0 16:22:24
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

Please read statment by John Chambers re the gill nets."We have a ridiculous situation where some fishiers boards make huge efforts to alive and transfer,while others make no effort at all".He then go's on to say,"Fish that are caught by electro fishing fair off better,than those that are netted".Where have the IFPAC been for the past few week's,the pike that were caught in the nets were killed.Judgeing by the wording above and the of bottle to lash the WRFB,your place is safe on the ERFB.

26 Apr 0 11:10:52
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

opinion = The IFPAC has been exposed for what they really are,pike killers.They have ruled there members with an iron fist,mess with us and your out.There chairman is the lowest form of life that I have ever come across,a double crossing chancer that will stop at nothing to reach the top,and that means the slaughter of our pike.If you the chairman of the IFPAC want to persue a career in the WRFB-ERFB then all the best to you,but please dont do so at the expence of our pike,you are running with the hair and hunting with the hound.There is no place for the likes of you and your committe here in the piking world,you have dragged piking to an all time low and through your greed you have made "MANY" enemies and we wont let you forget the double crossing that you inflicked upon us.Your name is muck and the name of you Federation is dispiesed.  

23 Apr 0 13:42:48
des tobin
piker@genie.co.uk

why is it that the fisheries boards along with the specimen fish committe welcome and activly encourage people to claim specimen awards for pike of 30lb (lake) and 20 lb(river) when they are
slaughtering pike in the west of ireland.they are laughing up their sleeves at us pike anglers.im sure the minister for the marine attends these prize giving farces,in that case he has a bloody cheek when he knows fine rightly what is going on in mask/ corrib.    SUGGESTION; anyone who claims a 30lb pike should claim it from lough MASK or even better dont claim it at all.if you have one of these certificates and merit badges( for what ever species) send it back with a letter of protest.

12 Apr 0 09:09:47
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

Again we are faced with "Environmental Vandalism".
The present committee of the IFPAC have gone to ground,like ants that are been attacted they bolt into the safty of there holes,hopeing to ride out the attact,while there loyal foot soilders(DPA) defend the fort.Not a single word of condemnation from them regarding the slaughter of our pike.I feel the IFPAC are looking further down the road on this issue,if they issued a clear statment condemning the slaughter of our pike,gone would be the very close links that they have buitled up with the WRFB-ERFB,and most importanly the chair man of the IFPAC could kiss his post on the ERFB good bye.The committee of the IFPAC along with there foot soilders would be better off burning there pike tackle,for they are traitors to the cause.The word puppets spring to mind when I think of the IFPAC and there foot soilders,just who is pulling the strings with in the IFPAC.I feel that there strings will be cut very shortly and there will be great joy at there down fall.

5 Apr 0 09:30:38
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

It would appear that the IFPAC has had a change of heart.For once they would appear to be intrested in the welfare of our pike,or is this just another stunt.We are led to belive that they have make noises to the minster and there friends the WRFB,but still no clear statment from them condemning the slaughter of our pike.If we are to sort out this mess that the IFPAC has landed us in we first must get Chambers off the ERFB and then he mustv resign,its the only way forward.We cant have any more back hand deale and as long as chambres is involved with these bodys we stand the chance of a repete of his double dealings that made us pikers the laughing stock of the west.Resign now chambers and let us look after our own affers.   

2 Apr 0 10:49:52
James Stewart
James@Stewart81.fsnet.co.uk

Check P.A.C. wed site "news breaking section".
The photograph of the 40lb er rescued from a gill net speaks for itself. To the W.R.F.B. I can only say "Shame , nothing but shame ..."

1 Apr 0 20:33:59
Dennis van der Noot
NOOT@CICERO.TMFWEB.NL

It's a fishermans nightmare, this pikeculling.
Keep up the good work, S.O.W.L. , you have got
my support.
Regards
Dennis van der Noot - Netherlands

28 Mar 0 19:20:56
James Stewart
James@Stewart81.fsnet.co.uk

If the Irish Goverment have any more money to waste could they please send me some please.
Why does the opposition party not ask where this wasted money comes from and how much is going to be thrown around.
If pollution runs in and fish are taken out the end result will be a sewer.
Me thinks something stinks (H2S !).

28 Mar 0 00:26:14
James Stewart
James @Stewart81.fsnet.co.uk

I guess that the Federation have no interest and the Fisheries Board don't care.
Perhaps they really deserve each other.
Does someone have to place a dead fish on your laps to getbyou to SAY SOMETHING ANY THING AT ALL
Can you tell me a mere simple person how culling all the Pike will help at all , and what about the dead trout reported.
Seems a very strange way to protect and conserve , more like SEEK AND DESTROY !!
FOR GOD'S SAKE SAY SOMETHING PLEASE.

26 Mar 0 02:32:13
James Stewart
James@Stewart81.fsnet.co.uk

Any sign of a notice of condemnation form the I.F.P.A.C.
Silence , if anyone hears anything please let me know, thanks.
J.S.
(What a total and absolute waste.)

25 Mar 0 16:17:23
Martin Forde
mmfordey@eircom.net

Having read your letter on gilnetting i agree fully with your opposition to it.

22 Mar 0 19:21:59
James Stewart
James@Stewart81.fsnet.co.uk

Sorry  and depressed to read Brian's note relating to us sad news that "stock control" is yet again underway.
You have to hand it to the fishery managers who have given again shown such imagination and direction , a real touch of class.
You guys are to fish what Col. Saunders is to the chicken.
I would again endorse the condemnation of all right thinking anglers who hold you accountable for your disgraceful and abhorant conduct.
You gentleman do not desreve the right to manage a goldfish bowl , but then again you can't place nets in a bowl.... "shame nothing but shame".

13 Mar 0 20:58:37
Steve Bown
steve.bown@totalise.co.uk
The photo of Mask on your homepage shows the spot I caught a magnificent 22lb 12oz
pike. The completion of a pilgrimage on my part and to this day my most significant
capture. This was just before the nets were set again. I hope one day I can return
to these magnificent lakes, but not until nature has been given a chance by these mindless
Philastines who have ruined our paradise.

Keep up the good work & I sincerley hopr you seceed!
Regards
Steve Bown

13 Mar 0 14:25:42
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

As expected the netting has returned with avencence and you can put your house on it that the IFPAC will bolt into every nuke and cranney they can find untill the heat passes over.John Chambers is a disgrace to the title his holds,he has his own interest in mind and cares little about the future of pike in this country.Confront the problems,be a man and stand up to the WRFB,or are you scared of loseing your post on the ERFB.You are a coward and of no benfit to the true pikers of this island,unless you issue a clear statment condemning the slaughter you should leave the issues to the concerned pikers of this island.Your hands run red with the blood of Irish pike.Go live with your friends in the west(WRFB),YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS HERE.

10 Mar 0 07:56:26
Brian Joyce
bjoyce@indigo.ie

Bad news i'm afraid, the WRFB have been setting nets on Lough Mask for the past three weeks. They are not tagging or releasing any pike. All pike are killed and taken away in a trailer to an unknown destination. Many trout are also caught in these nets and any that are alive are released, the rest go along with the dead pike.
I assume the WRFB are using Irish money,as the European funding has been withdrawn. This money must now be stopped because the WRFB will continue this environmental vandalism as long as they have the money to pay for it. Meanwhile the pollution continues to flow as the WRFB look the other way.

8 Mar 0 10:18:48
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

There seems to be alot of support on this site re the slaughter of our pike in the west carried out by the WRFB on behalf of the IFPAC.But are the true pikers of this island prepaired to support me when I stage my protest at the next meeting of the IFPAC and there counterparts.Each year there is a match held between these two parties and I plan to expose the IFPAC for what they really are,PIKE KILLERS.I need your support on this issue and we need to keep the presure on the IFPAC to make a clear statment condeming the use of the nets and make clear there stance for future gill netting.No one person can take on the IFPAC,they have too many lackies,but if we all pull together we will force them to take notice of the true pike agnlers on this island of ours.Again I would ask for your suppory on this issue.

John Rooney

8 Mar 0 17:01:24
MONICA RIORDAN
MRIORDAN@OYAKEURO.COM

I WAS VERY IMPRESSED BY THIS WEBSITE.  IT RAISES AND DEALS WITH IMPORTANT ISSUES REGARDING OUR BEAUTIFUL SCENERY AND WILDLIFE. WELL DONE!!!

6 Mar 0 23:50:06
james Stewart
james@stewart81.fsnet.co.uk

Has any spokesperson (appointed) from the federation or from the fisheries boards spoken up         to explain what they have either done or supported by way of culling and mismanagement of fish    stocks ?

6 Mar 0 15:00:32
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

As expected the chairman of the IFPAC has stuck his two fingers up at us piker's.I had his word that he would meet me and answer question's re the slaughter of our pike in the west,but I have come to expect nothing less from him.I plan to hold a protest at there next meeting with there English counter part's and expose them for what they really are.I am sure that anglers from the U.K. read this site and one of you must know the contact number for Dave Tinley, please forward this number to me.Dave is the contact person for the IFPAC in the UK. 

15 Feb 0 15:57:19
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

Lad's thank's for the support. Now that we have the IFPAC on the run we must keep up the presure to ensure they can never again carry out such slaughter of our pike again.If the thruth be knowen,I know that some of the commit members of the Fed were acting in there own interest when they gave there blessing to the cull.All will become clear when I meet J Chambers and print the out come of our little chat.

14 Feb 0 12:33:59
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

Well at last John Chamber's has agreed to meet me.Next Monday is the date and I will keep you all informed on the out come.Only after a lot of slagging off the IFPAG did he agree to hold the debait with me.We clearly need a statment from the IFPAG on where they stand and to asure us agnlers that this slaughter of our pike will never accure again.Shame on club's that support the IFPAC.

13 Feb 0 23:05:28
James Stewart
James@Stewart81.fsnet.co.uk

I would have to agree with Des Tobin regarding Mr.McAllorum "interest in comments by passionate Pike Anglers".
I saw comment by Mr.McAllorum ref. comments made by John Rooney who is a passionate Pike Angler , condeming his critical attitude towards the I.F.P.A. asking J.R. to cease making such remarks on D.P.A. site.
The world wide disgust recorded here (and indeed elsewhere ) by "passionatePike Anglers" will no doubt come as no surprise to him nor should it to any other members of the Federation who did nothing to "Save Our Western Loughs".
Fair enough John may get a little hot under the collar at times but when one is a "passionate pike angler" that can be understood ,to date I have seen nothing passionate from the federation other than the actions of a past Roman governor who felt the need to go wash his hands.
When the Federatiuon saw the Western Loughs as "Trout" waters they signed away the "rights" of pike to co exist as being secondary and as such signed away their credibility and right to speak for "passionate Pike Anglers".
I would put my trust in those who said that "Predator Control" was a weckless adventure based on desparation rather than logic. If all that was said was true surely all the trout would have been eaten by the pike long time ago , mankind has more to do with the decline of these waters than the pike. Nature finds her own balance , mankind only serves to wreck it.

13 Feb 0 12:40:36
des tobin
dtobin@genie.co.uk

strange to see MR Mc ALLORUMs comment on this site  when he is a member of the federation who gave their support to the netting on MASK and CORRIB.come on MR Mc ALLORUM,give your support to the concerned pike anglers who want to get this netting stopped. if not, then go and burn your pike tackle ,you do not  deserve the oppurtunity to fish for pike.your so called chairman has been so quiet over this whole issue.it is about time you asked ALL members of the FEDERATION whether or not they agree with the slaughter of pike in the WEST.also, a statement from the FEDERATION on where you stand on this matter is well overdue.  

9 Feb 0 17:52:14
ramon, siahaya
weazle_co@dolfijn.nl

ik ben zelf snoekvisser en heb al hel wat snoek gevangen maar ik heb er nog nooit eentje opgegeten of verkocht aan een chinees waar je er 50/75,- voor kan krijgen. Een echte vissser vist niet voor de winst!

2 Feb 0 13:39:45
Rory McAllorum (DPA) IFPAC Committee Member
rory@hotmail.com

Great Site it is also very intresting to read the comments from obviously very passionate pike anglers.

24 Jan 0 19:24:08
DES TOBIN
DTOBIN@GENIE.CO.UK

hi ALL U PIKERS,PLEASE READ THE STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE NORTHERN IRELAND PIKE SOCIETY.WE URGE YOU TO CORRESPOND BY LETTER TO
THE TOURIST BOARD AND THE WESTERN REGIONAL FISHERIES BOARD AND LET THEM KNOW OF YOUR DISGUST AT THE NETTING OF OUR PIKE.WE WILL
SUCCEED IN GETTING THIS UNGODLY ACT STOPPED IF WE KEEP UP THE PRESSURE.TIGHT LINES TO YOU ALL

22 Jan 0 13:28:38
geert jacques
ferge@skynet.be
Beste vrienden,

Ik hoop dat die pummels ook eens mogen proeven van die knuppels. Doe zo voort Mr.Barbé enz. Tot ziens in juni en september. Ik zal toch niet kunnen weerstaan aan de roep.
Geert jacques

18 Jan 0 09:56:06
r ken (canuck)hrynczuk
kenhr@ssimicro.com

As a canadain i don't have to worry about the pike every disapearing here. Canada is the fishing capitol of the world there are millions of lakes and rivers full of pike or jackfish as we call them .

10 Jan 0 05:13:01
VINCENT HENEGHAN
heheneghans@gateway.nett

IT IS SUCH A SHAME THAT THIS BARBARIC PRACTICE OF GILL-NETTING IS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

7 Jan 0 17:29:26
Rory13
Rory@koehein.doge.nl

Great site! I hope these people will stop killing all the pike(and the trout)!
Ik ben half iers en ga van de zomer weer in Ierland vissen, ga zo door jongens!
Rory (13)

24 Dec 99 10:49:24
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

Hi All,
You may remember back on the 10-12-99 I enformed you that I was to have a bedait with the Chair man of the Pike.Fed. over the part they played in the slaughter of OUR pike in the west.
Well I have just submited my questions to John chambers.I am relying on Mt Chambers to honour his word and come clean on this matter.Frank Quigley from Angling Ireland will print the out come and with a bit of luck we might get to the bottom of this cruel act of murder.

21 Dec 99 13:10:11
I R Ellison
irellison@argonet.co.uk

I am disgusted by the treatment meted out to the pike of these Western Lakes.

13 Dec 99 09:21:46
Clint Wolf
scub@dolfijn.nl

Wat een stel klootzakken dat ze zo een mooi milieu willen vernielen . En geen rekening houden met de natuur ( alleen met forellen).Terwijl als de vissen daar van nature voorkomen de natuur zichzelf zou herstellen.Dus veel beter voor de forel(wordtGroter en sterker)en de natuur blijft gespaard.
Veel succes met jullie actie tegen pike-culling mijn steun hebben jullie

20 Nov 99 03:48:57
James Stewart
James@stewart81.fsnet.co.uk

Why did the P.F.of I. ignore what has been on going in the west of Ireland , seems that they can do little other than organise and report on competitions. The federation project an image of being "big" on young pike anglers ,seemingly willing to be connected with youngsters enjoying angling. This being the case why have they let them down so completely and utterly.
The clubs affiliated to the federation should sever their links completely , from the angling press I cannot see what they do for piking in Irealand ,angling in general ,nor can I see that they project or enhance our image as anglers abroad.
What a total waste of time they have been seen have been . How can they say they act in the interests of anglers or pike as a species , they are total frauds and cannot be depended upon .
The Pike Federation of Ireland is a Judas organisation do they have a hidden agenda or do they just not care. More importantly why have the goverment of Ireland allowed this to go on ,who are the fisheries boards accountable to and why have they been allowed to act in such a fashion , its nothing if not insane .
The images shown speak vloumes of r the lack of regard for waters entrusted to them - this will not improve trout angling and has nothing to do with conservation , preservation or enhansment of natural resources , its all about destruction and desolation.
Who at this stage of events will be willing to go on record and state publically that all that has happen and all that may result from the actions taken to date I /we will take full and absolute responsibility for. I ask this so anglers will at some future date be able to direct questions to and extract answers from those who are mismanaging and destroying fish stocks without care or regard.
Only shame can come from your actions and to date you have yet to prove your case.
Any pike angler worth his/her salt should veto all and any events run by the federation until such time they revise their stance on the culling of pike on Western Loughs.
Can they really condone what has and is happening and say they work for the benefit of pike and pike anglers.There are none so blind as those who will not see and pretty soon there won't be any pike left to see or to catch , too late then to cry or to say that you got it wrong.
Such a waste , such a shame and such a disgrace -
you gentlemen of the fisheries boards and the Federation reflect on actions and indifference.
A final thought  "P.F.of Ireland" should be renamed the "Dead Pike Society". Would members please vote on this ? Seems it may be the only invatition to voice your opinion that you will get.

10 Nov 99 00:31:34
james stewart
james@stewart81.fsnet.co.uk

a criminal waste of good fish and for what purpose.Can anyone tell me who will be willing to accept the responsibility for this slaughter when the pike are gone and game fishing fails to improve or "return to its former glory" ?
This has more to do with ignorance than science, ignorance can be excused but not in the face of reason , sheer bloody mindedness cannot be defended. Please decomission the nets NOW!
The PFI have been strangely silent and mute prehaps they are too fully envolved with their next competition /heats to be bothered.
Its all rather sad,rather sick and somewhat predictable , but then what's new ?

10 Nov 99 12:13:37
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

The chair-man of the Pike Fedration has agrred to hold an open debait with myself over the issue of the westren lakes.There wil be many questions need
answering and I will not be holding back.I have spoken to Angling Ireland and they will run the out come of the debait.I hope that the Fed will come clean on this one and may be they can save some face.

3 Nov 99 08:39:42
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

Hi all,
I am looking for a contact number for any member of the British team that take part in the home int with the pike fed of Ire,please contact me via my e-mail address.
Great site lads. 

29 Oct 99 08:43:01
John Rooney
john.rooney@compaq.com

Mr.John Chambers please stop the slaughter of my pike in the west.You can not sit on the fences any
longer, your hands run red with blood from irish pike.Stop this slaughter now or do us all a favour and keep your hands out of irish piking.

You must have a hard neck,how can you fish for pike knowing that you have carried out such a deadly deed,SHAME ON YOU JOHN CHAMBERS SHAME ON YOU.

22 Oct 99 22:01:28
des tobin
DESI@DTOBIN.FSNET.CO.UK

why is this monsterous practice still happening,this wholesale slaughter of our pike must be stopped immediately.
keep the site going lads,nice one.
ESSOX LUCIUS IS INNOCENT, STOP THE CRUEL PIKE SLAUGHTER IN IRELAND.

16 Oct 99 20:02:57
DES TOBIN
DESI@DTOBIN.FSNET.CO.UK

ESSOX LUCIUS IS INNOCENT,STOP THE CRUEL PIKE SLAUGHTER IN IRELAND.

14 Oct 99 10:22:33
clint wolf
pikefisher71@hotmail.com

pikekillers are the biggestmotherfuckers of the world they only kill the world instead of only the pike and the pike is the beautifullest fish of the world so let them live

5 Oct 99 14:15:53
andrew hodgetts
athodgetts@athodgetts.screaming.net

stop this now

3 Oct 99 18:10:42
Erwin de Wilde
erwindewilde@gironet.nl

I think pike is a beautiful fish.
Don't kill them but catch and release them.
Just like me.

7 Sep 99 17:48:36
Luc de Medts
luc.de.medts@skynet.be

A real shame for the Irish Government. Did they ever hear the story of the chicken with the golden eggs?

13 Aug 99 22:03:30
Neil Hardiker
neil_hardiker@yahoo.com

I cannot begin to comprehend the mindset of the people who purportrate such acts, presumably in the belief that they represent the means to a solution.  Similarly and even more regretably, having talked to these people I cannot believe that they will do anything other than indoctrinate their children to think similarly.  It would be a brave man as would wager that they will ever wholely eradicate rascism from the Southern States.  In just the same way, is the contempt for pike every likely to be removed from certain regions of Eire, I personally doubt it.  Though I pray for the day when I am disproven. 

7 Aug 99 09:52:11
Ian Gourlay
igourlay@sol.co.uk

I was in the process of organising a pike fishing holiday in the Corrib area in early 2000 for myself and several friends, but having seen the content of this website we are now looking at alternatives.  I had no idea that such barbarisms could still be practised by any fishery "authority" in these supposedly "enlightened" times.  Don't they have to account for their actions at any level?  Don't local MPs take any interest in what is happening?  Don't local academics take any interest either?  I would like to say that I can't imagine this happening in Scotland, but then I'd have found it tough to believe that such idiocies could take place in Ireland!   What about embarrassing them with invited TV cameras?  Although this website is valuable, it's only going to be seen by the converted.  Best of luck in your endeavours.

7 Aug 99 10:01:31
Ian Gourlay
igourlay@sol.co.uk

Who are the people who sit on the WRFB?  Surely they can be individually petitioned/embarrassed by an organised campaign of questions from informed academics, MPs, members of boards which don't apply such methods, etc.  Here in Scotland I think that such nets are actually illegal, termed as "Fixed Engines" in the old game laws.   A pity that some such couldn't be incorporated into your Irish legal system?

17 Jul 99 23:25:25
Mike Malone
bjoyce@indigo.ie

This site is full of facts yet the netting goes on.The world is full of water, yet many don't wash.

16 Jun 99 18:53:47
Adrian Brayshaw
watertr@aol.com

Keep up the good work. 

8 Jun 99 22:32:54
louis laan
laan.wijnands@hccnet.nl

ik ga zelf al een jaar of acht naar ierland en inderdaad je vangt zowat geen snoek meer het is hard werken voor een snoekje. wat mij ook opvalt is dat vele duitse toeristen meerdere snoeken vangen en meenemen wat mij ook erg tegen de borst stuit.
dit jaar ga ik evenzo goed weer naar ierland en proberen het weer opnieuw. op de enige juiste manier uiteraard catch en release.
Ga in ieder geval zo door met jullie actie
Groetjes vanuit Grootebroek

3 Jun 99 16:31:13
Rory McAllorum Hon.Sec.(D.P.A).
rory@dcd.ie

Great site, very informative if it was not for
this site this information would not reach down to
club level I would like to thank all involved in the
creation of this site.

1 Jun 99 19:06:13
Bill Little
bill@theloch22.freeserve.co.uk

It is about time the barbaric practice of 'predator control' was consigned to the dustbin of history and the REAL problems were addressed!

30 May 99 21:36:25
Stephen Aldridge (Pac walton on Thames)
lamia@cwcom.net

Keep up the pressure guy's, you have the support of all the members of the Walton on Thames region of the P.A.C.
We must work together to get the nets removed for good.
If it can happen there it can happen here, let me know if I can do anything to help.

30 May 99 12:28:19
Mark Ackerley
mark_ack@dial.pipex.com

An excellent website. Very well put together. I fished Mask a lot in the early nineties for pike and had some great times. It is a sad loss indeed. I have been doing a bit to help the cause by doing slideshows on Corrib and Mask for various PAC regions. I have also written an article on my time on Mask entitled The Secret Life of Mask. It can be found at www.fishing.co.uk  . I will be writing a 'political' article on the culling in the winter for the website so I will include a link to your site. It only remains to say if I can help in any way at all.... Please don't hesitate to get in touch. Best regards - Mark.

10 May 99 06:49:04
Dave Pugh
dave.pugh@virgin.net

Keep up the fight, I have followed the Western Loughs debate in the Pike Anglers' Club of GB  magazine. It is sad that ignorance and bigotry still rule in an official body like the WRFB,  where
have these people been for the last twenty years?

I visited beautiful Lough Mask for a few days fishing in 1997, our host at the B&B was incensed at
the gill netting, and told us that every time he had seen the nets removed they had   contained more specimen trout than pike.  Is this  the true motive of the WRFB, either remove the  big trout so that the smaller, fly feeding trout can thrive, or to destroy the fishing altogether  so they can wash their hands
of the water .  So much bad feeling seems to exist now that  it is hard to see how sense, and good fishery management, will ever prevail.

Good luck, I will add a link to my  website to support you.

4 May 99 17:28:51
Ralston Mcpherson
Macralston@kirky6.freeserve.co.uk

One day I pray,  the WRFB will wake up to the folly they continually portray as policy!

2 May 99 07:43:34
Enrico Gossé
etrout@ping.be

Congratulations to the SOWL-comittee!!

Finally some people with brains trying to stop these middle-aged Irish "fishery-management"...Please Ireland, open your eyes, CATCH AND RELEASE (of your trout) really works!You don't have to blame an innocent pike for your OWN stupidities!!!

29 Apr 99 22:27:24
Ruud Bloemendal
jr_bloemendal@yahoo.com

Very nice your pages.

I'am a regular visitor(from 1971 till now, I was last week still in Ireland ) of Ireland for my favorit
sport ,fishing. Mostly the lakes near the Shannon.
Their you see, "Don't kill pike" on billboards
What in different way of thinking in such fine country.

20 Apr 99 19:17:14
Jef Lameriks
j.lameriks@wxs.nl

Keep fighting, times will be better.

15 Apr 99 14:48:49
Hugo MARTEL
humartel@hotmail.com

Of course, I support your action !

10 Apr 99 01:14:33
Jim Duncan
jsduncan@gateway.net

Do not stop your fight!!

10 Apr 99 02:00:16
Hugh Fisher
tydwater@excite.com

Wonderful website !  It is really nice to see some from across the pond.  I will visit often, my wife would love to return to the emerald isle for a visit again soon.    Please stop by my website if you have time.....WATER SCOUT WORLD  http://www.freeyellow.com/members4/tydwater/index.html

7 Apr 99 21:02:33
BOB WILSON
DAMQUICK@MONTEGO.COM

BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR FIGHT!!

6 Apr 99 14:34:01
Name = Ed Pfadt
edpfadt@webtv.net

What a waste of these beautiful fish.

5 Apr 99 21:55:11
Roy Emington
alcona81@hotmail.com

Unbelievable-----I thought the Michigan DNR had no grasp of PIKE management.
Good Luck 

5 Apr 99 15:22:36
jacqueline witz
jtflash@webtv.net

to the people of ireland.....PLEASE stop the totally useless slaughter of your pike.  you're doing everything backwards.  you need to practice catch and release with your trout in order to give them a better chance to grow.   catch and release works.

5 Apr 99 09:07:22
W. van Leest
wvanleest@gironet.nl

keep up the good work

5 Apr 99 13:16:12
Joe "Mushrat" Woytta
mushrat@flash.net

Very well done site. I am a bit suprised however, being from the U.S.,
I guess I just "assumed" Pike were better managed overseas there than here in
my home state of Michigan. Member of Pikemasters 

18 Mar 99 23:54:30
Sam Otrutta
samotrutta@hotmail.com

Very impressed with the site and deeply depressed by the content.
I haven't seen graphic pictures like the ones in your slide show before but I knew it was happening. 
Classy way to manage a wild fishery!!!!!!!!!!!!
a sick joke.........

16 Mar 99 23:55:00
Ingrid Meunier
ingridmeunier@esatclear.ie

Beautiful site indeed.I like the music and the photos ( although some are
very shameful).Hope your efforts will be rewarded.

16 Mar 99 14:54:14
Luc Barbé
luc.barbe@agalev.be

Congratulations with the website and much luck with the actions !

22 Feb 99 23:29:23
Michel WILMET
mwilmet@infonie.be

Congratulations for this great site.
Being a frequent pike fisher in Ireland I am totally supporting your action.
Continue to keep on the ball.
Regards

22 Feb 99 12:14:34
K.Tsolakidis
coolnet@netscape.net

1)Great sites !
2)It's very depressing to see wat is happening in Ireland at this moment to "save" the trout.
I can't imaging how stupid this is, and it is clear that this pike killing is not resolving anything. It's not only kills the pike's but also the hole ecosystem of the lakes.

We must do something to stop this killing. You've got my support

Koeli Tsolakidis

21 Feb 99 15:49:57
Vic