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Goose Ganderton
Guest
I have to express my absolute disgust at what I have just read in this weeks Angling Times.
Alec Watson has caught two Rudd for 8Ib 7oz, a most magnificent pair of fish that will most probably never be bettered as we all know of the decline of such large Rudd and what has this man decided to do, he has killed the two most beautiful fish ever seen and is going to stuff them for his own satisfaction of being able to look at them in a glass case.
He uses the most feeble of excuses that they were old and that no one would miss them. Christ, my parents are old and no one would miss then either.
He goes on to say that he is now financially in a position to have them set up. Well if he is so well off why not have a pair made from wood or plaster after taking a detailed photographic record of them. Can you imagine what would happen if the next captor of Mary decided to keep her and stuff her or if Guy Robb killed his new record Barbel to have it stuffed?
I would like to know what the RSPCA have to say on this matter but I imagine that because it's not some scrawny neglected moggy that they don't give a damn.
I just don't understand how someone could kill such magnificent fish. He said that they would not live much longer as they are thought to be around 15-17 years old. If he had the right to remove these fish could he not have transferred them to an aquarium or pond and look after them until they died of natural causes then have them stuffed?
I hope I never meet Mr Watson or I will give him a piece of my mind. This man's actions do absolutely nothing to help promote the image of angling.
Alec Watson has caught two Rudd for 8Ib 7oz, a most magnificent pair of fish that will most probably never be bettered as we all know of the decline of such large Rudd and what has this man decided to do, he has killed the two most beautiful fish ever seen and is going to stuff them for his own satisfaction of being able to look at them in a glass case.
He uses the most feeble of excuses that they were old and that no one would miss them. Christ, my parents are old and no one would miss then either.
He goes on to say that he is now financially in a position to have them set up. Well if he is so well off why not have a pair made from wood or plaster after taking a detailed photographic record of them. Can you imagine what would happen if the next captor of Mary decided to keep her and stuff her or if Guy Robb killed his new record Barbel to have it stuffed?
I would like to know what the RSPCA have to say on this matter but I imagine that because it's not some scrawny neglected moggy that they don't give a damn.
I just don't understand how someone could kill such magnificent fish. He said that they would not live much longer as they are thought to be around 15-17 years old. If he had the right to remove these fish could he not have transferred them to an aquarium or pond and look after them until they died of natural causes then have them stuffed?
I hope I never meet Mr Watson or I will give him a piece of my mind. This man's actions do absolutely nothing to help promote the image of angling.