I went fishing off the rocks last closed season, trying for pollock
Got 5 pollock and 1 bass (by mistake)
The bass was a new PB for me at the time and I released it (as I do all my bass and as I did all my fish that day)
The only bailiff I have ever seen was at Blessington
and he didn't appear to know the laws himself, because there were some foreigners (ok top say that because I'm one

)
fishing for trout with dyed maggots
he was more busy hassling me for fishing out of a kayak
apparently my kayak was too small (I had a fishing licence and a boat licence) and "Blessington has some big pike - up to 20lb"
he wasn't interested in the fact that I had caught fish to 30lb in the same kayak back in Oz
nor was he impressed when I said "20lbs? I'd like to see one of those"
I wonder how interested he'd have been if I yad told him about the 12lber I got in my yak the week before?
anyway I digress ...