dezza
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At this time of the year I am mindful of those who refuse to fish because they think there is a closed season, even when there isn't.
Many years ago I entertained a business contact in South Africa who was quite a keen angler. It was April and when I suggested we have a go for some carp, he replied by saying he couldn't do that - it was the closed season!
Now can you work that one out?
It appears that there are those who think that the closed season was ordained by a deity and must never be contravened on pain of spending eternity in the fires of hell!
Well I have news for such people. The closed season for coarse fish was set out by a bunch of politicians who knew little about the spawning activities and times of what we now call coarse fish (we called them "freshwater fish at the time"). It was called "The Mundella Act" and took place in 1878.
Yes all that time ago.
And it's time it was abolished.
And certainly I, as well as many others would like to know the difference between a roach say that lives in a canal, and a roach that lives in a river. And why is tench fishing allowed when they are invariably spawning?
Many years ago I entertained a business contact in South Africa who was quite a keen angler. It was April and when I suggested we have a go for some carp, he replied by saying he couldn't do that - it was the closed season!
Now can you work that one out?
It appears that there are those who think that the closed season was ordained by a deity and must never be contravened on pain of spending eternity in the fires of hell!
Well I have news for such people. The closed season for coarse fish was set out by a bunch of politicians who knew little about the spawning activities and times of what we now call coarse fish (we called them "freshwater fish at the time"). It was called "The Mundella Act" and took place in 1878.
Yes all that time ago.
And it's time it was abolished.
And certainly I, as well as many others would like to know the difference between a roach say that lives in a canal, and a roach that lives in a river. And why is tench fishing allowed when they are invariably spawning?
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