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Ron Clay
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Have any of you read Angling Times today? On pasge 5 is a report entitled "Small Carp Back - a popular move"!!!
A guy named Roger Sythe is quoted as saying : The fish are getting too big for conventional match and pleasure anglers tackle". Can you really beleive that? What is "conventional tackle"? If the fish are big, all it means is that you should step up your tackle and learn how to play them. Or maybe the standard of angling in the UK has now got so bad that anglers don't know how to handle big fish?
Not only that, I thought that the whole idea of angling is to catch a darned great fish. Our values have been changed topsy turvy if the statement by Mr. Sythe is true.
I can understand the match anglers who want to fish the pole, but why not stock with roach, instead of thousands of little carp?
That report just does not make sense. When I mentioned it to a friend of mine in South Africa on the phone this morning, all he could tell me was that the poms are stupid anyway.
A guy named Roger Sythe is quoted as saying : The fish are getting too big for conventional match and pleasure anglers tackle". Can you really beleive that? What is "conventional tackle"? If the fish are big, all it means is that you should step up your tackle and learn how to play them. Or maybe the standard of angling in the UK has now got so bad that anglers don't know how to handle big fish?
Not only that, I thought that the whole idea of angling is to catch a darned great fish. Our values have been changed topsy turvy if the statement by Mr. Sythe is true.
I can understand the match anglers who want to fish the pole, but why not stock with roach, instead of thousands of little carp?
That report just does not make sense. When I mentioned it to a friend of mine in South Africa on the phone this morning, all he could tell me was that the poms are stupid anyway.