The thing that always amazes me is how tribal fishermen have become. Here's some typical quotes I hear not on here but in general around fisherman's company.
'I'm a carper, your a noddy'
'I fish proper gear, your just a camper'
'No skill in pole fishing for sprats, we use proper kit for proper fish'
'no skill in sitting watching TV waiting for an alarm, we use proper kit not tow rope.'
It goes on and on, funny to listen too sometimes.
Then there the bashing of poor quality fish in commercial fisheries, your old enough to remember in the supposed good old days. then you will remember polluted foam covered rivers full of ugly looking roach. Yes granted there was loads of pale fraggle looking roach, but fraggle roach they were - they was not the beautiful coloured river roach you catch in the clean rivers of today. Well that's hoping Mr otter does not kill too many but that's another topic.
Reading another thread on another forum, I read Pleasure fisherman do most of the damage to fish then others shouting carp guys do, I didn't read it in that thread but I've heard the argument that match anglers are the main culprits. I don't know how this is helping fishing, it's so tribal and pointless in my opinion
This thread is just a casual reminder too us all, we are all pleasure fishermen, after all there's not a great deal of money in match fishing, even the big guys have to top up their winning with jobs. So why do they do it, for pleasure. I've said a million times before, fisherman will have to unite not divide if fishing is to have any future at all.
'I'm a carper, your a noddy'
'I fish proper gear, your just a camper'
'No skill in pole fishing for sprats, we use proper kit for proper fish'
'no skill in sitting watching TV waiting for an alarm, we use proper kit not tow rope.'
It goes on and on, funny to listen too sometimes.
Then there the bashing of poor quality fish in commercial fisheries, your old enough to remember in the supposed good old days. then you will remember polluted foam covered rivers full of ugly looking roach. Yes granted there was loads of pale fraggle looking roach, but fraggle roach they were - they was not the beautiful coloured river roach you catch in the clean rivers of today. Well that's hoping Mr otter does not kill too many but that's another topic.
Reading another thread on another forum, I read Pleasure fisherman do most of the damage to fish then others shouting carp guys do, I didn't read it in that thread but I've heard the argument that match anglers are the main culprits. I don't know how this is helping fishing, it's so tribal and pointless in my opinion
This thread is just a casual reminder too us all, we are all pleasure fishermen, after all there's not a great deal of money in match fishing, even the big guys have to top up their winning with jobs. So why do they do it, for pleasure. I've said a million times before, fisherman will have to unite not divide if fishing is to have any future at all.