Anglersvoice

I won't stop glueing.. until all my fingers are stuck and I have a model aircraft up my left nostril.. AND even then.. I'll still phone a friend or two.

Wozza, When the water cools down, try some minkies/lures on the shallows of the lake which run parallel to the Trent, there is a big grassy area with great backcasting space even if you don't want to wade. Nomads were also a good fly. Kev.

Ian, you may want to email Albert Mullarkey at STOPNOW.ie, or Niall Greene, offer up a picture for Auction to support the campaign to fight the Irish Drift Netting, donate some of the proceeds to the cause??.. That way you will reach hundreds of Game Anglers and help a good cause. if you need help, mail me at kevin@anglersvoice.com Kev.

PB I think it is inevitable that our Angling will change in the next decade. The arguments we have seen on other fourms give me little hope that we can just whip out a tube of "angling glue" and make all anglers pull together. It will start, as it did in Germany, with one or more disciplines of angling.. maybe match fishing??.. maybe keepnets??.. and one by one we'll fall. There are great people fighting to save our sport and our environment, I do my best to pass on all information and remain non-partisan. Sadly, some of the pressure groups do not offer support to others, they remain rather selective. I spent a good hour with Tony Bird at the Game Fair (Salmon and Trout Ass) and it was great to hear how they cooperate with other groups such as the ACA, Wild Trout Trust etc etc. This week I started to become disillusioned with divisive people, I spend months convincing all anglers to work together Sea/Course/River/Lake and it takes just a few minutes for others to drive a wedge frimly back in the cracks. This happened to be a debate about Put and Take trout fisheries, but it could easily have been about license fees or expanding the closed season. The Cormorant issue, have your opinions but don't let it spoil the fact you are all anglers. If we were to close down the Trout Ponds and The Stocked Coarse lakes, there would be a lot of angling pressure on our rivers, we might see less cormorants but has it REALLY helped us (hypothetically speaking). p.s I need some cheer up sauce, think i'll hang around for a bit if anyone has anything good to add. Kev.

Leon, thanks for sending that to us at AnglersVoice, we rely on e-mail to share information and to make some amount of protests to Government Ministers/agencies etc. I can confirm that despite DOZENS of e-mails to the Irish Minister for Tourism, not one email back from him. Despite getting the STOP website some extra angling publicity, we haven't achieved much. In the case of the Irish Drift Nets, we are now collecting Irish B&B e-mail addresses and Holiday Companies advertising Fishing in Ireland. We want to write to them telling them about their Ministers' Apathy to the fall in Angling Tourism due to dwindling migratory fish runs. Kev (AnglersVoice)