its easy to say that when you live in an area with loads of big fish though benny, would you feel the same if you lived in the north of england? easy to say you would...
ECHO have said they cant fight legal imports as its, well, legal. all they can do is try to lobby to tighten up laws to prevent stolen/diseased fish making it in.
"if your not prepared to travel for them or wait for a place on a syndicate then do you really deserve to catch such a fish?"
once people start moralising about things it gets a bit sticky...and like i said, a lot dont give a monkies - they might have other higher priorities in there life and fishings just a bit of fun. why should they have to catch smaller fish all there lives because they havent got the time or inclination to travel around for bigger fish?
mary, the black mirror,two-tone, the horton a-team, the sutton fish, especially the redmire fish were all stocked not all that long ago from abroad....does time alter things? will all the french fish be thought of as "pukka" in 20 years time....