maverick 7
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I thought about putting this thread under the Match Fishing Section but I think it involves more Coarse Fishing opinions than anything else. Anyway, last weekend I visited a local commercial and it appears that there was a local match going on so I hung around for a while looking over this fence at the competitors.
First fish I saw caught was a skimmer around a pound and a half....from the moment it was hooked to the moment it was in the keepnet...it lasted barely 10 seconds...the poor fish was skimmed across the surface like you would an empty swimfeeder.
The next fish was of a better stamp...maybe 3 or 4lb and that one took all of 20 seconds to get in the net...and it went on for the duration of my stay which was probably about an hour.....what is going on with these guys?
Normally I am a man who understands the term "everyone to their own"....but this just doesn't seem right to me. Are these people there solely for the money? Do they have ANY respect at all for the fish they are trawling through the water? I always thought the first and foremost thing anglers derived from angling was pleasure...but it didn't seem that way with these guys.
I don't like commercial fisheries but I do appreciate their existence although I loathe the way these type of anglers fish the venues. It seems that nothing else matters other than winning the bloody match...no thought at all for fish welfare.
....but I suppose that's part and parcel of commercial match fishing for you.
Maverick
First fish I saw caught was a skimmer around a pound and a half....from the moment it was hooked to the moment it was in the keepnet...it lasted barely 10 seconds...the poor fish was skimmed across the surface like you would an empty swimfeeder.
The next fish was of a better stamp...maybe 3 or 4lb and that one took all of 20 seconds to get in the net...and it went on for the duration of my stay which was probably about an hour.....what is going on with these guys?
Normally I am a man who understands the term "everyone to their own"....but this just doesn't seem right to me. Are these people there solely for the money? Do they have ANY respect at all for the fish they are trawling through the water? I always thought the first and foremost thing anglers derived from angling was pleasure...but it didn't seem that way with these guys.
I don't like commercial fisheries but I do appreciate their existence although I loathe the way these type of anglers fish the venues. It seems that nothing else matters other than winning the bloody match...no thought at all for fish welfare.
....but I suppose that's part and parcel of commercial match fishing for you.
Maverick