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Ron 'The Hat' Clay AMIMechE (SA) MIFE (SA) (ACA)
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Over the years, there has been a trend by certain angling luminaries to have lists of fish over certain weights, often giving the captors a certain degree of fame.
I am not talking here about fish records, I am talking about certain yardsticks that have been concocted that have often distinguished the difference beween a very big notable fish and an also ran.Probably the most famous of all these lists has been the one for pike over 30 pounds.
I now give you a scenario which sooner or later will present itself make no mistake.
The use of Imperial units of measurement will be totally abolished and it will become a crime to use them. Pounds and ouncesand any references to them will be made illegal. Don't believe that this will never happen. It did in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia and in time it will happen here.
So as regards fish weights, a new set of yardsticks will start to exist. A 2 lb roach will become a 1 kg roach, and a 30 lb pike will become a 15 kg pike. Now it doesn't take much working out for you to realise that a 1 kg roach is actually heavier than a 2 lb roach and that a 15 kg pike is significantly heavier than a 30 lb pike.
Lots of anglers who in the past have achieved the 30 lb pike status are going to be severely dissappointed that their lifetime achievment has been whittled down to a near miss. Will they burn their rods? Will they commit suicide.
In truth, perhaps the yardsticks set by many are just a load of old codswallop anyway.
What do you think?
I am not talking here about fish records, I am talking about certain yardsticks that have been concocted that have often distinguished the difference beween a very big notable fish and an also ran.Probably the most famous of all these lists has been the one for pike over 30 pounds.
I now give you a scenario which sooner or later will present itself make no mistake.
The use of Imperial units of measurement will be totally abolished and it will become a crime to use them. Pounds and ouncesand any references to them will be made illegal. Don't believe that this will never happen. It did in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia and in time it will happen here.
So as regards fish weights, a new set of yardsticks will start to exist. A 2 lb roach will become a 1 kg roach, and a 30 lb pike will become a 15 kg pike. Now it doesn't take much working out for you to realise that a 1 kg roach is actually heavier than a 2 lb roach and that a 15 kg pike is significantly heavier than a 30 lb pike.
Lots of anglers who in the past have achieved the 30 lb pike status are going to be severely dissappointed that their lifetime achievment has been whittled down to a near miss. Will they burn their rods? Will they commit suicide.
In truth, perhaps the yardsticks set by many are just a load of old codswallop anyway.
What do you think?