steve2
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A time of reflection.
As I enter my 70’s thought I just reflect on the changes I have seen in fishing over the last 60 years.
I started out like many catching newts on worms from what were bomb craters and ponds. One day my brother came home with a fishing rod, if you could call it a rod, just a piece of cane with some safety pin eye stuck on. Reel was some Bakelite centre pin. I caught my first fish on that rod, a Roach from Raphael Park in Romford and that was the start of it all
Worst change I have seen is the destruction of the small streams we use to fish as boys.
Biggest change fish wise, Carp, they have gone from the fish of dreams to the dominant easy to catch species in most waters.
Freshly dug, purpose built heavily stocked commercial waters now control what most people want from their fishing. Plenty of bites in safe surroundings with other facilities on site nothing wrong with that might even try them myself next year.
Commercial big carp fisheries have taken over from what use to be commercial put and take trout waters. Put in the fish at the right size and the anglers will come and pay to catch. Very few trout fishing lakes now left in my area most have switched over to carp.
Tackle of course as changed no end but fishing methods haven’t really changed much at all. Read old books and there is nothing really new in the methods we use.
There have of course been others but to me the mystery as now gone out of fishing. We now know to much about what is in the waters we fish.
I know there are many on this site that have fished for over 40 years what are the changes you have seen?
As I enter my 70’s thought I just reflect on the changes I have seen in fishing over the last 60 years.
I started out like many catching newts on worms from what were bomb craters and ponds. One day my brother came home with a fishing rod, if you could call it a rod, just a piece of cane with some safety pin eye stuck on. Reel was some Bakelite centre pin. I caught my first fish on that rod, a Roach from Raphael Park in Romford and that was the start of it all
Worst change I have seen is the destruction of the small streams we use to fish as boys.
Biggest change fish wise, Carp, they have gone from the fish of dreams to the dominant easy to catch species in most waters.
Freshly dug, purpose built heavily stocked commercial waters now control what most people want from their fishing. Plenty of bites in safe surroundings with other facilities on site nothing wrong with that might even try them myself next year.
Commercial big carp fisheries have taken over from what use to be commercial put and take trout waters. Put in the fish at the right size and the anglers will come and pay to catch. Very few trout fishing lakes now left in my area most have switched over to carp.
Tackle of course as changed no end but fishing methods haven’t really changed much at all. Read old books and there is nothing really new in the methods we use.
There have of course been others but to me the mystery as now gone out of fishing. We now know to much about what is in the waters we fish.
I know there are many on this site that have fished for over 40 years what are the changes you have seen?