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It’s all been said but just remembered I did ask a police inspector about this once.

He basically said if it’s in a tackle box etc and you’re clearly engaged in or going to fishing, obviously fine.

I asked (hypothetically) what if a butcher walked along the high street carrying his knives in the middle of his working day and he said ‘technically’ if he could prove he was working as a butcher and going from A to B for work purposes then yes it would be legal. Technically.
But we went on to discuss that obviously if he had half a brain he’d have them in a case or container.

Miss those chats. Sometimes we even got some work done between coffees

<blockquote data-quote="Mr Fish" data-source="post: 350810" data-attributes="member: 368">It’s all been said but just remembered I did ask a police inspector about this once.He basically said if it’s in a tackle box etc and you’re clearly engaged in or going to fishing, obviously fine.I asked (hypothetically) what if a butcher walked along the high street carrying his knives in the middle of his working day and he said ‘technically’ if he could prove he was working as a butcher and going from A to B for work purposes then yes it would be legal. Technically.But we went on to discuss that obviously if he had half a brain he’d have them in a case or container.Miss those chats. Sometimes we even got some work done between coffees <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🙄" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" title="Face with rolling eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolling_eyes:" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mr Fish, post: 350810, member: 368"] It’s all been said but just remembered I did ask a police inspector about this once. He basically said if it’s in a tackle box etc and you’re clearly engaged in or going to fishing, obviously fine. I asked (hypothetically) what if a butcher walked along the high street carrying his knives in the middle of his working day and he said ‘technically’ if he could prove he was working as a butcher and going from A to B for work purposes then yes it would be legal. Technically. But we went on to discuss that obviously if he had half a brain he’d have them in a case or container. Miss those chats. Sometimes we even got some work done between coffees 🙄 [/QUOTE]

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