I was a Match Angler, i always enjoyed my fishing, and i did quite well. I joined club which had 4 lakes...two which were used as match waters. One was stocked with small carp, the other with silver fish, and good Bream. The club "policy" was that as the carp grew on to about 7 pounds, they would be netted and stocked into another adjacant lake as potential specimen fish for dedicated carp anglers....this never happened, so now, the match lake is stuffed with carp in excess of 15 pounds, it is a dirty muddy hole, and it has frequent fish mortalities, of which i am sure disease is the cause. The Bream lake is no more, they decided to fill it in with voracious F1's...therfore the Bream could not compete for food, the silvers had virtually disappeared. The commitee, in it's wisdom, having now realised F1's have a limited lifespan as non spawning fish have now stocked Commons and Mirrors to create yet another muddy pool. Already, the Bream have floated to the surface.......without doubt, this poor management of water will lead to disease, if they lose all the fish it will be their own doing for such narrow vision. This situation has led me to virtually abandon match angling on commercial type waters.
