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Hi all,
Just been reading through a few posts and it got me thinking (a rare event i know)
Is it that some of us are getting old and cynical,and wishing for the "Good Old Days"?
Good quality tackle has never been so affordable.Access to high quality fisheries is ludicrously cheap when compared with the cost of something like a round of golf.
Information on species/methods is freely available to all via magazines,weeklies and websites like this one.
Everyone says that the rivers are in decline,and yet river report after river report tells of some great fishing to be had.
Sure the match scene has moved away from rivers to commercial pools,but is that really such a bad thing?
50+ anglers can now park their cars in relative safety,have a good days fishing without a mile walk with all their kit to and from some distant pegs,leaving the rivers free to those of us that like to rove from swim to swim (a much more productive approach IMHO)
In my last post on Where you fished today,i find myself bemoaning the fact that i'd had a bad day,yet i still caught over 20lbs of fish.(shame on me
)
That would have been a great weight in a club match 15-20 years ago!
And i can't even imagine being able to organise a Fish-in that was attended by anglers from all over the country at such short notice as some of ours have been,in times past.
Methinks perhaps we moan too much.
Your thoughts please folks................
Peter.
Make Friends,Go Maggotdrowning.
Just been reading through a few posts and it got me thinking (a rare event i know)

Is it that some of us are getting old and cynical,and wishing for the "Good Old Days"?
Good quality tackle has never been so affordable.Access to high quality fisheries is ludicrously cheap when compared with the cost of something like a round of golf.
Information on species/methods is freely available to all via magazines,weeklies and websites like this one.
Everyone says that the rivers are in decline,and yet river report after river report tells of some great fishing to be had.
Sure the match scene has moved away from rivers to commercial pools,but is that really such a bad thing?
50+ anglers can now park their cars in relative safety,have a good days fishing without a mile walk with all their kit to and from some distant pegs,leaving the rivers free to those of us that like to rove from swim to swim (a much more productive approach IMHO)
In my last post on Where you fished today,i find myself bemoaning the fact that i'd had a bad day,yet i still caught over 20lbs of fish.(shame on me

That would have been a great weight in a club match 15-20 years ago!
And i can't even imagine being able to organise a Fish-in that was attended by anglers from all over the country at such short notice as some of ours have been,in times past.
Methinks perhaps we moan too much.
Your thoughts please folks................
Peter.

Make Friends,Go Maggotdrowning.