M
martin BATEY
Guest
Having read the minute column that is allocated to Bob Nudd on a Sunday morning in the News of the World. I find myself gobsmacked as to his article dated the 26th of November.
Bob does not condemn Alec Watson's actions in killing two 4lb plus Rudd and having them stuffed, oh no!. Trout anglers do it all the time. That's all right then!
Bob then goes on to say, and I quote his article. "Impaling a roach on a treble hook, hurling it into the water and then waiting for a pike to clamp its jaws around it is acceptable but I find it barbaric!"
He then goes on to say that the rudd were near the end of their natural lives anyway. Whereas a livebait's life is taken in its prime.
If the livebait was not in the vacinity of a hungry pike then another one would be and would be taken anyway.
Just when angling is under pressure from the anti-angling brigade Bob has to write a column that is I feel manna from heaven to the antis.
Livebaiting is part and parcel of fishing for pike. Most waters would be devoid of pike stocks if it wasn't for the pressure from the great army of pike fishermen and pike angling associations in this country. Did not fight for this magnificent creature.
Gone are the days when pike were considered a pest and knocked on the head.
Stick to your pole Bob. Hope that you win many more world titles. Live and let live I say.
Bob does not condemn Alec Watson's actions in killing two 4lb plus Rudd and having them stuffed, oh no!. Trout anglers do it all the time. That's all right then!
Bob then goes on to say, and I quote his article. "Impaling a roach on a treble hook, hurling it into the water and then waiting for a pike to clamp its jaws around it is acceptable but I find it barbaric!"
He then goes on to say that the rudd were near the end of their natural lives anyway. Whereas a livebait's life is taken in its prime.
If the livebait was not in the vacinity of a hungry pike then another one would be and would be taken anyway.
Just when angling is under pressure from the anti-angling brigade Bob has to write a column that is I feel manna from heaven to the antis.
Livebaiting is part and parcel of fishing for pike. Most waters would be devoid of pike stocks if it wasn't for the pressure from the great army of pike fishermen and pike angling associations in this country. Did not fight for this magnificent creature.
Gone are the days when pike were considered a pest and knocked on the head.
Stick to your pole Bob. Hope that you win many more world titles. Live and let live I say.