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Why has today’s angler become so obsessed with species 'sanitisation'?
I’m being deliberately provocative here and use a term which I deem, in this context, to be a derogatory term but I'm being no less sincere and that’s coming from someone who is extremely OCD about his gear but what about the waters that we fish?
I was talking to the new owners of a recently acquired fishery with several lakes and in stark contrast to my initial conversations, where the underlying tone was to promote the lakes very much as they were, namely mixed and balanced fisheries, the new approach seems to be one of ‘we’ll put the Carp in this lake, the silvers can go in that one and the Pike are all being transferred over there’.
This is, apparently, the result of feedback from anglers who have visited the fishery since its takeover and I can hardly blame the owners for doing the due diligence and striving to provide what’s been asked for.
So…
Tracking back to the source, why do what appears to be so many of today’s anglers want their fisheries sanitised and put into neat little classifications as opposed to mixed, balanced fisheries which retain a natural feel to them?
Personally I hate the idea and I for one won’t be buying another year book if the whole thing goes ahead but that still leaves me wondering why so many seem to want the underlying circumstances stacked so heavily in their favour, instead of working with the circumstances and finding a successful approach to their fishing and one which develops wider skills outside of their intended sphere.
I’m completely baffled by it…
I’m being deliberately provocative here and use a term which I deem, in this context, to be a derogatory term but I'm being no less sincere and that’s coming from someone who is extremely OCD about his gear but what about the waters that we fish?
I was talking to the new owners of a recently acquired fishery with several lakes and in stark contrast to my initial conversations, where the underlying tone was to promote the lakes very much as they were, namely mixed and balanced fisheries, the new approach seems to be one of ‘we’ll put the Carp in this lake, the silvers can go in that one and the Pike are all being transferred over there’.
This is, apparently, the result of feedback from anglers who have visited the fishery since its takeover and I can hardly blame the owners for doing the due diligence and striving to provide what’s been asked for.
So…
Tracking back to the source, why do what appears to be so many of today’s anglers want their fisheries sanitised and put into neat little classifications as opposed to mixed, balanced fisheries which retain a natural feel to them?
Personally I hate the idea and I for one won’t be buying another year book if the whole thing goes ahead but that still leaves me wondering why so many seem to want the underlying circumstances stacked so heavily in their favour, instead of working with the circumstances and finding a successful approach to their fishing and one which develops wider skills outside of their intended sphere.
I’m completely baffled by it…