It is frustrating and it's true that some things which are allowed seem at odds with the overall rules, but if you allow angling you allow all the extra sh1t that comes with it; people driving 300 mile roundtrips to "their syndicate", buying bait from tackle shops, stopping at motorway petrol stations, visiting the angler in the next peg etc..all person to person contact whether outside or not will spread the virus. You all know that people have been bending the rules already and will carry on doing so. Fishing is a luxury and the associated contact is avoidable, so we don't do it.
Yes you will come into contact with people in a supermarket, yes you will also if your work dictates it - but these are essentials, what they are trying to do is control the things that can be controlled, i.e anything outside of work and essential living. Going for a walk, run or cycle for an hour from your doorstep is important exercise with low person to person risk, loading up the car with 300kg of tackle in a barrow and heading off for 8 hours 60 miles away to a busy waterway isn't. I am as gutted as anyone, and It would have been nice to have had a welsh style rule where you can walk or cycle to fish locally - but people would moan about that still and they'd likely bend/break the rules anyway.
I just hope when I go for my walk along the river, that I don't see anyone fishing.
Yes you will come into contact with people in a supermarket, yes you will also if your work dictates it - but these are essentials, what they are trying to do is control the things that can be controlled, i.e anything outside of work and essential living. Going for a walk, run or cycle for an hour from your doorstep is important exercise with low person to person risk, loading up the car with 300kg of tackle in a barrow and heading off for 8 hours 60 miles away to a busy waterway isn't. I am as gutted as anyone, and It would have been nice to have had a welsh style rule where you can walk or cycle to fish locally - but people would moan about that still and they'd likely bend/break the rules anyway.
I just hope when I go for my walk along the river, that I don't see anyone fishing.