Ooooh! dear oh! dear oh! dear, please tell me it isn't going to come to that. Not for me it won't for sure but I am thinking of those starting out cos there wouldn't be much to enjoy would there? No blanks, no small fish and certainly no skill....oooooha! missus.
Ron, I am very sorry for you, you seem to be dwelling more and more in the make believe world of yesteryear where everything was wonderful and the fish were very obliging. In reality I am older than you and remember all those times plus some and the truth of it is that it may have been different but certainly not better, fishing, like life, in the forties, fifties and sixties was certainly enjoyed at the time but no way was it better, it was hard, much harder than today. You need to get back to the real world Ron, get those rose tinted spectacles off and remember what it was really like.