Below an extract from the Field Magazine  taken from the book River Voices published a couple of years ago now by Marsha O'Mahoney regarding characters and stories of the River Wye going back decades.

Lent mine  to someone  -never had it back.!!!

https://www.thefield.co.uk/fishing/river-wye-wye-wherefores-43266 

Irish still at it it seems.

 

https://fishinginireland.info/2020/fishing-updates/inland-fisheries-ireland-seize-illegal-nets-and-fish-caught-at-sea/