Look after your Waterways

• Discarded hooks and lines, bottles and tins can kill or injure wildlife. Gather them up take them away with you.
   

Consider Others
 

• Make sure the towpath is easily passable by keeping your fishing tackle tidy.

• Don’t obstruct locks, bridges, designated moorings, water oints or turning points.

• Boat crews need access to the bank within 25 metres of locks or moveable bridges so do not fish there.

• Use a pole cup if you need to feed close to boats: don’t throw or catapult groundbait onto the decks or against the hulls of boats – it damages paintwork.

• Don’t bounce tackle off boats or tap them with pole tips – chipped paint is expensive to repair, and hooks in ropes can put people in hospital.

• Respect the privacy of people on occupied moored boats, including those on the opposite bank. Try to fish at least 15 metres away.

• Some boats will not be able to avoid you if you fish on the outside of bends.
   

Take Care
 

• Don’t fish within 30 metres of overhead power lines. Look out and look up – electricity kills.