Peter Bishop
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Went to my local fishing shop the other day to pick up casters for some roach fishing I plan to do tomorrow, and guess what right in front of me is an advert for a new " Fishery" which has opened a couple of miles up the road, created from an original farm pond which had a few traditional species and was fished by local kids for free.
According to the blurb,the 'fishery'contains roach, rudd, skimmers, perch and tench plushundredsof newly introduced small carp and will become the premier 'bagging' water soon....
More damn carp? Just how much more 'vermin' can our stillwaters sustain? Is that what anglers really want? Given there are so many of them and they are so ravenous, where then is the achievement in catching a huge weight of them?
Harsh, you might think to call them 'vermin', but introducing these eating machines will in the long run kill off the more docile species like tench and rudd who will find themselves at the bottom of the food chain.
As far as I am concernedstockie carp the new grey squirrels !
They will never find a place in my heart as long as roach and barbel swim...
What do you think?
According to the blurb,the 'fishery'contains roach, rudd, skimmers, perch and tench plushundredsof newly introduced small carp and will become the premier 'bagging' water soon....
More damn carp? Just how much more 'vermin' can our stillwaters sustain? Is that what anglers really want? Given there are so many of them and they are so ravenous, where then is the achievement in catching a huge weight of them?
Harsh, you might think to call them 'vermin', but introducing these eating machines will in the long run kill off the more docile species like tench and rudd who will find themselves at the bottom of the food chain.
As far as I am concernedstockie carp the new grey squirrels !
They will never find a place in my heart as long as roach and barbel swim...
What do you think?