Many of my thoughts on this matter are summed up in this article:
<a href=http://www.fishingmagic.com/news/article.asp?SP=&v=1&UAN=1729>'Nowt So Funny As Fishermen'</A>.
Further to that I do find it strange that we anglers find it so hard to accept that there are more ways than one to catch a fish, and more species to catch than our own favourites.
I agree with Cakey that carp are a very important fish. They have done so much to revive interest in fishing and give pleasure to the majority of anglers. I love them as much as any other fish, no more and no less. I understand where Cakey is coming from, but I also see Ron's point of view, although I'm certain that much of what he was trying to say was lost in the inflammatory prose he used to put his point across. Ron was obviously determined to get a bite and he surely has.
Where I agree with Ron is that carp have been stocked into too many waters to the detriment of other species. But that does not make me detest carp. Why should it, carp have only ended up where man has put them, they didn?t ask to be planted in practically every stillwater in the country. We?ve done that, anglers and fishery managers, nobody else.
Carp are a great fish, I?m going to be fishing for them almost exclusively for the next three months, and occasionally, as usual, thereafter.
Why can?t we all be anglers? Just anglers? People like the Carp Police and Barbel Police are by far in the minority.
