Mick Parkinson
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Last weekend I fished a couple of matches on the river welland in Spalding and had to aid on both days youngsters who had difficulties with pike.
The first day a young lad was seen trying to land a pike he'd caught. No landing net, no forceps, basically all he had was rod n reel. I had to jump in the water to unhook the pike for him.
The second day the same thing happened and again only the basic gear. One of the lads lent him the use of his rather small landing net and we found a chap with forceps as the two sets of trebles were just behind the teeth.
I love my match fishing, yet I don't like to see this happening or go away from the bank knowing it will happen again. We had our lady junior secretary give them a slight rollocking and she asked them to attend the junior matches next year. This is fine but these junior matches cater only really for the coarse match juniors/anglers.
I'd like to see a proper teach in/meet done through school advertising, ideally a predator company sponsor deal and it would be great to get someone a little more well known from the predator angling world.
I don't want to discourage these young people from enjoying our sport and I know that if they want to fish for pike they will, even if it means going where we don't fish just to avoid us moaning at them.
If there is someone willing to help with maybe a session one evening, ideally in the school holidays next summer I would be very gratefull.
I know its the wrong time of year, we would get more youngsters attending then though and it would hopefully teach them the correct ways and maybe get them kitted out correctly.
E-mail us if you can help or post here.
Thanks
The first day a young lad was seen trying to land a pike he'd caught. No landing net, no forceps, basically all he had was rod n reel. I had to jump in the water to unhook the pike for him.
The second day the same thing happened and again only the basic gear. One of the lads lent him the use of his rather small landing net and we found a chap with forceps as the two sets of trebles were just behind the teeth.
I love my match fishing, yet I don't like to see this happening or go away from the bank knowing it will happen again. We had our lady junior secretary give them a slight rollocking and she asked them to attend the junior matches next year. This is fine but these junior matches cater only really for the coarse match juniors/anglers.
I'd like to see a proper teach in/meet done through school advertising, ideally a predator company sponsor deal and it would be great to get someone a little more well known from the predator angling world.
I don't want to discourage these young people from enjoying our sport and I know that if they want to fish for pike they will, even if it means going where we don't fish just to avoid us moaning at them.
If there is someone willing to help with maybe a session one evening, ideally in the school holidays next summer I would be very gratefull.
I know its the wrong time of year, we would get more youngsters attending then though and it would hopefully teach them the correct ways and maybe get them kitted out correctly.
E-mail us if you can help or post here.
Thanks